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[lndependent Service to Australian-Press.] A BARONESS POISONED. A sensational tragedy was brought to light in Paris on the 17th inst., when, the dead body of the Baroness D'Ambricourt was discovered in tho ljedroom of Captain Meynier, a French army officer. Captain Meynier sent a note to* the police declaring that he had murdered his fiancee, and that ho intended to take his own life. Tho jiolice, upon visiting the captain's room, found the be*/ of the woman, who had apparently been poisoned. They then energetically set about looking for Captain Meynier, but wero unable to discover any trace of him. It is believed that he carried out his threat to commit suicide. * TEACHING- THE TEUTONS TO FLY. Orville Wright, tho famous airman, is proceeding to Berlin with four aeroplanes i lor the German Army. Ho will instruct tho aerial corps in the science of aviation. AMERICAN COLLEGE FOOTBALL. An undergraduate at Bethany College, ' Virginia, named M'Coy, has been charged : with the manslaughter of tho captain of the opining team in an intereollegc football match, whom lie is alleged to have deliberately sfiuck, causing injuries that . resulted in his death. A NKW YORK SKYSCRAPER. ' Plans have been prepared for a building of forty-six storeys, which if is proposed to erect opposite the New York Post Office. Jt is to cost £1,500,000, and is to be completed within a year. j JAPANESE NOT WANTHD. ! The Young Men's Christian Association in Honolulu have refused to allow the Japanese Vice-Consul to liecoinc a member, on tho ground thai- the admission of Japanese would militate against the usefulness of the organisation. !
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Evening Star, Issue 14524, 28 November 1910, Page 3
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