Widnes Examiner. — 1892-05-14 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

THE EXAMINER, SATURDAY, MAY 14, 1892.  The state ot affairs in Afghanistan is said to be assum ing a critical aspect. The rumours of intrigues by thAmeer's agents among the Afridis and other tribes have been confirmed, and it is stated that the Indian Govern° ment has warned the Ameer. -  ----- -According to information that has reached Berlin from Zanzibar, Emin Pasha has become totally blind. Justices Day and Charles held on Tuesday that publicans were bound to accommodate whatever uutnber of menthe military authorities might please to billet upon them.  Each of the three daughters of the late William Astor will receive 2,000,000 dols., and when the other bequests are deducted there will be in the neighbourhood of 60,000,000 dols. to be handed over to John Jacob his son. The widow will receive an annual income while she lives of 500,000 dols. A youth named Kennedy died at Manchester Infirmary, on Sunday night, having been stabbed in the left aide in Ancoats, a low quarter of the city. Two youths are in custody. The Scotch steel-warkers' strike terminated on Thursday, a 10 per cent, reduction having been accepted. Twenty thousand pounds has been bequeathed by Mr. John Henry Fox, of Norton, near Stockton-on-Tees for the purpose of building arid endowing almshouses in the village, on condition that the land on which to build them is given. While practising gun drill on shore at Malta, a seaman, named John Church, on bcard H.M.S. Collingwooa, was killed. A young man, named Arch, was sentenced to death at Glasgow on Monday, for the murder of his cousin, Annie Campbell, by cutting her throat. By the fall of a roof in Manvers Main Colliery, Mexborough, South Yorkshire, a miner, named Albert Johnson, and James Wood, a boy, were killed on Monday. In accordance with the agreement of matters last week, the cotton mills in the Ashton-under-Lyne district re-commenced work on Monday. The operatives at the Stalybridge Spinning Company still remain out, owing to dissatisfaction with the list of persons chosen for employment. In connection with proceedings arising out of the affairs of the late Mr. H. S. Whalley, solicitor, of Blackburn and Southport, it transpired at the Chancery Court, St. George's Hall, Liverpool, on Monday, that the liabilities were £147,096, in addition to three other claims not yet adjudicated upon. Following the example of Mr. M'Carthy, Mr. Sexton has placed upon the motion paper a motion for the rejection of the Irish Local Government Bill. Mr. John Corbett, M.P., has presented the Hill estate, comprising 30 acres and a mansion-house, with money for alterations and endowment, amounting in all to £10,500, for a hospital for the Stourbridge district. The Anarchist Meineau, who was arrested at Liege a few days ago, has confessed that he was the author of an attempt to blow up the house of Councillor Renson, who presided over the proceedings against the Anarchists at the Assize Court.  In the House of Commons on Thursday the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway (Extension to Loudon) Bill was ordered for the third reading. At Welshpool, on Wednesday night, Griffith Jones, a gnarl on the Cambrian railway, was killed by falling between the platform and a train.