HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12481, 18 April 1906, Page 7

HOME AND FOREIGN.

United Press Association—By Electric Telrsrraph— Copyright. DISTURBANCE IX A CHURCH. LONDON, April 10. An affray occurred in a Russian church at (ieiita. A Nihilist made ,i I demonstration against M. Jadowsky. ! tho Russian Minister to Switzerland. Detectives trird to eject the offender. i and revolver.-, wero iiNod on both sides. I Several members of the congregation ' wero wounded. I A SOCIALISTIC COUNTESS. i Tho C-ciintoss of Warwick, who took a wry active part in the la-st election, and addressed many meetings of working men. declares that she .sold every jpw»'| she po.-Mvsorl before the elections to ei'iiLle Sccidist candidates to be <. locted. ; JABEZ BALFOUR. ' Jabfz Haiiour, the notorious swindler, : has boeu released after eleven years' ! imprisonment, in excellent hea.lth. He will devote liimseit to literature a* a i meaiiM oi livelihood. I [The details <»t the notorious Baifour ' framis sire as follows:—In 1882 the London and General Hank was established under the inlliienci , of Mr Jabez . lialiniir. in cwinectiori with the Liberator Permanent Building and Investment. Society, which wa.s iounded in 1868, an.l cicely combined with the Land I Allotment Company and several other ' companies, terming what was termed I tlu> ''Hal'four group."' This body, pro- ! to have a capital of JL'7.000.000, by moans ol prospectuses, in It*; accounts and balance-sheets, attracted thousands of .-.ha.rehu'hlers and depositors. Estates ; wore purchasi'd, speculations undertaken, dividend* were paid out of fiotitioua profits, and large sums were ab- \ sorhod by managing directors. The bank : and failed in October, 18!)2. i and oflioial liquidatore were appointed. An appeal was made for the poorest , siifferers. and a very large amoaint wa-s exp'.'ndefl in relief. Jabez Baifour, who w.'ifc M.P. for Burnley, was accused of (rand, and alj«-eonde<l in 1892. He was rKvni- Buenos Ay res in 1894. and exiraciitod. Eventually he Wius sentenced to fourteen yeans' penal servitude, and wiiw of his oonfed< v rates received lesser sentences. The failure of the companies caiic-vd great national distress. Baifour has been an exemplary convict in gaol, and when ho left Pentonville he was to havo in pockets £(j, tho amount of good conduct money he had earned during his long period of servitude]. A RUSSIAN TRAGEDY. ST. PETERSBURG, April 16. A woman, who wae ret.urn.ing to Russia after living in high life at Har- ! bin. ivas murdered in tho train and robbed of money to the amount of ten thousand pounds etorling. Her body ! which veae thrown on to tho metals, was subsequently identified as being that of tho wife of an Odessa engineer. Her murderer, who is tho eon of an Odessa i land-owner, has been arrested. LYNCH LAW IN MISSOURI. NEW YORK, April 16. A mob at Springfield, Missouri, entered the caol and secured two negroes i who -were charged with attacking a white girl, and hanged them on the I statue of the Goddess of Liberty in thepublic square. They afterrvarclfi burnt the bodies in the pre.-ence of three j thousand people. TJie negroes protested j their innocence. A third negro, who j wa« charged with murder, tras also lynched. MR HENXIKER HEATOX'S CRUSADE. (Received April 17th, 11.3 p.m.) LONDON', April 17. "The Times" publishes a two and a ; half column letter which Mr Henniker ' Heaton has addressed to Mr Sidney Buxlfcano tho Pcwrmiasteir-Gic'nciral, arguing the case for universal penny postage. GERMANY AND ITALY. (Received April 17th, 9.14 p.m.) BERLIN, April 17. Tho German Government have expressed their deep sympathy with tho Italian nation in their misfortune owing to the eruption of Vesuvius. [A cable nieesage yesterday stated that the neglect of Germany'to sympathise with Italy had occasioned comment in Italy.] THE PORTUGUESE MUTINY. LISBON, April 17. Tho mutiny on the Vasco da (Jama was fruitless, it being quelled without difficulty. It was prompted chiefly by sympathy for tho mutineers on tho Doni Carlos. j THE BRITISH LABOUR PARTY. "(Received April 17th, 11.3 p.m.) LONDON, April 17. Mr Ramsay Macdonald was elected j president of the Conference of tho In- j dependent Labour Party at Stockton. AN INTERESTING DISCOVERY. (Received April 17th, 11.3 p.m.) '■ ATHENS, April 17. j King Edward and Queen Alexandra, ' who are now visiting Athens, congratulated Mr Ik>snnt|uot. head of tho British School of Archaeology, on tho dis- : covcry of a Temple of ArteniLs, on the j banks of the river Eurotas. i