Widnes Examiner. — 1885-09-05 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

GENERA.L.NEWS. After a two-months' struggle the strike of miners alikeMr. William Ddke, of Chichester, uncle of Sir Charles A large RUN of rock fell at Glasgow on Tuesday, killDilke, died'on Sundey, aged 90. ,' • lug one man and dangerously wounding another. ,A boy named Weston was corninittrd for tial at Poits- Mr. James Smith, manager of the extensive cotton mills mouth on Saturday, charged wits the manslaughter of at Kersbaw. Ashton-under-Lyne, committed suicide on another boy named Fry, by striking him with his fist. Monday night. , At Chester, OD Monday, Mr. O'Kell, of Liverpool, Was , Nearly 5,000 men employed by Sir William Armstrong, presented with the bronze medal .of the Royal liumaee So- Mitchell, and Co.. ironworkers, Elawick. near Newcastle, ciety, for a gallant attempt to rescue twe men from drown- came out on strike on Wednesday. ing in the Dee in May last. The Daily Noes is informed that Sir Matthew WhiteTwo young men, named Frank Olderehaw and Jeremiah Ridley, M.P , has been off-red and has accepted the post of Mason, were out shooting at Wolverhampton. on Monday, Financial Secretary to the Treaanry. when the gun held by Mason was accidenally discharged, - A man named Robert lining was seriously injured and Oldershaw was mortally wounded. in an affray Which occurred at Armagh on Monday night At Liverpool on Saturday, Charles Lloyd, cashier for between soldiers and civilians.. Three arrests have been the firm of H. Symons and Co., merchaets, was remanded made. charged with' embezzlement and falsification of accounts. Two coastguards, named Bligh and Harris, were drowned It is Atte that the prisoner's defalcations amount to at Lossiemoutb, on Tuesday, through the upsetting of their £2.000. boat when entering the harbour after a fishing expedition. The Standard says :—One of the most singular coinci- Both men were married. dencei ever recorded has -just taken place at a village The house of William Feaney, at Keith', near Listowel, named Martin Valley, in Pennsylvania, where three was burned by. moonlighters 311 Monday night. The Inbrothers of the name of Troby, all following different mates narrowly escaped. Feaney, who Li a bailiff, had his trades, met with accidental deaths between 11. o'clock on hand seriously burned. the night of Friday, Aug. 14th, and 11 o'clock on the fol- The autumn meeting of the Iron and Steel Institute lowing morning. opened at Glasgow on Tuesday morning. Dr. Percy, the BURIED Auve.—An inquest Was opened at Great Yaw, President, in his inaugural address, alluded to the important mouth, on Monday, upon the body of a lad named Thomas position occupied by Glasgow in the manufacture of iron Richard Crodlrey, aged eight years, of Finsbury Park. Lon- and steel. don. A hole five feet deep had been made in the sand on Several Belgian detectives have arrived in London, and the beach, into which the deceased was pushed. He fell in are endeavouring, by the aid of the Scotland Yard officials, headlong, and the sand closed over him, completely cover- to trace Belgian railway bond to the value of over 400,0001., log him. When dug out he was quite dead, equivalent to £16,000 sterling, which haye recently been Lrovsn liousn is to be Oven to the New Scotch Depart- 'stolen in Brussels. inset. It is a magnificent building within, and was likely Ttie Statist was pleasant reading on Saturday. It exet one time to be used as a Prime Minister's residence. Mr. pressed its firm belief that a revival of trade is looming in Gladstone went dyer it to see if he liked it, and thought the near future, and that more particularly there will be that it was too grand for the chief adviser to the Queen. an early improvement in the iron trade, which has so long If Lord _Beaconsfield had been Prime Minister the result been under a cloud. The Statist, moreover, gives its might have been different. As it is, the magnificence is to reasons for the faith that is in it be used for the new Secretary for Scotland. SERIOUS CLIFF Accurearr.—On Monday afternoon while THE Mtuestruz BaNx.—A meeting of the shareholders a number of men were engaged excavating under the and customers of the Munster Bank was held on Monday cliff at Swanage. several tons of earth suddenly gave way, night at Limerick, for the purpose of assisting in the for- burying the men underneath. Efforts were speedily made oration of the proposed Munster and Leiuster Bank. Only to resue the party, when it was found that two or three about 25 persons were present, but nearly 1,400 shares were of them were seriously injured, and one, it is feared, will not taken and about £2O subscribed to the guarantee fund. A survive. committee was appointed to wait upon other shareholders, Emu, SPENCER en Tuesday afternoon received at Althorn customers, .te., and to invite their co-operation. House a deputation from the Northampton Town Council, PROFESSOR Hurxczy.—The country will learn with regret who presented an address acknowledging his able and that Professor Huxley, acting on medical advice, bas thrown kindly administration in Ireland. In reply, his Lordship up all his public and private professional engagements, said he felt it his duty to undertake the administration of preparatory to taking up'his residence in some southern Irish affairs at the command of the Queen, and thanked the clime. Hard study and active work have broken down his memorialists for their kind expressions. health. By Professor Huxley's resignetiow the State will