DIARY OF THE WORLD'S NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 211, 30 May 1908, Page 10

DIARY OF THE WORLD'S NEWS.

WEEKLY SUMMARY BY MAIL. Tho following weekly summary of tho world's news is taken from the "Daily • Mail" Overseas Edition of April 18: — APRIL 10. A pitched battle between 100 Italians and four times that number of Poles who were searching forwork took place at Linden, , New Jersey, and resulted in at least twenty casualties, For.weeks rival armies of labourers have been camping outside the huge refineries which the' Standard ' Oir Company is erecting. As the Italians wero applying for work the Polos marched towards them in military fashion four abreast. Tho Italian women immediately drew revolvers from under their shawls— for tho men, owing to the rccent police visitations, no longer carry firearms—and handed tho weapons to their husbands. Indiscriminate firing began, and finally the Italians charged the Poles and broke their formation. For three-quarters o! an hour the rival factions fought with knives and pistols. 'Finally the police arrived, read tho Riot Act in the two languages, and quelled tho disturbance. • The, Paris police have made an important capture of Anarchists' at • Maisons-Alfort, tlireo men, named Kulin, Roussel, mid Reux, being arrested with large quantities of explosives x in their possession. Their arrest was duo to information received by M. Guichard, chief of tho "Anarchist brigado" of the secret police, that a group of Anarchists was about to , establish, headquarters in Paris. Theso men" were known as the "International ; Group," and. included Russians, Swiss, Spaniards, Italians, and —Armenians. They founded a revolutionary journal, with •tho title " Terro qt Liberie,'j and secret preparations were in progress for an Anarchist attempt of some kind on May 1 (Labour Day). When Reux was arrested lie' was carrying a parcel containing ten cartridges, half a dozen detonators, and ' some Bickford fuses. During' the struggle between the police and tho Anarchists tho package dropped to the ground. It contained enough explosives to have blown the Anarchists and their captors to pieces, but . foil nn soft soil find remained intact. M. Delbeke, the Belgian Minister of Public . Works, lias decided to take stops to save the field of Waterloo from _ being encum- : bered with the buildings which it was proposed to erect there. ' Tho Paris' Prefect of Polico has decided that in future no more licenses to, play barrel organs in that city-will be granted. j During a violent quarrel with her husband a . Paris woman named Duval threw , a soda- • water siphon at him. It him, wont through a window, dropped into a passing motor-cab, and exploded like a .' bomb. The four, occupants of. the cab wore cut about the face and. hands. Policemen arrested the people in the cab, who proved to be Russians. > They had' the greatest difficulty in convincing tho magistrate before whom they wero taken that they were not militant Anarchists. They were kept in custody all night, .and set freo only after tho woman thrown the siphon had presented herself at tho .police station. APRIL 11. s The new armoured cruiser. Bluechef was launched at Kiel ii\ tho presence'of Prince and Princess Hoinrich and many spectators, including, by the Prince's wish, a number of; boys from various Kiel schools. The ship, when fully equipped, will represent a value of £1,375,000. She is of 15,000 tons, and will carry a. crew of 2-1 officers and'7so men:' — Upwards of 2000 Chinese. by a sudden rising' of , tho' fTan-Kiang River. A telegram announcing the oncoming of the flood was delayed for 24 hours, and tho population were'caught unprepared and helpless. , Seven hundred junks were stink or wrecked. The floods were due. to a sudden freshet, of, remarkable volume, caught the victims unprepared in the middle of tho night. Retoorting 'on Anierican trade tlio British Commercial Agent remarks that personalextravagance, as well as financial dishonesty, led Hp to the money panic. He predicts that matters will very shortly bo restored 'completely to.the normal, and estimates the aggregate valuo. of American wealth at £25,000,000,000.. '. • The Tennessee Supreme Court'wiirforbid the' : Standard • Oil Company to, do business in ; the State. Thirty-four thousand one hundred emigrantsleft Italy for transoceanic countries during . tho first tlireo months of tho present year. In the corresponding,period last year tho number was 102,949. : APRIL 13. The great Barcelona bomb-throwing trial has' : concluded, the prisoners being found guilty of'secretly placing bombs in many parts of ■ tho city in tlio past- three years;. Juan Rull, the ringleader, was condemned to death 911 five separate counts. His mother and his. brother Hermcncgildo were also ■ sentenced to death. His father was sen--tenced to seventeen years' imprisonment, and two ethers of the accused to seventeen' and. fourteen years' imprisonment, whilo tho 'remaining.' two were acquitted. Juan . Rull was arrested in .1904 on charges'of placing bombs in the street. He was released, and undertook, in return for money, to- organise an .unofficial police force and prevent, further outrages. The bombs , oeristid for a time, but Hull's demands grew so exorbitant that , further funds were re- ' fused. Ho declared that moro. .outrages would occur if ho and his "police forco," which never really eiisted, were not paid, . nnd his prediction proved' correct. Up to the time of his second arrest he attempted to keep on good terms with-tho, authori- , ties. During and after King Alfonsa's' rccent visit, however, ho overreaclied himself b;? organising no fewer than five bomb oxplosions, fqur .of them harmless, in a- week. Ho - was unable to cover up all his tracks, and ho and his ac- . oomplices wero' arrested ■- and brought to . trial. 1 Twoj army; officers, twin brothers, named Nicholas and 'Paul Galkovics,, have committed suicide together at Budapest. Inability to meet their debts was the cause of their death together. They gave their word of honour to Count Paul Esterhazy, , who backed somo bills for them, that they would repay their-debts in full by April 13. They found themselves unable to.' redeem '.'their pledges, and were faced with dismissal, froin the army, and. boycotting at the clubs. The fateful day having como to a \ close, the twins dccidtd on death. Nicholas seated himself in an armchair before a. long looking-glass in their rooms. Paul stood beside! his brother. Together they raised their revolvers to their fore--1 heads. They pressed the triggers' simultaneously, and died on tho instant. An amusing incident occurred 'at a Paris ; restaurant in the Rue Montmartro. l After an excellent dinner, a provincial visitor, named Derval, discovered that his'pocketbook had disappeared, and that 110 was unablo to pay tlio bill. Ho explained his 1 position to tho proprietor, but tho latter, 1 who was recently swindled by an individual who told tho same stofy, refused lo take 1 any excuse, for non-payment. Tho visitor 1 was obliged to leave nis gold-mounted artificial teeth as .a guarantee that ho. would return and pay for 1 his meal. ' APRIL 14. , - Count Potocki, Governor of Galicia, has been murdered in his palacc at Leiuberg "'by a Ruthenian student of philosophy 1 named Siczynski. The student obtained 1 . admission to tho palacc 011 pretence of petitioning tho Governor for a post as , teachcr in a school. No sooner was ho in Count Potocki's presenco than bo drew a 1 revolver and fired three shots. Tho first bullet struck tho Count in tho eye, tho second pierced his breast closo, "to the heart, aild tho third wounded him in tlio , ' foot. At the sound of tho first shot; servants rushed into tho room, but wore 'too late to Bave tho Governor. Ho lingered

•" - . i 011 for an hoir, -retaining consciousness in >, spite of tho agony ho suffered. The assas- J sin, who is - vice-president of a Ruthenian "~ Socialist Uiiion and a -prominent agitator, j was arrested. "His motives were" political, the Ruthenians of the district holding all the authorities in tlio greatest detestation. Count Potocki was one. of the, richest and most charitablo- 'men''in 'Austria. ( The ■' mother of the ass:\ssih,. when arrested, is reported to have told the polico that she instigated -her son-to commit ■the'* I murder.. . and provided .liiiu with .money to buy a revolver.. The . murderer's three sisters t , have also been'- arrested/'while his brother has committed suicided • " Mr. and Mrs. Barnes," hero and heroine .of an extraordinary international, romance, . have just left New. York cii routo. for B.er- . I • lin with their infant child. • Mr. BarncS ■ was Count Hans Ferdinand, von Hochherg, nophew of Princess Marie Von Saxe-Wei- , mar, and sou of the Kaiser's Intendant. );.=o£. He was also a lieutenant in the Royal Foot-" guards at Potsdam, but abandoned 1 tho Fatherland and his aristocratic associa- . tions for tho love of a pretty shop assistant in Berlin, Fraulein' Louiso Carow, whom he married, and who, with , her child, followed him eighteen months a«o to America. For a time tho. Count earned a living as a chauffeur. In an interview he said: "My brave , wife , was with me all the time. Wo worked • hard, knowing that if ; relatives saw I could make my way unaided they 'would prob&bly forgive lrie for having married . ■ without their consent. Now I am happy to be able to say I.have received assurances from homo that my wife ant!, child : will have as hearty a .welcome there as I myself. Tho German Crown Prince, with • . whom I went to school, and others in high , positions, who were my friends, but who , . felt I'should-'hot havo married bejow my ' .1 rank, are willing to be my friends agaiu > and welcomo my wife." Professor .von Jacksch,/of Vienna, has discovered a mothod of preventing, the burning of the skin; whicli so often results from the' operation of X-rays.- ; , The Director-General of Pests and Tele- , graphs and the British Ambassador havo 1 signed an agreement allowing letters up to,. twenty grammes (308 grains) in weight to pass betwoon Spain and Gibraltar with 8 . stamp of 10 centesimos (about Id.). APRIL 15. : The original naval programme of the United States for this year put forward by. the i President was four -battleships of about . 25,000 tons each. Congress struck' two. ' battleships off this proposal. Mr. Rooso--1 volt now demands that tho two -ships •; omitted should be put back. In a Message to Congress Mr. Roosevelt recommends that the battleships should bo if the' largest type, and that provision should be made for their immediate construction. "The result of the Hague Conference/' tho'Pre- ; sident says, "has made it plain that tha nations will not for some time agree on a plan for the limitation of armaments. To build only two battleships a year would' 1 mean that this 'nation would go backwards ' in" naval rank. Such a course would be . unwiso if we fronted merely one ocean, and it is doubly unwise when we'front ' two oceans. If we desire to avoid insult, . ' , we must' bo ablo to repel it; if wo desiro to securo peace, one of tho most powerful ; instruments, of our rising prosperity, it "must be known that we are at all times , ready for war."' Despito Mr. Roosevelt's message the House of Representatives re^ jeeted tho motion by 130 votes to 79. ', The Russian-Duma has sanctioned; tho Gov-. ornment's' Bill for constructing the' Amur ' railway, branching from the' trans-Baikal .' section of: the trans-Siberian • system _ to , . IDiabarovsk, iii Russia's Asiatic maritime . province. The new linewill ifollow tho - : north side of the Aniur River and make a total length of 1360. miles. The cost, ex-. ■ ■ chjsivc,'-bf roiling 'Stock, is estimated 'at'-!' ! . £22,500,000; or' £16;600 per mihC It will > "• -give' acciiss over indisputably Russian ter- •. ritory to "the ; coast line connecting' with. • '. Vladivostok','*;'and is strongly -advocated by' the Premier, -Jfi-'Stblypin,.'as a : ;great scheme of Russian colonisation and barrier' '! ; against the "yellow peril"-- ( on her East- •: ern frontier. '■.. . - ''' Denmark's Parliament has passed a Bill . - giving all taxpayers over twenty-five years, of age, male and female, and all married - . women whoso husbands ..pay taxes, the ! franchise in communal elections.. Great indignation is expressed among the . British' colony and European : visitors at ' Tangier owing to a notice issued by the '' Consulate stating that his Majesty's Gov- ; ernment will-refuse to advance money for ransom if any of them should 'be captured . ; by, in or outside, of the town of ; Tangier. • • , .- 1 • . • Mrs. Russcir Sage, widow of the well-knowii American capitalist, has presented £80,000 tp tho .authorities of Princeton University ■ for, the purposo of erecting a much-needea .. dormitory,;for freshmen. Count Tornielli, Italiair Ambassador and th'a; . doyen of.tho Diplomatic Corps in Paris, ■ . has died at the "age of seventy-two. He. was Ambassador to Great Britain from 1889 to 1895, and took part in'the liegotia-, tions for tho-Anglo-Italian Convention., . - ■ ' APRIL 16. -V King Potcr of Servia's tenure of ,o£6co, for a long time ■ precarious, is now to he- put to the tost of a general election. If Tiis '-partisan's• win,-'ho. will haveJa new.,.lease -; of kingship. If tho Opposition' is vie- ; .. • • he will have perforce to surrender \ > his ' throne.-' Conciliation of; the'- op-position/might-have been-effected by,,tho , ' . formation of'a-Coalition Cabinet; but the ■ King has chosen to leave M. Paschics's Ministry practically intact. Fair play with ' ' tho ; ballot-boxes would 'spell disaster for • ; tlio King. Even'under the adroit man-' agement of M. l'aschics, the Premier, and the King's most ardent supporter, the elections must result in tho ; return of - many members of tho Opposition and . anti-regicides. - Tlie Premier will, there- ' - foro, at tlio best be again confronted in , , , the. new Parliament, with an-'irro'ebncil-; . , !ablo Opposition, bent 011 the identical ;cbstruction policy that now forces him to . / the country.' "What confidence, can _we havo in ,a" Government," asked ! Dr:- Vell!kovitch, the■ Opposition Leador, the , Skuptschiiia, has lowered Sei via's, prestigo to tho extent tliat its . ruler,, is branded as an instigator of bomb out? ■ , rages? - \Where arc the projected visits - to tho Courts ; of Italy, Austria, and / Russia? Our King is boycotted." . ~ . ■ The Italian ; Government has decided- to ■ attempt-the recovery'of the two R6man.i,-"; " ' gallevs which served as pleasure houses - -for the Emperors Tiberius and Caligula, " ■ and'which are sunk at'-tho bottom-of Lake Nemi, near Rome. The recovery, of tho gallevs, which arc almost'embodded in mud at- a- depth' of , fifty feet,-has beeiv.-at- ■ tempted repeatedly since the Middle Ages. At last a'-Commission was appointed)to '■ examine several. projects for the recovery. of tho' gallevs, and it has now been- decided that tho only possible method is ~ hv entirely or partially draining the lake. v • l'liis .will ontail an expense of nearly : £18,000. ,-y Another German Prince, Victor Salvatoi- xu Isenburg-Birstoin, son of the Imperial : . Austrian Grand Duchess Marie . Louise, .... has defied the traditions of : his caste and . contracted a romantic marriage, for lovo. His Highness v.-as married at the registry :. ■ office at Nuremberg to Fraulein Aunaßohrer. daughter of a luunblo country doctor - 1 ' I residing ,in tho neighbourhood ,of 'his ;• . ■mother's castle near, the village of Schlaokonwerth, in Bohemia. Although tho , Grand Duke of Ilesso, wliere the IsenburgBirstcins. have their estates.' litis conferred the title,- of Baroness 1 von Rbhmbach upon tiie bride, .tho. Prilicb's ; family arc much . distressed over their failure to prevent tho s match, and declare that they will never • receive her as a Princess. The Prince has known her since sho was a little girl, and their affection--for each other dates back ■ many years: .Until a. fow days ago she did the housework'for her family, Antonio Fuont'es,' 1 the Spr.nish bull-fißhter, who has been immortalised in Baedeker, has retired 'at 'tlio '.'age of' forty; after : taking part' in 110 fewer than 800 combats: