News from All Quarters

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 242, 9 October 1920, Page 19

News from All Quarters

The Port of London Authority is spending over £500 a year on food for its cats. Orders for 10,000 tons of coal for the l Danish State railways have 'been placed in China. During April, May, and June. 1.509 Germans, Austrians, and. Hungarians landed in the United Kingdom. Miners at Ikrwhill, Fifeshire, have adopted a novel scheme to tide over possible distress during the payment of strike relief. They are issuing £1,500 "worth of promts- ■ sory notes of the value of 10/, 5/, and 1/,, and shopkeepers have agreed to a'ccptl them in payment for any kind of go.>d9. MEDAL OF GRATITUDE. All Frenchmen and Frenchwomen who were taken as hostages by the Germans during the war are entitled to a medal, the French Government Medal of National Gratitude, whicn has been created to recompense patriotic action on the part of civilians. -j £102 FOR THREE WEEKS' DRINK. Said to have spent £102 on drink in three weeks, John !BuTke, a collier, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment at Pontypool, Monmouthshire, for stealing that sum from 'beneath a mattress in his brother's house. 'WHISTLING PROHIBITED. Whistling Js prohibited In tue city of Agana under penalty of a five dollars fine, by order of Captain -Gilmer, governor of Guam and commandant of the United states naval station there. His order reads: The practice of whistling is an entirely unnecessary and Irritating noise, whlctt J must be discontinued. It is therefore ] ordered and decreed that no person shall whistle within the limits of the city of Agana. The penalty for a violation of this order shall be an executive fine not to exceed five dollars. A STAGE TRAGEDY. Applause from a large audience resounded in the little theatre at Serbnick, near Geneva, while a gigantic python slowly crushed Its trainer to death. The trainer, a Hungarian girl, whose njue was Circo, realised her peril and shrieked for help as the coils of the serpent closed around her, bat the audience Relieved her cries were a .part of the entertainment, and cheered loudly. FTauleiu. Circo's manager rushed on the stage and shot the snake, but not until the young woman was beyond help. It was not until after the performance was over that the people were aware of the fact that they had witnessed a tragedy. HARD ON YOUNG BRIDES. A Sacramento (California) message states that while there is no provision in the. age of 16 accepting proposals of contracting sufficient excuse in such cases to keep the young -brides away from full-time classes ac school. . This is according to a ruling by TFill C. Wood, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, in answer to a query raised j several times during the last few months. I "We have gone into the question | thoroughly," he stated in explanation of the I matter, "and while there is nothing in the ! school law to prevent girls under 16 from getting married, young brides of this character must go to school for the full time the same as their unmarried sisters, unless a certificate signed "by a physician is presented to the school authorities 6howing that the physical condition of the pupil is ! such as to render attendance inadvisable or that there is no school within reach." A MONKEY AS WITNESS. A monkey was brought into the court at Constantinople in connection with the murder of the manager of the Ackermann circus, which had been giving performances for a season in the Turkish capital. A married couple named Starr, who were members of the circus troupe, were suspected of the crime and arrested, but no evidence could be discovered against them, flic judge thereupon resorted to a reconstruction of the crime. The circus manager had been murdered at the moment when he was feeding an Indian monkey named Scamp. Starr and his wife were conducted to the cage. The in.sta.nt the animal, which had previously shown much affection towards them, saw the couple, it broke into a furious rage, throwing itself against the bars of its cage in its attempt to attack the Starrs. At a subsequent sitting of the court the monkey was led in and had hardly caught sight of the Starrs when he again flew into a paroxysm of terror. The spectacle produced a great impression on the court, and, notwithstanding their emphatic denials, 'Starr and his wife were judged guilty. INNOCENT MAN HANGED. The confession of a young farmer named Arnold Love, of Ceylon, Ontario, that Ue murdered his mother, for which crime his father, Henry Love, was convicted and hanged seven years ago, has presented a dramatic legal situation oo the provincial authorities. Before his execution the father made a statement on the scaffold which was Interpreted as a confession of guilt. It now appears that Arnold Love, during an evangelist!? service held at Toronto, went forward and confessed to the evangelist, who advised him to tell his story to the police. Arnold Love declared that he killed his manded him for keeping had company, clubbing her to death and biding the body in a cplln r, w lie re it wns found Inter. The father was convicted on what appeared to be good circumstantial evidence. There had been ninny fjuarrelt> between the couple regarding business matters. was one of the principal witnesses at the trial. PRINCESS MARRIES HER CHAUFFEUR. "I'd rather be the loved wife of a chauffeur than the unloved wife of a prince." According to a message from Zurich , this is what the beautiful Princess Alexandra Victoria, divorced wife of the fourth son of the Kaiser, now tells her friends. ! Her elopement witli a chauffeur, Fritz . Mevcr, has been recently reported. The . I'rincefis is a daughter of l'rince Frederick. Duke of Kenleswig-Holstein. and her hashaixl was Prince August Wilhelru of Hohen- ) zollern. , Frail Meyer is now on her honeymoon, but the people of Berlin are still gasping from the shock of the affair. Meyer, before the war, wore the ex-Kaiser's livery, and became a lieuteuant In the German army. It is understood bis romance with Princess Victoria began while he was still piloting the Koyal motor cars. Prince August Wilhelm is reported to be employed still as a bank clerk in Berlin. He was considered the least militaristic of the Kaiser's six sons. Incompatibility was the reason publicly for hia divorce from Prfycess Victoria.

SPECIAL LIQUOR INSURANCE. Insurance companies in N ew y or ' t I announce the inclusion ot 'liquor clauses" in their burglary policies to protect owners of private stock. An annual charge of i> per c*nt of the original value of the stock is made for the hazard, and only oue-tiftU of the total amount ot the policy may be on liquor. BABY Dtf EXCHANGE FOR HOUSE "I will swap with good Christian people a healthy, pretty baby boy one and a-halt :years old. for a three-room house or small jdwelling and children's clothes or furniture I worth about iluo. Parent sickly aud iv debt, with more children to support." This advertisement appeared in the classified section of a Tacoma evening paper. Efforts are being made to find the baby a new home. FRENCH BABIES' FATE. Startling figures In regard to the inrantile mortality of France have just hev-n. published. Or every thousand children under thp use of one year, —*i 4 dif , ut ißcruen, 294 at Lille, 342 at Dunkirk, 414 it 'Mars-cn-Bazoeuf, 507 at Tlalluin 000 at St. Pol. In Paris half the children die before to.*/ are a-waxe of their existence. The cause of the hen-vy mortality in Paris is attributed to lack of maternity hospitals and child-welfare institutions. GIRL-WIFE'S SACRIFICE. A painful drama of domestic unhapplness is reported from Pontreslna. where aa ■Italian girl-wife named Zanello, aged 19, deliberately destroyed her beauty with vitriol. She had been married only tea jealousy of her husband, an engineer, who constantly reproached his wife with courting the attention of other men. The younff wife explained in a pathetic note that she i was nnable to help her heanty and did not desire attentions, as she loved her husband, and she, therefore, decided to make the sacrifice. GIFT OF A WIFE. Or else face an alienation suit." This was ! the ultimatum Issued by Mr. Cha.-les U. Chisholm, of Xewark. Xew Jersey, to Vγ. William C. Parker, of Morristown. \<ri <eh resulted in the film?; of the strangest ?cit j for alienation of affections ever recorded in the 'New York la-sv courts. In the papers Mr. Chisholm s«*s forth that he offered to give Oils wife to h's rival if be -w-antf>d her; otherwise he innst that he has lost patience with both, :.nd demands £20.000 "heart balm." Mr. Chisholm describes Mr. Parker as *'a man of artistic temperament, of the kind that wields a mysterious influence . where their perception of itght and wrong Is numbed." , HIDDEN IN A CHEST. How an alleged deserter from the Army Wd in a chest of drapers while, it is contended, his wife dreiv separation allow, ance for herself and two childrpn, was I told at the police court :it E-xeter. -when I Charles and Sarah Holland were charged ■ -with obtaining £94 from the PostmasterGeneral by false pretences. I The prosecution solicitor said Holland i came home from France on lenve from the Garrison Artillery in December, lf*lS, mid did not return. iris wife professed ignorance of his 'whereabouts till March 6. when detectives found him at home. The inside of a chest of drawers was .-at away, and the woman admitted Ilniinnd bad iidden theTe. When found he showed physical evidence of long confinement. Defendants pleaded not guilty, and were committed for trial. Bail was allowed. DOCTOR'S SELF-SACRIFICE. The full story of the two amazing operations performed recently b y Dr. Orlando P. Scott, of Chicago, one upon himself ami (lie other upon hia wife, is now to hand. Some weeks ago the doctor and his wife met with a motor accident. The lady iv.ie the more seriously hurt, her righi leg being broken in five places, and much ..f tho fle-h being ripped off. Both were taken to \-.,,*- ---pital, and a skin-grafting operation wih necessary to save one of Mrs. S.n't's liinlm. Dr. Scott very pluckily offered t.i take the matter in hand himself. Having his wife wheeled into the amphitheatre, he bared his own leg, and, with a razor, cut off strips of flesh from his own thigh and placed them on the bare wounds of his wife. said the doctor, in an interview, hut to Bit there with a razor find shave the skin from your own leg required a bit of nerve. I was a IJttle bit shaky towards the end ~f the operation, but it's all finished now." BATTLESHIPS AND CRUISERS. Although the Americans an. rnpdiy overhauling us in Wg fighting sliip«. nml have no less than 17 battleships and tiaittle-Tuise-rs in various stages of ■■■instruction, -while we nave none, it i« satisfactory to know that we are keeping f.ir ahead in respect of lirht cruisers, says a correspondent of tho "Pull Mall Gazette.'' We have ai.ont rorty of tlies,. useful v easels, nil of modern design, fast, and well armed, and fire more sti'.l unfinished. The nalei--'h. Krohisher, and Efflnghmn nre destined to serve .-ls nnffslilp" abroad. in •which role tho Han-kin*, of the sami' e!ns«, i= proving a great sueresq on Hie China station. To illustr.U' tin he.-ivy ■■■■*■ »t ■warship construction nowaday.-. : i light battleship did fifteen yenra ami. Tim 1.111 for the flj-.-t Dreadnought nmniinn-d to £1.7!>7.00rt, .is compare.] with L1..-J!i.n«iO for tlie Hawkins, .-omplntr-l Inst year. Po rapid has been tho advance :n prl'-e during the p;ist rear or two t.h.-it 1 doirbr »!t"l!iw a second ITood could "c ordered t..-d;iy for less than seven and a-lin'f rn!llfnn«. BOY ACTOR'S CRIME. Incited apparently by rim wave «.f v!o Ipn^* l tJint is sT»r<*ii >l i rtr<*r F*t:i iv*, Fifne .TailW. a 17-yerir-ild srlor r.f the Apollo Theatre, one of the Sect-known I'ari* mnsif* h/ill?. has arrr ,, ;!r-<i f<>r .1 murderous attack made upon Mme. Uonsseron, 70, H't Kf.Tmpes. n'M r V,'rs.'ti 1 ] p-;. At 7 p.m. a well-dressed yonns man called at th» house of the old woman, who is reputed to lie wealthy, nnd told her that lio hd'l news from her son, "who is a doctor in Paris. Admitted to the house, he at once attacked 'Mine. Moussiron with a knuckle-duster, striking her twi heavy blows on the head. Frightenel Uy her screams Jaillet took to flight. The local police searched for him all night, and towards moruing he was found Mding in a -wood outside the town. lie had changed his hat for a cap, and w-.r. a white instead of his original red tie. llf had also thrown away hU waterproof o.v. In his pockets were found :i ISrownlnj automatic pistol loaded with five eartridg. * a cloth twisted to serve as a gng, and fun? yards of cord. He coafev.ed that he lm.' been induced to commit the crime by someone living in the locality who Lad a j,-ru3,;e ogaiost cbe old womaa.