GENERAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12242, 11 April 1903, Page 2 (Supplement)

GENERAL NEWS.

SHOT BY A. Do(j. , : - From the evidence given at the i n at Newmarket there can be littU' j ' that Charles Sims, Prince Soltykoff. w ' gamekeeper, who was found lvi„„ T* 4 " with his face shot off in a wood near ? " lodge one night recently, was kill*/ 7 1 ' his dog. The animal, in jumpins m I him while he was in the act of takin dead rabbit from another dog, caMfcr- * master's gun, and it went off. 'Froin I" 8 ® o'clock in the morning until the body" found nt night the dog, ™ ; Only when the keeper's wife arrived the spot and called did one of the anim? come to the edge of the wood, but it woSjfi not leave. This was how the body J, discovered. MR. CARNEGIE RECALLS OLD DATs Mr. Carnegie was recently the , the American Institute of Electrical Ft. • neers. In his speech he gate some iS I dents of Ins early life as a telemnh senger and then with Edison as an 0 w tor. He said in partßefore the e W tnca engineer was we-Mr. Edison £' Barclay, and myself, we messenger bow were. There was 110 engineering eler>hi?7~ in those days, but I have defightM £ miniscences. I chew the cud over t W many times. The greatest change tw ever came to me was when I was M from the dirty cellar of an engine-room • I was firing the engine and ruHning it ' 7 ' and many times afraid it would explode-! and translated to a telegraph office wherr they had clean paper, clean pens am? clean windows. That, ladies and eentle men, was the first glimpse ot my para d s '' on earth 111 making a livelihood When r first became able to touch that instrument and, pounding the key, call up New Or' leans—l had been practising surreptitiously before the operator came in the mornin/ receiving the princely salary of 25d01s » month. I said to myself: 'This is what Swedenborg said about heaven: space was annihilated.' So when I see Mr. Edison and others, then, I think, 'Why, boys you're a new generation.' But knowing what you do, no fond father was ever prouder of his boys than we are, Edison Barclay, and I." ' n ' world's LONGEST bridge. New York, February 15.—Official plan, have just been completed for a third steel suspension bridge connecting New York and Brooklyn, which will completely eclipse all its predecessors. It will be 10 008 feet in length— longest city bridge in the world. In addition to ample accommo. dation for foot passengers it will have roadways for horse vehicles and lines for electric tramways and trains. It will be largely used as a place of recreation, and will have a large hall for meetings at one end and a concert hall at the other. Pour large lifts will convey people from the street to the bridge promenade. A novel engineering feature will be cables which will pass over towers standing on pivots and automatically taking up the "slack" due to contraction and expansion from climatic changes instead of the usual sliding leverages. LADY HONOURED BY MIKADO. The Emperor of Japan has bestowed the Imperial Order of the Crown upon Miss Margaret McLean, the " lady aunt" to Japanese sailors in London, as a mark of his high appreciation, and in recognition , of _ her services to Japanese bluejackets. This order was created for women exclusively, and Miss McLean is the first European to receive this signal mark of the Mikado's favour. There are only about eighteen ladies in Japan who can boast of its possession. In 1873 Miss McLean went to China, and five years later proceeded to Japan, where she remained teaching English to Japanese students and doing practical missionary work among English sailors for nine years. For four years past she has lived alone at her Japanese Christion Institute, Tilbury Dock, where, after >', meeting incoming steamers from the Par East, she entertains the crews, and conducts parties of from 60 to 200 to see the sights of London. "woman's perfect age. I : It was Thackeray who decided that the age of the Venus of Milo was thirty-two. This we may take as expert authority, and so regard thirty-two as the era when a woman is at her perfect moment of full bloom. Certainly, it would seem that from this on. to forty are the years when she is most apt to feel and to inspire great love. Someone . has announced that Cleopatra was thirty-eight when she and Anthony "kissed away kingdoms," and someone else has declared that Helen of . Troy, was nearly forty when Paris was smitten with her beauty and embroiled the god* and heroes in battle. And as these two ladies have a reutation for attractiveness unequalled since Eve gave ear to the serpent, we may take it that the age of charm is nearer the days of Indian summer than the days of spring buds and young leaves.—Ainslie's Magazine. TRAGEDY of A Lira. ; "If I have sinned I have suffered," pleaded a prepossessing woman named Helen Coats, or Taylor, who stood in th* dock at Glasgow charged with bigamy. The story told the Court was that at the a ge _of sixteen she was married to a lad of eighteen. After treating her cruelly for six months her husband left her, and sht managed by charing to furnish a litt • house. He returned and sold the furni- . ture to buy drink. This was repeated ,on sixteen occasions. She separated from him, and five years' later married a man named : McQuade. The lattei, because she would' not join a gang of coiners, informed the police of her bigmamous marriage. This sheriff said she had wronged no one, and discharged her. KILLED BY CROSSING HIS LEGS. An extraordinary fatality was revealed t? the Westminster coroner lately. Francis Arnold, officers' chef at Woolwich Barricks, had been tinder treatment for am ulcerated heel. He was examining the heel at his home at Woolwich with the aid of a hand mirror and with is right leg crossed over the left, when his thigh broke with a loud report, and the unfortunate man died subsequently in hospital. In certain circumstances, stated a doctor, the act of, crossing the legs would be quite sufficient •'-» cause such an injury. PROSECUTION for refusing TO ASSIST TOLICE. In the report of the murder of Constable Price, of Burton, by gipsies, a description was given of a prolonged chase across country, in which police were the pursuers, and members of the gipsy band the pursued. It will be recalled that ' two men, whose assitance was demanded by a police sergeant in dealing with some gipsies with whom he suddenly found himself in touch refused to help him. The incident had ft sequel at Sudbury Police Court, when Joseph Kidd and Alfred Powell were charged with refusing to assist Sergeant Hutchinson in the execution of his duty. The office* said he saw the three gipsies, who were wanted, near ao encampmnt at Foston Wood, and called upon Kidd and' Powell in the King's name to assist him m arresting them. He directed them how to proceed, and then went himself to the camp fire, where he wes set upon by the cudgel-armed gipsies, and seriously hurt. Kidd and Powell, in the meantime, walked away. They were committed to the Derby Quarter Sessions. LIVED LIKE A PRINCE ON £100 A YEAR. Some extraordinary revelations were made at Manchester in the course of the bankruptcy examination of William Stanton, formerly a cashier to Messrs. Reiss Brothers, shipping merchants. Stanton was sentenced to ten years' penal servitude at the last Manchester Assizes for embezzlement amounting to £46,000. He received £100 a year, and said that • for six years prior to 1900 his income, improperly obtained, was £4000 or £5000, and during the past two years £10,000. His ordinary living expenses were £500, and the whole of the difference had gone in betfang and gambling on the Stock Exchange. He had also owned racehorses. For five years he carried on a business as a skirt) manufacturer under the name of Wilson, and lost £6000. 'He bought South Africa® gold mine stock to the extent of £180,000, and sold for £178,000. The examination was adjourned. ♦*«*'•ss!