Widnes Examiner. — 1883-11-03 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

MISCELLANRILTS. The races at Shrewsbury next Tuesday and Wednesday fortnight will, it is stated, be the last to be held there. A person named Devlya, who had been lecturing tgainst Romanism, was attacked by a mob at Barrow, and seriously maltreated. A telegrantlas been received in London announcing That the Australian cricketers intend coming to England next  • enmmer. Sentence of death has been passed, at Norwich assizes, upon Thomas Lyons Day for the murder of his child, aged nix years, at Ipmetch, in August last. The South-Western Railway Company have offered a substantial reward tor information respecting the late attempt to wreck a mail train near Dorchester. A youth named Thomas Osbortie was killed on Tuesday . Morning on the London and North-Vicstern Railway, between Dudley Pert and Span Lane. Thomas Wales, a Leeds bating man, who has lately sustained heavy tEsses, attempted to commit-suicide on Saturday afternoon by cutting his throat with a razor. A sturgeon weighing nearly 601bs. was, on 'Saturday. •capturod in 'Portsmouth Harbour, who leaped out of his punt and caught the royal fish by the tail in shallow  'water. During last week there was a decrease in Lancashire of, 15 farms and 32 cattle in the total 'number affected by footand-mouth-disease; leaving 165 farms and-220 cattle still! affected. The Stourbridge Improvement 'Commissioners have resolved at a Bp, cial meeting to petition Her Majesty for a charter of corporation for Stourbridge and neighbouring townships. The Newcastle-on-Tyne 'magistrates havecommitted Wm. Alexander Ogilvie for trial, charged with having, as manager of the Northern 'Counties Bank, engaged in a' con-spiracy to defraud. The ironworkers of Middlesborough, Stockton, and Hartlepool have resolved to send in a claim that Bs. per ton be the minimum rate of wages, and that the basis of •payrnent he raised by 10 per cent. Thirty-three stacks of grain, out of a total of forty-one, -were burnt on Monday morning anCatlinwell Farm; Airlie. The cause is unknown. The damage is-estimated--at £B6O. -whicl. is covered by insurance. -A mass meeting of colliers was held at Dudley on Monday, when it was resolved net to accept the award made by 'Mr. Haden Corser, to the effect that 'the men are .not •entitled to an advance of wages. The coroner for West Middlesex held an inquest on Tuesday on Mary Ann Martin, who died from the effects of an 'unlawful operation. A verdict of "Wilful murder" against -some person or persons unknown was recorded. Mr. Henry Maillard, editor of the Guernsey Comet, whilst inspecting the sceneof a-fire at a chicory manufac•tory in 'Guernsey, on -Saturday, was knocked down by a falling wall, and had one of his legs broken and received other serious injuries. Alderman Baker, an ex-Mayor of 'Portsmouth, has drawn 'up a memorial to Lord `Northbrook asking for recansideration of the sentence en the-seaman Endersley, who was recently sentenced by tourt-martial to-five years' penal servitude for-striking a ship's corporal on board ship. At Rowley, Mary Hibbs has been remanded for unlawfnlly wounding George Hadley, miner. On Saturday night, during a quarrel between Hadley and the prisoner's husband, the prisoner-seized a poker and dealt Hadley a heavy blow on the head, inflicting a shocking wound and severing an artery. A shocking accident occurred on Monday morning to Jos. Ashton, a relief-signalman in the employ of the Manchester, Sheffield, and •Lincolnshire -Railway Company. The de • ceased, who was officiating at Barnsley, was going along the line to his box, when•he was knocked down and killed on the-spot by a passenger-train goingto Sheffield. An explosion, resulting in the death of one man and serious-injury to three others, took place on Tuesday morning in a coal pit at Little .Lever, worked by Messrs. T. Fletcher and Sons. The explosion Appears to have been due to-the want of -care on the part of four colliers, who commenced work with naked lights in a place where only a few hours previously there had been a fall of roof, followed by an accumulation of gas. At Glasgow, on Tuesday, a musician named Henry Ormerod was fined two guineas, with the alternative pf 30 days' imprisonment. for wilfully destroying the music score of -"The Merry Duchess," belonging to the Kate Bentley Cornpany, who were performing in Glasgow last week. The prisoner had been dismissed, and his action was in way of revenge. The score destroyed was the only copy of the composition in Scotland.