The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1909-10-30 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

THE PASSING WEEK.  Mr. Robert Jones, the well-known orthomdic surgeon.. of Nelson-street, lAverpool. has had conferred upon him the Later Victorie Jubilee Prize of the value of .2100. which is awarded every four year by the Council of .the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh to the fellow or licentiate of the coil.kre who has done the great,st benefit to practical surgery during the period eince the last award.  Robbers entered, by breaking a window. Alp Church of the holy Mother, at Csenet6lliowa, in th. 3 government of Piotrkoff, Poland, containing an image which has been worshipped all over Poland for live hundred yea's, and stole the Holy Mother's diamond crown, dress, and votive offerings, valued at £lOO,OOO, and escaped.  The Bishop of Carlisle on Sunday delivered the annual sermon to Liverpool medical men at St. Luke's Church, and, speaking of Christian Science, said a science which ignored such palpable pa.nomena as that of pain, or a religion which so con. founded the spiritual with the physical as not to make use of physical means for the attainment of physical ends, was neither a religion nor a science.  Mr. Keir Kardie, speaking in Manchester. said he thought a general el.ction was near at hand, but he did not think it would be fought on the Budget. He believed the Lords would pass the Budget, and that the i 513113 to be put before th.i constituencies would be the methods by which Liberals. Conservatives, and Socialists proposed to carry out social reforms.  • 0 a  Prince Ito, the famous Japanese sta.man, was assassinated on Tuesday at ...lirbin by a Korean. The Prince had been to the railway station to meet M. kokovtsetl. the Russian Minister of Finance, in connection with the negotiations respecting the Manchurian Railway. He was fired at several times from behind, and expired soon afterwards. The murderer and three other Koreans were arrested. The murderer declared he wanted to avenge his country. - - -  A debate on women's suffrage was held on Tuetclay night in the Free Trade Hall. between speakers representing the Women's National Anti-Suffrage League and the North of England Society for Women's Suffrage. A resolution by which the meeting was asked to agree that women's suffrage is "against the best interests of the Empire and of their own sex" was defeated by a large majority.  The Lord Advocate, speaking at Doncaster on Tuesday night, rep Led to the attacks of Mr. Baltour and other Unionists. He said he did not for a moment c nestiou the good faith, the sincerity,, and the honesty of his political opponents in ,'itelt desire to secure pensions tor the aged poor and the money necessary to strengthen the navy. What he did question was their ability to find the money by means of Tariff "Reform" if they rejected, as they did, the whole of the budget taxt.s.  One of the four suffragettes now imprisoned in Strangeways Gaol. Mancheter, barricaded the door of her cell. The authorities passed a fire hose through the window, and poured water upon her; but she obstinately ref used to give in, and the cell door had to be broken open.  Extraordinary Suffragette excesses took place in Bermondsey on Thursday. At the Boulter Schoole polling booth, Mrs. Chaplin gained admission and smashed a bottle ixin:tattling acid over a ballot box, the .presiding officer having his face burnt by the liquid, and it is feared his eyesight is in danger. A second outrage at Longlane polling booth was partially frustrated, but in both cases ballot papers were stained by the fluid. Mrs. Chaplin was arrested and remanded for a week on bail.