DIARY OF THE WORLD'S NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 318, 3 October 1908, Page 10

DIARY OF THE WORLD'S NEWS.

WEEKLY SUMMARY BY MAIL. . The following weekly summary of the world's news .. is taken... frmo tho , "Daily Mail" Overseas- Edition of August 22:— | AUGUST 14. . A tragic scene was enacted at Bay Shore, New York, when Captain Peter C. Ha.ins. of tho United States Army, shot and killed Mr. William Annis, tho owner, and publishor of several magazines, while the latter was standing on tho landing stage of the Yacht Club, intending to take his wife and party for a. cruise. Captain Hains alleges that his victim was> responsible for the wrecking of 'his home. The tragedy was witnessed by crowds of holi-day-makers at. the Yacht Club. -Sir., Annis had' just landed from his. yacht, while waiting",for his party to assemble, when Captain Hains walked up and fired five bullets into tho body of his victim, who died shortly afterwards in 'hospital. Yachtsmen 'hearing tho shots rushed to the rescue of Mr. Annis, but Mr. Thornton Hains, brother of Captain Hains, held tho would-be rescuers at . bay with a pistol, declaring'that the affair was one between his brother and Mr. Annis. Both the Ha.ins have been arrested. Thoy aro sons of Brigadior-Genoral Peter Conover Hains, who served throughout the Civil . War with distinction, and took part in 'the war with Spain. Tho "unwritten law" will be invoked as an excuse for the murder. It is reported that after 2389 years Persia has decided to renew diplomatic relations with Greece. The Ambassador of Persia was 'withdrawn from Athons at tho time : of the battle of Salamis. 1 President Roosevelt,; in an interview with' a politician from the Philippines, stated , that- independent government cannot be granted to the Philippines until tho pooplo are fit for it. He added that personally lie did not think self-government eould bo accorded for another twonty years. AUGUST 15. Sdmo astonishing results with tho wireless telephono havo been obtained at the Eiffel Tower wireless station by naval Lioutenants Colin and. Jeance and Chief Engineor Mercier. . They succeeded in communicating ' with . tho wiroless station at I'o'into de Raz. on the coast of Finistore, distant 310 miles from Paris. The experiments began, in the .early hours ot tho morning, that judgjd the most favourablo time. During tho first hour or so the sound of a motorhorn, the ringing of a bell, \ song on the gramophone, etc.,- were . transmitted and heard distinctly. Then voico messages were sent through, • and although they wero very faint and' not always clear, several of tho phrases transmitted wero . understood. '' Tho United' States imports for last month . reached a total of £17,281,200, as against £24,924,400 in July last year. Tho total value of imports in ■ tho seven months ended July 31 was £121,771,400, , a decrease of ovor £50,000.000, as compared with the corresponding period of 1907, when tho' total was £175,200,000. . Tho exports - in July totalled £20,640j000, as against £25,100,000 in the same month of 1907. The value of exports during the seven --months-. is returned at £196,199,600, as compared with . £213,500,000 in the same period of 1907, a decreas'o of just over £17,600,000. This return shows that tho United States is suffering from a depression of trado similar to that which has beon observed ill Britain. l'rinco Honry of Prussia, tho Kaiser's brother, i? now on tho lists of the ; 11111 perial Patents Oilico, his domand for a - patent for an invention concoming'' automobilism having been gianted. -TIIO • prince has constructed a devico which automatically cleanses tho glass screen '. which protects the occupants of tho .car . from -tho wind and dust. This is done .', .'.by a rulo lined with leather, which moves up and down the plate and takes, away tho dirt . which conglomerates 'wbon the car ingoing tit high, speed,| or l when it rains. ■„ " ; AUGUST 16. .. The "Captain of Koopcnick," who in 1906 ..-..got.the whole .world laughing by the triok he played upon the Prussian Bureaucracy

and militarism has boon sot at liberty at Berlin. It will be remembered that tho "Captain" was a grey-haired, lame, emaciated cobbler named Voigt, who in a shabby, second-hand uniform stopped a detachment of tho Guards 011 a road in a suburb of Berlin, led them to tho littlo town of Koopcnick, occupied tho town hall, confiscated the muneipal funds, sent the burgomaster to Berlin as a prisoner, and then disappeared. Ho was soon arrested and condemned to four years' imprison- . Mont, of which ho served twenty months, tho remainder boing struck off by the special order of tho Kaiser. Voigt is now a rich man, since many people presented him with largo sums, regarding him as a sort of national hero. Voigt will marry his former sweetheart, a middle-aged woman, and go on a lecturing tour. A sad accidont occurred at Calais when the sands were crowded with thousands of people, who had como to the town for the Assumption Day fetes. ■ A number of tho visitor had been paddling, and six of them climbed upon a slippery stono jetty to soarch for mussels. When the CalaisDover steamer Queen left tho harbour the swell swept all six into the sea. AUGUST 17. ' President Castro, of Venezuela, has again . brought his country into collision with a European State. ' Insults to the Dutch flag, tho expulsion of tho Dutch Minister at Caracas, and the withdrawal of tho Dutch Consul's exequaturs, have been fol-lowed-by tho assembling of several Netherlands warships at Curacoa, a few hours' steam from La Guayra, the chief port of Venezuela. The United States have consented to a Dutch blockade of tho Republic's ports. Violent earthquake shocks have occurred at Terni, in tho province of Perugia,' Italy. Mass was proceeding in a church at San Fratello when the earthquake shook the building. The priest in his robes rushed out of the church, followed by his assistant and the panic-stricken congregation. Several persons wore injured in tho crush at tho church door. Tho people deserted their homes and camped out' in tho open. AUGUST 18. With 5500 soldiers guarding tho streets and moro than 200 whites under arrest, all is now -quiet outwardly at Springfield, Illinois, tho scene of tho recent race riots, but beneath tho , surface intense ferment is discernible. Governor Dencen is demanding stringent punishment _of the rioters. Tho town is crowded with _ farmors from all over the State, and it is .. expected . that ' tlicro will be more trouble when tile lynchers aro indicted. The coloured' population has -fled.- -Prominent : citizens will be called upon to give incriminating ovidencb against relatives and friends. Racial feeling appears ■ to bo spreading liko a'fever throughout the country. Romo and Galveston are in a high state of excitement owing to a crime committed by a negro against a whito woman, and lynching orgies seem imminent. At Huntington, Long -which is a stone's throw from New York, a mob of white men oarly this morning attacked tho-gaol, battered down the doors, and were only prevented from seizing and lynching- a negro prisoner by a squadron of cavalry, which arrived in tho nick of timo and dispersed them. Tho authorities, fearing further outbreaks, removed the prisoner. The rioting com'monced at Springfield, when a mob visited the ■ gaol to lynch a man in custody on a charge jof attacking a whito -woman.- ... The man i; had beon removed, and the- crowds- thon searched tho town, burning and", killing until' the troops fired •on them. l In • all, ". two negroes were l.ynchcd, ■ four whites killed, and a huudrod negroes and whites wounaod. AUGUST 19. The German War Office instantly laid hands upon .a new and terrible high-grade explosive invented by an engineer, Herr Fritz Gehre, after experiments at Munich. Tho experiments took place in tho presence of numerous representatives' of the War Office and the Navy Department, and proved beyond' a-doubt that tho oxplosive outrivals any other composition. The tests included the bursting of heavy slirapnol shells and tho explosion of a charge placed in the centre of a lead block weighing 1701b. Olio shell was splintered into 180 fragments, while tho lead block is said to have been ontirely melted.' The Kaiser has given £5000 to tlic Robert Koch fund for' fighting tuberculosis. His Majesty's motive is to ensure for the fund tho gift of . £25,000 promised .'by Mr. Carnegie, on condition that the total ; of the fund, is brought up -,to' £50,000. " Prince August Wilhelm and Prince Oscar, the fourth and'fifth sons-of tho_ Kaiser, unwittingly escaped a terrible accident by sending buck the motor car which brought them from Beyrouth to Lichtenfels and continuing their journey to Coburg by railway. On the way homo tho car, going at high speed, at a road crossing undor repair, dashed into an open squaro hole in the road and turned a somersault. Tho chauffeur was buried tinder tho lioavy ma- ' chine and killed on the spot, his neck being broken and his body pierced by a lever. A cashier .of the Drosdner Bank at Dresden had by clover 'forgeries embezzled £11,650 bolonging to tho bank. Ho disappeared, but he has been'found dead at an hotel at Schandau, having hanged, himsolf. . Emilia and Annie I'inero, two ..pick-pockets, wore-arrested at Lourdes, France,, during the- pilgrimage. They had. ; succeeded in taking 127 watches and. ninety-eight scarfpins. Tho two women aro sisters. AUGUST 20. Tho Parseval and tho Gross Army airships afforded Berlin a . thrilling . spectacle of mimic battle high in tho air this morning. The Gross vessel appeared over Berlin before eight o'clock, passing over Untcr den Lindon and the royal castle, and going thenco to tho densely crowded quarters around the l'otsdamer Platz, which, in the. matter of traffic, is Berlin's Strand. Tho ship sailed at. a height of 750 ft., following tho lino of the streots. Finally . the aeronauts directed tho ship towards the' historic Brandenburger Gate, near tho Reichstag building, where another powerful airship approaching with heavy and imposing movements, was seen. It was the Parseval, which had como after the other from Tegol.. The two airships now began to manoeuvre against each other as if intent on the destruction of an enemy. Upwards N and downwards they went, attempting to get into a favourablo position for attack, describing circles and spiral ' lines, and dashing forward and backward. Suddenly tho Gross airship turned in a northerly direct-ion, taking 1 courso for Tegel. It was immediately followed by the Parseval. At 'i'egel the , f'battle" was resumed, and for' another half-hour .the vessels operated against one another, manoeuvring cunningly wliilo waiting for a monnnt for ( tiio enemy to expose a vital part. Filially thoy . raced side-, by' side at full speed until the signa, •to ■ stop "fighting" was given,, whereupon both descended without mishap. The Belgian Chamber this afternoon adopted tho Bill for the annexation of the Coiigo by eighty-three votes to fifty-four. A telegram from Hong-kong; states that, in reply to a . communication from tho Wai-Wu-l'u, the Foreign .Ministers at Pekin have declared, that if China' adopts a constitution tho troops will bo withdrawn from tho Legations. The death is announced from Paris of :M. Hcctor Franco, tho novelist, who, having become involved in the-Commune in 1871, loft France for England, where ho obtained a post as profossor at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. Among M. France's bost-known works are "Lo Roman du Cure" (1870), "Los Pcches do Sflieur Cnnegonde" (1880), and "Lo Roman' d'une Jouno Fillo Pauvre' 1 (1896). He was tho founder of the journal "L'Avenir," Tbo Duohoss Helen of Aosta (sister of tho Duke of Orelans and -Queen Amelio of Portugal) is in' a decline, and'tho doctors duspair of curing hcr t