The Cotton Factory Times. — 1889-01-18 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

AND WAGES.—On Monday, at Newcastle, Mr. Henry Chaplin, M.P., received a trades d,putation, and was presented with an address acknowledging his efforts and zeal with regard to bimetallism. In reply, Mr. Chaplin spoke on the subjects of currency and wages, and, tracing the depression in the labour market in a great degree to the present currency, urged the need of the change he advocates, and pointed out that unless the capitalist could employ his capital to profit they would soon be engaged in killing the goose that laid the golden eggs." A most determined case of suicide has occurred on board the Inman liner City of Berlin. The day after the vessel sailed a young lady passenger. Miss Gale, an American, was supposed to be sufferius. from sea sickness, but after being in torture for some time she admitted having taken rat poison. She added that she had had a family quarrel, and was determined to end her life. All that mediae: skill cOuld do for her by the doctor of the ship was of no avail, and she died the same night. The next day another saloon passenger, named H. D. Standen, died from delirium. treinow. Both bodies were buried at sea.  A MURDERER HANGED BY a Mos.—A sensations; outrage is reported from Danville, in Michigan. A man named Isaac Willi had been recently corn. witted to the gaol there for a determined attemp: to kill his wife. The desperate ruffian, however. managed to break out of prison after only a few days' incarceration, and at once proceeding home recommenced the attack upon his wife. Aid OVILI summoned, and the City Marshal made an attempt to arrest the escaped prisoner, bat Willi killed him on the spot. The mob which surrounded the house then became infuriated, and, making a rush, secured Willi, who was summarily hanged. " Is HE THE WHITECHAPEL MURDEEZR ?"—The Panama Star cod Herald asks this startling ques tion while recording .a telegram from Elgin. Illinois, U.S.A., which runs:—" Seven or eight years ago, George Hutchinson, an inmate of the Elgin Lunatic Asylum, was very handy with his knife. He delighted to visit the hospital slaughterhouse, and made many peculiar toys from bones. After escaping from Elgin he was captured at Kankakee. He escaped from that place, and murdered a disreputable woman in Chicago, mutilating her body in a way similar to the Whitechapel cases. He was returned to Kankakee, but after. wards again escaped, and has been at large for three or four years." A strike has occurred at Messrs. Goodfellow's Engineering Works, Hyde. An application was re. cently made to the firm by the turners, fitters, ane pattern makers for an advance of 2s. per week in that/ wages. Mr. Goodfellow promised to consider matter, and the strike has arisen through him giving the advance to a certain immber of the workmen and uot to others. A number of men who dui not receive the advance left work on Thursday week, and on Monday morning more members of the same society—the Amalgamated Society of Engineers—stayed out in accordance with a decision arrived at at a meeting held on Saturlay night. Many of the employes are not members of the Ainalgamated Society of Engineers, and these remaip at work.