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Widnes Examiner. — 1887-04-30 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

MISCELLANEOUS.—The Royal assent was given to the posed to get rid of the income tax altogether. On the Army Anneal Act and several other measures. On the subject of economy he endorsed the views of Lord R. motion for the third reading of the Sheffield Corporation Churchill, but in reply to his suggestion that naval and Bill, the Earl of WEMYSS opposed the proposal. After military expenditure should be reduced lie was con- I some discussion, the Earl of Wemyss withdrew his opposevinced the country would not be satisfied unless the lion, and the bill was read a third time. Army and Navy were riaintained in a thorough state of ME Terms Bit.—The Tithe Rent Charge Bill having 1 efficiency. j been read a second time without opposition, Earl Ds as. 1 Mr. J. G. HUBBARD te.nplimented the Chancellor of WARR moved that it be referred to a select committee, but i the Exchequer on his Budget, to which he gave a gene- the Marquis of SALISBURY objected to the proposal in view 1 ...., ral approval; and after some remarks from Mr. Tomlin- of the earnest expressions of desire that the bill should be ' Alen, eseeedebeame fall of snow on Monday morning in son, the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, answering Mr. passed this session which he had received from the clergy. etbei,ske Distziet, "the isle of man, and some parts-of Cremer, promised to consider his suggestion that the —The PRIVATE remarked that he was not aware that ;Newt wales. The mow zaplcil7 melted after gunikle. date on which the alteration in the tobacco duty should there was any opposition to the measure on the part of the 1 The Hew. Arthur Gregory Jackson, chaplain of the come into force should he earher than May 21. clergy.—Lord EGERTON of Tams considered the bill an t . Philanthropic Farm School, Redhill, committed suicideon Colonel DAWNAY energetically condemned Lord R.. admirable one, and Lord Fourigscrx thanked the Govern- :' Saturday- evening by hanging. He was 45 yearsof age, Churchill's unfriendly attitude towards the farmers.— ment for the measure.—The motion to refer the bill was mid unmarried. Mr. S. MASON continued the discussion, and condemned withdrawn. , The coalmasters of Fife and Clack-mannan on Satterthe Budget as spendthrift; and, after a few words team
Widnes Examiner. — 1887-11-05 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

EARTHQUAKES IN NORTH ITALY. A Central News telegram dated Rome, Thursday mornigg, says :—Serious shocks of earthquake have been felt during the night at various places in the northern provinces. Accounts reach this city from Ravenna, Bologna and Venice, all of which state that the shocks have been Very decided and alarming. It is not reported, hewever' that any lives have been lost. The Rivers Po, Reno, and Panaro threaten serious inundations. '  As a result of the consultation last week, between Lord Salisbury, Mr. Matthews, and Sir Charles Warren, it has been resolved that no public meetings shall in future be allowed to be held in Trafalgar-s4uare. BaluusrExs—whose professional labours necessitate long intervals between meals—nething will be found so exhilarating, oomforting. and capable of sustaining exhausted nature as Ca4burY.B Cocoa, guaranteed absolutely Ire. Beware of lullfatious.—Azia,  Hurley Flour Mills, Great Marlow, were destroyed by fire on Monday. The damage is estimated at several thousand pounds. ,  On Monday, an elderly man, named James Pegg, platelayer, on the Midland Railway, was knocked down by an excursion train from Nottingham to Manchester, just outside Derby station. His head was out off, and his body frightfully mutilated. The deceased's home was in Derby.  The miners of Fife and Clackmannan unanimously agreed on Monday to support the national scheme for the restriction of output by working only eight hours daily, taking a weekly holiday in districts, and one week's annual holiday simultaneously throughout the kingdom.  An easterly gale prevailed over the Tyne and along the Durham and Northumberland coasts on Monday, accompanied by heavy rain. Several vessels had to put back for shelter. During a gale on Sunday, the schooner Livingstone, of Newcastle. went •ashore at Dungeness. The crew, except one man, was rescued by a lifeboat. About mid-day, on Sunday, the body of one of Mr. Assheton-Smith's gamekeepers, stationed at Llanberis, was found in the river near that place, close to the waterfall. His hat and coat were subsequently found in a wood close by, having been torn to rags, evidently in a severe struggle. He was last seen about ten o'cioek on Saturday night.  SCTICIDR OF A RooxmAxEn.—Charies Middleton Cox, a bookmaker, has committed suicide at his residence, Catford, by shooting himself with a shot-gun. The deceased was awaiting his trial at the Shrewsbury Assizes this week on a charge of fraud, and on Saturday he should have proceeded to that town to report himself, in accordance with the terms of his bail.  Esiranatiori.—.Since the Ist of January 358,715 persons have emigrated from the United Kingdom to places out of Europe, as against 295,510 in the corresponding period of last year. The English numbered 149,861, the Scotch 30,770, and the Irish 74,898, the remainder being foreigners. During last month 32,749 persons emigrated, as against 27,589 in October, 1886. KILLED BY A Bartzu
Widnes Examiner. — 1887-09-24 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

THE SUICIDE AT APPLETON.—Mr. W. J. Hnsband, the deputy coroner, en Saturday held an inquest at the Prince , of Wales Hotel, Kent-street, Widnes, touching the death of John Howard, who was a labourer at the Thareis copper works, and lives at 38, Appleton Village. It appeared that Howard, who was 48 years of age, lost his wife in February last, and hie manner had since been very strange, and he had ! been much addicted to drinking. When he ariived home on Wednesday night his Sister, Ellen Devenport. a widow,l Pulled his boots off. Deceased told her that he should not want the boots any more, and asked her to throw them behind the fire. She declined, and then he asked her to cut his head off. He bad had some drink. Afterwards be went to bed, and during the night his sister beard him vomiting. About six o'clock next morning she heard him moaning, and when she got down stairs, two boors later, she fornd him in the kitchen hanging by the neck from a rope fixed to a beam. He was quite dead. A verdict of suicide whilst temporarily insane was returned. HARVEST FESTIVAL AT WIDNES PARISI( CHURCH:Services of thanka4ivine for the harvest have been held in St. Mary's Parish Church. The sacred edifice had been elaborately and beautifully adorned for the occasion by several members of the congregation, the materials for the purpose having been contributed by numerous friends wise reside in the surrounding agricultural district. The first service was held on Friday evening last week, when the Rev. Gaeking, 8.A., preached an appropriate sermon to a good congregation. On Sunday three services were held. In the morning the vicar, the Rev. .J. Wright-Williams, occupied the pulpit, and in the afternoon the rev, gentleman delivered an address to the scholars. The Rev. F. L. Downham, vicar of St. Simon and St. Jude, Walton, preached in the evening. On each occasion the congregations were of large dimensions, and the choir rendered specially selected hymns and anthems. The collections, amounting to £l3 13e 411, will be devoted to the fund for reeovating the church. On Monday the Immo, fruit, drc., were distributed amongst the needy sick in the parish. illllWw WILL RETURN the purchase money If one box of Howell's Golden Herb Pll'm does not cure vou.—.Adet
Widnes Examiner. — 1887-04-23 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

NOTABLE PICTERE.—A recent Paris letter to a London paper contains a graphic description of Mr. Henry Mosler's latest painting, which is just now receiving the finishing touch at his studio in the Rue de la Tr6mouille. This picture illustrates a pathetic incident in the life of the North American Indians, and is the largest picture Mr. Mosier has yet painted. The picture is the first one of a series of three which Mr. Mosier has undertaken to paint for Mr. H. H. Warner, of Rochester, New York, U.S.A., a well-known patron of the arts and sciences, and who has gained a worldwide reputation by reason of his celebrated Warner's Safe Cure, which has been marvellously successful in the treatment of diseases of the kidneys and liver, which bad heretofore been considered by the medical profession as incurable. It is stated the price for the three pictures is to be £60,000. The studies were made lay Mr. Mosier during his recent visit to the United States, where he spent several weeks among the Apache Indians of Arizona. RafrElSTEßS—whose professional labours necessitate long inthrvals between meals—nothing will be found so exhilarating, cemforting, and capable of sustaining exhausted nate.* as Oadbury's Cocoa. guaranteed absolutely pure. Beware of insitattens.—itdrit.  ford-on-Avon, died on Saturday under disiresaing circumstance& The dree&s.ed was driving out on Tuesday. when the ponv took fright. She jumped out, falling on her head, and was conveved home in an unconscious state. St, •ontinued in th-at. condition un • •r(l On Monday a child named Joseph Moran, eon of a. labourer, living in HaElwell-road, Bolton, died, it is sup-, posed, from illness attributable to vaccination. Prior to vaccination the child had perfect health, but immedi% ately afterwards became ill. After the customary removal of the matter the infant grew rapidly worse and died in convulsions. An inquest will be held. At Manchester, on Monday, T. Morris, an elderly man, was charged with obtaining £5O by false pretences, and also with misappropriating £4,000 belonging to the Bridgewater Loan Society, for which he anted as agent for many years. The prisoner, who denied that there had been any fraud whatever, was remanded, and the magistrates offered to take bail for his appearance. The Bolton Coroner inquired on Monday into the suicide of an outdoor labourer named Thomas Ir!ern, 58 years of age, of Lever-street, Bolton. Irlam had been out of work nearly all the year, and was consequently very depressed in spirits. He complained bitterly that there were now "so many young 'uns that there was no chance for the old 'uns." A verdict of suicide whilst of unsound mind was returned." TF.
Widnes Examiner. — 1887-11-26 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

CHEAP WINE FOR THE PEOPLE.—Sir Charles A. Cameron, ex-president of the Royal College of Surgeons, in the "Dublin Journal of Medical Science," remarks: "When people talk of the adulteration of claret and other wines, they must be ignorant of the fact that there is no material so abundant or so cheap to prepare wine from as the grape. It must not be inferred however from my remarks on the cheapness of claret that it is the only pure cheap wine in the market. In Spain and Portugal thd quantities of wine produced annually are enormous. We have now Port and Sherry which can be bought at a Shilling a bottle. Are they pure? Just as genuine as the dearest port and sherry, but containing somewhat less of added alcohol. A short time ago I purchased specimens of port and sherry at one of Messrs. W & A Gilbey's branch establishments in Dublin, and submitted them to analysis. They proved to be as genuine as the most expensive wines of the kind but, they contained a little less alcohol—a difference, to my mind, wholly in their favour.  Mr. Denne, a county magistrate, committed suicide, on Friday, by shooting himself at his residence, Underhill. Hythe. A fire broke out early on Saturday, at the Royal Oak Railway Station, on the Metropolitan Line. The ticket office was gutted, and a portion of the platform roof was also destroyed. George Michael Graham. an American. who, it is alleged, was shot by another American named D. K Dorothy, in Woobume-place, London, last Monday evening, died in hospital on Sunday. '  SERIOUS RAILWAY Suastruorca,—A serious subsidence of land has occu-red on the Severn Valley Railway, between Bridgenorth and Shrewsbury. The subsidence, which is of the depth of thirty feet, is caused by the adjacent mining operations. A despatch meeived at Portsmouth reports that Mr. Markham, late paymaster of her Majesty's ship Repoir, on the China station, has been tried at flung Kong on several charges of forgery and embezzlement, and sentenced to five years' penal servitude.
Widnes Examiner. — 1887-07-23 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

MANX DOAT.—It appears that Leitrim. Longford, Sligo, Galway, Mayo, Roscom- the man who committed suicide early last week from the mon, Clare, Kerry, Cork, Limerick,.• Kilkenny, Queen's Isle of Man steamer Lancashire Witch was named Henry County, Tipperary, Waterford, Wexford, Donegal, ,Ditton, formerly head constable of a borough near Birand Monaghan. The following counties are pro- rningham, which position he held until recently, when, claimed under clauses jj and . c of subjection although an exceedingly smart officer, he was for some 3of section 2of the Act, namely :—Armagli, Carlow, reason dismissed. Habits of intemperance are, however, Cavan, Down. Dublin, Kildare, Fermanagh, Derry, Louth, i the alleged cause. For three weeks before his death he Meath, Tyrone, 'Westmeath; and Wicklow. Clauses R had been missing,' having wandered over the country, and C relate to the taking of houses and land by forcil4 without his relatives 1-ei T 1,7 able to trace him. . . .. • _  The 18th annual demoristrat ion of the Durhain Miners' Association was held on Durham racecourse on Saturday. The attendance was estimated at fully 5D,000 persons. Speeches were delivered 'by Mr. Fenwiek, M.P., and Mr. Atherley Jones, M.P., the former dwelling on the benefits of unionism In trade, and the latter referring at length to the inquiry into the arrest of Miss Cass, and condemning the method in which the investigations were conducted, whereby insinuations against Miss Cass's character were allowed to be made without cheek. The only competition at Wimbledon on Saturday was that for the Royal Cambridge Challenge Shield between sections of regular cavalry, y ho, in the course of a ride. of three-quarters of a mile, dismounted and fired two distances. The shield and £25 Were won by the 14th Hussars, and £l5 by the Ist Dragoons. In the evening the Duchess of Albany presented the prizes to the successful' competitors in the pavition enclosure. The Queen's prize. man, Lieutenant Warren, of the Victories, and the Prince of Wales's primman, Private Gillies, of Canada, were heartily cheered, as also were the other Canadians. the Cape team, and the English Twenty and the English Eight. CoNFYssioli OF
Widnes Examiner. — 1887-12-24 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

PARIS.—An ateropted murder and suicide were committed on Sunday aorning which, from the character of the victim, are of . somewhat serious character. M. Theodore Popel, a bassist' army officer its Paris en leave of absence, became ufficiently enamoured of Jeanne Pierron, a "super "at he Chateau d' Eau Theatre, to offer to marry her. On lday evening, after supping at Sylvain's Cafe, the ,uple adjourned to Flill's Restaurant, in the Boulevard es Capucines. At 7 a.m., after copious libations, they etired to an hotel in the Rue Geoffroy-Marie. There in le presence of a friend of the girl Popel placed two ngs on his mistiess's finger, and called upon God to itness that they were married. This formality accomished, he ordered his newly-made wife to prepare to Totnpanv him to Russia. Upon her refusing to accede his desire, he immediately drew a revolver, and fired her three times, wounding., her in the mouth and breast. wing, her fall, as he supposed, mortally wounded, the ussian placed the revolver to his rigl* temple and blew It his brains. Death was instantaneous. The woman  as taken to the Lariboisiere Hospital, and is not exected to survive. FOOT;HARDY USE OF A Pisrot.—At Bolton Police Court, Pri Monday, a youth named Richard Henry Baber was :•hareed with shooting Sarah Rigby, with intent to do her grievous bodily harm. The case for the prosecution was in effect that on Saturday evening a crowd of boys, !including the prisoner, congregated around the shop of ifilrs. Rigby and made such a noise that she proceeded to 'have them removed- As she made her appearance at the dry the prisoner fired a pistol, loaded fortunately ;with blank cartridge, full in her face, inflicting such inburies that she was rendered unconscious, and had to be placed under medical care. She appeared in the witness 'box with her eves bandaged up, and hearing traces on her face and 'neck of the effects of the charge. The prosecution did not press the case.—The Mayor (Aid. Idoacrop), who was sitting as chairman of the Bench, said it was a mercy something of a more serious nature bad not happened by the foolhardy use of the firearm. 'lie should have liked to have the prisoner flogged, but in consideration of his having been locked up from Saturday night, and the pleading of bis parents, he would be discharged with a caution, trusting it would boa warning to him and others. The lad, upon whom was found two boxes, one containing powder and the other caps, tainted during the hearing of the ease. • Atraxsue
Widnes Examiner. — 1887-10-08 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

THE TRAGEDY AT A RAILWAY STATION.  The Westminster coroner, on Monday, held an inquest on the body of Arthur Horne, aged 18, printer, lately residing at 97, Corporation-buildings, Cleikenwell, who shot himself under romantic circumstances on the platform of the Charing Cross Metropolitan Railway Station, after attempting to murder his sweetheart. Mr. Horne, father of the deceased, deposed that his son had never threatened to commit suicide, nor was he of a jealous disposition. He was, however, at times irritable. Annie Horne said her brother seemed very angry on the morning of the murder, and she asked him what was the matter, but he made no reply. . . . .  Matilda Horton stated that t;lie met deceased on Wednesday, and went for a walk, during which the deceased bought her a ring. They entered the train at Westminster. She alighted at Charing Cross. and the deceased following her she sat on a seat, when Horne fired two shots at her, but missed. He then shot himself in the mouth. They had had a quarrel about an engagement ring which he did not want her to wear, and he told her he would lose his situation on Friday. Other witnes...es stated that insanity ran in the deceased's family, and the jury returned a verdict oti °Suicide whilst of unsound mind."  The young girl, Matilda Horton, has had, it is reported, various admirers and followers, and she might, on more than one occasion, have comfortably settled down in life, had she definitely chosen between them. She, however, for the past twelve months professed an unchanging regard for the memory of a former lover named Arthur Pothecary, also a young volunteer, whom she used to walk out with more than twelve months ago. He considered that, his affections were unreciprocated, and he shot himself with a revolver. On the girl being examined at the hospital, a strange discovery was made. It was found that she had tattooed on her arms the words, "I love Arthur Pothecary." It was at first thought that that was the name of the young man who had shot hitiaself at Charing Cross, and whose dead body was just about to be brought in, but on an explanation being given, it was stated that that was the name of the former young man she used to go out with, and that the sad end of Arthur Horne was a double tragedy in connection with her life. •
Widnes Examiner. — 1887-11-19 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

GENERAL NEWS.  The Northampton shoe manufacturers have resolved on a lock-out of all the riveters and finishers in their employment. This insure affects orer 5,000 workmen. Mrs. Goodson, the wife of a fisherman, of Austin-street, King's Lynn, has just been delivered of four children, all boys. Three of them were born alive, but one of the three died shortly afterwards. The mother and the two surviving children are doing well.  On Monday morning a young woman named Agnes °lilies committed suicide by throwing herself into the Clyde at Rutherglen. Three years ago yeeterday the mother of the girl deprived herself of life in the same way. A factory worker in the east ead of Glasgow also committed suicide oa Sunday night in the Clyde.  For cutting hair off cows' tails, a man, named William 361mstone, has been sentenced by the magistrates of Shap, near Penrith, to three months imprisonment in each of two cases. Prisoner had gone to vazious farms, and mutilated the tails of cows, no less than twenty-one 'beasts having been operated upon. The hair was afterwards offered for sale.  A singular fatality has been reported to the Newcastle police. William Quinn, a fish curer, and a .woman named Gleeson lived on different storeys of a tenement house in Dog Bank. New castle. On Saturday night they qoavrelled on the stairhead, and in the struggle both fell out of a 'window, a distance of Mt. They were both seriously injured, and the man died on Sunday night.  Lord No-rthwick died on Sunday morning at Upper Norwood, after a lingering illness. The deceased' was born in 1811. He served in the lit Life Guards, of which he was captain, In 1842. Prom February, 1837, to August, 1841, he sat for Evesham in the House of Commons; and from 3anusry, 1847, to January, 1859, represented East Worcester in the Lower House, be then succeeding to the peerage on the death of his uncle.  THH Ruts:ass OF toe Rev. J. Batt-Cox. —ln the Court of Appeal, on Monday, the Master of the Rolls and Justices Bowen and Fry, concurred in allowing the appeal of Mr. Hakes from the order of Lord Chief Justice Smith, for the discharge of the Rev. James Bell-Ccx from custody. Mr. Cox was imprisoned for a breach of the Public Worship Regulation Act, at Liverpool. The effect of the decision of the Court of Appeal is to declare him 'wrongly released from gaol. Sir Henry Peek, Bart., having brought an action to recover loss sustained through an Untrue statementin the prospectus of the Plymouth and Deyonport Tramways Company, the Court of Appeal, on Saturday, held that the directors of the company must make good such loss. In 1883 Sir Henry took £4,000 worth of shares in the company, in the prospectus of which it was stated that the Board of Trade had authorised the use of steam on the tramway, which was untrue. The company has since been wound up.