News by the Mail.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XXVIII, Issue 6788, 3 September 1900, Page 2

News by the Mail.

WOMAN WITH FOUR HUSBANDS

Bigamous marriages brought Elizabeth Bignell, aged thirty-five, of Alderney street, Pimlico, to Bow-street Police court on July 26, when a Gurious story was revealed. She suddenly left her home in 1883, counsel for the prosecution stated, and whan, five years later, she returned, said she was a widow. Then she married a labourer, named Kemp, who, on release from prison, to which he had bsen sent for not paying her debts, found she had disappeared, and he did not see her again. In 189S, representing herself as the widow of a foreigner, who had left her J815,000 a year, she married Richard Benjamin Sprange, and it was in the course of inquiries about his money that Sprange discovered she was an adventuress, whereupon he left her. In June of this year she married again.

RIVAL TO FROZEN MEAT.

From Buonos Ayres a trial shipment to England is being made by the steamer Southern Oros3 of fresh meat preserved by sterilising air in a special chamber. According to the Daily Mail correspondent at Buenos Ayres, the inventor is a German engineer there, and he claims that by means ot the sterilised air chamber, newly-killed meat, bones, and marrow may be kept perfectly fresh and succulent for an indefinite period. On May 19 several bullocks and sheep ware killed and put into sterilised air produced by the inventor's apparatus, and were duly sealed by the Minister of Agriculture in the presence of a number of well-known gentlemen, including Major Flintoff, of the British Eemount Commission. On June 16 the Minister and witnesses opened the sealed deposit, and found all the meat in as perfect condition as though just slaughtered. AMUCH-MARRIED CENTENARIAN TURK. In the village of Bodra a Turk named Ismail, aged 120 years, is in such good health that he frequently walks to Bartin, six hours' distauce, to sell eggs, for he is a poultry farmer. He has had thirty-four wives, the last of whom he married only a few days ago. The bride is sixty years his junior, and the mavraige was celebrated with much solemnity, to the sound of drums and fifes and of volleys from firearms. The whole village was en fete. The wedding procession included all the male prog%fe of the patriarch bridegroom, eonsisjttngs of one hundred and forty sons, gijjjffiTsons, and great grandsons. Tho number of his female progeny is not stated.— —Terdjumami-Hakikafc, Constantinople. I STRUGGLE BEFORE A TRAIN. The sensational struggle that took place between a man and his wife on tho line at Anerley Railway Station on June 8, resulted in the husband, Geo. Griffiths, being charged with attempted murder at the Central Criminal Court on July 24. Mrs Griffiths firmly adhered to her story that her husband intended to throw her under a train which was at the tune approaching. One of her arms was struck by the locomotive guard, and had afterwards to be amputated. She said Grif--1 fiths had previously threatened to kill her. Several spectators and the engine driver were called to corroborate her evidence, . which Mr Jiistitfe Bigham dßsc'rib'ad as " mbst exfoaordinai'y." &n« aefettU Was" t^ai he Was ttving fa pevept Me wife frdiri ctfm'rmttin'g' sVicide\ Jfljig ttfe ]<% b'elieVe'cf, aiifl hs was acquitiM.