NEWS AND NOTES.

Evening Post, Volume LXI, Issue 140, 15 June 1901, Page 3 (Supplement)

NEWS AND NOTES.

The great steel-making firm of Krupp, which lately dismissed 4000 of its workmen has more recently discharged an additional 5000. This indicates the state of trade in Germany. According to the Railway Magazine, the railway companies of the United ; Kingdom paid during 1899, the latest' year of the completed returns, tn*e colossal sum of nearly £700,000 as compensation for accidents. The Pinkertoa. National Detective Agency had its origin in a chance selection by an Illinois sheriff of a cooper *j hand, a youth named Allan Pinkerfcon, recently come from hia nativa Sectland, to aid in the discovery, of a counterfeiter. The emblem of the force is an «, eye and the motto "Wo never sleep." At Flamborn, near Mayence, there has been discovered an ancient cemetery, in, which, are a number of tombs. Tne skeletons found in the latter were in a sitting posture, a mode of buryiug the dead belonging to a period of great antiquity. German archaeologists who have visited the cemetery aver that it dates back about 6000 years before our era. ilis Majesty has reappo"inted as Honorary Composer to the Sovereign in Scotland Emeritus Professor Sir Herbert Oakeley, who holds honorary degrees at three of the Scottish • Universities, and for whom the above appointment was created by Her late Majesty some twenty) years ago. Mr. Balfour is being urged to introduce a Bill in the House of Commons empowering municipal authorities in general to frame and to enforce regulations for the control of advertising display in public places. A scheme is on foot for employing divers to attempt tne recovery of whatever may be left of the Persian fleet which Themistocles destroyed in the Bay of Salamis nearly twenty-four centimes ago. The Persian fleet is supposed to have been laden with household goods and treasures for the use of the conquerors, who hoped to share in the partition of Greece. One of the most important members of the British aristocracy is, it is ' said, to be the co-respondent in a divorce suit which will attract international- attention. . . , . A Jewish officer in the Austrian army, condemned to five years' imprisonment on the charge of selling details of. frontier defences "to Russia, has (states a Vienna telegram) been released after four years and reinstated in tHe &rmy, it having been ascertained that he was not guilty. Herr Adolf Breitenstein, a manufacturer of Pottendorf, has been convicted for violating his marriage vows by calling a barmaid " a sweet little thing." He was sentenced to a fine of over, £4o.' Mr. James Jennings M'Comb, of Philadelphia, a millionaire who died recently, left a will directing that should his daughter marry Mr. Louis Herzog she •should recteive an annuity of £3000. Mr Herzog refuses to discuss the terms of the will, and the question now arises whether the daughter is entitled to the annuity or not. . It is' claimed for a submarine boat invented by a Gernfan— Herr Gurt— that it can sink as low as 100 ft. Even 100 yards are hinted at, with a view to the inspection of -wrecks at great depths. A rumour has reached Dawson City that 'early this year 200 miners perished in a blizzard at Cape Nome. • An Austrian bank director has" been arrested on a charge ,of embezzling a sum of 240,000 kroner. He was a prominent seupportefr of the church and held in high esteem. The Jew, Leopold Kilmer, who was ■ accused of the murder of two Christian girls, Marie Klima' and Agnes Hruza, in a forest near Pola, in Bohemia, has been finally condemned to death. While digging for pier foundations for a bridge over the Wansbeck, at Sheepwash, Northumberland, the arch of a very old bridge was discovered 12ft below the bed of the river. • The old structure was • strongly built and intact, and its age^ is unknown. The whole surplus wheat crop of North America, 22 million quarters, is not enough to feed the United Kingdom, which neieds 23£ million quarters a year more than* it grows. A tunnel 25 miles long, reaching adepth of 1800 ft below sea level, is planned between Vaqueros Bay, Spain, and Tangier, in Africa. It would be the deepest in the world. The United States Government (says the New York Sun) are making a new rifle. It combines the features of jthe. Mauser with those of the Crag-Jorgen-sen. It is expected to develop an initial ' velocity of 2300 ft per second against 2000 of the- Crag-Jorgensen. In a Foreign Office report upon the veterinary work in British East' Africaand Uganda Protectorate, Mr. Robert J« Horcly, M.R.C.V.S., urges the advisability of utilising the zebra, of which - there are' enormous numbers, for transport purposes. King Edward VII. has taken up fencing as being the best of antidotes to the increase of sedentary work necessitated by his State duties. A • marked and permanent rise in the Dead Sea, causing the .formation of a broad lagoon on the north side of the Jordan delta, is attributed to the raising of the entire bottom by volcanic action. The Pekin and Tientsin Times •understands that a telegram has been received from Bishop Scott to the effect that the Anglican Mission in North ' China will make no claims whatever, pri- , vate or corporate, against the Chinese Government for the dreadful loss of life and property brought about by the recent troubles. j There are curious problems, with, a feminine interest, in connection with the Britkh census. Women of 25 in 1891 must have been- 15 in 1881; but the women entered in the returns as 25 exceed -the young girls of 15, of whom they should be only the diminished survivors! Perhaps this is because matrimonial competition is keen, for the proportion of women to men in England is, roughly, 1060 to 1000, and in Scotland (whence male migration is greater), 1075 to 1000. According to official statistics the German exports during 1900 amounted in value to £237,650,000, and the imports to £302,100,000. These figures are the highest that have yet been reached. News from Turkey states that the Patriarch Constantino V. has been deposed on the ground of mismanagement and want of energy, which it is alleged have been partly responsible for the closing of 32 churches in Macedonia and tho confiscation of land' belonging to Greek monasteries. Tho trade of » France for March showed a substantial deefme. " The imports were valued at 72,000,000 V against 75,000,000, and the exports at 173,000,000 against 180,000,000f/ The revenue for the first three months of the year showed; a decline ' of 4,250,000 as compared with the corresponding period of last ' year. The new Army Pensions Bill introduced in the German Reichstag doubles the pensions hitherto received by invalided privates and non-commissioned officers who will henceforth be granted pensions varying from. £36 ' to £52 4s. Locusts are reported to have devastated * , the whole of Southern Persia.