The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1907-09-28 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

THE PASSING WEEK.  A Swiss named Peterlin, 62 yeare of age, on Saturday fell a distance of 900 feet into a couloir in the mountains above Be:, and was inatantly, killed. Francois Lachenal, a wealthy French student, aged 20. was climbing in the dark to a mountain chalet which his parents had rented for him near the village of Manigod, in Savoy, when he slipped and fell Into a ravine, death being instantaneous. Lieutenant Bohren, of the Swiss army, it; still missing from Cha S•• • •  At Nottingham, on Tuesday evening, Sansem White, who until recently was a member of the Nottingham City Police Force, attempted to murder a Airs. Jackson, at whose house he formerly lodged, by firing at her with a revolver. Re afterwards shot himself dead. The woman, who is in hospital wounded in the neck, will, it is expected, recover. _ _ _ _  S • •  Ballot papers were on Tuesday sent out to the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants on the etrike question. Each paper was accompanied by a rather lengthy document recapitulating the steps leading to the preaent situation, and calling upon every man " to do hie duty to himseltatand loyally by his fellows, and so ensure IMO'  4 • • •  Wild scenes took place at a meeting of Rosoommon County Council on Tuseday morning, during the unveiling of a portrait of the late Michael Davitt. The public,. mast of whom were Sinn Feiners, took umbrage at a remark passed by Mr. Hayden. M.P., and in the riot which ensued furniture was smashed and several councillors received wounds. Police were called in to quell the distuxbanee4 • • • •  At a meeting of the dockers held at Antwerp on Tuesday afternoon it was decided by a large majority, and amid great enthusiasm, to resume work on Thursday morning under the old conditions, but on the understanding that the increase in wages, the prospect of which wee held out in the 13--igoinaster'e letter, is granted within a fortnight. If this is not done the men will renew the struggle.  The Cunard Line on Tuesday night announced reductions in their cabin fares for the Transatlantic westward voyage, to come into operation on the let of November. Similar reductions come into operation forthwith for the eastward trip. The Canadian Pacific and Allan Lines have cut rates. and the Dominion will, it i 6 stated, make corresponding reductions on the Canndian route. - _ -  • • • •  At Waterford Quarter Sezeions. County Court Judge Fitzgerald awarded Lord AlMtown £l4O eompenzation againat the dietrict council in connection with the bomb outrage at his house. • • • •  The revenue cutter Thetis arrived at Seattle, Klondyke, on Wednesday night, bringing 242 survivors from the wrecked American ship, John Currier, which grounded in a fog in Bristol Bay, Alaska, on August 9th. This rescue constitutes the greatest saving of lives, with a single exception, in the history of Pacific shipping. The Thetis took off the survivors at Unalaska, where they had been brought by the cutter Id`Culloch after they had spent thirty-four days on a barren beach.  An angry scene was caused outside a city warehouse on Wednesday by a crowd of 500 disappointed men who had congregated in answer to an advertisement for a porter. Five minutes before the hour fixed for the interview with applicants, a sign was hung up outside the warehouse, "situation filled" and the croad after cries of "shame!" tore down the board, and threw heavy packing cases about. They were finally dispersed by the police. • • • •  At Cambridge County Court, on Wednesday, Mr. W. Mitchell, 8.A., Fellow cf Christ's College, who hails from Lancashire, sued Mr. Kirby, an undergraduate, for a sum of nearly £lOO, and gained the verdict with costs. Plaintiff admitted large betting transactions. Judge Wheeler said the case was one of the most disgraceful that he had ever tried.  S • • •  Further reductions in first-class fares across the Atlantic are announced by the White Star Line. Several lines are also reducing their second cabin fares.  A big fire occurred on Wednesday evening at Messrs. Pilkineton's Cowley Hill glassworks. St. Helens. Damage to the extent of £25,000 or £30,003 was done, and the bulk of the two thousand employees will be thrown idle for a time. •i • •  The Countess Montignoso, ex-Crown Princess of Saxony. and the divorced wife