ROUND THE WORLD.

Evening Star, Issue 9911, 24 January 1896, Page 1

ROUND THE WORLD.

An audactotis'robbery was perpetrated in Perth (W.A.) between five o'clock on a recent afternoon, when the shop of Mr B. V. Lindell, watohm&ker and jeweller, was entered and robbed of £SOO worth of jewellery. Mr Lindell had oloßed on account of the Wednesday half-holiday and gone to Fremantle. On returning, he discovered that the place had been entered by means of a skeleton key and a clean sweep made of the contents of the shop. The thief must have quietly slipped off through the back gate with the booty. The robbery ia the more surprising in view of the fact that hundreds of people must have been passing the shop at the time. A fatal case of snake bite occurred at Strzlecki (Victoria) last week, the victim being an eight-year-old girl named Kelly. She was sleeping with an older Bister, and about two o'clock in the morning woke up crying. She explained that she had- hurt her finger. The sister then put out her hand to get some matches, and placed it right on the head of a snake. An alarm w£>s at once raised, the parents aroused, and an examination made. It was found that the girl had been bitten on the finger, arm, and throat. The wounds were scarified and sucked, and the father immediately started off to Korumburra with the child for medical aid. Before he got halfway the young sufferer died. The snake was found coiled up under the bed and killed. Troubles over a love affair caused a youug man named Herbert Davis to attempt to take his life at Parramatta on the 13th inst. He had been paying his attentions to a young woman, and as she >..ave him no encouragement ho attempted to shoot her on Boxing Day. The father, however, took his revolver from him, and threatened if he did not leave the girl alone he would proceed legally against hirm Davis subsequently called on the father of the young woman with a bundle of love letters, and asked for an interview with her. Upon beiug refused, he placed the muzzle of a revolver in his mouth and fired, the bail entering his palate and lodging at the back of his skull. Apart from inquiring whether the bullet would Bet up lead-poisoning, Davis displays no concern as to his future fate.

A terrible encounter with a pet kangaroo on Kalangadoo Station (Vic.) is reported. An "old man," thirteen years of age and 6ft high, was runniDg with three doea, and a station hand named Jerry O'Sullivan" went iuto the fowl yard to feed them. O'Sullivan had fed the does, and as the buck came up lie struck it across the nose with a cabbage leaf. Immediately the animal showed fight. O'Sullivan ran to a tree and dodged the kangaroo for a time, but eventually it got a good hold of him and tackled him with its fore and hind claws. The kangaroo fought on until it got its two hind legs over the inau's shoulders, and kept in that position until two other men came to O'Sullivan's assistance. The kangaroo was then got into an opeu paddock, and O'Sullivan was conveyed to Dr M'Donald's, where he received surgical attention. The poor fellow was black and blue all over his body, as though beaten with a rod of iron, and was frightfully torn on the lower part of his abdomen by the kangaroo's hind feet. His whole body is covered with holes and scratches, and his nose is split. His clothes were literally torn to pieces. Dr M'Donald put twenty-five stitches in his wounds, and it is doubtful whether the result will not yet be serious.

At the Water Police Court, Sydney, Arthur Deacon was charged with having uttered forged tickets of the North Shore Ferry Company. Mr Ralston, who prosecuted, showed that an. extraordinary system of forgery had been going on for a long time. Some time ago the attention of the company was called to the fact that the number of tickets registered at turnstiles exceeded the number issued by the company. In 1893 the excess amounted to 10,000, in 1894 it rose to 50,000, and last year it reached a grand total of 260,000. The accused Deaoon was a member of a family who kept a small shop on the North Shore ferry wharf. At this shop the bulk of the tickets given at turnstiles were sold. Early in December an investigation was made as to tickets sold at Deacon's place, and some of them were found to be forgeries. The imitations were very clever, but there was a slight difference in the quality of the paper and in the perforation, which appeared to have been done with a sewing machine. The company on 16th December instructed its manager to put aside all tickets he had in stock from that date. All further tickets bore a certain private mark from that day up to 24th December. Deacon purchased several lots of these tickets, and various persons, including a detective employed by the company, purchased them from Deacon's window. It was soon found that when accused was there the tickets sold were very often forgeries, while tickets sold by any other member of the family were always genuine. From no other member of the Deacon family had the public received forged tickets. At the time of his arrest accused was selling tickets with a till in front of him containing genuine tickets, while near by and within reach of his hand were between £3 and £4 worth of forged tickets. After evidence had been given the case was adjourned.

Jonathan has actually for once in a way broken his rule, and given one of his great heiresses to a mere English commoner. Mrs Cara Rogers Duff and MrUrben H. Broughton will shortly be married. Mrs Duff was a Miss Rogers, daughter of the Henry H. Rogers who had made untold wealth as president of the Standard Oil Company. She has a million sterling in her own right, and on her father's death will, it is said, come into three or four millions in addition. She is pretty, twenty-six years old, and a great favorite in American society. It is rare that two brothers gain the highest distinction awarded for personal bravery in the field—the coveted Victoria Cross. Lieutenant-general Sir Charles Stanley Gough and Major-general Sir Hugh Gough both gained it by their conspicuous valor during the Indian Mutiny. Among the many acts of bravery performed by the former, entitling him to this distinction, was the saving of Sir Hugh's life in an engagement at Rhotuk, on which occasion Sir Charles stood over his brother, who ''as wounded, and killed two of the enemy} "Sir Hugh had command of the cavalry b\ .gade during Lord Roberts's famous march to Candahar.

Some time ago a number of Americans formed a "sleep-fasting contest," in which numerous people tried which could stay awake the longest. The show was held at San Francisco, and ended in W. C. Woodford, the only competitor who remained awake, being forced to retire by the management, the physician having declared him in danger of losing his reason. Woodford had been without sleep for 158h 48min when finally compelled to close his eyes. For this performance he was rewarded with £2O and the "championship," the previous record being 144h 20min at Detroit. The men who took the second and third prizes (£lO and £5) had given in after 105 hours.