The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1908-05-23 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

THE PASSING WEEK. Tbe need of strengthening the :aw relating to lotteries and to indecent advertisements. publicatione, and exhibitions was further emphasised on Monday by witnesses before the Joint Committee of both Houses which is inveatigating the subject. • • • • A tragedy occurred at New York on Tuesday which has made considerable stir in business circles. Mr. George Steriy, a millionaire drug importer, was shot dead in his private office by hiss own .on. who afterwards committed suicide. It seems that the elder Sterry, who was a 'widower with a grown-up family. contemplated remarriage, much to the dismay of him family. On Tuesday his eon George, the eldest of the family, remonstrated with his father, and, finding him determined to carry out. his project of marrying again, became angry, as is supposed, and shot his father. • • • • Mr. Joynson-Hicks. M.P.._ ikas on Wells's:6day night, at the Sun Hall, presented 1 with an illuminated address by the Liverpool Workingmen's Conservative Association, in commemmeration of his victory in Northwest Manchester over Mr. Wineton Churchill. • • • • * sensational robbery occurred at a Manchester station on Monday. A lady and gentleman leaving Manchester for Liverpool had their luggage placed in the van during the guard's absence. When the train was about to start a stylishly. dressed lady secured one of the package. , from the guard on a statement that the , luggage was bens and that sbe could not :make the journey. The package was stated to contain aecurities and valuables worth .C 20,000. A woman was. arrested in Liverpool on Tueeday with 'the meting property in her pomession. • • • • An the best medical attention of New York is being directed to saving the life 'of Mr. A. H. Marsh, a millionaire manufacturer, who is suffering from hydrophobia at the Pasteur Institute, but the latest new. is that he is in so grave a atste that his life is despaired of. . • • • 1 Outside Clapham Parish Church. London, at the conclusion of Sunday morning's service, a young man named Wood was shot at by Isis father-in-law. named Betts, and severely wounded. Betts. who is said to be of independent means, quietly surrendered. • • • a The Earl of Crewe and the Bishop of London were the principal speakers at a great demonstration on Saturday afternoon in the Albert Hall, organised by the .promoters of the London united campaign in favour of the Licensing Bill. The -bishop said the Church should back up meaaurea and not parties, and it was because he believed the bill was good: for , the people that he stood there. , The enormous drank bill of England was a national disgrace. and every Christian body should rally together to stem this national degradation. • . • • Captain George Parker, of the 6th Battalion Liverpool Regiment, died on Wednesday night at the Royal Southern Hospital,  WOMEN' Be Just to Yourselves. wAR o„fmt.... ~,„„ c.e. • 04, ,t A.,•: By ~c3--,4:Appfustseeat ....!,.... m ~.,....x.,.... MM. The Meg. 00. 9 . - . .. • II rile C 101 0 The Great Household Soap Just an Everyday Friend. UP 4harwor A Just in Quality, .....,,. ....... _,...- ..._ Just in Weight! I Just in Purity. i . . . I I