GENERAL NEWS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLV, Issue 139, 19 June 1911, Page 6

GENERAL NEWS.

RECORD SKY-SCRAPER

| Plans have been filed for the.erec- ; tion on Broadway, opposite the pres- ! ent post office, of what will be the 1 taiiest building in the city of New York. The height of the structure from the kerb to the top of the tower will be 750 ft; The building proper will have thirty stories and , the tower above it twenty-five. The highest skyrscrapers in New York are the Metropolitan Life building (700 ft) and the Singer building (612 ft).

AN ENGLISH CLOWN IN PARIS

An 'English clown, who for forty years lias been tho delight of the ehjidron of Paris, has died at, the Hertford British Hospital, founded by Sir Richard- Wallace, at Levallois Perret, putsid© Paris. James Gwynn, wno .plaj^ed under the name of "Gugusse/' was at one time a rich" man,- but he spent his money with too great a -readiness, and during the lasb few years he lived on charity. He leave a widow in the utmost distress.

BLOWiV FROM THE ENGINE

'■' A loobmotiLve fireman named Robert Woodhouse, of W^st Hartlepool, has had a'terrible experience; justescapmg with' hisl life, near Sunderland. Ho was blown from his engine, by the fore© of the gale, and; injured his head, severely, owing to striking a signal cabin. ."'He was removed to Sundsrland Infirmary. At W"orkington a giii was blown into the harbor and drowned. - -'

.. NEVEIt'SEEN THE' SEA. V. ;; ■ Mrs Maria -Scott, a widow, <>f Essex, was born in the> neighboring; village oi Finchingfield, r&a. April .18, a century ago. Her father was aii agricultural laborer earnii.g 9s a week. At the age of SI she marrie<J. a woodman at Einchingfield, and they biwgli up seven chiidren. She told a Press repre- • aentative thfit' she had driven to .CSi-elnisford onoe or twice, but beyond itliat had resmained in the, village, and had, never seen the sea.■•.:-•

GAMBLING CHARWOMAN

.'■•■ ■^■'^ii^rwl6m4n,''iiam(3d': Gougeard\^as '■recently teenti^^ |<%sfirs': impri^nmerit' ViW'f-^thfeftis tjo -£l;6pO^pf wMqTtM^lt amstr'essds.: yjefs::*timyH\sir)4i!'.;. "'Mffife. Goiigeard confessed t;o' an insatiable fox- ,; .She stayed ] list long enough mV e&eh situation to> enable her tb".-;^ppix)priat©! a sufficient sum to visit one of "the Paris racecon rses. If; she ~ lost Mme. Gougea^d,^fjaid:, sougnt another, situation an^' Repeated the protoedi tire, but she ft-equeiitly \\'on enough money to liro^ without workirig for a; fehsiderablel timie. ■ \