The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1907-10-26 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

THE PASSING WEEK.  A sensational run took place on Tuesday on the Knickerbocker Trust Company, one of tho largest financial companies of New York, in consequence of the announcement by the National Bank of Commerce that it would not clear for the company after Tueeday. The offices, of the company were besieged by depositors demanding their money, and after paying out eight million dollars the doore were closed.  The Board of Trade inquiry into the US3 of the Shrewsbury railway disaster was resumed by Colonel Yorke on Tuesday. Evidence was given showing that 416 the train approached Shrewsbury the reversing gear was fully applied and the vacuum brake needle at zero. Guard Birch stated that although the needle was at zero, he felt the brake was on only slightly, and he then applied the hand brake. Mr. Andrews, solicitor for the London and North Western Railway, intimated that the company accepted full responsibility for the accident. Mr. Nash, locomotive foreman, Crewe, admitted to Colonel Yorke that drivers were liable to be punished for not running to time.  • • • •  Mr. Whiteley's murderer, Horace liayner, on Tuesday attempted suicide whilst In hie cell bed in Parkhurst Prison by opening an artery of his arm. The act was detected in time to save his life. • • • •  Mr. G. F. Bodley, 8.A., joint architect with Mr. Gilbert Scott of Liverpool Cathedral, died on Monday in his seventy-fourth year.  • • • *•  The coroner's inquiry into the cause of the Shrewsbury railway disaster was resumed and concluded on Wednesday, the evidence throwing but little additional light on the unfortunate occurrence. The jury found that the eighteen victims had met their death acoidentally, and added that they were unanimously of opinion that the brake-power on the train was insufficient. • • • *  Lord Claud Hamilton on Wednesday evening issued a statement as chairman of the Great Eastern Railway Company, giving reasons why his company would absolutely refuse any recognition of the railway servants' trades unions. He states that the men on the system are satisfied, that they aro all in a pension seheme, and that the only troubles they have had have been with trades union men. The movement for recognition he credits to Socialism, and says that to grant it would be to ruin the railway and the general commerce in which it is so important a constituent. • • • *  The Glasgow four-masted ship Marion Josiah, from Portland. Oregon, arrived at Queenstown on Wednesday in a battered condition, the crew having had a terrible experience in a hurricane off the West Coast of Ireland. The vessel narrowly escaped toundering. The chief officer, a native of Liverpool, named Mason, was killed by a heavy sea, and two seamen were washed overboard and drowned. Six ethers of the craw were injured.  Considerable improv.nueut in the New York financial situation was marked on Thursday, and indications point to the storm having been weathered. Three banks closed their doors in New York and two banks in Nevada failed. Runs on the other banks in New lork were successfully met. The co-operation of Mr. J. P. Morgan and Mr. Rockefeller saved the situation.  Mr. Richard Bell, M.P. (secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants) interviewed on Thursday on the manifesto of Lord Claud Hamilton (chairman of the Great Eastern Railway), said it was simply a huge compilation of exaggerated inaccuracies,  S • * It  Over two hundred persons have ben killed and 400 injured by an earthquake whioh destroyed the town of Ferrazzauo, in Southern Italy. on Wednesday night.  The Archbishop of Canterbury has advised the clergy not to celebrate marriage with a deceaeed wLfea sister, but he declines to give any formal injunction. _ -  Que..-n Alexandra, accompanied by Prin. corms Victoria, Queen Maud of Norway, and Prince Olaf left Copenhagen for England on Thursday evening.  An exciting roadside adventure has befallen the Bishop of Peterborough during a motor tour in his diocese. The car was met by a coal-cart, and the horse became so frightened that it bolted, upsetting the cart into a ditch. The episcopal party, however, was equal to the occasion. A rural dean who was with Dr. Carr Glyn jumped out and held the restive animal, while the bishop, his chauffeur, and his valet got into the ditch and helped the man to reload his cart, not without sOll2O little damage to their apparel.