The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1909-11-27 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

THE PASSING WEEK.  After being entombed for a week, 78 miners have been discovered alive in the St. Paul Colliery, at Cherry, Illinois. A ecore of them have been brought to the surface, but the bulk were too weak to be moved. Fire has broken out in the mine again  -..  Eight persona have been killed in a horrible tragedy at a farm in Prussian Poiand. he rietims were a peasant and his wife, his. 80116 and daughters, and his father-in-law. The murderers were the peasant's two brothers-in-law.  On Sunday morning the sailing schooner Henrietta, of Truro, Cornwall, hound for Manchester with china clay, was sunk in the Mersey, near the Formby lightship, by collision- with tha steumship-Clan Macdonald, outward bound for Bombay.. The captain and three of the crew of the Heorietta managed to scramble aboard the steamer, but the remaining hand missed a rope thrown to him, and with a cry of "Oh, captain, captain," was swept away and drowned. The steamer grounded on Taylor's Bank, but got clear in the early afternoon, and proceeded on her voyage.  The death occurred in Edinburgh on Saturday, of the Right Hon. Francis Jas. Stuart, 16th Earl of Moray, aged 67. He leame6 no family, and the title and estates pass to his .youngest brother, the Hon. Morton Gray Stuart-Grsy, of .. Einfauns Castle. . • S • •  -rn the Crown Court at the Liverpool Audits on Monday, . Benjamin Soholey, aged twenty-two, a groom, was found g1i23.2. of the wilful murder of• Minnie -a married woman, whom he strangled with his belt in a field at West Derby on the 4th ult. Sentence of death was passed. The jury recomMended prisoner to mercy on account of his youth and previous good_ character.  The action of Leigh v. Gladstone, in which a suffragette sues the Dome Secretary for assault in connection with forcible feeding in Birmingham Gaol, has been fixed for December 9. Forcible feeding and the general raison treatment of suffragettes is the subject of a letter by the Home Secretary., an which he severely condemns the falsehoods and misrepresentations that have (been circulated regaining- such prisoners. • • • •  The Amsterdam correspondent of the Globe" says it is stated in well-informed quarters that another interesting event may he expected in the Royal household next year. and that her Majesty's proposed visit to Eng -lend will_ be_abandoned. • • 11 •  General Boot. hltas‘decided to go forward with a 1,18,000 scheme for th, elevation of destitute men and the homing of poor men in Liverpool. Pittetreet 'Wesleyan Chapel, which is to be rebuilt, has been purchased for 200 of the destitute, and new preinises in Park-lane are- leased for the hOusing Of 184 -men at fourpenee a night.  • •  The Archbiehop of Canterbury presided over a delffehbriatioli" at 111457 Meit Alial LodOil,tei:- pretest againet the ecniditien of aflame lb 'the :Conan:A—and to deineed •thet Egg:4nd should take steps to brieg about some sefonii: of, ',the ,fiyetein .et administration of that territory. • About, eight Amassed persons were present, including Membens Of. both Houses of Parliament and ministers of all denonxinatione. A resolution embodying the objects of the meeting was unanimously carried. • • • ••  • At a meeting of lkberals in "Birmingham, on Saturday, Mr. Arthur- Brampton stated that, with the exception of West Birmingham, all setts in the oily would be contested at the general election. Candidates have not yet been Ashman, but it is expected that their names will be announced shortly.  . : After the jury had been- sworvi in a case at the Loud:low Central ;Criminal Court on Saturday, Mr. Justice Oranthism called attention to the ,deolaration with which anglish trisls alwaye. opened, and referred to the. Steinkell triAl• ThAt said his lerdshipk-gave -them: e, bur apartnien of French jurisprudence, by which. apnarently, the object Of everyone wttr secure the conviction_ of the aositsed.  Judge W.-R. Sanborn, on Safurday,..tave the opinion in the TJnited States Circuit Court of the District of Missouii that the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey was an illegal corporation.-and he ordered the. cbinpany to be 'dissolved: This is one 'of the Most itapurtant and far-reaching, decisions ever given in a, civil action in the American courts. _ _  S • •  A petition is being 4n hit. in fatsur of the reinetatement his.Majestk's service of Lieutenant Henry Charles Woods, whose removal from the Grenadier Cuardir under peculiar circumstances has. been characterised by his -supporters as a-grays military scandal. . • • •  Writing to the Liberal candidate for the Stamford division of Lincolnshire, the Rey. Stephen Gladstone, son of the late Mr. W. E. Gladstone, says:—l wieh you all success in the forthcoming election. Great and sacred issues will be at stake; the continued prosperity of our eountr,y_ under Free Trade, the integrity of the rights of the elected Chamber, the mote equitable incidents of taxation, the progressive amelioration of the fortunes of the toiling classes ,and other hi aims, Ilay...God direct the right.  - Arrangement; have been made for a conference of representatives of various Cheshire authorities to consider the charges of the North.Cheehire Water Company and the advisability of purchasing, the powers of the Companv. The authorities include Bucklow Rural and the urban councils of Hale and Bowdon, Altrincham, Ashton-on-Mersey, and Sale, and the Parish Council of Northendon.  We regret to announce that the death of Consuelo Duchess of Manchester oeourred on Saturday at her London residedee.-The: deceased lady, who was the widow of. the eighth duke, was the daughter Of 'Don Antonio Tweet del Valle, 41,- Spanish nobleman, of Cuba, who settled down •irr Pennsylvania. She was married to - the late duke in 1876, and lied three children, the present duke, and twin daughters, one of whom died in 1895 and the other five years -later. The .Dowager Duchess had iieen ill for some time. ,  _ . , Tuesday night's London Gasette.af nounces, that the King 'his been :graniouslir .pleased to approve of the Polar nodsl. with clasp inscribed " Antarctic, 1907.: 1909," being -granted to members of the Shackleton Antarctic expedition, 1907-1909. _  -31r..Edwatd Paul. President a the LiverLooKore•Trade Association, ylas on Tuos. r- eight adopted as the' prospective Liberal candidate for Chestier in place of the sifting member. Me. blond, who intends to seek to reiresent Swansea.  M. Latham, the aviator; travelbd to A 4 ahooting party near Rheims on Tuesday by • aeroplane, making a iourtlet 'Of nearly 20 • mike- ia- half an hour. Amt Jaccestd (09), a master watchmaker, of Petelisistrest. Clerkenwell, London, who was 'discovers& dead. on Saturday, was -found at the inquest to have committed suicide whilst of unemhpaind. Beside ,him was found Mafia*. Pad wrapped' an*.allseking.'prith losqt4il;:arg loved emu.tanio Il n, my cat. ia. -.is paid fore. and- keep. bun Amt. "' Cyanide potassium was said to be the cause of death jj both cases. The cat • rest os in the earner coffin Is. deceased.