Widnes Examiner. — 1882-06-10 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

ELECTRIC BURGLAR DETECTOR.—At the Liverpool Police Court, on Monday, two young men named Quinn and Dodd were charged with burglary on the premises of Messrs. Henochsburg and Ellis, clothiers, Ranelagh-street. Mr. Ellis, one of the prosecutors, was awakened about four o'clock on the morning °of Whit-Snnday by the barking of his dog. He got up and went to the window, when he saw the prisoners in the act of getting through another window which they had opened. They saw him and made off, turning their attention to the premises of Messrs. Humphrey, Roberts, and Co., timber merchants, in a neighbouring street. They entered the place over the roofs of some houses, and one of them, Qainn, passed through the door of the office. This, however, was furnished with an electric indicator, which, unheard by the thief, awakened the foreman who slept on the premises. That official at once informed the police, who found Quinn hiding under a desk. Dodd was captured outside. A number of burglars' implements were found upon them. The prisoners were committed to the assizes for trial.  1 The Princess of Wales on Monday 'unveiled, in Trinity Church, Windsor, a window memorialising the escape of her Majesty from assassination on the 2nd March last. .At Godlty, Hyde, on Monday, a platelayer named William Smith attempted to commit suicide by cutting his throat, and a letter found in his pocket attributes the act to domestic troubles. He may recover. A bill was submitted to the Manx House of Keys, on Tuesday, which purposes, amongst other changes, to abolish the law of primogeniture. It was referred to a committee to be reported upon. The abundant moisture so urgently required by the crops after the arid easterly winds and hot sunshine of last week has fallen, and the prospects of farmers have already considerably brightened. Sir Stafford NorthcoLe presided on Saturday at a dinner of the Commercial Travellers' Benevolent Institution at Exeter. He dwelt on the importance of the commercial travellers' position as the nerves, so to speak, of our home trade. . . _  It is stated that the Empress of Austria has made arrangements with Lord Combermere for the use of Combermere Abbey during the hunting season for the next three years. Several of Her Majesty's favourite hunters are now at the Abbey stables. The Primitive Methodist Conference was opened at Sheffield on Wednesday, when five candidates were nominated for the office of president. Three withdrew, and the Rev. Joseph Wood, of Leeds, was elected by 124 votes to 39 recorded for the Rev. T. Southern, of Sunderland. The Queen, It is announced, will be represented at the christening of the young German Prince at Potsdam by one of her sons, probably the Prince of Wales. Invitations to the ceremony have been accepted by the King of Saxony, the Grand Dukes of Weimar and Schwerin, the Duke of Coburg, and others. On Tuesday a deputation of artisans had an interview with Mr. Chamberlain, to urge that the Board of Trade should take action on a bill of the South-Eastern Railway, now before Parliament, to compel them to run workmen's trains. Mr. Chamberlain said that he should lay their views before the oommittee, and endeavour to attain their object. On Tuesday, the Nottingham magistrates remanded a woman named Eliza Belton, upon whom suspicion has recently fallen in connection with neglecting her family. Five of seven of her children have died, and on Monday night, one of the remaining two, an infant four months old, was foundjn a dreadfully emaciated condition. A woman named Hannah Smith, who formerly lived at Birkenhead, has been committed for trial at Manchester, chatged with throwing vitriol in her husband's face. The man aroused her ire by running oft with another woman named Macdonald, who was, on the 27thu1t., stabbed by the wife just before the latter threw thevitriol on her husband. _ _ _  The Hanley magistrates, on Monday, fined John James, farmer, £4 and costs ,for not repnrting the existence of swine fever on his premises. The police authorities became aware of the existence of disease in defendant's neighbourhood, and traced it to nine pigs, three of which the defendant bought, and the others were sold at various markets, but all died except one, the old sow, which was killed and consumed before the police could interfere. A Parliamentary return shows the amount of poor rates levied and expended during the year ended at Lady Day, 1881, the total of which whs :80,302,800. the receipts in aid being £1,038,504. It is observed that £5,578,101, or considerably more than one-third of the poor rate now levied, is expended for "other purposes" than the relief of the poor. The Prince of Wales telegraphed from Great Yarmouth to the Mayor of Leicester is 'follows :—" Having seen in the newspaper that the maw who ran up to our carriage has been imprisoned with hard labour, I sincerely bone that you will remit the remaind4r of the sentence at my special wish, in which the Princess fully concurs." The man has been released. _