GENERAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13146, 7 April 1906, Page 5 (Supplement)

GENERAL NEWS.

DOG'S FATAL JUMP. A strange accident, which unfortunately resulted in the death of a child, is reported by the Bilgao papers to have taken place at Sestao. In a farmer's cottage a grandmother was nursing a- 14-mouth-old baby. The farmer'.* loaded shotgun was standing in a corner resting against the wail, when a: dog came bounding; into the .room and \ " accidentally jumped up against the gun, which tell over and went- off. The -charge- '~ " entered the child's body, killing it instant. Tv, and gravely injured the old grandmo- * ther. : : ' ;-.': .-' .--'"'-.-; ',- "THE QUEEN OP DEATH/' ° ' 7 /' /During Queen Marguerite's recent, tour in -;■ an automobile through Norway, a mishap occurred to the car near a village, which rendered a halt necessary. The villagers soon surrounded tin" motoring party, and .' • began making opprobrious remarks. .On lie- -~: ing informed that one of the passengers .';.. "-• was :of Royal: rank one of the peasants . shouted: "A Queen?- She must, be the Quecu *of Death, since she ; rides in a dia- . bolical ' carriage!" At that., moment the motor, resumed its. journey to the accompaniment of a flight of stones. :. , - BURGLAR IN A BOX: .'','„".' • A burglar introduced himself into a bank at Naples recently in a trunk, which one of .. ' -' the servants pretended was hers. The trunk "•' "■.;.': was brought into the apartments of the manager of the bank, who lives over the business premises, when his fox terrier be- - gan to' bark furiously. •He refused to be '■ driven away, and the manager's suspicions being aroused . four policemen were brought' in and tin- trunk forced open. The burglar - sprang out with a, revolver in his hand, but : '>,,:'■;.: was overpowered before :he could do any damage. The servant has disappeared. A STRANGE:ACCIDENT. A decidedly curious accident happened the other day at Bremen. Two goods trains ran into each other in a tunnel situated under the Hemmstrat'se,: resulting in the tap :ofa, ■ !„ - benzine lank ear being wrenched off, allow--i.ig its contents, some 3000 gallons, to escape. The dangerous fluid ran through the - gutters provided to drain off surface water into '■.lie sewers, a considerable ; distance away. "Three men happened to be working in the sewer, using naked lights. A terrific explosion occurred, which lifted the; paving stones in the street above,-and the: three-i "• sewennen perished in the flames, -\ \ j SEVEN YEX IJS FOR A BLOW. The tonally Severe sentence of seven years and nine months' imprisonment has been passed by a . court-martial at; Lubeck ■_ on. Troopei Gloy for' attacking Lieutenant Heerlein in the barracks. .While doing drill . , he was censured by .'; a -commissioned officer, who treated him: roughly,., and to punish him and others made them practice rifle-holding in a half-kneeling position for half an hour. Lieutenant lleerlein came , - into the yard/later to take on the drill, and the men, owing to the strain-on the ftuuscles of their legs,. marched badly: The lieutenant, in ignorance of the cause, ordered them to step out, but Gloy failed to obey. On. being further reprimanded he raised his rill© and struck the officer an the head, felling him to the ground. ," QUERY ABOUT A KISS. A question about a kiss was, it seems, • ■ the cause of Edward Locke, a coal-porter, of Dalston, being remanded at North London, on the charge of causing grievous bodi- . ' ly. harm to Thomas Scabrookey an oilman, ■■, of Russia Lane, Bctlmal Green. The injured matt subsequently, died. Evidence [ was given that Seabrooke was lying in - x Queen's Road, Dalston, with a crowd around l him, Locke came up with an ambulance, . , and to a constable said : " I did it. J was - t going home with my wife when Seabrooke . " I said to me, 'Why "don't yoa kiss her?" I L - went up to him and asked him-what it had ;~; % s to do with him, and he said, 'Do you want t a fight?' We then had a fight. I knocked i him down. ■' Then I went to the hospital ,- and brought the ambulance." - * : ; r; \ DAMAGES. AGAINST MISS , ADA . - / : REEVE. " At Liverpool Assizes the Broughtoa } Theatre Syndicate, Limited, Manchester, . .' * were awarded. £75 damages against Miss Ada Reeve, the well-known actress, for " breach of agreement. It was stated* that - 'Miss Reeve was 'engaged 12 nights at the ■ 'Victoria Theatre at Broughton last Christ--1 mas to play in " Winnie Brooke, Widow," > but that, securing a better engagement in i the Birmingham pantomime, she broke her engagement at Broughton. It was arraag- .-• ed that the syndicate should receive'3o per . cent .jf the receipts, while a minimum of . £500 was - guaranteed to Miss Reeve. They . ' expected Miss Reeve would be so big a r draw that the grass receipts would amount . to £1600, and that they .would; he entitled 6 to £476. " - I ' 5 A FAMOUS PICTIURE. At last, according to the: Milan papers, steps are being taken to preserve from utter decay Leonardo da Vinci's famous mural painting of the" Lord's : Supper in the Chapel "'_.■:<^ ; :s of Santa Maria delle Grazie. As far back as 1899 it Was proposed to appoint a committee of inquiry ..to devise ways and means ' to save the immortal Italian's masterpiece, 3 and even an international competition was „■' mooted, but the Ministry of Education unaccountably deferred its decision. ' It has now been resolved to adopt- a renovating ' process recommended by Professor Gaven- -- ghi, of Milan. The slow and painstaking :"■ nature :of the work will be understood when - ( it is realised that every minute particle of ■ a paint is to be reiixed on the wall with a _ strong, colourless, adhesive substance. Ex- ! periments made by Professor VOavehghi'* ' method have so far proved very . successful. J A CASE OF KLEPTOMANIA. , s An extraordinary instance of kleptomania , is recorded by M.Mariindonde- Monty in j ' the Revue Philanthropique. It presented r itself with unusual virulence in the core of a French lady of great wealth and.; exalted social position. When under the evil.influence she would , commit. acts lof shoplifting with consummate coolness- and audacity, as ° ; though she. had been trained to larceny . *.. from youth. The victim of this distressing.;: l f mania-suffered'great shame and mortification ;;; ? afterwards, and used to return value for the - j objects stolen, with an anonymous note askc ing forgiveness. Finally, in one of the best!: i siloes in Paris, she was caught in the act by a young detective, to whom she .was; personally unknown. When taxed with her :. : ■ ; offence the proprietor, who knew her as one -;■ : ; of; his best customers, of .-.blameless '■' reputa- ' ": tion, and'renowned for her charitable'works, '_, profusely " apologised, and severely rebuked; %m : the detective . for a supposed mistake, but,. ;, 1 '* bursting into tears, the :! unfortunate lady " confessed that it was - who had often ;. j_ anonymously returned money for articles * „ she had pilfered. Even her nearest rela? ■ v fives were unaware of the strange perver- ■ L sity from which she had so long suffered. , 1 ROMANCE OF A GIPSY MUSICIAN. > The Kaschauer _ Zeitung, of Kasehau, !r Hungary, contains the following advertise-; J. meiit: —"Miss Marie : de-jStechow declares; 3 .. herewith: that she has broken off her ens' . gagement with Mi". Ferry ;Horvath." Beit hind this brief announcement there lies a d romantic story which is almost identical ; 0 with 1 that- of she Princess Chimay and her rf 0 lover Rigo. •' With Horvath,, a gipsy musi-.; 5> . cian of magnificent physique, , Marie ; de | xi Stechow, a niece of a wealthy Brazilian '■'s. 1 u planter of German origin: fell .violently; in n (I love. Like Rigo, Horvath had a wife and ■-.••;B ° a numerous family at home in Kaschau, but ; e means were , devised by which the fascinate ing Romany should rid himself of his inatri- -:; ; e menial encumbrance. His wife, who pro,r bably knew him better, accepted with alac3. rity the prospect of a permanent separation d tor a consideration of £1200 : hi cash, and 1 the swarthy Adonis, ;'; overjoyed, hurried:J; j; back to his beloved. But alas! well-?? v laid scheme went agley. Before he had © said good-bye for the- last time to his native, ie town the notice of the broken engagement ,'.' appeared in-the local paper. The pros pee- 1 * m : tive bride had given way to urgent family ;d representations, and poor Horvath is left sans wife, sans sweetheart, and ; sans . a sou-