DIARY OF THE WORLD'S NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 158, 28 March 1908, Page 10

DIARY OF THE WORLD'S NEWS.

WEEKLY SUMMARY BY MAIL. Tho following weekly summaiy of:.the world's news is taken from tho "Daily Mail" Overseas Edition of February 15:— : .FEBRUARY 7. : . ' "While a train was passing.through a village nfcar Annecy, in the Haute Savoie, France, tho engine-driver noticed flames/ rising •' from tlio roof of a tenement house containing thirteen families. • :Ho at 91100' -stopped; tho train and kept • the • whistle shrieking until.he had attracted t-ho.at- ; tontion of -tho entiro I '. population. Thanks to tho driver's presence of mind, tho in- ' mate 3 of tho burning tenement, who were all asleep, :wero able to.etfcct their escapo, -The fire brigades from tho'adjoiiiing coni- - ; inunes and. : dotachments. %of military ar 7 : l'iVed 011 tlio scene shortly, after, and pre-' »vented.tho.spreading;of tho lire,-'but.;the ■ entiro tenement'was destroyed.; , . ' .An Englishman immcd AVilliam Scott, living in.tho suburb of Sehmagendorf, Berlin, was . 'arrbstcfl '011 charges of obtaining . money by- false pretences from :-operations ck--1 tending ovist.a" nuniber of-years.' _• It 'is alleged , that Scott and his coadjutors have . amassed a\ fortune ': of -. several liundj-cd v-thou'sand pounds. .■ Scott is. alleged .to have ' -' sold -in- large numbers; "Maxim, planehet- : tcs," supplied from London. • 1 .The plan-' . ehettcs \vero sold .for,.los. oach, and wero advertised,, as enabliug'; the, buyers. to read tho future' with .unerring certainty/:" :• Herr ■ Siegmimd Friedborg, a-, Berlin banker, - is missing, 'and has left behiiid "him un- : secured liabilities amounting t0..£160,000. : On: tho day of his flight throngs; of small . tradesmen and ■ artisans!" including- manywomen, stood, shivering ~with;-cold-.nqpr Herr Fnodberg's banking promises, only ; :. to bo. roughly informed 'police -that, ', there ■ wo!s 110 uso in waiting, and to bo movod 011. These are tho people whom Herr Friedborg secured. as clients, through' his daily .newspaper,t-lio. "Investor's '..Quido," which had a -wido ciroulahon among.tho masses,'not only.in, Berlin but ..in the proviiicos. ; ';v;-A." FJ2BRUARY 8 Mile. Reny, has f. beeix "accidentally ; shot' r : : on' the stage of thd v Kursaal -Theatre - at, An'-, gduleme:;;' Sho- 'was playing":'the''part'of , tho ' heroine, ; who is supposed to be siot hy a squad of : soldiers, and -when'/tlio order to fire was' given' sho' gavea, piercing shriek and fell; forward, - bleeding :froin a. , wound 111 tho forehead. It was found that sho had been struck and wounded by a wad from one- of tho blaiik cartridges. : Tho Danish Fmanco Mmister and fivo pnn- ; oipal; banks' 1 ' iii Copenhagen liavo , decided : ""to- assign about . £1,111,000, t-ol guaralhteo ■ the liabilities of tho' ■ Copenhagen Freo- , holders'. Bank, which - suspended' paymtint, -.. and tho Detailhandler Bank. Ail-Act has-been' passed by tho .Oklahoma ■Legislature making; it. a : ;punish'able.:offence\ ; for- the.-proprietor of. any . hotel--' injtho' ■ 'State' to use bed-sheets,-loss'-than, 9ft., in, length, or to expect his.-customers'; to use '. cracked chinawaro. ;; v - v 5. ■:. .' After the death, in a garret, ■of a blind ' beggar - named Martiii,» who- hadVlived : on' charity for years, at a villagii upar Cler-mont-Ferrand, tho police found la. quantity of copper coins "of the-value ofponnies andi'' halfpennies,; worth[ jn ■ all ; £160,: .stuffed ' in : the mattress of nib bed aiid.unde.r v 'tho bed; thpro aboutV6o,ooo copper v>: '■ \ Lucien I'lnlipeau shot himself over the .grave ; :,of. his first ..wife'^.'Fonta jnebleaii:'>His' .. i second; wife lianged; hei-selfj,in despair some - months, ago because he never ceased 'gnoving. fqr : ;lieffpre^eoes'sbr'.• I. -.;.■:<; ':/."'IV -,l- - v'-t. -ovjvii'''-c'■ ;V*- v ""' -'"•• • FEBRUARY 9 Mr. Taft; tf)iile3 r ' &'£atesl ■■'Secretary, ;for.. War,-' . has .approved a recomniendation by tho v '■; Board of Or.dr.ance ;accept:mg- throe' bjds<to' / furiiish tho.Goyornmeht ..'with .•;a heavier-'; • than-air flyiiig ' machine., The • most,, expensive , aeroplane bthat ;of tile. .Wright; :' Brothers, of Drayton, Ohio, , which is, to : be delivered' within 200 days, and will cost '■■:'.£sooo: : .■ A cracker, exploded by a \boy 1 caused: a i - stampede of 500 : bullocks ,in\ tho , placo.at Montfort, France, and many peo- , plo woro.-, tossed and trampled oiiv by the : maddened. animals. v j'-H A telegram from . Philadelphia states that the - directors ; of , the Pennsylvania Academy of ' Fine Arts ,ha,ve'.'sanctic«ied'.''tho, estab-. !' :.lishm«it', of:,:-'a smoking-room' .vfor.-•girl l students, • ' - ' • V ■":.' .In: consequence, of tho ,unprecedented si)o\yI fall,' Leniborg (Austria) has been cut off ' - from 'the: putside world- ;f or, two . days, ■'■' ex-. ', cept by, telegraph. A thousand workmen ;' .'were? engaged in digging, out a number, of pa'ssengor, and/: gdods .-.trains j - : .buriedf,in :; enow .driftb' in ' various '.;pirfcs". 'of. Eastern Galicia.-'. Passengers -were' imprisoned in somo of the trains, and ptlier-passengers !; were' snowbound at lonely (railway '• . Near' l'rzemysl slices or bread wero sold .. . to lialf-star.ved 'pasMngers .'fo'r- ond shilling ; 'each.';':'''; j- f.'; ! :.-.'t'l;; FEBRUARY 10 A woman giviiig tho namo. of Mrs.: Hannah' Stanhope, which is tho same/as .that' of \ tho woman who - nccused Signor Ceruso, ' tho famous tenor, of molesting her in tho ;. , ..inonkey-houss;;at > .;tho . ;Newi;: /"Zoo''- - fifteen months ago, appeared in apolice'- : - court at Now lork ajid was fined a' halfpenny, for fighting in . a .public i ■thorpugh- .. fare. A. Mrs..' Graham,: who3o namo slm figured in' tho' ca ! use' ( celebro, appeared with , .Mrs. .St-anhopo, iri;oourj;. 'j.The .magistrate 'filled both women,: who. ;wero very dis,as the result, of ... tho.'/struggle; Ho askod Airs. Staubopo. if sho was not .' tho .author of: the: chargeJ against/ Sigiior , Caruso. : "Yes,'' tho wdman tearfully replied,' "Siguor Caruso, got my naiuo in , tho papers, but 1 never appeared against , him." : The .(court :• was crowded ' with Italians, who . triumphantly ohorussod,' L" "Caruso is vindicated.": / Signor Caruso has doublod his annual silbsonption to tho ' National Society" for the Suppression of, Vicc. • ■•'■-■- ■v/ ; /'S In cmsequonco of a motor-car accident tho ■'■...■ town of ■ Lesnoven, m Brittany, with: 8500 inhabitants, was plunged in darkness. - -A ; motor-car travelling at high speed-.skidded, II .fatally/- injured a , woman, , and ; then, demolisned a- kiosk .controlling the 'electric-' . lighting, arrangements of the town. . Les- . liovcn was in; darkness all night, i y,; .-■- '. To givo an object-lesson on the metric sys- ,', tein,'a of Reux, near Areas, ■ France,' took £20 16s. in banknotes, gold, and silver to sobool. He forgot to take : , tho:money- home, and'during the night it was stolen -by three of' tho ■ boys, who : divided it betweonlthem. - : ; ' ~/•. FEBRUARY 11 -The rumour of an attempt 001 tho Tsar has given tho "Memorial Diplomatiquo" occa-sion'to-stato that it has information from, a "most toliablo -sourco' 1 of /a. formidable plot against the: Russian.lmperial Family. ; It recalls that Alexander II found midbr his table- liapkin, a letter enclosing his Sentonco, to, death ..by. tho. Nihilists, and: proceeds':. "A fortnight '.ago; tho Eniprfssfound on the Tsarewitch's bed a letter condemning the infant to death,' and declar- ■ ing that lie could no more escaiio his destiny than could his father Nicholas 11, who . - was also condemned.:,'; At,.the time tho , Imperial,. Household., discovered ;by, chance, a system of electric wires connected. ■/"with:sbventeen bombs concealed in different quarters of; ;the palace. '- What is certain .' is that now,.-.as iu.'tho tinlo of Alexander '. 11,-'tho ..Terrorists hayo relationship iWth' . . persons in immediate, attendance, 011 tho imperial Family, and that' Nicholas 11, lias ovory ground to fear for himself and his son a catastiopho such as cost his grandfather'his life."" ■' " - The, young, lieutenant, Ricard, wHo lost; his lifo in a. recent battle in Morocco,' has • boon decapitated by tho_Moors,:,wlio have , carried his head away with thom.. Genera,! .. d'Amado has sent niessehgers .to.say that he will hunt tho tribes until the head -''and.that of,a soldier who was. killed .at tho same time have been found. Tho

horses , of tiro two men wore killed und.el .-.-■ ' but 'staadiiig j.buoU to back and aurI ' rouhtlod bv ; fcLo; wicniy tlioy fought until' neither had a cartridgoleft. Then they .. embraced, and the nest moment they wor? seen to fall. . . ■ . .... FEBRUARY 12. • A wealthy merchant of Youngstown. U.S.A.i • ' ' v recognised the figure of his; long-lost wif» i whilo attending-, a., cinematograph exhibition. She mysteriously disappeared livar years go, and her husband, spent a'for- j tuno, searching . for! her'. - While 'a 1 , typicijj iVoiv Yorlr street : scene Wilis'-passing.. ■ • bet'ord the, vision-of the audience the mar. 1 suddenly niado a'dash; for''thc'.stajje'. c*-. claiming in heartrending:tones, "My wife, 1 niy mfej at last I've tound'you." Dia- -, ;traught by amotion j .the unfortunate nian . -'Wanaared- the: streets' all- night, and: was picked up this'- morning raving;>'.'witli. Ilia clothes torn to shreds and still, crying, -My Wife, my wife."' ■ ;.'/■ Iu wolMnfoniicd circles in Germauy it is ro ■ ported that the .Kaiser is/organising:'a brilliant 1 pilgrimage'; : -.to Vienna., ■, He ivil/ head it himself,-, and tho company will in/ . elude all "tho reigning Sovereigns of t!i« ; . -. (jorman Federal States.' :■ Their mission is . to greet, tho. Emperor- 'Francis Joseph next i Pecombei-: on tho oiccasioii of his diamond-'- ■ jubilee.' . , .... ■ '••'.■ , A most important'mooting of opera dirco 1 \ tors, hold, at tho Metropolitan. Oppra, ,Non , Yoi U, i (lcoided,i in conjunction; with. representatives ; floin Covent Garden and ■ the Munich,-llomu, .and Paris Operas, to.foris , ■ aji international directorate, _th6'chief pur-' Nj i-.v pose .of:which will -bV : tho' : re"duciioii..of,'tliO;. \ i piesent enormous, salaries .offered'to'sin- \ - geis. In order 'to effect this change a •'■ './permanent; board of directors will.,be;established to guard.tho business v interests r of opera in' Now. York.-' .• " -.-■ August Forrol, a clown-: .in a small show id .. ; ./l'arig, • 6ff;' his . engagement■?,' wit-b ■ . , tleanne,, Leclercj 1 :i- diiiiccr, bccauso shi . , lum a.clowii.,iu a lit of auger. 1 -■ FIiBIIUARYr 13 ' . . Tim, committee formed .at-' Vauvert (Card), -.- tho birthplace ot Moiltcalmi-lias decided- to ' ■ ■ ; have two statues of the-great*soldier, made. .;' oiio-will: ho kept,. m-.Franco', while 'the other : Will, probably. bo presented as a. national ; gift "by I'Yanco. to the.town.pf'Quehtc.-. . v "IVo people in every, thousand : arov buriod / '■/alive.'!.; .This :Btartling::csti|ha£6, furnished ~ , :to'.the Legislature. l of.;; Massachusetts, has - " • -.inspired,a; Bill providing-that- local, boards- . of health-shall in-future 1 apply..ton tost? to the bodies of all persons reported to bo deceased for i the purpose, of ascertaining if „ • death has actually'taken place.. •u .: Trials; ,havb been, made ■'with- aj,new,iquick« / ' firing gun before', a::committee, ; 1 , ~'lery olhcers and experts at St. v. (Franco). Tho tests'- •• showd*- that.-; 650 , shots a. minute could bo fired, tlio-weapon hemg lhaded with belts containing twenty-, ■ . five rounds each. A. means of ejfectually y , :,v • officers. ; :^ho''.'withessed'/jtho ! \Msfa i ':(i6r! , senbo tho gun:as a pertect one. -;'y:> Ail avalancho, \which-tlio sunshino had soi .-■■■ : - loose lrom tho niountaiu slope, swept down - . 'on a ski-ing.party on - the :Aveichselbach-' ; , ho^hc —well knowii> to : -.tfJuHiits' >'Aiisi i 'trian Tyrol as,'an "easy. and. attractive-climb; ,' ; ;.: lamentable ,resulfa. ' The-partji'cO'n.-: ' Isistiiig ofvuine,.set out'at: one,in ther-after- ; noon.'They wero led by. Herr. Schuckhardt, • -..a,-wpll-kno\vnvlocal huntsman,,ioqd:-Alten«:' • ' •; ; -;Jiu.ber,ia'gUide..'. ;When the avalancho'sud' .' , : donly. overwhelmed them two boys, iptin- , ■ party disappeared deep 111 the saow.y They■■ ■ werb.'.siilfocated ; ' and' tiieii;' u v: bodies.liavo not .been':- recovered.,.'.-Herr! , ".i Sohuckhardt 'and tho: .guide ivcro../fomi< < the.party,cscapbd;'.;' " 'Vv'..- : ... ~ ■-.-•■. i' 1 !