HOME AND FOREIGN.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXI, Issue 8002, 8 March 1910, Page 3

HOME AND FOREIGN.

United Pros* Anßooiation-Por Eleotri. Telograph— Copyright. CHARGE OF MURDER. n it i P A Y YORK > Mawh 7. Dr. Hyclo has boon indicted for murdering Colonel Swope. Eight members £ £10,000 ' th ° exton * THEFT OF BONDS. ■ Received March S, 11.15 n , m , LONDON, March 7. Two men have been arrested m London on a ohftrgo of blowing up a safe at Liege, and stealing £9000 m bonds. CHINESE PAINTINGS. .j The British Museum, for £9000, has i purchased'. a. romarkablc collection of iOhmeso -paintings, from the eighth to tho eighteenth centuries. KING EDWARD'S HOSPITAL. Tho King Edward's Hospital Fund receipt? for 1909, including additions to capital, were £208,926, and tho expenditure was £158,000. Tho total S^VM* " l tllirtce » yeare was ASSAULTING A BANKER. NEW YORK, March 7. Returning unexpectedly home, Mr John P. Cudahy., a millionaire packer of Chicago, attacked Mr J. Willis, a wealthy banker, whom ho suspected of intriguing with his wife. Cudahy inflicted a number of criss-cross cuts with a knife, after binding the banker with a strong rope. The man was arrested, out was released on bail. GEODETIC SURVEY OF THE EARTH. Tho United States Geodetic Survey announces that the equitorial radius of the earth is 6,378,000 metres. This is exact within six feet. The work has been conducted m forty-one States. Tho Survey adds that tho earth's crust extends seventy-five miles, when liquid pressure begins. SPURIOUS CURIOS. _ * BERLIN, March 7. Experts have pronounced the famous wapaneso collection at the Weimar Museum as largely fraudulent, and the Grand Duke lias ordered them to be put up to auction. TREATED AS INSANE. „ , , . PARIS, March 7. Jindelsi, the Algerian clerk who wounded General Verand m Paris, m mistako for the Minister of War, has been sent to an asylum. PRIESTS KILLED. Received March 8, 11.15 a.m. MADRID, February 7: A bomb was thrown into the priests' dining-room, whero they were at dinner colebrating tho Clerical victories at the municipal election at Noceda, m Spain. Two were killed.