Widnes Examiner. — 1905-09-30 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

TITE RAND. becomes more real  and sinister every day. It appears that the Chinese coolies now at large are to be reckoned by hundreds. There is a continually widening stream of escaped men from the compounds. Tway spread themselves over a country of which they have no knowledge, and among people with none of whose languages they are acquainted. They are destitute and desperate men. Only by means of theft can they assuage their hunger ; and theft is in many cases accompanied by outrage, and in some by assassination. Mr. Lyttleton's idea that the ordinary police arrangements will sua.::e for dealing with such a situation has been given up in a panic. It has been necessary to make some very extraordinary additions alike to the numbers and the powers of the police. The escaped Chinese are being " rounded up" as if they were cattle on a Texan prairie. That is the present idea, at least, of how to deal with them ; but as a matter of fact it does not appear that much "rounding up" has taken place. There are six or seven hundred escaped men wandering about, nobody knows where, each of them an object of terror. Over vastly wide spaces of South Africa, Dutch, Eaglish and black men alike are living in a state of nervous apprehension of outrage. There is really a reign of terror in the Transvaal. Such is the state of things produced by the abject subserviency of the Government to an oligarchy of mine-owners in search of cheap labour.  Jangling Neighbours and Suicide. Coroner Brighouse held an inquest at Great Sankey on Wednesday on the body of Alfred Drury, a cask washer at Walker's Brewery, who lived in Graftonstreet.—Deceased's clothes and cap were found on the banks of the Sankey and St. Helens Canal and led to the. discovery of the body in the water.—The widow, who stated that her husband was a steady man, said that there was no reason for his drowning himself except that he was upset about the gossip of neighours reflecting on his moral character, The scandal had been carried to such an extent that deceased had been given notice to quit his house.—The Coroner: If neighbours would not gossip so much the world would be much better than it is.— Verdict: "Suicide while temporarily insane-"  * * * The American papers relate an extraordinary stet/ of a young student who is serving a three Yoat sentence in Sing Sing prison in order to save woman's honour. This boy—he is understood to be scarcely past his teens--loved, and was loved by, 3. woman who is descended from one of New York.'a oldest families. The yowl(' man was in the nParti ments of this woman whenimr husband entered, an caught him. In order that no evil suspicion might entertained against the woman, the college man the husband he was a burglar, and had tried to rot; the fiat aftet intimidating the wife: The apParen intruder was arrested, tried, and convicted under ait assumed name. The husband died recently, and nc": the widow is trying without notoriety, to obt pardon. "I will do anything,ain spend any amount money, to have this innocent victim of a mutual ship liberated," liberated," she declares. Fact is once agaierl proved stranger than fiction. There is a fine theca here for the enterprising novelist. 0;  I  1  , 1 0 '  7,   _