News from All Quarters

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 282, 26 November 1921, Page 19

News from All Quarters

A message from Epulis states that excavations there have resulted in the discovery of considerable portions of the Churcb of St. John tho Evangelist, notably the crypt, which, according to tradition, is the tomb of tho Apostle. SLEPT FOR NINE YEARS. After being lv a rutaloptlc trauoe for nine jears. Anno Swanppoel, of Johannesburg, has awakened in of all her faculties. Hnr voice is weak but distinct, and ■ivnen asked on awakonins what she would like for breakfast she replied, "Sardines on toast." LADY'S SUICIDE WITH A HORSE Madame Ort.ivie Brochard t.")OK a lady farmer at Doncevaux, was so attached to an old mare of hers which met with an accident necessitating its slaughter that she decided to die along with tuc animal. leading the marc to tlie bauk of the river Essoduc, she fasteued herself to her old fripnd by a cord to which a heavy stone was attached, so that they were both drowned together. DON'T WEAK CORSETS NOW. "VTompn are no longer sanu-ificing comfort to fashion." Kiid a t-orset-maker. w<ho was summoned nt Enfield for non-payment of rates. Tie Magistrate: Tours is an honourable profession, and one that should keep you busy. The corset- mn ker: "Women rlo nott w&vc corsets now. I have not made a pair for a momth. JUDGE FINDS HIMSELF GTTILTY. County Judge Julian L. Hazard was arrested in Tampa, Florida, by a motor cycle policeman, who alleged that he had driven a motor car without a proper Ucen-se. Judjje Hazard held a preliminary hearing, found nimseir guilty of the charge, bound limself over to the Criminal Court, and then ordered that he be released from custody on his own recognisance, declaring he felt reasonably certain that he would he present in court when the case was called. ITALIAN SCULPTOR SHOOTS GIRL. Miss Esther Wadsworth, the daughter of a British West Indian merchant, was shot four times at Havana by Signor Aldo Gamba, an Italian sculptor, who receutly won the £5000 ■ prize in the competition for the design of a monument to General Gomez, Cuba's national hero. After shooting Miss Wadsworth, Signor Gamba attempted suicide, shooting himself in the head. Both are seriously wouuded. Miss Wadsworth's mother says that Sienor Gamba called at her home, and urced her daughter to marry him. The girl declined, and the sculptor immediately produced an automatic pistol and nred at her. The girl's father was in Jamaica on business at the time. JEALOUS AIR KINGS. Eaples axe very jealous of tihe aeroplane's rivalry to their age-long monarchy of the eir. One pilot, recently flyln? down over Scotland towards England, suddenly saw an eagle make a ferocious (rsvoop at bini. It dashed right Into the whirling propeller and broke one of the Wades, fori-ing tihe pilot to make an awkward landdng In an unsuit-able-country. ■ Another afteT wheeling round a monoplane, evidently seeking for a vulnerel'ie spot, flew down directly at the pilot in iMs ooekpit. Luckily he had a pistol doeo at hand, and. drove away th e bird with a succession of shots. SAVAGES WITH TAILS. Do men with tails exist in less known parts of the -tv-orld? Dr. Carl L-urnholtz, a distinguished American explorer, declares that such people do exist. He has just returned from two years in unknown parts of Borneo, where he says that he found several members of savage tribes with stumps of tails. "These people," cays Dr. ■Lumholtz, "are evidently the outcome of Inter-marriage with a completely tailed race, because, according to statements by headmen of the tribe, these children witti vestiges of a tail appear from time to time. They do not consider their appendages exactly as a disgrace; nevertheless, they are extremely sensitive about them, and I lad difficulty in persuading them to allow mc to examine them." DEATH PHENOMENON. The phenomenon of the heart continuing to beat after death is, paralleled by a remarkable fact mentioned in cvndence a.t a Shoreulteli inquest. A nurse at the local infirmary deelairea that the temperature continued to rise after death in the ease of a woman patient Until from 103 degrees it was 10S degrees three hours afterwards. The patient died from heart trouble and neuritis. Dr. Edwin Smith, ahe Coroner, said tie Plfiing of the temperature after death was » phenomenon wfcich occurred occasionally, Wd was known as post-mortem ealoricity. « was due to some chemical activity in • »c body whioh caused bhe eom&iued protection of heat. He once tod a case of •nnstroke in wWch the tem.pera.ture after own rose from 105 to 109. LAID HEAD ON BAILS. Tlie Oreman of an express train, giving •Uence at the inquest on William Mac regor, a tailor, of West Hartlepool, said lin * mau sending near the railway "ne. He blew bis whistle, but the man «nelt down and put his head on the line. «c was practically decapitated. In a letter, MacGregor had written:— "I have come to the ei*d of my tether, •« I have lauded myself in a dreadful ttuddle, and the outlook is so black 1 cannot fo on any longer. "If my wife had been loving I could aave seen through all right, as I require to be under some restraint, but since her death, what with drinking and gambling, 1 lave squandered more than would have seen ■le through clear." 4 verdict of suicide was returned, the Coroner remarking that tho letter indicated Pretty clearly tho state of the man's mind. AN EMPEROR'S LETTERS. According to a Vienna telegram the Franz Josef. Katarioa Schratt, has received *ome tempting offers from America for toe publication of the letters cf the late Emperor. Mrs. Schratt, who, since the death of her benefactor, has taken up her permanent abode at Ischl, has, however, *efused every offer. 'Before the war an American publisher offered the 'lady the then large amount of ene million kronen In an attempt to induce lier to publish her memoirs. Again reeenily Mrs. Schratt has received "H> commissions from American agents regarding the publication of Franz Josef's letters, which am in her possession. The sum quoted is an enormous one, I>ut the Judy, is not to be tempted. One of. the commissions concerns the making of a Mm to 'be produced in America, having as 'to central idea ihe Hapsburg dynasty, *lth Katarina "featnrins" the principal

A .Lincoln jeweller is showing a watch oUtaed to ,be the in the wl-ll It « an esaet copy of an ordinary watch but wefJhTn flftr - three ia circumference, cZi s :z. awi^eisht - and has cost "WON HIS LOVE AND SOUL ' Private George Pearcy, ox Driffield. when summoned at ißridlington by his wife for desemon. said that a German -irl whose Arm> of Occupation had "won his lo ve and was ordered ao pu y j*, a week t0 „„' BREAD OF MOTHERHOOD The husband of : Ma ry ..Marie Renee made a tragit discovery at their home in Silver tun Aye ' Sout - hea<l - «c found his wif. rttttas dead lv a chair, in the centre of the Wtchcii, all , be gag J>ts , turue(] fuH .and the doors and windows closed Mm. Reuee was shortly expecting a child, "and it Is said that she had a -reat dread of the ordeal. She w.ns devoted to her nu ß . band and her two twins, after the birth of which she was seriously ill. X>TTG HER OWN GRAVE. A remarkable story was told ait \herdeen when a n - oma n waa herore the court, It being sieged that «he attempted to bury Dereelr in a grave dug by herself in one or the city cemeteries. She was taken out or the hole by a man -ho arrived at the spot, and af[«nvard a Plunged into the River Dee, but ™as rescued by a policeman Accused, who afcnm«! ferine had son.c drink, was lined thirty shUHugs. AN INDIAN REBEL'S MIRACLE. ' A message from I'laghat, say s Secthikova > Thangal, of Kumaramputhur, who hnTp ro .: Claimed a Khilafat Kingdom, w itll himL.f as Governor, tried three offenders and ordered them to be shot. Ti )e senteure was carried out with blank cartridges The men fell to the ground terror-stricken on hearing the report, but remained uninjured ! though very mnch mystified. Seetbikoyn ' attributes their not being killed to his own I miraculous powers, and intimates that his' followers will in the same way bo immune from British bullets. ICELAND SHORT OF ICE. Strange as it may seem, Iceland has run short of ice, and urgent requests for immediate shipments of that commodity have been sent to Norway. Herring fishing, Iceland's principal industry, is in grave danger, as Ice is required for packing the fish, which are exported in large quantities. This ice shortage has been caused by an extraordinarily mild winter. On the north coast of the island there is Ice without limit, but there are no meaDS of transporting It to the districts where It is required. Hence the urgent appeals for shipments of ice from other parts In order to save the herring Industry. DIVORCED MOTHER " DUMPS " HER t!BtU). ■How a recently-diviorced Orrmaby woman of 23 "dumped" her 11-months old baby upon tihe faither, who was the co-respondent in the divorce proceed-ings and tien ran away, -was told ivhen t3ie Orimsiby justices m-ade an order for tihe infant t» be moved to the workihouae. Carrying "the child, and accompanied by the man, the woman, it was stated, went into the railway station yeßt as a train was departing for London, and as it moved ott she "dumped" fine child into the father's arms, took a flying leap Into the train, and then 'waved a "Good-bye" to Che astoniishea mas. MARRIED SEVEN SISTERS. Fred Harris, 90 years old, has just married his seventh wife. All his wives were daughters at Peter Yost, who lived in Milwaukee and sailed a freighter on the Great Lakes in the sixties. Harris began by marrying the oldest daughter of Yost, and has gone right down the line. The last five were widow.?. Mrs. Guetave Eidelmau Is the latest bride, and she Is now 78. Her husband, a farmer, perished in the Minnesota forest fires of 1818. She had been married twice before. Harris, who was a hack driver, and later driver of a horse car in Chicago after the great fire, recently bought a small fruit farm on which to pass his remaining years.

SUITS FOR A DAY. The. cost of men'a clothes in 'Fans has increased so enonnousjy that large business is being done by stoops waieh specialise in hiring out articles of men's attire. Tihese prices have also ta'creas'ed tremendously. A morning coat, frock coat, or dlnmer jacket costs anytaning trom 15/ to £1 5/ a day. For the lower sum you just get a coat wMdh hoe already made its bow in many drawing rooms, but tor £1 5/ the shopkeeper wHI '-.take In" or "let out" the waist and. lengthen or shorten the sleeves. It is the custom of the trade that the gannenit Is hired for 24 hours; Che day you hire it and the day you return it do not count. A silk Ihat may te j, irerf from 2/ tQ Par £i you can hire for the day a whole •ot*. consisting of a suit, braces, shirt, collar, cuff,, ihat, and fcie , t^ TOO MUCH HIGH LIFE *TZ I*"*"* Hanan (2 »' the d and heiress of the late Mr. A. P. Hanan he multi-millionaire American shoe Z2'facturer, has been shot dead by Mrs GracLawes, a dietant relative, ~ao then coin"niltted suicide. ' The police believe that the motive was Jealousy. Mr. John Borland,- a wealthy exporter, who was with Miss Hauan when the crime was committed, is being held as a material witness in the coming inquiries He had known both women for some time, and the police are endeavouring to trace hi-1 relationship with Mrs. Lawes.

Mr. Borland dined with Miss Hanan and Miss Grotschalk. a mutual friend, at tbe Hanan residence in Park Avenue. At eleven o'clock Mr. Borland and Miss Hanan decided to accompany Miss Grotsehalk to her home in Schermerhorn Street. After they had seen- Miss Grotschalk to her roome, and as they stood in the vestibule Mrs. Lawes suddenly appeared waving a revolver and fired twice. One bullet struck Miss Hanan in the arm, fracturing the bone, another entered the left breast, and the third penetrated the left side. Mrs. Lawes then placed the muzzle of the revolver in her mouth and fired; She "fell dead, and Miss Hanan ran into the street, where she collapsed.

It is understood that Mre. Lawes, who was a divorced woman, recently lived with the Hanans, but a short time ago quarrelled with Miss Hauan, to whom she had sent threatening letters. Iv a letter to her mother Mrs. Lawes said: "Mother, darling, you can never understand what I have been through here. Don't try to learn. It is past. Too much high life. The race is too fast and liquor has driven mc crazy. Forgive and forget, and remember to pray for my soul. Lovingly. Grace." Doctors think she was a victim to drug-.).