NEWS BY THE MAIL.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1747, 30 August 1905, Page 30

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

(Per Sonoma, at Auckland.) TROUBLE IN WEST AFRICA. BERLIN, July 81. An official report from the Governor of the Cameroons (West Africa) _ was received to-day by the colonial division of the Foreign Office concerning the affair on the French Congo frontier. It s&y 3 that Senegalese soldiers crossed to the German station at Miszummissum and plundered merchandise. Captain Schuenamann, who was at the time m the southern part of the district, was shot on his march to Miszummissum by French Senegalese troops, and the (Hermans returned the fire, killing five and capturing four. The Governor of the Cameroons upon receiving the report of the affair from the commander of the German troops, eent Colonel Mueller to protect the residence of the French local Governor, in the Gabun district, and also communicated with the Governor of French Congo at Brazzaville. The latter proposed that a joint commission should immediately be sent to the spot to investigate the trouble and to arrange for the prevention of such incidents. To this the German administration agreed. YELLOW FEVER. AN ARCHBISHOP’S SUDDEN DEATH. NEW ORLEANS, August 9. A sudden change in his condition today culminated in the death of Archbishop Chapelle. of the Diocese of Louisiana. The news of his death created a profound shock. Monsignor Chapelle was taken ill with yellow fever on Friday. He had returned to the city three days before, having just completed a tour of Louisiana, and: announced his intention of helping to stamp out the fever. The Archbishop, however, left hie house on only one 'occasion before he was taken sick. On Friday he complained of symptoms which are the forerunner of y How fever. Dr Larue, the Archbishop’s physician, on Friday diagnosed the case as one of genuine yellow fever. From the first he was apprehensive of the result. Archbishop Chapelle was very stout of build, full-blooded and just sixty years of age; and fever is always alarming in a patient under those conditions. The disease made steady inroads upon the venerable patient, and early to-day he showed signs of increasing weakness. Before noon there was an alarming change for the worse. Em.nent physicians were immediately summoned for consultation, but the archbishop was beyond succour. Public interest m tne general situation as regards the yellow fever epidemic suffered a temporary eclipse in the unexpected death of Archbishop Chapelle. it is cons dered remarkable that the archbishop should have contracted the disease so quickly He had spent many of the later years of his life in Cuba and Porto Rioo, in both of which countries the disease has been epidemic, without ever having contracted it. Among sc.entific men there is little doubt that the Archbishop fell victim to a mosquito bite during a brief visit he paid to an old archbishopric on Chartress street, or that an nsect found its way into his residence, which is not far from the territory within which there has been infection. COLLAPSE OF A BUILDING. MANY WOMEN AND CHILDREN KILLED. ALBANY, N.Y., August 8. The middle section cf the big department store of John Myers and Co. collapsed to-day, carrying down with it over a hundred persons who were caught in the chaos of brick, plaster and wooden beams. Between twenty and th rty men, women and children were killed. Anything like a complete list of the dead is impossible until workers have reached the bottom of the debris. With few exceptions the dead and injured were emulovees of the firm, the majority being girls The build mg was old, but always considered safe. Workmen were making extensive repairs. A gang of Italian workmen started to remove a pular which supported the main floor. Evidently they failed to brace the floor properly for scarcely had they loosened the iron post than the whole three floors above came tumbling down. The building did not take fire, but when darkness came it was estimated that nearly fifty peieons remained in the ruins, and that not more than half of these could survive the weight pressing upon them. Ihe damage to the property is estimated at from two to three hundred thousand dollars.

A GREAT FIRE. NEW YORK, August 8. A conflagration, second only to tne great fire of five years ago swept the entire water front of Hoboken last night, cansing damage which ran into millions of dollars. The list of destroyed property include© the great depot terminal of the Delaware and Lackawanna Railroad Company, and the four-story boathouses of the Barclay street Ferry Company. Seven passenger trains. wnicU were caught in the railway terminal yards, the new and magnificently equipped ferry boat Binghampton, two other ferry boats, the historic Duke s Hotel, and passenger sheds of the Public Service Corporation. Great damage was inflicted on the North German Lloyd and Hamburg-Ameriean Steamship Company’s piers. Passengers by the terry boat Binghampton, which caught fire m midstream, had a narrow escape, while many of the crew were compelled to leap into the river to save their lives. The entire Hoboken fire department, that ot Jersey city, and later, that of New York, fought the flames, and a strong flotilla of fire-boats was pressed into the service. The firemen were handicapped by wind, which swept the flames inland, and seem-

ed to threaten many buildings. The fire originated in the ferry-boat Hopateiekong, but. the cause is not known. An explosion was heard, then there was a burst of flames, and in an instant the boat was in flames. The firemen suffered terribly from heat and smoke. ADMIRAL PAUL JONES. NEW YORK, August 8. After most imposing and reverent ceremonies, the body of John Paul Jones, the naval hero of the American revolution, has been placed in a vault in the centre of the grounds of the Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland. The body was found, after search lasting some three years, in a cemetery in Paris, where Jones died. Identification being comSlete, the American Government sent the attleship Brooklyn to bear the remains home in state. The French Government took a suitable part in the ceremonies, and a French cruiser accompanied the Brooklyn across the Atlantic, and French officers and men took part in the ceremonies at Annapolis. A RUNAWAY SHEPHERDESS. CHICAGO, July 24. Pillars of the “Church of Scientific Chris-, tiafiity” are mourning to-day the sudden flight of Mrs Mayel A. Jackman, the “shepherdess of Paradise,” who. with her husband, is supposed to be heading for Australia with 50,000 dollars belonging to the church. They mysteriously disappeared from the church and from their home on July 13th, when they started for San Francisco. Dr J. A. Price, physician to the head of this mysterious cult, says he heard Mrs Jackman read a letter from a rich man in Australia, offering the “healer” inducement to start her propaganda there. It is thought the party may go to Australia.