Widnes Examiner. — 1888-07-21 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

NEWS.  The total number of admissions to the Glasgow Exhibition up to Saturday last was 1,856,513. • Sir Morell Mackenzie left Windsor Castle, on Monday, on the conclusion of his visit to her Majesty. The London correspondent o' the Freeman's Journal says that Mr. F. H. O'Donnell has gone abroad for the benefit of his health.  --It has been decided by the Salford Libraries Committee to open the reading rooms in the borough on Sundays, commencing in September next. At Nottingham, on Saturday, a man, named Stawson, was committed for trial for forging an endorsement to a cheque from George Barrett, the jockey. Capt. Argrove, ex-marine superintendent of the?, and 0. Steamship Company, has received a commission a 3 honorary commander in the Royal Naval Reserve.  Further attempts were made on Saturday to hold meetings in Trafalgar-square, London, but the police succeeded in frustrating the objects of the demonstrators.  About 900 Dundee excursionists had a narrow escape on the river Tay. on Saturday. The steamer conveying them struck on sunken rocks and immediately begat' to sink. The passengers were transferred to another steamer. _  .„ ..... „.. Mrs. Slaughter, the wife of a Worthing publican, blew down the lamp ehiatney with the object of extinguishing the light. A terrible explosion followed. Mrs. Slaughter was so shockingly burnt that she died in a few hours.  A public inquiry respecting the local charities of that part of Derbyshire extending from Glossop to Chapel-en le-Frith is to be held by the Charity Commissioner, Many of these charities, it is alleged, have been misap propriatod. A case of suicide came before the Coroner of Liver' pool, on Saturday, in which a woman named Bridget Burke dPstroyed herself by taking a dose of carbolic acid whilst labouring under temporary insanity caused by excessive drinking. .  The Duke of Cambridge will, on August 10, unveil the memorial which the corps of Royal Engineers are placing in Rochester Cathedral in memory of the late General Gordon and the officers and men who fell in the Relief column to Khartoum.  Great•excitement is created in the extensive mining districthf Ebbw Vale in consequence of work being suspended at the collieries. Upwards of 1,600 miners have "struck owing to a dispute with the coalowners regarding the removal of dibris in the mine.  Mr. Justice Denman, in charging the Grand Jury at Monmouth Assizes, said the calendar was the most extraordinary one that had ever come under his notice in a county containing a quarter of a million inhabitants, tnasmuch as it did not contain a single charge of fraud, stealing, forgery, false pretence, or burglary.  On Monday morning a little girl, 14 years of age, named Emma Millward, was charged at the Birmingham Police Court with attempting to commit suicide. She jumped from a bedroom window to escape a beating from her mother, and afterwards tried to drown herself in the canal. She gave a shocking description of the way she was treated at home. Her body was covered with bruises. The case was adjourned so that the mother's conduct might be inquired Into. The adjourned interview between the directors of Bryant and Mays and a deputation of members of the Trades' Council took place, on Tuesday afternoon, at Bow Atter a lengthy discussion, the directors conceded practically all the demands of the strikers, including the abolition of fines, and payment for stamps and brushes. In the evening, an open-air meeting of the match girls was held at Mile End, at whiph the surrender of the directors was announced, amid enthusiastic cheers. In the Court of Session, Edinburgh. the judge granted a decree of divorce in the Aberdeen bookseller's case, in which there were eight co-respondents. The husband, who, it was alleged, allowed his wife to dance in skin tights before mere was ordered to pay his wife's expenses. He claimed £lOO damages from each of the eight co-respondents. The judge allowed no damages, but ordered each of the eight men to pay his ow expenses. MR.