DIARY OF THE WORLD'S NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 199, 16 May 1908, Page 10

DIARY OF THE WORLD'S NEWS.

WEEKLY SUMMARY BY MAIL. Tlio following weekly summary of the world's news is taken from tho "Dail/ Mail" Overseas Edition of April 4:— MARCH; 27., ' Muhii Ilafid, who iias usurped tho Sultanship or Mdrbcco, lias nddrcased letters to the heads of tho Diplomatic Corps at i angler, in which lie promised to accept of tho Algcciras Convention, , it tho Powers recognise him ah Sultan. Tile boycott of Japanese poods,, arising from tho Tatsu llaj-u incident is .now thoroughly organised throughout China and also among' the Chiricsb in foreign countries. The inovMneiit is most'- serious lor Japan, and the Canton Viceroy disregards instructions from Peking to arrest the promoters of the boycott. A great electric dynamo destined for Switzerland wiia being tested at tho electric works of i Messrs. Siemens and Schuekerf, in the suburb of Charlqttenburg, when it burst.' Portions of the machine, l . which was working at 750 revolutions a minute, flow in every direction with such terrific forco that the building ;was completely wrecked. , Three Were killed and fifteen . other .persons injured. file!boy King Manuel of Portugal lifts had a ' conference with .Senlior Espregiteira, .'Minister of Finance, with regard to . tho . financial, relations between the- 1 Royal ' Household and the Treasury. King will have sold by auction a certain number of horses belonging to the Roval Household which are. believed to be unnecessary. A law has been passed. permitting wornoii barristers to practise in Prussia. MARCH 28. buring a "hunger march'" of 50,000 Neiv York Unemployed ail anarchist was "hoist with, his own petard," being terribly injured by the premature explosion of a bomb.' His companion was blown to atoms. A meeting ; had befen arranged to bo held iii TJriioii Square, but wheri tho procession arrived tho hungry libfdefoilhd the square occupied''by a strong forfcb of mounted and foot polieb... Repeated ; charge's sbdii had the effect of clearing the square. It was while the police , werb forming Up. to _mOve/off tliat Selig Silvef- ■ stein, a Russian Jew, , accompanied by Ignatz Hildebr.and, approached, their cvi- ' dent iritefition' -beiiig to hurl, a bohib at tho constublfes.' Suddehly there was 'a blinding flash, and a sharp detonation. -, Hildcbrand . was killed' outright, White. Silverstcin, who j carried the botrib, was .-blinded in both eves and had a Hand • blown off.- Several. policfemen were blbwh oif their; horses, .but otherwise wisro.uiiin-- ' jured. , -

A marble statue of the Kaiser in the garb ' of a Roman 'with a crown of laurels oil his head, "is to ho placed in tlio Berlin Academy bf Arts.'

In ' answer -.tp i a Suffragist petitioft/ asking • tlib .authorities ,jto license wombit as . ..chauffeurs,, tlio Mayor■ of Chicago declared that no .woman was physically lit !' to run a motor-car.., I . " - .

MARCH 29. ■Ono of the keonerS'.in. the snake iionsb lit w Bronx ZSo, YorkjiiiarrcAriy c&cHped with . his. life- aftor'-fbeifig .for :several thd,;grip '61,r.a bba-cohstricibr. rr-TfeosWaibfhad-Xi.QhtcwHthb cngb to ,foe*l - the j. sH-a^^JiiW'Jn^iir.^ppcisLretl; to be aslebp. . -While-'liis.-hack-:was the man was. • horrified. t<j feel . the. reptile; which js one of tlio ,cbilmg itself ;■' lpg%f for - help spot, and eventually fifteen men extricated thS '■. keeper in an exhausted-conditioiil; ■ ' ! . tho steamer Priiiß Sigismurid reßorts, that if four i natives. have'..beeil killfed iii tlie AdMiiiralty . Islands of ,the' : Bismarck. Archipelago... The victim's were purchasing food when they were surrounded, by a number of hostile natives,, , aiid were hacked to. ■:-pieces- with .tomahawks .rind, tlieii eat.eri. ■ Ail. expedition'•■ .Has. left"German- New. '..Guinea to -punish. the murdfereri. ■ ' | Tlie French (Minister' of Justice lids , appointed M. Siivaiu, tho aetor,: of. the Coinedie Francaiso, to te'ach ,young lawyers hoiv to use their natural ; gifts to the best advantago. ' M. Silvain has already, fifty-, five pupils. \ ih'o Norwegian barque . Inglewobd (1084 . tohs), of.Larvik, New York to' Stockholm • T. : ith naphtha, ' bio# . lip-'v/liilo lying' off ' Mandal, arid, sailk ; in ' twenty fiiinutes. : Thirteen of the crew ltfst thfeir lives, .says a Cliristiahia telegram. .-■. •' ■ Cbngrcssman Hefliii, bi Alabama; fatally . woiiiulwl a ii'egro whd was making liim- ■ self .objectionable.in tra.mway-fcdr at Washington. .... AVheii. Mr: Hefiin ordered , tlio ii6gro to quiet, tlie latter, attack'ccl , hirii. ~ Mi\ • Hefliii thereupon drew his ft? volver and shot the iiegro '.twice. .. ~

MARCH 30 An important proposal hai been made to tlid Academy of Sciences by M. de la Gryo, who advanced a . scheme .for the simul- ■ tancous transmission by 'wirel&s.'of sigiials , at uooii-and 'midnight (Greenwich tiihe). to , every ship in, .the wdrld fitted-with, wireless 1 apparatus.He pttintfid out that ihe Eiffel Tower wireless station* from -.i height of : about 900 ft.',' had a zono df. cpmmunica- : tion embracing. inosiof thij. Mediterranean. , and part of the Atlantic. He thought" t-liat if a. great wireless station were erocted on •I t-lio .highest'; point of Tenferiffo it, ;woukl hiivo .withiii its. v radius;' tKe greater ' part of the world's water surface; . Tlid Academy appointed a special eoiimiission -'•lifiddr M. Hcqticrol to examine 'the. possibility of .the . scheme;

A terrible 'accident. Occiiifcd at tli6. 'Circus ' ■ Biisch, where a Frenchman Mined " Godbin the,. Desperate." had .for the la&t fSw weeks eiitertitihed aiidieiic'es by a daring / jump from the top bf. tlie house; t-o'the b otto hi. To break his fall lio ust?d a very , supple spring bdfird, reb'otindiiig fi;<fyri ' which lie wdu'ld land . iii a het stretched , below. Ho missed his ftfdtihg, arid, foil fliit across the board, being, throwii' head ; foremost iiitd the net. He' di6d sodii qftor l . . wiirdi. j ' . The pierciiig of tiie.neiv ftickehs tiuiiiel has been completed. By.t-his great engineering feat a tunnel oter -&H miles-ih Jengtli. is iiiade, forming another odimcot-i.dn b'et-weeii Eastern'.- Switzerland and the fjt.; Gdt-hard region!. Tho terminals are Lichtehst-eig . and Utzriaeh.

During a. rehfearsal of " Ninette" at ' thb Cliiny Theatre, M. -Armaii'dj'. ttho was taking tho principal part, died' suddenly oh tho 'stage;' . ' MAK(?H 31. fit 6 ■ Kaiser; lias uncbiiditioiially withdrawn his objections to Dr. Diirtd Jayiib Hill, President' ltoosbvelt's selection as' suedes-: Sbr, to' Mr. Chaflbmagiib .Toiv6r. • Lengthy ■diplibr messages tb Washington . have assumed the United States GSvcfmneiit that Dr. Hill will now be bdHlially- wblcbni&L Thb htjpe is. cherished tliftt Dr. Hill hiin- ' sfelf niiiy " forget aiid forgive." lii plain English; tho K&iSbr has diicfe liioio find linaily changed his mind alioiit t-lto. avd.ilnbility bf Mr. Itoosevelt's selefct-ibii for the Berlin Embassy. This latest. Imperial vbltbfacb represents a fra-rik and generous eoiiebSsioit t-o t-lici public opinion of.tho.United States, which the ' .Kai&cjr. liasj not tho slightest ttesirb to offend. Nbr had lie the remotest intbiitibli of ddiitg so lvhon lie asked -Mr. Tbwdf a fortnight' ago to communicate the. Imperial. - objections . to Dr. Hill t-o Mr. li-obSovelfc in a formal aiid de- ■ tailed message. When iwirs .rtas convoyed .. to thi; Bniporlir at Vfcriic'ts tiidt American trnnpdl' was rising rapidly, dver t-lid imputation which Di\ Hill's rtfjCctfcih'cdSt u{>oh Mr. itoosevelt's judgment aiill thb personal .status bf an Smiiß-iit Ainericaii eitixCiijHis Majfestjr decided to delay Starting-liiS Mediterranean cruise .until the incident Was cleared iip. Tltf> Bctlifr Foreign Ollicb has not let lnm loiig reniaiit iii doiibt that fclje wliolb German. "American policy" Would lie threatened with Vuin if tiie United Statea were not promptly oonoiliafrgd: Tho

Kaiser acted; wifii • characteristic prompti-' tude, and 'withdrew from a position which had been found'politically untenable. - It is stated that, the. Kaiser's objections to Dr.lllill rested exfclusiVely on the fear that American .diplomatic prestige in Germany ' might suffer if thoro was any diminution of the social brilliancy of tho Embassy. ' . -APRIL ]. . . Mme. ■ Apaia,Gbiild,has decided to tfed' the . Prince'"do Sagan, cousin of her former husband; Cotllit.rßoni ,de" Castellans. Tho. betrothal wilhbe fpfiiially announced in a fow weeks' time'in Paris. In order to avert a seenc, the "ceremony of the weduing will bo a 1! private' one. By defying her relatives, - who arb . opposed riage, XWia Gould,; according; to', the New York T no\vspapers, will forfeit an inheritance of , somo £1,200,000. By the terms of tho Goujd will Any member of this . faihil.V; _ marryijig' without. the . consent• of the majority ( of,. the oxecutors ir. condemned t-o lose half of his or. her sharo' of tho Gould/ millions,. After the unhappy termination of. Mine. Gould's first, marriago with'• a- th 6 httitud&";'of' the Cxecutors se&fts not altogether surprising. Mmo. Gould,';'haying then 'obtained tho coiisSnt of 'tbe dxecutdrs, was. marrjod in. . New. York to ..Gojunt ;Boni tfe, GastelliMlo on. •March. 4, ISSJoj'jaiid diyorced her; husband, On account ;;o£; : jlvis> extravagant /-Habits 'in 1906. Reached l£l;(>50;000.' As a'result ofjitMs marriage, h'br .Sliare of tho; Gould; fortuii&i,.' £3,000,000,' wjtiijh ffor-: merly .yielded 000 .pcj;aiunimv i .iiow only brings iiV 'yeal/. aisd > doubtlessltlie exbefrtors wish- to tako. every precaution' jgaiiiititi fur.ther' rediibtish;- ft / Mme. Gould s '. :v ■

APRIL 2. ,- | , A riot, attended witlj "fgt-ali occurred at.'Romi: &uicbimection with ; "tho fiineril of ii w}rkijiW. % 'riahl<tf. PteroiJfc'ci. The funohil . proce'isitoi', iriciudcd members ,of several -sfcieities'. with ..their banticrs'and aboutllSOffiOther persons, *wds ;- 0 ?\ tlio-\Okp^alp..d&ll^<Con-solazionb to the' ibffiettpyi'.'.wlieil' .trouble •/ j"" ds ° through it's - ; 't<j pass through the Piiizia di:>wiezia. ih; defiance ■ Of a prohibition'.v./lJljia' , dem6rtstrat6rs j poked the poliqo with*',stci.es| injuring a ■( edmmissary ; atld several TOhstables;' The police, fihding ■ thenisblsesvl'ha'i'd" pressed, fired several, shots, aS a -resm&.of. which tho Tioters dispersed; leaving, tfo ' killed and twelve wounded. On'o "of J idiod' in the evening., : '