DIARY OF THE WORLD'S NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 241, 4 July 1908, Page 10

DIARY OF THE WORLD'S NEWS.

WEEKLY SUMMARY BY MAIL. ; Tho following weekly summary of the world's news is taken' from tho " Daily Mail" Ovorseas Edition of May 23: — ' MAY 15. ■ The nows that Mulai Hafid, the usurper Sultan of tho South, has entered Mequi- ' nez, Morocco's third capital, in the north, ■ is th® subject of general conversation in Paris. Serious rtdections are aroused 1 by ' the' despatches stating'that while the law- •' ; 'ful Sultan, Abdul km, still remains at ' Rabat, on the west coast, tho army (almost his last hope) which ho sent thenco *t« recapture his capital of Fer, lias been surrounded by the Hostile tribes of BeniHassan and Cherarda, and may be oxpected to transfer its allegiance to tho Pretender. Tho question is raised whether it would not be better for Franco to mako up her mind to recognise Mulai ; Hafid as Sultan. There is not at present . ..any official intention of recognising Mulai - Hafid; but there is no doubt that a largo . section of French public mon consider that : if-Mulai Hafid enters Fez the French Go- • ■ vemment should be prepared to rccogniso • him as Sultan.

Tho ; Marquis Ito, tho Japaneso ResidentGeneral at Seoul, recently attended tho ■ celebrations on tho occasion of tho anniversary of the opening of Chemulpo to : foreign trade. Speaking at a banquet, " tho Marquia dwolt upon' Japan's poaceful • development of Koicea, the object of which ■ ho said, was that the Koreans should havo _ their independence in the'future, and become the allies of Japan. The-speech has ■ ' been received with enthusiasm by the ' Koreans and tho, Japanese. . MAY 16. Excitement has been created in French art circles bv tho action of M. Claudo Monet, tho leading impressionist painter, who has ' : just destroyed a. scoro of his paintings, tho. fruit-of threo y oars' labour, and tho market value of which was probably about £20,000. 'While getting his pictures ready for an important exhibition, which was to open in , a few weeks, and which had already been advertised in the newspapers, the artist decided, that his canvases wero not worthy of- him,''.and in a few hours, with a kni'fd and -brush'; .ho rendered overy ono of them' worthies?; ,Tho pictures constituted a ' series of ' important studies of reflections-." in' water .under. changing light effects. M. Claudo'Monet's canvases usually fetched high prices, and £1000 and oven £2000 was.no uncommon figuro to bo

paid for them. ■ •. • Mr. Gcorgo E. Sterry, a. muttirmillionaire, • aged' seventy-two, was . shot. dead in his otlico in Pino Street, New York, by his son George, whoso animus had beon aroused t by his father's intention to marry a Miss Rebecca Blaikie, a schoolmistress of tho ago. of thirty. Mr. Sterry, senior, was tho activo head of iv great drug establishment. Hjs wifo died in 1904, and his engagement to Miss'Blaikio was made, public in Janu--1 ary. His son ; Gcorgo brooded, over the matter till presumably be'becamo insane. ■ After .shooting' his-, father ho. committed suicide. . '

Threo men working round a-vat of. molten metal mot with a terrible, death at 'Rehon, on the Franco-Belgian frontier. One of them, a man of seventy, fell headlong into the vat. A young man named, Nicholas Won's jumped forward' to catch his'older comrade, and fell in after him;' Tho third man,: tho father of Nicholas Wons, in trying to save his son, also plunged into tho molten metal. - ji MAY 18. Tho German Foreign' Office is investigating a serious aftjont alleged to havo beon offered to a Gorman .messenger bearing a German Consular communication by tho French' military authorities in: Morocco. It is assertod that the'messenger had been ' sent -German Consul ■ with a letter to the commander of a neighbouring French - , military force. Tho -messenger is , said to haven been beaten by Froncli soldiers, and the German Consul's lottor. spat' upon by a French soldier. The Consul made, prompt pr.otest to tho German diplomatio,_autkari- • ties at Fez, who immediately notified tha Foreign .Oltce in Berlin; .

Tho rebellion in tho provinco of Yunnan, China, is becoming serious., The rebels" havo defeated tho Imperial troops, have captured a soction of tho railway, and aro advancing. Tho province' of-'Yunnan, is the second largest in China/ but is thinly, populated. It lies immediately to. : tho nortlv.of tho British provinco of ' tho French possession of Tonkin, and the railway whicn tho insurgents are .reports! to havo captured is tho lino built with French capital ffom Haiphong, in' Tonkin, to Y\iunan, tho capital of tho provinco. Tlio well-informed "Frankfurter Zeitung'V learns'from Washington that tho real reason :of tho Kaiser's disploasuro over Mr. lloosovolt's appointment of Dr. David .Ta'yno Ilill, tho American scholar, as Ambassador in Borlin, was that tho President first selected tho wealthy young American, Mr. Cornelius Vnndorbilt,' for tiro position, and thon substituted Dr. Hill. Tho Frankfort paper further learns that Mr. Vnndorbilt is soon to go to Romo as American Ambassador. Mr. Vandcrbilt is well known , to tho Kaiser, having frequently visited ' Kid during tho annual Juno regatta with .his palatial yacht North Star. Arrangements. aro being made for tho Stato ...visit-.of 'tho Tsar to. Homo, .which, will tako place in tho autumn. An understanding : between Italy and Russia is. desirable, especially in view of the Balkan problems. : iiing Pctor of Servia will also visit Rome .: this autumn.'

It is reported that tho Kaiser will start for ; liis:North Sea cruisp on board tho Hohenzollern on July 7 from Kiel, accompauied by tho cruiser Nuernberg and tho dispatch vessel Sliopnor. In official circles it is re- ? garded as.not improbablo that'tho Emperor will meet tho Tsar and King Haakon of ■ Norway during his cruiso. " Pittsburg is in a frenzy of excitement owing to tho suspension of tho Allegheny National : Bank, .which has . closed as tlio result of gigantic defalcations by its treasurer, Mr. , William Montgomery, the intimato friend and trusted confidant of tho most eminent ■ Republican politicians in the State of , Pennsylvania. Mr. Montgomery is in gaol, , charged with the onlbozzloment of £94,000, hilt it is' believed that tho speculations actually amount to over £250,000. All I tho city funds, which exceed tho sum of ' $300,000,-wero deposited in tho suspended .-.bank,, and tlio municipal . authorities are "■ confronted with tho necessity -of issuing emergency bonds to meet current expenses. -Tho defalcations of Mr. Montgomery aro ]said :tD have grown qut of his relations •' with', the old "Quay ring", in Republican 'State politics.. He was associated all his life with "political bandits," who .aro, it is . declared, indiroctly responsible for thefts amounting, to £1,000,000, which havo been •committed in tho last three years by employees of banks.

MAY 19. Terror rcigus in Clovoland, Ohio, as tho result of a striko of street railway employees for higher wages. At Lakowood, a suburb of Cleveland, tho rioters stoppou a train run by "blacklegs" by moans of a log thrown across tho rails, and after firing a number of shots at tho driver, conductor, and guards,. p»ured gallons of ... 'petToloum on the' carriages and raado a bonfiro of them. Ono couduetor was severely wounded in the log and two : guards were «hot in the chest. Moro . .than a dozen cars in various parts of '! tho town were dynamited, and tho police : discovered hundreds of dynamite caps as well as bottles of nitro-glycerina scattered along, tho tracks! A.bomb powerful ;• 'enough to have hurled all th«.passengers into' the street was plnccd beneath a ', "Wade Street car, but fortunately failed to, explode. A Fifty-Third Streot car ; struck a bomb and was lifted bodily off ' tlio rails oil to tho pavement.

With a deafening explosion, which shattered tho -windows of all tho surrounding ' villages, tho now steel bridge, owned by the Now. York, Nowhaven, one) Hartford

Railway at Baychester, collapsed, as tha result of ft dynaniito outrage, skilfullv planned and executed by workmen onstrike. Tho bridge was completed only the prc.lous day at a cost of £10,000. No trace of tho miscreants has beon discovered.

Tlio Lnporto (Indiana, U.S.A.) coronor officially declares that Mrs. Guiness, the woman who, as reported last week, is oelioved to havo murdered fifteen of hor suitors, died in the firo which dostroyod hor farmhouso on April 28, and t'lnt hor death was the result of a felonious lomicide, the perpetrator of which is unknown.

While passing ovor Saragossa (Spain), tha balloon Quo Vadis canio so closO to n-u ill that tho car struck somo rocks, and <bo pilot, Sanor Montojo,i was thrown out, but held on to a ropo. Captain Cortada, an aniatour, who has no knowlodgo of aeronautics, remained in the car and had his leg broken. Sonor Montojo's ropo then snapped, and tho aeronaut alsobrofeo his leg in falling to the ground. Tho Quo Vadis, relieved of Senor Montojo's weight, shot up into the sky with Captain Cortada in the 'car. It oventualjy descended at Quito, in tho province of Saragossa. Captain Cortada was soriousiy injured. MAY 20. ' '■ Now York has bepn, watching with strained and morbid curiosity tho tragic execution ..of a sentenco of death pronounced upon . one of its best-known citizens, Mr. William Marsh, a, wealthy manufacturer of Brooklyn, who, aftor suffering great agony : in mind and body, has died of hydrophobia. Mr. Marsh was in the prime of life, and was feeling in tho best of health, when in the basement of his houso a noise of rushing wator afflicted him with a peculiar nervous sensation. In the night he was . afElictcd by a terrible thirst, and discovered to his horror whon he filled • a glass of water that he could not drink it. Ho called in tho family physician, who questioned him closoly, and learned that six weeks ago Mr. Marsh bound up the wounds of a favourite dog. "Tho little animal was particularly grateful," ho said, "and licked my hands as soon as I had finished the bandago. But two. weeks' later wo had him shot; as lie triod to : bito Miss Thompson, my stenographer. Ho novor bit me, ■■however,- and I cannot.imamno,how it is possiblo I should bo infected." . The doctor summoned an electric cab and drove his patient at furious speed to tho Pasteur Institute. There, aftor a brief examina- . tion, the superintendent, Dr. "Wheeler, •looking at Mr. Marsh's trembling, quivering muscles,-pronounced tho dread verdict. Ho gave him three days to live. Mr. Marsli drove to his factory and gave ordors to all tho workmen who' had come in contact with tho doe to proceed to the Pasteur Institute. Ho convened a final meoting of the directors of the company of which lio was hoad,| announced to them .his approaching ond, and asked them to appoint his eldest son his successor. Tho grief-stricken ; directors fulfilled his requests. Bidding tho directors a pathetic farewell, Mr. Marsh drove to his home and sat in conference with his lawyer for some hours, drawing ,up a will. Then ho informed his wife and children of the fato awaiting him. Ho then took to his bed. Early on Wednesday convulsions set in, and opiates were administered.- 'Mr. Marsh awoke about noon, fell again into terrible convulsions, and passod away. - ■ MAY 21. ' ■ V Ono of the'worst disasters in the history of the Bolgian St-ato Railways occurred this morning-owing, apparently, to _a signalman's error, at Contish, six miles south of Antwerp. Thirty-fivo dead bodies havo been dragged from tho debris, and eighty persons aro Boveroly injured. The 8.'49 ~ a.m. express from Antworp reached Coil tich at nine o'clock, a slow- paiseigor . train having been-shunted on to a 3idliig ,; ,to' allow the express, to pass., • But-tho ■7 : 'poiuts had by an not been al- - tored since tho slow train, had boon sidetracked. As a result tho expro3s dashed ' on to the siding and crashed into : tho rear carriages of the other. ; train; the passengers in which wcro mainly soidicrs and working men, with only a fow woroc-n ■ and children. The threo rear coicues of ;. the stationary train were smashed to atoms, and the scene aftor tho collision was .appalling. There were, howover, only a - low minutes of confusion., L'ho railway staff quickly organised rescuo work, and doctors, priests, and hospital ambulances '.lind. attendants hastened from Antwerp to* tho scene of. the disaster. Prince Albert,'the Heir-Apparent, visited tha victims on tho spot during the progress :of ; ,- tho distressing work : of : dragging tho ■bodies—-often unrccognisablo and fearfully ." mutilated—from.-tho _ruins of the train. ' 'l'ho signalman who -is alleged to be 'res- . ponsiblo for iho disaster has' disappeared, and it is believed that ho has taken flight. ( -..Orders have been issued for'his arrest.-

Tho most picturesque of'all tho Austrian : Emperor's diamond. jubileb celebrations ■ tools placo this morning, when a vast army - of 82,000 children, drilled and disciplined, marched to tho Schoenbrunn Palaca to pay homage to their ro.vered Sovereign. Tho ceremony was splendidly organised and most impressive. The Emperor appeared on tho palaca balcony bofore which " tho army of his young admirers was ■ drawn up, and was cheered with an on-. ' thusiasm which deeply'touched him. Fi- . nally the Emperor descended and walked among tho children, and the ceremony closed with tho sinking of Haydn's stirring national anthem by 82,000 clear young voices, tears standing in. his Majesty's oyes.as he listened.