DIARY OF THE WORLD'S NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 122, 15 February 1908, Page 12

DIARY OF THE WORLD'S NEWS.

WEEKLY SUMMARY BY MAIL. Tho following weekly summary of tlio world's news is taken from the "Daily Mail Overseas Edition," of January 3. DECEMBER 27. More than 1000 women workers , who are on strike at Hyeres, France,. attacked tho police station there the other night. They smashed the windows, broke in the doors, and assaulted tho policemen with sticks. Tho Mayor, who was in tho building at tho time, had. to retreat to the roof to escape. . "When tho crowd was oventually driven off, eight policemen, had boon injured. Tho municipal authorities havo decided to remove the, remains of the composer ■Haydn from the church at Eisenstadt, in the Tyrol ( to tho Wahringer Friednof, outside Vienna, and 'place them beside thoso of Beethoven and Schubert. The I Fricdhof has ; become a famous ; shrino for , musicians, and the removal of Haydn's remains has long been urged. Tho bubonic plague has been nearly eradicated at San Francisco after four months' incessant work by a Federal staff of surgeons and sanitary exper.ts. It is estimated that 130,000 rats havo been destroyed, and tho expense of the anti-plague 'campaign has been £40,000. Out of a total of 136 plague victims seventy-three died. Offered a cako by tho orchestra conductor, a. heavy elephant on tho stage of tho Beziers Variety Theatre, Paris, went so . near to. tho edge of tho footlights that it orashed down amid tho musicians. Two of them were injured, and the audience . mado for the doors. After some trouble ~ the howling animal was. turned upon .its J feet and by means of a gangway was got back upon tho stage, The Dowager-Empress of China has issued an edict giving the-servants of the imperial palaco ,three months in.; which to j abandon ,opium smoking. . Anyone caught using■'tho drug-after that' date, js to rcceivo a hundred strokes with an iron rod. . . ■. DECEMBER 23. In digging the.foundation of tho now Houso of Parliament, iin the Piazza di Monte Citorio. close to'thb Piazza Colonna,where . tho '. column of Marcus. Aurelius stands, ruins have been unearthed which are be- ' ; lioved to belong to the Imperial family, of Antoninus,.'and to. contain the remains of Antoninus the Pious and Marcus Aurelius, his successor. Marcus Aurelius, who ruled over tho Roman Empire in the second century, has been described as the "noblest of the, pagans." His, "Medita- . •. tions" have been translated into every modern "language. '*

Professor Hinzpeter, who was the Kaiser's tutor ifrom boyhood until he attainedi his ■■!,. majority; has died at. Elberfeld. ,

Professor Albert Hoffa, tho celebrated German "bloodless surgeon," has died' suddenly at Cologne from heart disease.

An elopment from Paris has had an extraordinarily tragic end at Nice, whither a medical student named Hucher tied ; with his sweetheart, Juliette do Raymond, -' when her father refused him her- hand. The girl had a disease of the chest, and Hucher met her as a patient. They both hoped that their flight : to the south would • improve her health, but - tho girl eventually died in her lover's arms. •" Mad' with . despair,' Hucher kept vigil by, the-death- ' bed all night long,- and when morning came purchased many white lilies. ■ He strewed them over the bed, knelt on the floor by his dead sweethe&rt,' and then sliot him- : .' self dead..

Signor Caminada, an hydraulic cngineerj has drawn up a scheme for tho construction of a" canal to cross the Alps and connect Genoa: with Lake Constance. •;The canal '•'would l, b&'366;'fniles ,) lo'n'g ) and l ''wbuld ai]ow ■■ .' ; th6 -paSsago ofi-vessels* of »six<-hundred tons and tho.carriage of fifteen million tons of cargo per annum. J DECEMBER 29. " On returning- to his ■ dressing-room after playing at a concert at tho Imperial Mario Theatre, St. Petersburg, M. Eugene Ysaye, tho famous violinist, found that his reserve / violin,- a Strahdivarius,! valued at between £2000 and £3000, had been stolen whilo hp was on the platform; .';. v " ; . Forty detectives have mado a raid on a 'secret cavern near Pittsburg, and, after a. struggle, succeeded .in capturing nine- - toeri desperadoes,'all members of'the'Black . Hand gang. The ruffians were armed, most of them with stilettos., , It .is probable'that the raid; will have the' effect /•of breaking up tho American organisation .of this notorious secret 'society. '■ .Mrs. Do Millo has filed a petition in 1 b'aiik- , ruptoy as a direct - , result of...the! Thaw ' murder trial/ She' spent £12,000 ill. refitting a 'villa at Pamlico,, New, Jersey, V as a private school. In the Thaw trial it was brought out that Mr. Stanford White sent Miss Evelyn Nesbit, now Mrs; Harry Thaw, to this . school, and it _was_ whilo : 'there that she . made the entries in. tho ■ diary .which caused sensation at'tho trial. ; Tho ' notoriety given, the .school has now caused the wealthy to withdraw their ... daughters. , • . ! .- Mrs, Mollio Desmond, known as tho "human needle-book," has died at New I'ork, aged .! twenty-eight, as tlio result -of a suicidal, attempt made eighteen months ago; wheii, in a tit of marital despair, she, swallowed v a package of needles containing. 144-of all .sizes. Doctors operated witli magnets ' .>nd-.'knives twenty-iivo • times, extracting ' ' all save ft dozen of the; needles,- whicli! : finally trayolled to the region. of tho heart, . causing death. '; ■_ , ■ DECEMBER 30. A boat. belonging to Santa ' Marglierita, Liguria,- winch was ( fishing in -'the neigh- . bourhood of Savona, brought up in its not ! a waterproof bag containing! bank-notes. to the valuo of £120,000. But tlio . majority of the notes are old Brazilian ' , issues, which have been withdrawn-'from '' currency, and are therefore valueless'. !.. : Mr. Henry Farman has succeeded at ,Issy in -flying ;a full, circular kilometre ■in his aero-p.ane without' once . touching' tho" ; ground. - Unfortunately, tho/ flight'. 'was not 'official,' for Mr. Farman had' not ad- , vised the Aero- Club Committee of . his ■ intention to compete for the' Deutsch- / Archdeacon prize of £2000 for a circular - kilometre./ if lie-had done so, he/would ■ , havo won it, as well as tlio "Daily: Mail" ■ prize of £100 for a circular : flight of : half a mile, a kilometre boiiig five-eighths-of a . mile. ■- . ■- / i ---'' ' DECEMBER 31. ; - V'odenicaroff, an! inhabitant of Decmen, in Hungary, revenged himself on a rival! in love named Saroff in a manner wjiich proved fatal to a number of other persons. Fearing to attack Saroff openly, ' Vodonicarolf watched him enter a'barber's shop.' He then fired at him'through tho window with an old blunderbuss pistol filled with pieces of lead. Tho'shower of bullets killed'not only Saroff as ho sat in tho barber's chair, but also the 'barber who was shaving him, and wounded fivo other persons., .

A bold robbery has been perpetrated, at Rochester, New York, in broad daylight. ■ A'street railway pay car was hold up by two robbers who hurriedly seized tho chost containing tho pay of tho men, amounting to £800, chiefly in com. Transferring tho chest to a motor the two robbers mauo off at high speed before otho mon in the car had tmio to realise-what had happoned to them. ' '■ .■■■■• ■■ ■.

Throo Italians were killed by an express train which struck thorn as they wcro walking along tho track between Baden and Zurich. Tho driver of tho engine was unawaro of what had happened. It was afterwards discovered that ono of tho victims had travelled for ten miles on tho cow-catcher, to which ho had clung in tho desporato hope of saving his life.

Twenty peoplo were injured by what is believed to have boen a bomb explosion which ocourred at the Romo Bourse. Tho . building, which is a beautiful ancient pagan temple, was badly damaged.

JANUARY 1. At tho end of; a rigorous examination before a court-martial of his brother officers, Captain von Goeben, of the 73rd German Artillery, : has made a full confession Ot the murder of Major von Schoonebeck, of the 10th Dragoons, at .the garrison of Allenstein. ' The major, armed with a revolver, had caught tho captain leaving his. ■ house after a clandestine visit to his wife.' Tho captain, realising that ho must shoot first'to save his own life, iired' at Major von Sclioenebeck point blank, kill<ing liim almost before tho major had recognised tho intruder's identity. Tho re-! mains of a black mask which Captain yon Goeben wore was found in the stovo at his roonis. A few minutes after.Captain von Goeben had made his sensational con- . fession Frau-von Schoenebeck was arrested and placed in gaol, During her examina- . tion before the court-martial she confessed that a number of young officers wero accustomed to visit her.

A well-dressed, refined-looking young girl . has been arrested, after firing six revolver shots at_ the police, at the station of Sehupfheim, near Lucerne. A man was arrested'with her. At the police, station the girl cave her name as Anna Kummer, aged eighteen, of Halle; Germany, while tho man called himself Werner, arid said he was the girl's servant. When "Anna Kummer's" luggage was examined, at the Hotel Aigle' a beautifully finished set of burglar's tools and a large quantity of jewels, as well as bank-notes and gold, were * found. The couple are accused of com- - mitting many daring burglaries in Switzerland. JANUARY 2. Outside the Catholic Church of St. Pierrt de Chaillot, Paris, Count Boni de Castellane, deputy for the district of the BassesAlpos and divorced husband of Mme. Anna Gould, violently assaulted his. cousin, Count Elie do Talleyrand-Perigord, do Sagan. The cause of the quarrel wag a private matter. Count Boni struck hia cousin with his stick and spat in his face. A fight then -ensued, during which'the'two men rolled in the gutter. A duel may bs ; fought.

The launch of the first German Dreadnought, tho 19,000-ton'battleship Bayern, will take place at Wilhelmshaven at "the end of February, probably' in tho presence of the hmperor. "-~ .-. .. It is understood'that the Emperor' Francis • Joseph has sent to" the Pope a'gift, of : £40,000 as.a thankofferiiig for liis recovery, 1 ■ from his recent serious illness. ' Known as' Catherine Mille, but really called Leny, a : beautiful, girl, daughter of a wtalthy 'manufacturer in Cracow, shot liersolf in Paris in despair at 'being refused permission by:the-- Polish' Revolutionary Committee to carry out a secret assassination. . ' >

Owing to the delicate! health of Queen Viotoria of Swedon, Her Majesty will take up lier residence in a milder climate as soon aa . possible.