The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1906-06-09 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

SANDRINGHAM  A DIAGNIFICIENI' NOMBIR.  THE PASSING WEEK  The da,ly papers on Tuesday recorded the death or the Rev. S. Baring-Gould, the distinguished hymn writer, folk-lorist, and novelist, and obituary notices appeared M unit of the leading journal,. The evening newspapers on Tuesday contained the following announcement :—The Central News 5,1y6 that the announcement of the death of the Rev. S. S. Baring-Gould, telegraphed from South Africa, is incorrect. Mr. Baring-Gould is now in Devoirihire and in the be-A of health. The passenger who died on board the Norman is believed to be Mr. S. S. Biriug-Geuld, a cousin of the novelist. Benter's agency has cis.sued a ines;age, expressing greed regret for having been the means of giving publicity to the false report.  S • • •  A remarkable return has been publiehecl with reference to the nuance of shreet betting. The number of summary comv:ctions last year was 6,03, compared with 4,085 in 11,03; and the number of persons convicted W 3.3 1,882 against 1,629. In the three yea.ra covered by the return 521 persons wore convicted twice, 380 three times, 48 ten times, and one individual no fewer than 54 times. Last year the fines imposed muoanted to £29,715, whereas in 1903 they were only £19,125. These facts point either to a rapid gro, th of the evil or to increased vigilance on the part of the police. _  Evidence of a eeneatianal character was given on Tae-xlay at the adjourned inqu*st concerning the tragic death of Mr. NVakley, the victim of hat i known as "the Studio Harder." A verdict of wilful murder waA roturned against some person or peracrne unknown.  • • • •  Mr. Chamberlain, &peaking at a garden party at Highbury on Tuesday, said the Government had not made much prograa. and that uone had ever dome as much misehief in forir months. He did not believe the unfair Education Bill would pass, and he should not be etirprifed if another election came next Spr,ng.  On Tuo=day the bodies of Lydia Dale, widow, and ho r boy Stanley, aged eighteen months, were pulled out of the Roohdale Canal near Oldham. The woman's husband drowned himself last November, and she bad been mach depressed Fince. She had been away from home for over a week, and lest Thursday oent back to Oldham a semen year old girl she had taken away. She left a letter behind stating Ole was going to drown heiself.  0 • • •  John Hillman, the Manchester City goal. keeper, alio livers in Burnley, figured honourably in a case heard there on Tuesday. Emily Kippaz, wife of a cotton manufacturer, waa charged with attempting to commit suicide. Hillman was in his garden cloea to the canal on Monday when ho tia Mrs. Rippe' jump into the canal. He ran to the spot, jumped in. and got her out. He re/mated to artificial respiration, and having brought her round handed her over to her fr'ends. The accused was remanded for a week, her relatives promising to take care of her. The magistrates warmly complimented Hillman on saving the woman's life.  While an Auloerg merchant named Dinkeeper and his wife were making a mountaineering excursion on Tuesday in the 4ngspits district the lady fell down a precipice of 700 feet, near the Wiener Nevetaatter hut, and was killed before her bmband's eyes. • • • .  The big brewery amalgamation selione at Barton-on-Trent, Do Jong on the tapis, is now an accomplished fact. Meese. A lsopps, Meesre. Salt and Company, and the Burton Brewery Company will merge into one gigantic concern.  S • •  A special grand jury has investig,ated the lynching aifair in Springiold, Ohio, where mob hanged and burned three negroes last April. The jury (cables the "Tribune" New York correspondent) found that no attack had been made upon Mrs. Mina Edwards, whose allegations led to the lynching, that it WB6 impossible for the neitoVi to haw. been at the scene of the  atiaged assail* at the time it waa committed, sad that the eherilimid police were. nee/gent in the performance of their die.. Twenty•three indictments have been retuned against members of the ',whine mob.  • • • •  Dr. W. Gill, late Medical Officer for Radcliffe, who had been suffering from nervous deprepssion and neuralgic attacks, has committed suicide by taking oblong. • • • •  The follovring appeared ia Wednesday'. "Daily Telegraph" :—ln Brighten, on Tuesday. the magistrates ordered the destruction of a further largo quantity of tinned feed—viz., thirty-eight tone of roast chicken. Could it poasibly have been "tins" that was meant? • • • •  Two persona were drowned in the Axon at Bristol on Wednesday evening. Caroline Bryant, aged nine, was playing on some step. at West Point when she was carried away by the waah of a passing dimmer, and Jame,. Griffin, aged 24, unmediate'y plunged in to her rescue, but he also was drowned.  • • •  Sir Edward Clarke, M.P., hes resigned Ms mat for the City of London. in which representation his colleague is Mr. Balfour. It will be remembered that Sir Edward's frankness on focal matters did not meet with the approval of the tariff "reform" party, and this has caused him great trouble. Re rives ill-health as his reason for resigning  S • • •  At Thursday's meeting of the Manchester Unity of Oddtellows, Mr. J. H. Hawkins was elected Grand Master and Mr. A. Dempsey Deputy Grand blaster of the Order. It was decided to hold next year's A.M.C. at rolkarbene. A proposal to form regimental military lodges wee favourably considered.  S • • •  At Wiltshire Assizes on Thursday A4bert Henry Capper, ex-soldier, pleaded guilty to five charges of bigamy, and was sentenced to ten years' penal servitude. 'Phe bigamous marriages were contracted at Cheltenham in 1894. Wealdirtone in 1898. Hampstead in 1908, B'7.roud Green in 1904, and at Swlisbuiy in 1905. All six wives are still living. The Lord Chief Justice, in paseing seirtenoe, said that it was difficult to express in moderate language the sense that he had of the prisoner's guilt. With one exception this was the worst case of bigamy that had ever come before him.  The new Cunard turbine steamer Lusitania was succaa4fully launched on the Clyde on Thursday, in the preence of 40,000 spectab rs.