The Dewsbury Chronicle, and West Riding Advertiser. — 1895-05-22 (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England)

CHIPS OF NEWS.  AT HOME. William Kenny, aged 30. living in Blacit Diamond-street, Liverpool, cut his wife's throat on Saturday morning. Afterwards he attempted suicide by cutting his own throat, but is still living, though in great danger. The Mayor of Norwich, Colonel Bignold, died on Sunday night from cerebral ketnorrhage, supervening upon influenza. He was a leader of the Conservative party, and for 20 years had been a prominent member of the corporation.  Agricultural labourers' wages in several parts of Cambridgeshire are being raised. At Impmgton the rate has been raised 2s. per day. At Girton wages have been increased from 10s. to lls, per week, and at Waterhead one farmer has raised his men's wages to 2s. per day. , Mrs. Frances Green was fined £5 and costs at Manchester for stealing about two shillings worth of embroidery from a draper's shop. When searched at the townhall she was found to have nearly £lO in her pocket, while a bank-book shewed a balance of £l4O to her credit.  As the result of the collapse of a number of houses in Clerkenwell on Saturday night, a girl named Annie Farrington, four years of age, was killed, and her brother John, aged 11, was seriously injured. Other persons who were in the neighbourhood received slight injuries.  The museum established at Haworth in memory of Charlotte and Emily Brontë, the brilliant sister novelists, was opened on Saturday. Sir Wemyss Reid was prevented from performing the ceremony by illness; but he sent an address, in which he said the British people owed the Brontes an everlasting debt of gratitude.  The Duke and Duchess of York visited the Crystal Palace, and shared the task of presenting upwards of 1,000 London school children with the prizes awarded them by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for the best essays on kindness to animals. As many as 93,514 essays had been written. The Duke of Westminster was so greatly impressed with the moral perils to which the 125,000 British sailors who annually enter the port of San Francisco are exposed, that he has sent a cheque for £5O in support of the work that is being carried on by the Rev. Mr. Fell, the seamen's .chaplain, in that distant port. The London Chamber of Commerce has just issued invitations to Chambers of Commerce and cognate bodies throughout the British Empire soliciting their participation in a third congress, which the London Chamber has decided to hold in London in June, 1896. The previous congresses under similar auspices took place in 1886 and 1892.  A very unusual case was before the Dover magistrates on Saturday, four youths being charged under an antiquated Act of Parliament with playing football on Sunday "during the hours of divine service." The game, however, was not played anywhere near a church, and in no way interfered with divine service. In the end the case was dismissed. The Countess of Pembroke has addressed the following letter to the people of Wiltshire: "Dear People of Wiltshire,—My husband, Lord Pembroke, wished me to tell you, when he left Wilton for the last time, how much he loved you. This was his farewell: Tell the' people of Wiltshire how much I loved them. '—Yours ever faithfully, G.