Widnes Examiner. — 1898-10-28 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

GENERA 1 NEWS.  Dr. IV ueller. who was attacked by plague after the death of the hospital attendmt Bartsch. at Venice died on Monday. Successful experiments have been ma-le in the south'western district of Queens'and in the destruction of rabbits by infecting them with chicken cholera. Another Attempt at train.wreeking, believed to be the work of boys, has been discovered on the Midland line between Kettering and Desborough. Damage estimated at £20.000 was caused by fire on Wednesday morning at Cameron Bridge Distillery, near Leven. Five hundred barrels ofwhiskv were pestroyed. . . .  According to the Kreuz Zeltung, It has been decided to despatch into the Oameroons hinterland a numerous and well equipped German expedition, which will penetrate as far as Lake Tchad. The roof of a church In the Faubourg de Santr Lucia. Verona. which WAS undergoing repairs, fell in on Senday morning. The Ref.tident was'attended by serious consequences several lives being lost.  News has been received at Memel that the barque Satisfaction, of this port,Capt +ln Hord], from Leith for Memel with coal, has sunk In the North Sea. The captain, his wife, and nine of the crew perished, a boy alone being saved by a Gothenburg steamer. From Shanghai It is reported that, within a period of eighteen days, six fires, all of a serious character, have occurred at Hankow. Thousands of lives have been lost, and much valuable property destroyed. The tires are supposed to be the work of Incendiaries. _  Fourteen of tte crew of the British steamer Astrea, sunk in the Gulf of Lyons after collision with a French steamer. were landed at Plymouth on Monday. They assert that while on the French steamer they had to sleep on the deck, without shelter of any kind. At Chester on Saturday. a guard named Thomas David Thomas was committed to the assizes for trial on Charges 0' stealin7 articles while in transit, the property of the London and North-Western Railway Company. It was stated that the total amount of the robberies represented a value of about £l4O. Rioting has occurred at San Salvatore, near Allessandria. Piedmont. Italy, In consequence of the measures taken by th e local authorities to extirpate phylloxera. Troops had to be sent to the district, and the soldiers were compelled to use their rifles, with the result that four peasants were killed and I over twenty wounded. An extraordinary scene was witnessed at Chatham on Sunday night, when a crowd of young men wrecked a house lin New-road, declaring it to be haunted. The windows werel smashed, a,bl the doors covered with mud, but the appearance of a strong force of police prevented further destruction. The house is furnished bot untenanted. At Cardiff on Saturday, a woman named Slade was shot, it la supposed, by her reputed husband, who subsequently, committed suicide. A man named Mott. sixty yearn of age was brought before ham magistrates on Saturday in connection with the death of his wife, who died, according to the report, from injuries inflicted by hini. James Merton, aged thirty-nine, a bricklayer s labourer. of 44, Leigh-Ms& Hindley Green ebrunsitted" subide on Friday by cutting his throat with a razor., He ,as employeel at the erection of a local church. On Friday he complained ti his landlady of being unwell. arra asked ter his razor.' He said he was about to sell it; he went back to his work, and was found with a fatal gash in his throat. _  _ Mr. Thomas O'Dwyer Russell, stated to be a folly-qualified physician and residing In Manchester, is in custody of the London police on a charge of breaking a window in the office of "Punch." Fleet-str,.et. He states that he struck at the cartoon in th, window—which represents Marchaod as a " monkey up a stick "—because be thought it was a shame that Frenchmen should be compared to monkeys. The !dent ty of the young man who shot himself in a railway carriage between London and Broxbourne on Thursday has been established. Ile was Kenneth Napier Sergeant. twenty-one years of age, son of Mr. Albert sergeant, solicitor, of Hackney. At the inquest at Broxbourne. the father said his son was studying for his final examination, and the consequent overwori probably uahinged his mind. A verdict to that effect was returned.  The town of Hirpe—r;Sille. ten miles from Forest, Mealssipt. is the eceneof a race war which, beginning on Saturdar night, bed up to ten o'clock on Sunday night resulted in MI death Of ten negroes ant one white, and the wounding of three whites and a number of negroes. The fight originated In the attempt of a constable and a posse of fifteen to arrest a man named Burke, a negro desperado, for the attempted murder of a white man. At Birkenhead on Saturday. Esther Gregg, aged about sixty, was charged on her own confession with the wilful murder of her son, Henry Bdward Grecg, in the year 1858. The woman had made a statement at the pollee station that she had found the deceased wading at Tranmere beach, and pushed him into the water. The bench, being of opinion that the prisoner is of unsound mind, remanded her for a fortnight to the lunatic ward of the workhouse hospital.  Urea:led Cleaned. and. Lined L For witeratlons of every desesiotion: —B. 000 g FC Mannfacturle,{ Furrier, 21 Renshaw-street, Llverpoal. th tablished 21 gem