Widnes Examiner. — 1891-10-03 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

GENERAL NEWS.  Ibis stated that the smallpox epidemic in Leeds, so far from abating, shows signs of increasing. A railway collision has occurred at Kent, Ohio, resulting in five deaths, and the injury of thirty persons. A rich old lady named Bourdilleau has been murdered presumably by robbers, at Chasseigne, seven kilometres from Loudun.  A persistent rumour prevails in Bombay that Captain Younghusband has been killed by Russians in the Pamir country. _ _  - -Mr. John Morley, M.P., has promised to visit tho Manchester Reform Club on the 26th October, and deliver an address to the members.  A telegram from Deland, Florida, describes the lynching of a negro named Lee Bailey, who has been arrested for perpetrating an outrage on the wife of a leading white citizen. _  The fire which broke out on the Peninsular and Oriental steamer Rome, at Greenock, on Sunday,burned till Monday afternoon, and the damage is estimated at £20,000. At West Houghton, near Bolton, on Tuesday, a boy, four years old, set fire to a haystack, and before the flames could be subdued, six stacks and a barn were destroyed. A special telegram to the "New York World " from Dakota is responsible for the statement that "John S. Sinclair, heir to the earldom of Caithness, has been found in that district." M. Medina, minister representing Guatemala in Paris. says he believes the reported riot and the killing of five hundred people to be pure invention on the part of unscrupulous American newspapers. , The Welsh Theological College at Bala, which has been enlarged and extended, was opened on Tuesday morning lunder the principalship of the Rev. T. C. Edwards, late principal of the University College of Wales. ' A terific gas explosion on Monday evening in the provision stores of Mr. J. W. Schofield, Bridge-st., Bolton. Three assistants who were in the shop at the time escaped injury, although extensive damage was done to the premises. Corporal Macdonald, of the Chatham garrison police, committed suicide on Monday by shooting himself, and almost simultaneously a recruiting sergeant named Ryan , cut his throat at Chatham Casualty lioipital and lies in a critical condition. A Hallandale, Mississippi, telegram to the "New York World " describes the murder of a barkeeper named Charles S. Davies, on Sunday night, by a coloured man and woman, who were shortly afterwards lynched by the infuriated populace. Owing to the strong public feeling in Berlin against the new Russian loan, the Berlin bankers, Messrs. Mendelssohn and Warschauer, have withdrawn from all participation in it. In Paris the enthusiasm on behalf of the loan continues unbonnded. Intelligence has been received in Derby of the alleged suicide in New Zealand of Edward Whalley Prestman, the successful claimant to £60,000 in the famous Whalley will case, after squandering the entire fortune on the turf and in Stock Exchange gambling. On Thursday morning, Richard Baxter, engine driver, found the body of a man lying on the railway under the Vicars-bridge, Preston Station. The body was lying in the four-foot and the head in the six-foot. The deceased has been identified as Christopher Alston, of Grimsargh, and it is supposed he wandered down the line on returning from the Blackpool Bowling Sweepstakes. The " Times " understands that Mr. James William Lowther, M.P. for Mid-Cumberland, will be Sir James Fergusson's successor as Parliamentary Under l Secretary for Foreign Affairs. Mr.Lowther is the eldest son of the Hon. Wm. Low ther, who is also a member of Parliament, representing Westmorland, Appleby division, and who has been in the diplomatic service. He entered Parliament in 1883, sitting for Rutland from August in that year to November, 1885.