Widnes Examiner. — 1889-01-26 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

GENERA]  NEWB.  Mr. ft. Rider Haggard has become • vegetarian became he Rods that he MO work longer and beUer without a meet diet.  ---I:iiirl—i‘lisbory intends to trick Bristol during the Faster Reties,, when he will address a great meeting in the Drill Hall.  A daring robbery was effected by mesas of. duplimte key at the Bedford Hotel, Landporbstmet, Portsmouth, on Tuesdsy morning, and £7OO was stolen.  German statistic-Bellow that the percentage of suicides smong the Jews ie considentrily higher than among other secto Among English Jews suicide is rase. •  Ae an evidence .;:f the mildnest of the saws a Bolton ennimpondent writes that in clough at florwich there hm been found a throetle's neat with four egg. in it. The 53 municipal free lihrarim in Prance lent not lap rear 1,020,000 hooka, heeidee which 163,000 volumen were conmatted or read on the spot. The proportion of novels is 48 per sent.  The anthJewfsh wave has evidently reached Luzernberg. At one of the tittings of the Dint petitions for nsturslisstine of all septic/kilts but the Jews were granted. The applications of the Jews were refused. Mrs. Munn', a wealthy worn. of Dartford, has • great affection for twin babies. Whenever twins ate born in Hartford, she at once rails upon the mother. whether she knows her or not, and presents to each Nana silver cup. Mr. William Arrol. of Glasgow, contractor for the Perth Bridge, is reported to have rereiveri the contract for • serWs of bridges that are to span at different points the Manchester Stop (tassel. The bridge. will be constructed of Steel.  In the Paris Morgue the highest ten:palatine in any %pertinent whemean, are kept In 2leg. under freezing point, and where the bodies are kept for. long time, to facilitate legal investigations, an even greeter degree of cold is maintained. Kirk Pavia was a tenant on • farm near Hubbard City, Texan, belonging to a man ...ad Cramer Cramer won a lawsuit which resulted from the tenancy. Afterward% the pair fought. Davis was killed outright Cramer afterwards died.  Signor Carlo Pelligrini, the artist of limit,' Foe, died to Tuesday night. His illness has extended over some months, but latterly an acute bronchial attack rendered recovery improbable, and for some days his death hat been hourly expected. Cremation is thriving in Glencoe.. A cremation iiraiety there he. alreedy over IDD members. Mr. Jame* Chitlinere.an architect of the city. has drawn up a scheme of cremation for Glasgow. in which he point:: out that the cost of cremating each body ehoold not exceed 2.g. The Exchequer returns from April let to .henueryl9th chow the receipts to have been 05,298.440 expendi• tine, £68,035,789 ; and balancwi, £1,433,133. In the . .  corresponding' period of lane yr:ar ;he 'receipts were £65.937.318 ; expenditure, £70,217,186; and balances. £1656601.  It may nnt be generally known, though Lord Tennyson's proclivities for Lincolnshire are often sppeivnt, that Mr. George Tennyenn, of Rayons Manor. T.alhy, w.e the poet-htureate's'grandiether, and Dr. G. C. Teeny. Non. rector of Romerby, the laureate's father, was Squire Tennymn's eldest son.  Close on six hundred emigrants Wt Limerick, on Tuesday morning, ny special train, from Queenstown ea route tor Buenos Ayres. Nearly the whole working population of the city turned out. and lanai bands played the emigrants to the station, whence they left sunid WI4 cheers and lamentations.  • verdict of manslaughter was returned by a coroner's jury at Poplar on Tuesday against John Sullivan, who is m custody for causing the death of a man named Cooper. a dock labourer, by striking him. A cousin of the decraned had given evidence in• charge for which Sullivan had just come out of prison.  Scranton. ra the other side of Philadelphia, which has only been in existence as a city for 23 years, and nnw has a population of 95,000, calla itself "The Electric City." Not only are all its streets lighted and most of its machinery driven by this power, but all its atreet cars are run by the electrio-motors. General Rooth. on behalf of the Salvation Army, has purchased the Tinted Methodist Free Church. in Marketlame, Crewe. This is one of the oldest clupels in Erew, and in equate in the centre of the borough. The purchase price is about £7OO or £