Widnes Examiner. — 1891-12-12 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

GENERAL NEWS.  The Duke of Devonshire passed a quiet night on Wednesday. His condition remains much the same. Lord Walter Gordon Lennox, who has been appointed treasurer of the Queen's household, was on Wednesday re-elected for South-West Sussex without opposition. Chief Steward Heismeir, of the German Lloyd's steamer Ems, died at Southampton, on Thursd y. He was cleaning a revolver on Sunday, when the weapon exploded, and fatally wounded him in the stomach. The action in.which Mr. Henry Hansard claimed over £lB,OOO from the Hansard Union being the balance of the purchase money of plaintiff's printing business, was concluded on Thursday. The jury found for plaintiff.  At the Shropshire Assizes, on Thursday, Thomas Griffiths was•sentenced to 20 years' penal servitude for the manslaughter of a man named John Peate, whom he stabbed at Ellesmere with a knife after Peate had struck him during a quarrel.  An alarniin; epidemic of measles is reported to have broken out, in the parish of Ruabon. 30 deaths occurred from the disease during the past month, and it has been found necessary to close the whole of the Board and National Schools in the district.  At an inquest at Stockport, on Thursday, a verdict of Wilful.murder "was returned against James Sharkey, a cotton operative, for kicking to death Catherine Bunt, aged thirty-nine, with whom he had lived with for 24 years. Prisoner,who had previously' illtreated the woman admitted the crime.  According to the Berlin "Medical Review," over 40,000 ceses of influenza have been reported in Berlin,. during the present outbreak, which, it is said, differs from the former onelin so far that it spreads more slowly. During the last eight days thirty deaths have occurred from the scourge, or from diseases. directly resulting from it. In Hamburg the disease has caused quite a panic; and last week the death-rate rose at one bound to 282 over the average. At the Canibridge Town Council, on Thursday, it was stated, in answer to Mr. Vinter, that Superintendent Innes' action in the production of the register oi prostitutes at the "pinning House" trial was authorised by the ternas of the charter. The Council decided by 23 votes against four to hold a, special meeting on December 18th4, with the view of arranging to promote a Bill in Parliament limiting or altogether abolishing the University's power. At Winchester Assizes, on Thursday, Fanny Ciane, aged 26,, domestic servant, lately employed at Barnes, near London, was sentenced to death for the murder of her newly-born child at Ventnor, wh.ereshe was stopping with her employer's family. • The girl admitted making away with the child and hiding it in some bushes on Barnes Common, but, after sentence had been passed, she shrieked and fell into a fit, and subsequently denied that sbe had killed' the child.  CooRS are often called qpon to provide sweet dishes of custards and blanc-manges at short notice, and at times when it is not convenient to obtain eggs. As a useful guide to the preparation of many choice dishes and delicious custards without eggs and half the trouble our readers should write to ALFRZD BIRD AND SONS, BIRMINGHAM, for a free copy of their little book entitled " Pastry and Sweets." There is nothing to pay; a post, card will. bring it by return free.-.. Advt.