Widnes Examiner. — 1887-10-08 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

OLDHAM. . A crowded anid'eenthusiastionn,eeting, under the auspices of thelocal Liberal Unissa, , was held on 'Monday, evening in the,Co-operative Hall, Ring-street, Oldham.; I The chair was eccupied by Mt. Adam Lee.—Mr. South-' i•em moved aereeelution emphatically protesting agau • , '"the inhuman-tend unjustifiable policy pursued •by ! ' , Majesty's Croverement towards the people of Ireland." t' '--Mr. F. Isherwood seconded the resolution. , ; Mr. Brunner, X.P., who was introduced by the chairman as " one.ofthe heroes of fAitchelstown," was re-' , coived with preleuged cheering an, rising to support the resolution. Eke did, not admit theaccuracy of the chair; man's remark thatihe was one of the, heroes of Mitchels, town. There wae tbut one hero of that day at Mitchels; town, and that ,:was John Dillon. (Applause.) Mr. I Brunner then narrated the story of .what he saw during 'his recent visit to Ireland. He saw that Ireland was a , country occupied layee foreign army, and that foreign Lamy, as was nature!, as was always, the case, was hated' Ito theedeath by the people who suffered under it. Let ' !, not the English peqpie forget that the cost of that army I 1. came out of their i„pockets. It vas true that Mr. 'O'Brien ,broke the lawein the speech !foe which he was I 'prosecuted; he brokeethe law made Iley landlords, but Lees action was in obedience to a higher law—the hew of justice and mercy. ,(4pplause.) In conclusion Mr. , Ihrunner mlled attentiorsto the antecedents of Captain ,Segrave and the informer Patrick Callihan. Of the tatter, he said he hoped his name would stank in the nostrils ,of Englishmen, and of their children for many a, day. tleavould not go so far as to say that Callinan incited This,companiens to do wias.t they did, but a man with /Bleb a history was at any aath capable a luring on to !the of murder sthe ignorant peasants with • -whom he associated. Helappealed to his bearers to d(i, <what they coukl to take away the shamefatl.degradation evlliele resulted from govenueg a country veith such infamous instruments as that rain. (Applause) Tineraeolutionweas then a,deptedunammoseetey, and the liroceedirgs shortly afterward's terminated. JaPANMEGOODS st London Prices, MAYOR and Co., 175, Oxford-street, Manchester.—N.B. -The Finest Terre Cotta (for painting an) In ti,,e market at, Sisal! the usual dtiarges.— Advt. Anthony Glyka a clerk in the service of Mr. Vagliano, a Greek merchant' in London, is ineustody on the eltarge of obtaining £67,000 by means of Lerged drafts. At the inquest. on Thitzsday, on the body of the young woman Rodger, who was murdered .B.t Chigwell eaely on Tuesday morning, a girl gave evidence as to seeir,.g Joseph Morley, the lodger, leave the house shortly befeie six o'clock, just after she hadheard screams. The inquiry  , • was adjourned. MINERS' Cosa-Ensiscu.—A ApeciAl conference of Northumberland miners WAS opened on Tuesday at Edinburgh, under the presidency of hr. Burt., M.P., who, in his opening address, said that closer fecleretlon of men was urgently needed, and to carry out a scheme it was neeessary to have a large amount of c,entral control and funds. The branches at present took their own course as to itrikes, merely asking the Central Board for funds, but tis should be amended. After transacting some business, the conference adjourned. ' A Goon RIDDANCE of all dirt is speedily effected by the use of Hudson's Dry Soap. Try a Penny Packet. Softens Water,  Prince Alexander of Battenburg arrived at Dover. on Monday, from Ostend, and proceeded to London. The French Consul at Laurium has been dismissed from his post for having accompanied one of the Princes of the Orleans family on a tour through Greece. Alderman De Keyser, the, New Lord Mayor of London, is not, after all, as has been affirmed, a Roman Catholic. I At any rate the Weekly Register contradicts the report. West Kent has seen the unusual phenomenon of a lady acting as registration agent. At Dartford Mr. A. S. Dixon, who represented the Liberals, was assisted by his laughter. rsh is estimated that 15,000 operatives engaged in tit South Staffordshire and East Woree.sterehire nail trade have now ceased work. The men demand an advance of wages which the employers consider excessive. Reuben York, a yeah, who was engaged with his father, slack washing, on the premises of the Nunnery Colliery Company, in Cricket-road, Park, Sheffield, fell Into the hopper while the buckets were revolving and met with a shocking death. • DISTRESS AMONG 'ME Cornerev'C