... FATAL FIG-ET MAKGCHESTERt IN CHARGE OF WILFUL MURDER Between twosn~d teocloc on Tuesdsyefte flon apolice nten duty in the neighbour- hood wa Informed that two men were fighting f hlils house in Nelson-s off Rochdcleoroad. Ont proceeding o the house indicated he found B a man named James Monks but bettr n A: .or, 1ying unconscious on a bed in the a garret. He had evidently been stabbed and was ...

... X pverpoUL LE SRltXM. EiALUSB PONYL LEM SUPREA 0- THIS MORNING'S NEWS IN BRIEF. A Bill having for its object the repeal of the Irish Crimes Act passed in 1887, was re- jected in the House of Commons yesterday by 220 against 141 votes. Mr. John Morley will address the Liberal meeting at Lydney, Forest of Dean, on Whit Thursday, May 25. Speaking at a Primrose League gathering yesterday, in ...

... AYFIELD WESLEYAN CHAPEL 4 . A bazaar, for the purpose of enabling the ladies' committee to purchase additional church furniture, to release the trust from an annual liability of £50, and to place the church in a sound financial position, was opened yesterday afternoon in the Wesleyan Chapel, Oatfield-road. Alderman John Eltison presided over the open- ing ceremony, and was supported by the ...

... POSTOFFICES ROBBED. A telegram from Berwick says -Early on Wednesday morning the postoffices at Ayton and Reston were broken into and postal orders and stamps to the value of £70 carried off. Up to the present the police have no clue. GRAVE CHARGE AGAINST A LABOURER. At Cardiff. yesterday, a labourer named John Shea (28) was charged at the instance of the Treasury with causing the death of a ...

... OUR AMERICAN LETTER THE NEW YACHT. RUMOURED PEACE PROPOSAL (SPECIALLY CABLED.) NErkw YOB, Tii}SDAY. The foundation is contemplated of a col- lege whose aim would be to instruct people in the best means of handling and extinguish- ing fires, saving life, &sc. AMr. Bonner, chief of the Blew York fire department, will prob- ably resign his post and become principal of the college. Mr. Rudyard ...

... STRANGE DEATH AT ST. - HELENS. THE DOCTOR AND THE CORONER. The death of Mary Johnson, 49 years of age, wife of Robert Johnson, collier, of 96, Pan Stocks-road, Parr, St. Helen, under somewhat strange circumstances, has occasioned some ex- citement in the locality. It appears that the woman was a widow, with several children, when she married Johnson, about seven years ego, ard it is stated ...

... FROM OUR LONNDoN CORRESPONDENT. Loawor. ?? 'XoaT. It would need a. good newspaper cor e. spondent with a graphic pen to pat the Samoan muddle in a light intelligible to the British public, who have no very clear idea of the historic rights and wrongs of tha question. But the German Emperor's CD- conditional demand that the final sett lemezt must be unanimously agreed to-by the three Powers is ...

... i L O.C Aw S. 01 I . -- I Srs H. TZAN OR-LEtiSD 5 ILLNES.-There was no improvement last night in the ~aodition'of Sir Herbert Niayor-Lsylaid, M.P. D&Tm or Tr PoiasComIADYrMxSSIONARY. -A lady, who for a long period lsboured faith. as fully and in a most modest manner for a Cause so which must be ?? approved, has pawsed to away in the porson of Mrm Sairah Goulder, the gJ police court misrjons=r ...

... I' LIVERPOOL TRAM WAYS. i s THE FAILURE OF THE HALF- PENNY 'BUSES. K OPENING OF ELECTRIC LINE EXTENSIONS, A meeting of the Liverpool Corporation Tram- ways Committee was held yesterday in the Muni- cipal-buildings, Dale-street, Mr. NV. W. Ruther- ford presiding. There were also present Alder- t men F. Smith (deputy-chairman) and 'W H. Williams, Messrs. Harmood Banner, R. H. Bullen, E. Burns, ...

... I I Paris, Saturday.-Tbe Figaro to-day pub- blabes the concluding depositions of M. Gobert, Bank of France expert, together with those of IL Giry, professor at the Palmographical School; Messrs. Belbomme, Couard, and Varinard, ex. perts in the Esterhazy affair; M. Meyer, director of the Paleographical School; and M. Molinier, professor at the same school. M. Gobert categorically affirmed ...

... THIE CITY CHURCHORS CHURCH OF ENGLAND. Pro-Csthedrs~l.-Afternoon, Canon Leigh, M.A. Mosaley-hill Church.-Rev. G. H. Battersby. st. Luke's, Bold-street.-Mornisg. Rev. F. W. Hopkins; : evening, Archdeacont Maduden. St. Sthaniel's, Windsor.-Mornintg, Rev. J. Cunning. hsl ni ev'eniagnCanonnHobson. H~oly Trinity, .&i. Anne-sctreet.-Morning and evening, Rev. Jam~es llirst. St. Silas's, Toxteth-park. ...

... COAL IN KENT. The first seam of coal in the Kent borings at Barebam, between Canterbury and Dover, was struck yesterday. IMPOSING ON NOBLEMEN. At Surrey Quarter Sessions, yesterday, o Badger Sprsggett, with several aliases, was foundl guilty of obtaining sums of money by false pre- tences from Lord Velentia, Lord Willoughby de, Broke, Lord North, and other noblemen. Pre- vious convictions for ...