Widnes Examiner. — 1907-12-28 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

EUROPE. , who landed stores and marines. The upshot of that was Sir A. Swettenharia's resignation, To come nearer home, France's biggest and Mr. Sydney Olivier was ,appointed as business this year has been the war in Governor in his stead. Besides the PhilipMorocco, arising out of the murderous raid pine tyjihoon, with the loss of 100 lives, there at Casa Blanca, and involving the setting up were the opening of the Thaw trial, the West of a new Sultan. Our own particular interest Ham Guardians' scandal, when *nine were in Morocco centred in the sufferings of Kaid sentenced to various terms of hard labour, Sir Harry Maclean, captured by the brigand ranging from six months to two years; and Raisuli, who preferred to hold him for ran- the murder by Horace Rayner of Mr. som. The Pope's Encyclical against the William Whiteley, the Universal Provider. Modernists evoked criticism in this country Rayner, reprieved, afterwards attempted as well as upon the Continent. Germany suicide in Parkhurst Gaol. In the February provided two prime sensations—in the defeat gales the Berlin was wrecked at the Hook of of the Socialists at the General Elections on Holland and 150 lives lost. A serious exthe question of the military expenditure, and plosion occurred at Woolwich Arsenal, for the Harden-Moltke libel case, in which an which the Commons set aside £20,000 for editor who had made the gravest charges compensation. Ernest Wyatt was sentenced against a section of the aristocracy was ae- to death for the murder of his sweetheart at quitted amid enthusiasmoli-qhe- other. hand, Stockwell. The areat naval disaster at Toulon the Imperial Chancellor secured the convic- occurred at the beginning of March, wan its tion of an editor who had libelled him. The death-roll of 100; and in south-westerly, gales socialist congress at Stuttgart attracted our the Suevie was wrecked on the Lizard and attention because Mr. Harry Quelch, the the Jebba near Plymouth. The "Poison by English delegate, was expelled from the coun- post" ease resulted in Brown being found intry for asserting that the delegates at The sane and sent to an asylum. Driver Gourlay Hague Conference were a lot of thieves and was sentenced to five months' imprisonment robbers. The Belgian Government has de- for the Arbroath railway disaster. During a batted terms to the intent that it shall take fortnight in April the courts produced the over the Congo Free State from King Leopold, and England and other countries have ment in the Thaw trial; the twelvemonth had strong things to say to prevent the con- four sensations. There was the jury disagreesentence on Lord William Nevill for fraud; servation of private interests under the con- the Croydon "poisoned beer" mystery-, ditions of licence which have disgraced the which ended in the execution of Richard past. In Portugal the King and Parliament Brinkley for murder; and the manslaughter have come into conflict, and the monarch has by the pugilist " Pedlar " Palmer, who killed undertaken to run the whole business alone— a man in the Epsom race train, and was sent or with the aid of his Premier—and to do it to five years' penal servitude. The great art better. On the other hand, the Austrian Em- robbery from Mr. Wertheimer's house in peror has given his people universal suffrage. Park-lane, when a valuable painting was In Russia, the old melancholy tale of assassiripped from the frame and miniatures nation .has been repeated month by month. and gold snuff-boxes were stolen to the The second Duma opened In March and the value of £50,000, resulted in May in third in November. This promises to be more sentences of seven years' penal servicompliant. ; tude on John Smith and five years' on , Santo Creseenti, with, somewhat later, a Persia began the year with a new Shah, sentence of seven years' imprisonment for dealer, who instigated the robbery. and at tile ie end was still discussing the mo- Morris, a w mentous Convention in which Britain and On June 10th a Spanish lady obtained judgRussia defined their " boundaries " in the ill nt for £827,000, in the King's Bench Div'4iddle East. This goes far to relieve us of sio sooner had the Lord Chief Justice granted anxiety upon the Indian frontier. Russia keeps en, against a City company promoter. No the appeal of Edward Guerin, escaped from to the more commercially-profitable north of Devil's Island, against an order of extradiPersia ; there is' a neutral zone between; while our sphere overlooks the Gulf and its traffic and the frontiers of Baluchistan and Charles Smith, with whom was a woman tion to France than Guerin was shot at by notorious to the police as Chicago May; Afghanistan. Japan has made good her hold on 'Korea, Smith's sentence was for life, Mary Vivienne Sith the abdication of the Emperor of Korea Churchill was sent to penal servitude for after some of his emissaries had ,fruitlessly time grand stand at the Ascot race meeting. fifteen years. The Gold Cup was stolen from appeared at The Hague to protest to the The separation for which the Baroness Peace Congress against Japanese methods.