NEWS BY THE MAIL.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 5679, 29 August 1905, Page 7

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

(Per Sonoma, at Auckland.) TROUBLE IN WEST AFRICA. BERLIN, July 31. An official report from the Governor of tho Cameroons (West Air ca) was recoived to-day by the colonial division ->t tho Foreign Office concerning the affair on the French Congo frontier. It says that Senegalese ©oltliers crossed to the German station at Miszuinmissum and plundered merchandise. Captain Sohuonamann, who was at the time in the southern part of the d strict, was shot on his march to Miszmninissum by French Senegalese troops, and the Gormans returned the fire, killing five 'and capturing four. The Governor of the Cameroons upon receiving the report of the affair from tin* commander of the German troops, aunt Colonel Mueller to protect the residence of the French local Governor, in tho Gabon district, and also coinmumoat.ui with the Governor of French Congo at Brazzaville. The latter pr>posedthat a joint comoo.esion should immediately be sent to the spot to investigate tho 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 tH© death of Archbishop Chapelle. of the D ocese of. Louisiana. The news of hiis death created a profound shock. Monsignor Chapejle was taken ill with yellow fever on Friday, lie 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 his house on only one occasion before he was taken ajek. On Friday he complained 'of Symptoms which are the forerunner of y *ht-w fever. Dr Larue, the Archbishop’s physician, on Fr.day diagnosed the case as one of genu.ne yellow fever. From the first he was apprehensive of the re- : suit Archbishop Uhapell© was very stout of build, full-blooded and just sixty years of age; aud’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. -, t Public interest in the' general situation aa regards the yellow lever epidemic suffered a temporary eclipse in the nnex,peeled death of Archbishop. Chapelle. U is cons dered remarkable that the archbishop should have contracted the disease so quickly Ho had spent many of the later years of hi© life in-Gulya and Pcrto Rioo. in both of which countries the disease hag 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 Cbartress street, op that an nsect foqnd its way into his residence, which is nit far from the tern'tory within which there has been infection.

collapse of a building. MANY WOMEN AND CHILDREN KILLED. ALBAN"?. N.Y., August 8. The middle section of the big department store of John Myers and 00. 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 thirty men, women and children were 1 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 eraplovees of the firm, the majority being girls. The build.ng was old, bnt always considered safe. Workmen were making extensive repairs. A gang of Italian .workmen started to remove ■ a 9\l a - r which supported the main floor. Evidently they failed to brace thq floor pronerly for scarcely had they loosened tflo iron post than the whole three flpt-rs above came tumbling down. The. building did not take fire, but when darkness came it was estimated. that nearly fifty persons remained in the ruins, and that not" more than half of these could survive the weight pressing upon them. The damage to the property is estimated atfrom 8 two to three hundred thousand dollars. 1

A GREAT Flip. NEW YORK. August 8. A conflagration, second only tp the great fire of five years ago swept the entire water front of Hoboken last night, rsnsin" damage which ran into millions of dolTars The list of destroyed prqperty includes the great depot terminal of the Delaware and Lackawanna Railroad Company, and the four-story boathouses of the Barclay street Ferry Company. Seven passenger trams, which were caught in the . railway terminal yards the new and magnificently equipped ferry boat Binghampton, two other ferry boats, the historic Dukes Hotel, and passenger ©beds of the - Public Service Corporation. Great damage was inflicted on tjie North German Lloyd and Hamburg-American Steamship Company’s piers. Passengers by the ferry boat Bihghampton, 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 of Jersey city, and later, that of New .fork, fought the flames, and a strong flotilla of fire-boats was pressed ; into the service. The flrpmep were handicapped by wind, which swept the flames inland, and seemed to, threaten.many buildings. The fire originated in the ferry-boat Hopatpiekong. but the cause is not . known. An explosion was heard, then there was a hurst of flames, and in an instant the bpnt was in flames. The firemen suffered terribly from heat and smoke.

ADMIRAL PAUL JONES. NEW YORK, August 8. After moat imposing ,apd reverept ceremonies. the body of John Paul Jones.,the naval hero of the American revolution, lias been placed in a vault in the centre of the grounds of the Naval Academy, Annapolis,' Maryland. The body was found, after search lasting soipe three years, in a cemetery in Paris, where Jones died. Identification being complete, the American Government sent the battleship Brooklyn to bear Hie remains home ip 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. Jnly 84. Pillars of the''Church of Scientific Christianity” are mourning to-day the sudden flight pf Mrs Moyel 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 Jnly 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.