There was scandal in the region as it was reported that a Bolton man, Secretary to the Bolton Union spinning Company, who had surrendered to a warrant for his arrest the previous evening, had been accused of embezzling £695
At Irlam a seaman was knocked down and killed by a passenger run the second fatality on the Cheshire lines railway in just a fortnight.
He was named as J Wilson of 13 Seedley street Salford, and he had earlier in the day tried to regain his luggage that he had dispositrd a week earlier but had no money and returned to the station at 10.00pm standing on the level crossing waiting for the departure of the service to Manchester not noticing that a train was travelling in the other direction.
There was speculation about the death of Crown Prince Rudolph, heir to the Austrian throne in 1889, the circumstances had until then been kept a close secret known, it was said to the Emperor and the Pope alone.
Now a Paris newspaper had spilt the beans , having announced that he had committed suicide.
It was also reported that the Austrian government now sent a note of its demands to Serbia and that in the case of unsatisfactory reply armed conflict was not impossible
The weather remained unsettled in Manchester but the orevious days thunderstorms had resulted in the death of a women in Longsight, 63 year old Emma Clarke was found lying on the bedroom floor of her house in Daisy bank road with a wound on her forehead and in a pool of blood after it was supposed the storm had disturbed her.
Whilst Mary Tunnely aged 60 of Whaley street Gorton was bathing her feet in a bowl of water when she suddenly dropped dead.
A women from Sale, described as a machinist of no fixed abode was charged with wilfully abandoning her six week old child and was remanded in custody.
Back on the continent, The kaiser was reported to be slightly indisposed in Berlin as he prepared for the funeral of the Late Archduke and his consort
John Gerrity of Oldham Road was in the dock charged with the murder of Ernest Bradbury whom he had stabbed in the Locomotive inn on Marshall street
More details were emerging of the Sarajevo shootings a high official who witnessed the attacks described how after the bomb was thrown, the archduke had batted it away with his hand for it to fall into the road while the duchess told by her husband to leave the procession replied “I shall remain with you, where you are I will be also.”
A witness to the shooting when the fatal shots were fired, described how both the Archduke and his wife he said expired almost immediately with little pain.
