NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 258, 31 October 1925, Page 25

NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS.

X.X.X- MANSION. The Ku Klux Klan has taken for its new headquarters a dreary mansion said to be haunted. Tragedy has befallen every resident i" tbe house, the last being Senator Brandegee. who committed suicide there. ANCIENT REMAINS FOUND. -ne body of an ancient Roman was discovered by workmen in a quarry near Abergele --enbig-ij. The remains were well preserved, and the teeth in perfect condition. The tiny village of St. <_eorge, near where the remains were -ound, is, according to Welsh tradition, the scene of the struggle oetween St. George and the Dragon. a PET » RATTLER KILLS YOUTH. Efforts of E. L. Tuttle, 19 years old, to make a pet of a rattlesnake cost him his life. Tuttle caught the snake in a cotton field, and stroked It gently. The reptile became docile. Several hours later the boy screamed as he threw the stake from him. The rattle landed In a coil and sprang instantly, sinking its fang in the boy's face. He died five hours later. "Sunt killed by girl. Mrs. Anna Haley, of Annaheim, California, was killed by an automobile driven by her niece, Mrs. C. C. Wllley, who did not know her aunt had left California until she was identified at a hospital. Mrs. Haley had gone to Mason City unannounced on business. The accident was due to the blinding lights of a machine that passed Mrs. Willey's car at a street crossing. ELABORATE SUICIDE. Quartermaster-Sergeant Morrison, of the Highland Light Infantry, was found shot at Holywood Barracks, Belfast, It Is alleged that he placed a rifle on a stand and tied a string from the trigger to the door of his bedroom. He gave the door a push, which pulled the trigger, and the bullet passed through his head as he eat In a chair facing the rifle. MONKEY ACTOR ON SPREE. It took a company or firemen and several deputy sheriffs to suodue an unidentified monkey, believed to be a member of the Hollywood animal colony, which staged a wild party up and down the streets of an outlying residential district In Los Angeles. Women and children were panicstriken. but the fire fighters and sheriff's men braved the' animal's onslaught of pop bottles and vegetables, and finally brought him under mtrol in a chicken coop. One produce market was thrown into confusion when the simian invaded. It to collect fresh ammunition. NUNS' HEROIC RESCUE. Two Catholic nuns, clad to the garments of their order, leaped Into tbe Hudson Rjver at Nyack (N.Y.), and resetted two of their drowning little girls.

The children, members of a vacation party from the lower East Side of New York, were wading near the shore when they got into a swift current and were drawn into mid-stream. Sisters Mary Sumpta and. Mary Immaculate, without hesitation plunged in. They swam to the girls struggling to the water and succeeded In rescuing AngeUa Magro (11) and Alice Vernon (13). Mary Bella Pinter (11) had already gone down and her body was recovered half an hour later. BOY BITTEN BY HORSE. Joseph Montenarano, 13 years old, of Union City, New Jersey, was bitten by a horse while playing ball ip the street in front of his home, Joseph was playing second base and was excitedly exhorting the pitcher to "strike him out," so that his side could go to bat, and did not notice tbe horse approach from behind. The animal was attached to a light delivery wagon and wheD directly behind Joseph bit Wain the left Bhoulder. The boy was taken to the North Hudson Hospital at Weefcawten and anti-tetanus serum was administered. He was able to go to his home but will return for treatment and observation to make certain that rabies does not develop. HIGH DIVING AT 79. "Quite fit!" was the reply given by Sir Claude Champion de Cresplgny, the veteran sporting baronet, to an inquiry regarding his health following his dive from a pla;form 3oft high at Highgate Pond, London. Sir Claude, who Is 7S, Is president of the amateur diving association, and had as his partner Mr. Otto Hagborg, vice-president aud founder of the association- and a pioneer Of high diving. Almost locked in each other's arms, Sir Claude grasping Mr. Hagborg round the waist and Mr. Hagborg clasping the older man round the neck, the two dived before a crowd of spectators, which included Lady de Cresplgny. After entering the water the divers separated, and Sir Claude emerged smiling and unperturbed. ROBBER 'WOULD AWOOING GO. Frederick H. Oxley, former convict, said by the Westchester County (U.S.A.) authorities to be one of the most notorious burglars In the country, failed to move County Judge William P. Bleakley with a plea for leniency so that he might be free to pay court to a 21-year-old girl with whom he said he had just fallen In love. Oxley, who Is 40, and has served four prison terms, was sentenced to five years In Sing Sing. Oxley said that the girl, whose name was not revealed, had not told him that she would welcome his suit, but he believed he could win her If the Court "would give him half a chance." "I cannot understand how any girl of 21 could be smitten with a man of 40. particularly In view of the fact that you have a long prison record," Judge Bleakley Interposed. Oxley admitted that he was married but said he hoped to get a divorce.

CHILD'S STRANGE DEATH. A penny candy sucker, held in his mouth as he fell while playing in his home, brought death to Jack Ryan, two years old. His mother, after frantic efforts to dislodge the confection front the boy's throat, took him to a hospital. An examination revealed that the boy's neck was broken, presumably in the struggle to dislodge the stick attached to the candy. HEART PUNCTURED. Two stitches in the heart of Melvin Jones, aged five, saved his life after he had fallen on the points of a pair of scissors. A quantity of blood for a transfusion was supplied by his father. The boy was about to cut paper dolls when he fell down a flight of stairs. Both scissors points pierced his side, one cutting a quarter-Inch gash in his heart. THE TREADMILL. Extract from "Sunday Times," 1825:—At Lewes each prisoner walks at the rate of 0600 feet In ascent per day; at Ipswich. 7450: at St. Albans, 8000; at Bury, Si>so; at Cambridge, 10,175; at Durham, 12,000; at Brixton, Guildford and Reading, the summer rate exceeds 13.O00; while at Warwick the summer rate will be 17,000 feet in ten hours. " .-it... GASSED IN BED Three men were seriously gassed In a Sheffield lodging house recently. They were discovered early in the morning, and admitted to hospital, where oxygen treatment was necessary. It appears that for some time a bedpost in one of the upper rooms had been rubbing against a gas pipe, and in course of tiujo had worn It through, with the result that gas escaped unknowingly. GIRL SHOOTS HUSBAND. Mrs. Goldie Jodoin, 22 years old, walked Into the sheriff's office at Sacramento (U.S.A.), and calmly said that she had shot her husband, Louis Jodoin, jun., through the wrist during a family quarrel. She handed the sheriff a revolver, saying she had fired It three times at her husband. The authorities said she probably would be charged with attempted murder. KILLED BY NECKTIE. An elderly man named Firancis Innes Macintosh was found dead in a police cell at Kidderminster. He had described himself as a and surgeon, 'belonging to Inverness, aiiSk was apparently a man of education. Death was caused by a necktie having been tied tightly round his neck. The man had been arrested on a charge of obtaining money by false pretences. 14ft BEARD SAVES HIS LIFE. The 14-ifoot beard that won for tilm the second prize in the world's championship whisker contest held in Sacramento three years ago probably saved the Ufa of Zack

Wi}son, 76-year-old farmer, of Carson City, Nevada. While riding a bicycle Wilson was struck by an automobile and hurled Into the street. The whiskers, tucked inside his shirt, acted as a cushion, breaking the force of the impact, His leg wai broken, but his whiskers are intact.. DEATH AMBUSH. A man hunt by police in the South of Prance haa attached to It a local story that the fugitive had been on quarrelsome terms with some neighbours and had vowed vengeance against them, blaming them for having killed his dog. Returning home at midnight from a village fete, a man and his wife were shot dead ajid their daughter dangerously wounded In a mysterious manner. Bullets rained on them as from an ambuscade as they were making their way home along a country road. They were members of the family suspected of having caused the death of the hunted man's dog. POISON MUSHROOMS. In spite of an elaborate system of supervision In the markets there are deaths almost daily from mushroom poisoning in Vienna. But the consumption does not diminish and the regulations have now been strengthened. Experts attend at all the principal markets to Inspect free of charge any mushrooms brought to them by retail buyers. Inspectors examine each load brought to market. There are eighteen species of mushroom recognised as fit for food la Austria, against forty kinds In Germany. Tbe dangerous mushrooms are mostly sold by gatherers who go out Into tho forests near the city and collect all they can find without much discrimination. They sell them In the streets leading to the markets at very low prices. BASEBALLER'S WIN. It all depends who they are In America. Eddie Romraell, knuckle ball pitcher of the tottering Philadelphia Athletics haa won a victory. Hurrying home from the ball park In his motor ear he crowded a small automobile against a curb and found himself before Police Magistrate Linded for speeding. The small machine happened to be driven by a detective. who appeared against the Athletics' star. "Eddie didn't know he had scraped mc," said the detective. "He apologised like a gentleman and said If there was any damage he would pay for it. I got kind of sore when he passed mc, and that was why I ran him In." "That's right. Judge," said Eddie. "If everything's all right I'm anxious to get away. We've got a meeting at the ball park this morning." "All right, Eddie," said the magistrate. "Hun along, it's 0.X." RAIL SUICIDES. Four hundred and sixty-two persona were killed and 25,641 injured on British railways last year, according to returns Issued by the Ministry of Transport. There worn 200 collisions, 40S derailments, 331 runnings into level crossings gates, etc., 08 fires, and 24 miscellaneous accidents. Of the 4G2 persons killed 112 were passengers, 24S servants of the railway companies, and 87 other persons. Of the 25,641 persons injured 3066 were passengers, 21,008 railway servants, and 577 other persons. In addition, 141 trespassers were killotl and 213 persona committed suicide On tho railways. Of the 13 collisions between passenger trains the Great Western had one, tho L.N.E.U. three, the L.M.S. seven, and the Southern two. Of collisions between passenger trains and freight trains of light engines, 54 in all—the Great Western had four, the L.N.E.E. 22, the UM.S. IS, and the Southern 7. There were 155 collisions between freight trains, light engines, or other moving vehicles. Of this number the Great Western had nine, the LN.E.K. 70, the, L.M.S. 54, and the Southern 13. Two were on the London tubes, six on joint lines, ami one on other lines.