The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1908-08-15 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

THE PASSING WEEK.  A Mysterious affair is engaging the attention of tea Liverpool pollee. t4hortlY bofo ce seven o'clock on Tuesday morning the decomposed body of a seveti-year-old. girl *as totind in Great Neatou-street, wrapped in u sack, and was afterwards identified as that of liergaret Kirby, who had lived in Kennington, and who disappeared so far back as January last. Prom inquiries made by the police, it seems clear that the .body bad for some time lain in the cellar kitchen ot the unoccupied house, 15, Great Newton. street. and had been removed and deposited in the street only rr shore time previous to its being touud. • • • •  On Tuesday. at Padiham. near Burnley. a collier named John Starkie, aged 24, was committed for trial charged with wilfully causing the death of his sweetheart, Bertha Lethal), factory operative. Owing to &Megtic unpleasantness she had removed from home. The couple had agreed to die together by taking poison. After taking the dose the prisoner became alarmed, and informed the police. ••• • - •  Sir Daniel Morris, Imperial Commissioner of. Agriculture for the West Indies, and the representatives of the West Indian cotton Flouters w ho_bava rule Ao Lancashire by invitation of the British Cotton-growing Association, visited Liverpool on Tuesday. Sir Alfred Jones announced that it is proposed to take another cotton expedition out to the West Indies next Jauugry. Be predictgd that ten years hence sufficient cotton would be produced under the British flag to supply Laadaahtre's needs M four million Wee per 111IVIS. 4 • •  A Parisian named Leichemann b_as corn nutted suicide in a novel spanner. He bored a hole in a trunk, patted an indiarubber gas tube through it, and tittned ofl tbs gas. He then entered th rflk, Mut_ the lid, and was speedily asphyxiated. His wife, on returning to the house (which is situated in the Rue Goutte d'Or) with her young son, struck a match, and an explosion followed, by which both were rendered unconscious. They taveSsincse recovered.  Mrs. Dunn, who was shot by her huSband in mistake for a burglar late on gunday night in the Boys' Rome, Market-street, Glasgow, succumbed to her injuries in the }loyal luhrmary early on Tuesday morning. She died before her husband could be brought from prison to the infirmary to receive her forgiveness. • • • •  Nell; was received in Dundee on Tuesday of a remarkable catch by the Dundee whaler Scotia. No fewer than six whales, yielding three tons of bone and sixty tons of oil, have been secured at the East Greenland whale fishing. The Calaena, another Dundee whaler, has secured four whales. Owing to the ilisastroils Mute of whale fishing during the past two senSons,khere Ass been a famine in the whalebone market, and bone has reached the record price of £2,750 per ton, or over II per _lb.  An accident illustrating the extreme danwhen the rrrucnhiLdelAnndißeuvrehliclteleelen 4tges road tool place at Llanfairfechen 6a-ilatutday night. Two boys were running behind a trap, and one. named Lewis, ran suddenly from the back of the trap in front of • motor-car proceeding towards Holyhead. All the driver ot the car could do was to turn it into the hedge, where it overturned. The ocCuPaltta -three IlljAlajta catholic priests—and the driver were bruised and shaken. The boy, who was tea ever. sustained serious injury.  The general opinion at the Vatican is that Archhialiob,,Bmixitli will be definitely created $ cardinal at the next Consistory as a reward fox his success in connection with the Eucharistic Congress. Cardinal Vilicsose Vaanutelli, the appointed Papal legate to thii congress, *smutty visited the Pope, and salted his Holiness if he could make Archbishop Bourne understand what the Pope's intentions were, and in reply the Pontiff said, "We Will Me later."  This year** exodus for the grouse moors has beaten all previous records. For the past two days the termini of the northern lines have been besieged by sportsmen with all their apparatus for the coming warfare, and the ordinary expresses have been run in two, three, or four sections to cop ith the unpreceoented traffic. Altogether it may be roughly estimated that after the departures of the midnight trains something like lI,NO sportsmen will have left for Scotland and the ffinglieh moore since the week began. • • • •  Colonel Richard Pilkington. CB., a peat Lancashire manufacturer. who left estate  warboVl ti ~ _ Ws kr & W.