Widnes Examiner. — 1885-05-23 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

RIOTING.—At Airdrie, on Tuesday, seventeen men were convicted of rioting at BeHebei!, on Saturday, and were each sentenced to 60 days' imprisonment. OR Tuesday morning, a the broke out at Mr. Jar. Togg's cotton spinning mill, Bolton. The damage amounts to £lO,OOO, fully covered by insurance. The new Old Testament is a great commercial success for the publishers. Scarcely a day and a half had elapsed from the issue of the first edition before a second was ordered.  A. letter from Lord Wolseley to the Goyerner•General of Canada is issued among Parli,tmentary papers of Thursday testifying to the competency and skill and courage of the Canadian voyageur*. "  At a confe'rencs of miners' delegates held at Barnsley, on Thursday, it was resolved to continue the strike which has now been going on for several weeks in resistance to the masters' proposal to reduce wages. A man-of-war built for the Japanese Government, lamed the Takachiho Kan, was launched on the Tyne on Saturday. 'The vessel is described to be one of the swiftest and most heavily armed cruisers in existence. At Hull, on luesday, Joha Kelly, sailor, was committed for trial on a coroner's warrant, charged with the manslaughter of a man named Ward in a house of ill-fame. The prisoner shot deceased with a revolver during a quarrel.  At the Old Bailey, on Thursday, Charles Morgan, 44, pleaded gulty to falsifying accounts and stealing seourities of the value of £lO,OOO while manager of a stockbroking business, and he was sentenced to ten years' penal servitude. A FATAL Svaan.-00 Monday two men were found helplessly drunk on the highway at Cern, Ruabon, with a bottle of whisky at their side. A raedical examination soon proved that one was dead and that the other was in a very serious state.  Exaonnow OF JAMBS Les —On Monday morning. Jac Lee, convicted of the murder of Police•lnepector Simmons, was executed at Chelmsford Gaol. His last words were. "I die innocent." His wife had her last interview with him on Saturday. A WINDHILL FIRIIII DT LIGHTNING —A heavy thunderstorm passed over Dover on Sunday. Six sheep 'tenting by a wire !.ace, were killed by lightning ; a large tree was struck and cat down several feet, while a windmill at Wootton was set on fire and burnt to the ground. At Oldham, on Wednesday, John Taylor was again remended on a charge of attempting to kill by shooting a gentleman named William Whittaker; with whom the prisoner bad a dispute as to regally matters. The chief constable said Mr. Whittaker was only slightly better. Tau ILLNISS ow Vforou 11000.—The Paris correspondent of the Exchange Company telegraphs that on inquiry at eight o'clock on Thursday morning he was informed that M. Victor Hugo had pasaed a relatively good night, but his condition is unchanged, and a fatal Issue of his illness may occur at any moment.  The Prince of Wales on Thursday inspected the Norfolk Artillery Militia, at Yarmouth, in the presence of several thousands of spectators. His Royal Hichness at the close somplimented the brigade on their etnadiness, smartness, and discipline, and said he was proud to know that his son btlonged to the regiment. In the Queen's Bench Division' on Thursday, a new trial was moved for in the action of Maskelyne v. Bishop, on the ground of surprise, and that the damages were excessive. Mr. Justice Field said that £lO,OOO damages were far too much, and he directed that the damages should go back to the court below for reassessment.