The governor of Strangeways, Major James Osmonde Nelson, died at his home in Kersal at the age of 55.
He had been in ill health for some time and had only a few days previously announced his resignation.
Nelson had famously been governor of Reading Gaol when Oscar Wilde was imprisoned there and decided that, contrary to his predecessor, Wilde should have access to paper, pen and ink and also any books he chose to read. If the books were not available in the prison library, they were to be obtained.
The Lord Mayor of Manchester announced that he had sent a large number of brushes, razors to the 11th battalion of the Manchester regiment, currently in Grantham, in addition to the shirts socks and blankets already dispatched
A body of a women was found cut in two on the railway line between Flixton and Urmston. She was later identified as 49 year old Elizabeth Tervan.
A new crèche opened in Ancoats workroom for unemployed women for the care of the chikdren whose mothers may be employed there.
It was announced that the trial of the twenty five people implicated in the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand would begin in two days in Sarajevo.
Twenty one of those on trial were Serbian and four were Croatian. Ten were under the age of twenty. Reuters reported that the indictment covered thirty seven pages and charged the accused with high treason.
