NEWS OF THE WORLD. SECOND MAN IMPRISONED.

Mataura Ensign, 19 May 1910, Page 6

NEWS OF THE WORLD.

SECOND MAN IMPRISONED.

caught in a death trap. inhuman guards. BLBoiSIC TELEGBAPH.—COPYRIGHT pEJi UNITED PEEBB ASSOCIATION. .V,i 5 NEW YORK, May 18. particulars concerning th< • disaster ; whereby thirty-five negro con vera burnt to death through on« fcitig the stockade at Centreville, Ala show that the convicts had beer leased by the State to the Redfeathei Coal Company. They were confined in a- large stockade under an armed guafd. 'A,negro applied a match to the stockade, hoping to escape in the ■ confusion. The convicts tried to rush Arangrh fire, but the guards shot pile, and the others being appalled huddied back to the stockade. As the flames encroached on the stockade they made anotjicr dash for safety, but the guards fired another wounding several. 'Many were burnt to ' death while Stpiggli £ through blazing timbers. Graer - le details are given of the hlasphe: ;us shrieks of the writhing cririVicte aught in a death trap. Thirty- f ive were burned to death and several v. -e shot, many being wound- ■ «4, the colliery disaster. CARNEGIE GRANTS RELIEF. * LONDON, May 18. Mr Andrew Carnegie has donated £IOOO to the fund for the relief of the widows and orphans of the victims of fee Wellington pit disaster, whereby !§f piners lost their lives. W\THE BOILER EXPLOSION. PROMPT RESCUE WORK, . ' NEW YORK, May 18. By the explosion in Canton, Ohio, .whftn seven boilers exploded in the Aisaerican Sheet and Tinplate Com- , mf* Works, killing over 20 worker? injuring ; hundreds, the whole sidQ of a building was blown out. Rescue parties hurried to the scene and some debris which caught fire was extipguished before the flames had nached the men imprisoned by the fallen beams. AN ECCENTRIC WIDOW. Destroys valuable yacht.. MADRID, May 18. . 'The Duchess of Najera ordered her late husband's magnificent yacht to be ' fcnrnt and sunk at Cadiz iij the presence of an astounded crowd. The Duke was one of the wealthiest Spanish /Grandees, and the Duchess is unwiilingthat anyone should enjoy his possessions.

TWO "DRUNKS" A YEAR.

A NEW YORK MEASURE,

NEW YORK, May 18,

. A deputation waited on the Mayor of ! New York to demand that he should veto whereby New Yorkers arrested more than twice within any one year for intoxication are liable to be committed to an inebriates' farm for a year. The Bill has been nicknamed .""Two Drunks a Year Bill."

CONVICTED OF BLACKMAIL.

' - JiONDON, May 18. { A second member of the "Black Hand" has been convicted at New Yoyk on a charge of blackmailing Senor Caruso, the world-famdus tenor. He ,wag sentenced to seven years' imprisonment and deportation.

THfe ALBANIAN REVOLTDISARMING THE REBELS. V ' CONSTANTINOPLE, May 18. ■ Shevket Pasha has formed nine columns of 2000 men each for the . purpose :of attacking the villages on - lie lower spurs of the valleys, using '17,000 to griard his communications. '' Yesterday the columji began a systematic disarmament of the rebels, I the destruction of villages whose 'Complicity in the trouble's has i been proved.. *■ '■ - -'1 - . i : AN INDIGNANT ARTIST. REVOLVER IN A 'SALON. 1 ( : tARtS, May 18. . Jean Sala, a well-known Spanish

paipter, becoming indignant at a por

■ ■ trait of his being skied at tlie Paris tßal6n, and having failed to induce the hanging committee to return the picture, visited the gallery disguised in a ' -wig, and false beard and fired four bullets from a revolver at the picture. His , pction caused a panic, the w omen rush- , ing the doors. Sala has been arrested. SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION. ,1 EXPEDITIONS TO WEST AUSTRALIA. ; FREMANTLE, May 18. ,Advices by the English mail state that the Cambridge ethnological expedi- • tion arrives: in West Australia next ;. month under the leadership of_ Pro- ! fessors Brown (entomologist) and Grant ' "and Watson (geologists): West Australia has been chosen as the scene of operations as the least known part of

-tfre Continent. • A second expedition sent by the ■' Stockholm Academy of Science, under -Dr Itfajoberg, arrives in July. Dr ' Majoberg will spend. two years in the

Kimbejley district, with the object of ' solving the animal and geographical

question and ascertaining to what extent immigration has taken place from th( Malay Islands, and its influence or Australian flora, and fauna. CANADA AND THE STATES. TARIFF NEGOTIATIONS POSTPONED. i LONDON, May 18. The 'Times' Toronto correspondent eports that Mr W. S. Feilding, Miniser of Finance, is coming to England mmediately to arrange for the converion of the loan of. £4,000,000. This kill necessarily cause the postponement f the American tariff negotiations till he autumn. The Government is in he meanwhile sounding the Canadian nanufacturers and producers. Opinion [oes not favor the proposals of the Naional Association of Manufacturers of he United. States in. favor of closer rade relations and an agreement for he construction of a new through rater route from the Great Lakes.' ODDFELLOWS' CONFERENCE. SOLVENCY OF LODGES, LONDON, May 18. The Oddfellows' Conference at Southlnptori discussed the establishment of solvency insurance fund, aiming at aising the deficiency of lodges to ft 90 er cent, standard of solvency. It is stimated that,.a penny in. the £ levy rould raise £IO,OOO for a reserve fund, 'he suggestion will he re-suhmitted at he next conference. CANADA'S CONSTITUTIONAL CENTENARY; FEDERAL GOVERNMENT RECOGNITION. MELBOURNE, May 18; The Federal Government 1 subscribes >IOO towards a memorial to be erected it Halifax (Nova Scotia) to mark the entenary of Constitutional Governaent in Canada. . ■ : lIAJOR-CENERAL BADEN-POWELL LONDON, May 18. Sir R. S. Baden-Powell (defender Of tfafeking during the Boer war and' irganiser of the Boy Scouts) has been gazetted to the retired list. DUCHESS' NARROW ESCAPE. BERLIN, May 18. A boat containing the Grand Duchess Harie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin cap;ized on Scliwerin Lake. The' Duchess' welve-year-old Nicholas of )ldenburg, dived and supported his fandmother, who had already sunk, md brought her to land.- Nicholas has >een awarded the Mecklenburg lifelaving medal. THE PREMIERS' CONFERENCE. MELBOURNE, May 18. Mr A. Fisher (Prime Minister) atends the Premiers' Conference to be teld on June 17. DEATH AT 109. SYDNEY, May 18. A man named Perfect died at Cootanundra, aged 109. He lived under, six oonarchs, namely George HL, George V., William ; IV., Victoria, Edward 711. and George V.