News From All Quarters

Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 89, 14 April 1917, Page 15

News From All Quarters

ADVICE FROM THE BENCH. "If yon want exorcise, 5-011 c an get it with mc bark of the <-ity hall. i won't stand for men who beat women. If [ ■ bear of you beating this woman again, you'il have mc lo trim.- Thi s was the dictnm of a Milwaukee iinJ se hnrled at J. 11. Terres. arrested on ~ a charge of Seating his wife ami child. CRIME IN CHICAGO. A Chicago paper publishes a siHnmary nf an ordinary -week's crime in ih e city The! main items of rhe list are as follows: Murders, 7. hold-np 40, burglaries and larcenies 275, pickpocket cases 4, confidence game cases <i. stolen autos (not recovered! . 4, safe roSberie.s 1. bogus cheque swindles 7. The total of property reported as taken, according to police information, was £7000, of which £5000 was in burglaries and larcenies. FIVE TIMES DIVORCED. Mrs. Maude Voting, aged 35. following her fifth unsuccessful matrimonial venture, de- ' clared marriage was a failure when her latest hnsbund, Frank H. Young, was ' granted a divorce from her in the United States Court recently. » Mrs. Young testified on the witness stand that ehe was the plaintiff in the previous four divorces that had separated her from , her husbands. \ j PARIS COUPLE'S FOOD HOARD. I The accidental death of a Paris couple, ! I both over 00 years cif age, was the means of ; revealing to the police a hoard of M packets of rice. 43 of macaroni. 20 nf semolina, 101b L of Hour, 70 boxes of sardines, JOlb of len- ■ tils, ."rtlb of haricots. 301b of split peas, • 4Olb of sugar, nnd 81b of suit. In another cupboard were oil. dried fruits, .' biscuits, chocolate, and coffee—enough to have kept a small restaurant going for The couple had dozed off beside their ; stove and had asphyxiated. I — ' ARE THERE ANY MORE LIKE 1 HIM ? I Private rant L. Scharfenberg, First , Minnesota Infantry, convicted of treason, ■ was sentenced to five years at the Federal i prison at Leaven-worth for writing his mother in Germany ridiculing the United States army, attaching President Wilson, and asserting 10,000,000 Germans in the United fitates "would revolt in case of war with Germany and Dock to the Fatherland. "President Wilson will soon 'be out of the •way. all right." the letter said. He referred to officers of the United States army as "cobblers, -who would not stand up and fight in case of invasion." 5 DETHRONE THE KAISER. 1 LEAFLETS THAT WERE DROPPED IN ■ THE RHINE. f The "Strasburger Post" reports, with . fitting indignation, that the Rhine—the German Rhine! —is actually being utilised. , as a means of propaganda aimed against j the lloh.Mizollern dynasty. s A number of pamphlets, secretly printed . in Switzerland and destined for South G<?r- , (many, appear to have been thrown into ! the Rhine at K:wle. in the hope that they [ would reach the liniids of persons ready to 1 leaflets were nothing less than a demand J (that the Oe-riuan Imperial Crown should be i handed over to the House of Bavaria. 1 A WIFE'S RIGHTS. ' A wife whose husband withholds a sufficient allowance on pay clay bas a perfect 1 j rinht. according to a decision by Magistrate ' ' Cornell, of. the New York Court of Domestic ! Relations, to go through his trousers pocketk when lie Is nslfop. Mrs Samuel Kell testified that her hueI band's weekly wage was £!. but that for 1 nine years he lias given her hut 10/ or £1 a week to run the house and care for their 1 two children. 1 Recently, she said, she took £:i 10/ from her husband's trousers pocket while he - slept. Theu Kell sowed up his pockets and t took his trousers to bed with him. his wife testified, and in consequence she had hinj summoned to court. ; i i WHERE WOMEN COUNT FIRST. According to Mr. Sydney Brooks, an ' I Englishman feel- more at home in the I American capital than anywhere else in the 1 ) United States. " Thnl may be in part because it is one of the few American com- ' munitics where the social life is not entirely regulated for and run by the Araeri- ' can woman. Men in Washington positively • hold their own as though they were in ' Europe. The sex is not merely tolerated. ■ but is actually treated with consideration. ' Possibly tho neighbourhood and reflex ■ action of the diplomatic corps have a good ' I throughout the rest of the country is heavily :j weighted against the brutes, is in Wasbing■'ton held fairly even; and man, mere man, 1' is allowed his chance." 1 1 A HAUNTED SHOP. Supernatural agencies at work were•iheard as a novel defence during the hearting of a summons against a London shop- ! I keeper named Tuphill, for having two 1 1 bright lights on her premises. ' ' A police constable said he saw two very [bright light?, in the shop shortly after nine . I o'clock, but this evidence was contradicted Iby another police witness, who said lie . failed to see any light at :ill on the pre--1 mises an hour later. : Defendant said she extinguished all the 1 I lights and locked the shop up. taking the > keys with her at nine o'clock. The Bench dismissed the summons, ibo j chairman remarking that it certainly looked as if the shop was haunted. | 1 I SIR. WJXSON AND SUNLIGHT. ! "The Wit and Wisdom of Wocxlrow VVII- ' son" is the alliterative title of a recently | published compendium of the President!) | eloquence and epigram, says tho "Central j Xeus." The following are a few interest- ■ ing Wllsonian utterances extracted from : 1 the volume: — I )[ My hobby, if 1 have any, is the hobby j lof publicity. I cannot imagine anything' ;. legitimate that a man is doing that he | :!need be afraid to talk about. j My personal ambition is to try and keep ( tjfroui getting behind auybody or to conceal i !; anything. Drive everything into the field of facts', j The mouipiu you turn on ihe sunlight graft withers away, and every man con- ■ nected with it withers also. Publicity is I the sunlight which does it. ' Publicity is the greatest antiseptic. j

TWO DOCTORS TO 80,000 PEOPLE. Only two physleians, one a woman, now remain In Jerusalem to minister to the SO.OOO inhabitants who are threatened by the epidemic of typhus which has prevailed since October t-ordinj; to a report received by a New y or k organisation of Jewish wonicu which tins l.ecu earing for tb-e sink ami poor in the Holy City. The death rate had imreusMHl 4(«i per cent. The message u,i,l o r t ii<> woman physician takiiiß 4-14 niirwing visits in eight weeks, j besides giving nifdicai aid to hundreds o£ vi.iiuis of the plague. FAMOTJS PRISON CLOSED. From March 1 Dartmoor Prison has teen closed for convict prisoners and occupied by <onseienti<jHo objectors, who, l t is surmised, will be employed on the reclamation s<heme Initiated by the Prince of Wales ou the Dartmoor portion of his I>uehy estate. The older officers of the establishment will Ibe retired, and an of military ape are to join the Army. Th e remaining officers, with the eouvicls, 2.-.0 in nnnuu-r, says the "Dally New*." have been removed to other prisons. The famous convict prison at Prinoetown was originally btrHt in 1809 for the accommodation of prisoners taken in the Napoleonic wars. ELECTROCUTION FOR DOGS. The first doff in Illinois to die of electrocution was killed that way recently by the Anti-Cruelty Society. An automatic electric cape, a new invention, was used for the purpose. The dog that was killed was homeless, and none would shelter him. Around his neck was placed a flexible metal collar provided with electrode points. To this collar was hooked the end of a spiral spring inside the cage. The superintendent turned switches which permitted current to enter the cage, the circuit not being completed until the door was closed. Death occurred within a few seconds after the door was closed. MUST OBEY HIS WIFE. A ruling by an important municipal court in Cincinnati is viewed from widely different angles by wives and husbands. For one year Alfred Ainsworfh must obey his wife's commands or serve a suspended sentence of three months in the workhouse. In addition, he must, at his wife's command, sign the pledge. that wus the order of Judge Fox, after Mrs Martha Ainsworti (the wife) preferred charges of assaoH and battery. "If he refuses to obey you jnst report to mc," Judge Fox remarked to Mrs Ain-»-worth. : Ainsworth meekly followed wben his wife said "Go home," FIRST, AFTER AT.fr. The Bethlehem Steel Works has jnst forged the first sixteen-ineh gun for the United States navy—the second made in the country. So far as known the new United States sbcteen-itrch gun for the navy is the heaviest and most powerful weapon ever made in the world's history. A slender apprentice wan.ted to have the honour of having crawled through the first sLxteen-inch gun. It wasn't an easy job to work himself along, and half way through he got stuck and yelled for helpSome of the men wanted to pell him out backward, lint one of the mechanics sympathised with the boy and pushed in a rope from the front. He managed to get it around his shoulders and eventually landed him all right head-foremost. WIFE SHOOTS HER HUSBAND. Edward Kreiser. organist at the Independence Boulevard Christian Church. Kansas City, was shot ami killed by tiis wife recently. Her husbaml's allesed attentions to other women, Mrs Kreiser told the police, were the cause of the shooting. For ten years her husband had boasted to her of his affairs with other women. ••His infldelity and hyprocisy is to blame for it all. I conld not stand it any longer," Mrs Kreiser is reported to have declared. According to her attorney, Kreiser telephoned from the home, and, while Mrs Kreiser was listening, made an engagement to meet a woman. "Mrs Kreiser told mc she meant to kill herself after shooting her husband," the lawyer said. In her excitement she called the neighbours and did not accomplish it." THE TROUBLES OF A QUEEN. Should a qneen go skating when her conntry is in so serious a position as Holland? asks the Dutch correspondent of an American paper. The question has been raised in parliament by a motion to censure Qneen Wilhelmina for going to skate two days after Germany's submarine warfare was announced. While there is no chance been the subject of much discussion in the lobbies and the newspapers. Supporters of tbe motion declare that skating and ice sports are undignified ami imply the neglect of State affairs hy the queen. The queen's supporters reply that her trip to Holland's most famous ice course was only natural, in view of the "national importance" of skatrng in The Netherlands. They clwlare that Queen Wilhelmina is universally known *a be a ! reign, that she frequently devotes eighteen ! hours a day to state business, and that I the queen's visit to the skating carnival j was advisable as being the best way to i indicate to the mnn In the street that 'there was no necessity for immediate alarm lover the situation between Holland and j Germany. i SWISS ON REDUCEB RATIONS. I The s*wlK6 "BuntlesTat" announced on FetV ruary M the long awaited restriction ot f,.,xi distribution. Switzerland will hare I henceforth two meatless days weekly, mnet 'do without whipped cream and similar I dishes, and must limit its egg consumption j The regulations rcg.-rding meat prescritie jthat I'll two day* a week the use of beef, I pork, goat meat, mutton, and horw meat Iβ forbidden in hotel*, resiaumnts. and prtivatc houses. No one is exempt. The relegations further specify that only one meat 111 ml one epg 'lish may be servpil to a piest, land some egg preparations are listed a» meat. The cantor, authorities* are permitted Ito make special exceptions for festivities. ■ The regulations forliid the irivinir »f more jthan 13 grammes of sijimt with a tea of .coffee order, and limir the quantity of saga* •which may Ik- u>p.l for fmsrinss. Btrtte* J may be served only at hrerikfast or at 'meals at which no meat or esg dishes at» supplied, and may no longer h<- used wftfc cheese. The use of egg.s in makiug pastry ';> also prohibited. The - Bundcsrat - saja that these regulations are issued because 11 lis •■ preferable to clear the situation WT j direct prohibition."