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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume 36, Issue 9469, 28 April 1905, Page 1

The College of Sain t.Gene vie ve, near Montreal, was burnt. Eight pupils, a nun, and four lady residents perished in the flames. Tiiree men are in custody for a series of alleged assaults on women on Friday.. In two cases it is said they assaulted in an indecent manner married women accompanied by theiF husbands on the East road. It is alleged that they then went to the house of Mrs O'Shannessy, Eastlnvercargill, and a scene of depravity was enacted, ending in the rape of the woman, who is frail and in delicate health. One of the accused then, with a bar of iron, smashed everything in the house that was breakable. Albert Prentice and Thomas B. Finnerty are in custody, charged with rape,; and the third man for assault. Others are supposed to be implicated. : Fifteen thousand bakers in Moscow, have struck. Only the municipal ovens are working. The ! price of bread has trebled. It is reported that £IOO was stolen from the Otago Central down train on Friday. The money" was being sent on by the railway stationmaster at Omakau, who placed it in a bag and dsposited it in the guard's van. During the journey to town the bag and the money disappeared. A number of cattle have died in the minyip district (Vic.) recently, and a post- mortem examination of one of the animals revealed traces of phosphorus pensioning. Portions of carcases of rabbits were found in the ■■■■ rumen. The owners have been laying phosphorised preparations for rabbits. : This story is told of a doctor in a New Zealand town,.who owns a motor but is not , very-expert as a driver. He was-travelling down a street, when he"'rati into-and capsized a pedestrain. Hejlooked behind, and seeing the.man still-prone, made a circuit and,ran.back, intending to stop beside, sind help him. - But the motor shot a 1 yard or two beyond the mark, and hit the man again just: as'h_e>as about to get up. The doctor turned his car piice more, arid \vae;cautiously stealing near"to the prostrate sufferer, .when an excited spectator rushing from. the ; side walk, Bnd shaking the. victim, exclaimed ." Look ohtj .'he's coming nfc you-Wgaiii.c.'' .•Whereupon the.; : man.-. 'scrambled;.up, and '■■ stiiAe J t-p: run. ißttfiiuieut;! to t u ••■/.•" -