GENERAL NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7545, 19 May 1903, Page 7

GENERAL NEWS.

A GILP.ERTIAN SJ.TUAn".IO?v T. I\lr Ira Terrill, an ox-member of the Oklahoma Legislature, is serving- a'sentence of twelve years' imprisonment in a Kansas gaol for manslaughter. He is the first victim or a law which lie was ,the author, which aimed at putting down lawlessness. Terrill shot a man named Embrce, with whom he had -a quarrel about the ownership of some land. The ex-legislator ever since his conviction has been demandmg- his release on tho ground that the law which he passed is unconstitutional. As the author of the law he claims to know more about it than anyone else. SUDDEN KISE TO WEALTH. In one night a Punimanian teacher m most needy circumstances has become the possessor of a gold mine. Happening to find a lump of ore in a licit! at Britritz (Hungary) ho lollowed up the clue and opened up the ground, with the result that he found a rich vein of gold. He is now drawing a large income as the result of his discovery. BOBBING- THE GRAVE. Four young girls have just been sentenced to short terms of imprisonment in I-'iume (Austria) for a most unusual offence. They appeared during the carnival in strange costumes decorated with long black silk ribbons. A gentleman happening casually to examine the ribbons, noticed that one of them bore marks of gum with traces of gold lettering which had been formerly ailixed to the ribbon. He was able to decipher the following inscription, ••' To her never-to-be-for-gotten husband.—The sorrowing widow." This led to an inquiry, and it was soon discovered that 'the girls had robbed the'cemetery of the wreaths, adapting the ribbons as a novel means of elaborating their fancy dresses.

SAD END OF AN ARMY CAREER. At the Old Bailey Henry Mtzger- | aid James, until recently a lieutenant in the 3rd Liverpool Regiment, was sentenced to four years' penal servitude for forging the name of Colonel Douglas to seven cheques drawn on Cox's Bank. In extenuation it was urged that the prisoner was only twenty years old. Ho had served with distinction in South Africa, and at the time of tho commission of these offences was on the eve of promotion. On his reiturn to England he was impoverished by the loss of an income which he had hitherto enjoyed, and living among a set of men of expensive tastes he was tempted to forge tho cheques.