The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1920-05-08 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

DAY BY DAY.  During the.week-end‘one•hundred hanger grurikera were released from Belfast Gaol. They were jeered by a large crowd • it it •  IThe deatireoturred on Sunday of jrS T. :w. Russell,. formerly Vice-Pres4ert of the I, Irish Department of Agriculi-ere.• • * •  Fifty people are reporteel to hare been lled' in a storm which practically de••troyed-the-town a Pegg% in Oklahoma.. • • • •  Chester Town Comunl 'has invited the Royal Agricultural Society to hold the 1925 show •d t Cheater. • • • •  A man's cali.tment in the Territorial Army will not affect his pension, the War Office announces.  * • •  Hull Burial Committee bas agreed to the request a the local Undertakers' Association for the use of oonerete`coffins. • • • .  Saturday's strike on the French railways wee a failure. Nowtier. was there real dislocation. There were ninny casualties in vtreet'rinting._ ' _  S • • *  The Crown Princess of Sweden. elder daughter of the puke of Connaught, died at Stockhobn, on Saturday, her father's seventieth birthday. * * • *  A se.rgeant.of the R.I.C. has been shot dead in an ambush in county Kerry. Re was one of the police who captured Roger Casement near Trak* in 1916. _ _  The late Captain Fryatt's famous ship. the 'Brussels, which has been handed back by the Belgian authorittiai, is to come to •the Thames as soon as she is, seaworthy. , • • r r  .definite•announcement has been made 'of a ttee,ooo,ooo combine linking up the iron. coal and shipping ,nkeresta ot Canada and Great Britain.  • •  M. F. Curzon's horse, Our Stephen, won the race for the Chester Cup of £2,s:it W. Cazalet's Elsinore being second, and Mr. Z. Michatino'6.,Roell Dew %bird, 4  The Archbishops of Canterbury. York, and Dublin will attend the enthronement of the new Archbishop of Wales at St. Aearph-on .Inne 1. • • • •  • Ballydebob Police Barracks, eight miles from Stibbereen, County Cork, were blown up by a party of armed men at two-o'clock on Wednetday morning. • • • a  The funeral. of the Crown Princess of Sweden takes place on Wednesday. 13th inst.. at Stockhohn. Prince Arthur of Connaught wilt represent his father at the funeral. _ _ _  - • • •  Albert James Fraser and :lames Rollins, charged at the.Gia' sgow High Court, with the murder of Henry Senior, were found guilty, and sentenced to death. The execution is fixed.for the 26th inst.  Labour Day, in England was an 'orderly obsetwance. It is estimated that about eight million *corkers took e full day's holiday. The vital services, however, suffered no interference. * • * •  Tlie,namee of 2% members :of-the Marine Engineering Association who fell in the war were inscribed on a brass tablet which was onveiled at the Britannia Rooms, Liverpool, on Tuesday, by Sir Norman Hill.  Air. 'Philip Snowden and "Mr. A. Fenner Brockway, editor of the "Labour Leader," have been .elected as prospActivo Labour candidates for Blackburn. and Lancaster respectively.  • • • •  In consequence of the refusal of the Worcestershire County Education Committee to recognise the Burnham scale of salaries.. I,l2s.teachers have tendered their resignation.  • • • •  Under .the scheme for the allocation of the German warships, Britain receives five battleships. Franco one, Japan two, and United .States one. More khan 100 smaller .craft have ',till to be _allocated.  , Fonaut, guilty : of complicity in an cons Arney in America, Jellies I.arkin,bes been- sentenced to an indeterminate periiel of from five to ten years' imprisonment wilt& bard labour. • • • •  No agrament was reached at the meeting of the Wages Board, which considered the claims of railwaymen to increased wages. The question will therefore be referred to the National "awls Board..  Forthcaraing.decreases in the price of free butter, lard, butter eubstitukes, canned and corned beef, and canned fruits were announced at the annual meeting of the Chamber of Trade at Bournemouth, on Monday.