Widnes Examiner. — 1884-03-29 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

SUICIDE THROUGH THE LINCOLN HANDICAP.—A betting man and innkeeper, named John Morgan, committed suicide at Northampton on Wednesday night on learning the result of the Lincoln Handicap. -* A youug woman named Matilda Ryder was remanded at Uxbridge, on Wednesday, on a charge of murdering her child, aged two years. The accuse.l was released from gaol, after a term of imprisonment for child desertion, on Tuesday morning, and she afterwards drowned her child in the river Coins. A London correspondent states that a large number of Custom House officers have been brought to London from the outports, in order te receive instructions in the handling and treatment of dynamite. An address on the aubject, with practical illustrations, was delivered to them at one of the London hospitals. Lord Shaftesbury presided, on Wednesday evening, (Net a public meeting at Bxeter Hall to protest against the overpressure which exists in the public elementary schools of the country. The speakers included Dr. Forbes Winslow, Mr. Stanley Leighton, M.P., and Sir E. H. Currie, and resolutions on the subject were adopted. .. The Allan steamer Parisian, which left the Mersey on Thursday-for Quebec, had on board 52 children collected by Miss Rye from van. Es parts of the country. The children will be sent to Miss Rye's distributing borne "at Niagara, preparatory to being placed in situations with families in various parts of Canada. , From a parliamentary return issued on Thursday, it appears that the police force of Englaod and Wales consists of of 682 superintendents, 1,488 inspectors, 3,482 sergeants, and 28,381 constables. The total strength of the Scottish police (mite is 82 chief constables, 110 superintendents, 176 Inspectors, 358 sergeants, and 3,257 constables. An inquest was held on Tfiuraday by the Leicestershire . „  Anderson, actuary anti agen press Shire Penny Bank, was again before the West Riding magis- 1 Coroner on the body --of a woman named Sarah Kirchin, The news of the total rout and dispersal of Osman's army trates on Tuesday on cheiges of forgery arid falsification of ; deceased, 26 years of age, who walked from Hathern to will spread through the Soudan, and cannot fail to produce accounts. Evidence was given to show that he had ab- : Kegworth to attend her sister's funeral. On reaching the a salutary effect upon the hostile tribes in the neighbourstracted several sums of money from the bank and forged house leirehin fell on the ground fainting; she was raised hood of Khartoum. They will probably give little trouble notes et withdrawal in depositors' names, and Mee that I UP, but expired almost immediately. Heart disease was the in future. Under these circumstances it is not likely, ondeposits of £4 and £3 had only been entered as so many I cause of death. less some unexpected event should occur, that any steps Shillings, the balance going into the prisoner's pocket. He i Mr. Fawcett, M.P., on Wedeesday night addressed a 'was committed for trial. . i would be taken in the direction of sending troops to support meeting of Post Office employes in the EWA et Landon. General Gordon. The Government have full confidence in . The Leicester Ceroner held an inquest on Monday even- , He said that the two great causes of breaches of discipline his abilities to surmount the present difficulties, especially !s!g ou the body of Joseph Cliff, shoe rivetter, who was: among them were drinking and betting, but he Was gratified with the aid that will bo afforded him by Graham's vickilled on Saturday whilst rescuing two little children who ' to find that these were gradually and surely decreasing, and tories If, however, the necessity arose, an expedition migkt :zed strayed on the Great Northern Railway in front of an ; that complaints on that score were becoming More rare than b press train. Cliff, who was talking with a signalman at a I had ever been the case before. I e despatched in the autumn, but this contingency is not regarded as probable. level crossing, saw the children's danger; he sprang across The Liverpool magistrates, 'on Thursday, fined two men General Graham marched against Tamanieb on 'Thursday IVa resistance line and•dragged them into safety, but was caught by , /.5 each for a breach of the law against betting. The de- morning. The follower engine of the express and instantly killed. The Coroner : fondants bad publicly made bets on a piece of open land, sof Osman Digna made a show of , but fled before the steady advance of the British I,i_eld that but for Ci.ff's heroism both the children would I and they relied for immunity on the fact that they used leave been killed. The jury returned a verdict of accidental ;no " erection" to bring them within the statute, their stand- quarters was burned, and the troops returned to the camp in troops. The village in which the Arab chief had his beaddeath, • I lug ground being merely a board about 2ft. long. The de- , I which they passed Wednesday night. General Graham .e. TEE FISHERIES EXHIBITION: APPROPRIATION OF THE ' fendants alleged that they had had legal advice that they reports that "the campaign is over." We sustained no loss *