The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1905-12-30 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

THE PASSING WEEK.  Later amounts of the terrible fighting in Moscow on Chrisiatas Day show that a big company of reSoltifionary Militiamen invaded the town during the morning, and were joined by several hundred fellowMilitiamen and a couple of thousand strikers. A big railway siatlan was bombarded, and artillery *as requisitioned throughout the disturbed area, the revolters being mown down in hundreds. Tramcars were used as barricades, and a determined fight took plaai. One account puts the number of killed at 8.000, while many thousands were wounded.  A young private in the Guards named Williams, aged 19, was fotind early on Tuesday morning in Great Peatl-street, Spite Melds, in an unconscious condition, with a terrible wound in the head. He was taken to the London Hospital, where he died. Williams, with three other soldiers of the same regiment, is stated to have been in the company of some young women in Great Pearl-street on Monday night, when he was attacked by a man with an iron bar. The police have since made an arrest in conneetion with the ease.  An inquest wee held at Sheffield ofi Tuesday on Annie Robinson, a Harrogate lady, who while on h visit to Sheffield had It prescription made up by a chemist. Owing to a mistake on the label of a bottle, a solution of nitrate of mercury, a deadly poison, Was given, and after taking one dose the lady died. It etmld hot be explained how the wrong label got on the bottle, but it was iraggested that •:fittring the removal nf the business on stet day the label was rubbed oi, and that someone pat a wrong label in its piece.  • • •  A cable message has been received from Mr. James Tomkiusen, MS. for Crewe, who has just arrived in India, stating that he is at once returning to Ilnitiand tO take up his candidature for the Crewe division.  The City Coroner held an inquiry on Tuesday evening touching the death of Mr. C. R. Bellamy,the Well-known manager of the Liverpool Corporation Tramways, Who died suddenly on Saturday evening lest at his residence in Edge-lane. In trying to avoid a piece of rope which was lying on one of the steps inside his house, Mr. Bellamy fell and sprained his ankle. Death was due to a clotting of the large artery leading from the heart to the lungs, accelerated by the injury to the leg, and a verdict accordingly was returned.  General Booth has received a letter from the King assuring him that the Salvation Army's home colonisation scheme has his Majesty's sincere sympathy and good wishes, and expressing satisfaction at hearing of Mr. George Herring's magnificent donation on behalf of the scheme.  The committee of the Aberdeen Chamber of Commerce have recommended that the council should support the representation by the Liverpool Chamber to the Board of Trade for the appointment of a Government Expert Committee to inquire into the desirability of instituting • system for the national indemnity of the nation's property at sea in time of war.  S • •  Mr. Alexander Melville, an electrical engineer, was on Wednesday electrocuted in the Glasgow Corporation Electric Station. The unfortunate man caught hold of a switch with a current of 6,500 volts running through it, death being instantaneous. He •thought the current had been turned of.  The Lord Mayor of Liverpool has bean presented with a largely-signed and influential petition requesting him to call a town's meeting with regard to the atroor. ties in the Congo. The petition was handed in by Mr. Samuel Smith, M.P.. and the Lord Mayor has acceded to the request of the petition and has fixed Thursday, hindary 4, at half-past two o'clock in the afternoon, for the meeting. • • • •  Burton Truefitt, a Soarborough fisherman, received great ovation when he stepped forward at the close of the fishermen's charity football match, played on the sands at Scarborough on Tuesday, to receive a valuable gold watch, subscribed for by fishermen of liardepool, Aberdeen, and Scarborough, in reooguition of his great bravery in endeavouring to save the life of George Whitt!sten, another Scarborough fisherman.  • I •  A young married woman, Mrs. Life, living in St. Relieve, has oommitted subside by ontting her throat. She sharpened a table-knife on a steel and good before a mirror to commit the ant. Three months  ago her father waa plaaed M an asylum after attempting suicide in the same way, and the deceased had be much depressed.  Mr. John Burns, speaking to his Battersea constituents an Wectneeday, said that with him the path of honour was bat the road to duty. He had become, as Shakespeare had it, "The standard-bearer of the rude naschanieels." He was the fret of-the ancient lowly to enter the Cabinet of the, ancient OXIAIIIIIi•GS. • • • •  Two hundred, and lift timaandLaaree of land in Itio4totia. Alberta. and Baalcat idesersa have been altered try tho• Carta:Vas Gemmeimeat to General Bootie. Sahstszeitat. pasts are aim premised from British Cwiamitia, New Brunswick sad Neva Beata. Tan thousand mow esttlwra.are seated to be taken out next year. Tim Canadian Government is also taking steps to meet the Australian competition in attracting enlist:ants;  Mfr nearly a week of continnotts street fighthts, in which both revolutionaries and troops have been thoroughly enhanoied,the ineargent neowenvent appears tab. Weakening, and the bloodshed and sulfating proseise to lenoweihe ogibeterradu theserne. podtion as before so far as their political aspirations are oonserned, but weaker for  lb. loos of loony at thair *lomat loodsra. The troops are now reported to be gelling* the upper hand. • • •  The Glasgow steamer Argo, Ogg teas register, went ashore at St. Agne's Head, Isle of Man, on Tlrtirsday, and is likely to become a total wreak. The crew of fourteen, after a eight of anxiety, were able to save themselves. • r • •  Mr. Samuel Staith, et• Tows Clerk of Cheater, died lioinewhat suddenly at his residenos ia the cathedral city on 'Thursday. Deaossed was a son of the late Mr. John Smith, who Was Mayor of Chester in 1854-5. He was practically associated with municipal stairs all his lifetime. He passed as a solicitor in 1857, and became a member of the firm of Messrs. Walker, Smith, and Way. The prineipal of the firm, Mr, John Walker, was then Town Clerk, and for nineteen years deceased belled as his deputy. On Mr. Walker's death in 1888 Mr. Smith became principal of the firm, and received the appointment of Town Clerk with little opposition. That , position he occupied with credit until about two years ago, when he retired. • • ' • •  Consequent on the investigations made in South Africa by Yr. COMMilliliollet Reeve. the War Office are, it is stated, about to institute criminal proceedings against certain army men in connection with the War Stores Seandal.  IS