Tragic Result of Jealousy.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6487, 3 October 1892, Page 4

Tragic Result of Jealousy.

At a ball given by the officers of the corps of the Czar's body of Hussars in Moscow, on the night of August 5, Lieutenant Ivan Rattovich suddenly stepped into the middle of the ballroom, drew a pistol from his dolman, and shot Prince Nicholas Suslovitch, a brother officer. Suslovitch was dancing with the lieutenant's fiancee. The bullet penetrated his heart, and he fell to the floor, dragging his partner with him. Rattovitch, amid wild excitement, stepped over his comrade's prostrate body, raised his affianced's head by the hair, and'shot her. Then he blew his own brains out. All this happened in less than thirty seconds. The shots were fired so quickly that interference was impossible. The cries of terrified women first gave the alarm to those in other parts of the hall. Medical assistance w<as at once procured, but it was of no avail so far as the two officers were concerned. The young lady was with difficulty dragged from the death-grip of her murdered partner, and she was at the point of death. The Czar ordered a special report of the occurrence to be forwarded to him by telegram. The murdered prince had 'been warned beforehand not to attempt to dance with Rattovich's intended

The Vienna correspondent of the Standard reports an extraordinary case of rescue of some buried miners in Bohemia. On 4th July, in the Emeranmine, near Bilin, an inundation of sand from a neighboring pit suddenly blocked the mine while five miners were still at work. Tne accident was soon discovered, but the rescue of the men wasextremely difficult, asit was not known in what direction they were to be looked for. In order, however, to keep them alive until they could be got at, air was pumped in to them through bore holes. After 80 hours two men were found, on July 8, still alive, but in a state of great exhaustion, their thirst having caused them to drink the oil in their lamps. They were taken to the hospital, where they are now recovering. The three other men, however, could not be found, and were believed to be dead. Great, therefore, was the astonishment and rejoicing of the search party when they succeeded on Thursday night — that is, after 17 days— in finding these miners still alivp. During the whole of that time they had been without any food, and had at last given up all hope of being rescued. They arc, of course, in a wretched condition, nearly reduced to skeletons, but the doctors believe they will recover. Some additional particulars concerning the murder of Mr David M'Kellar at .Santa Rosa, Mexico, on July 20, are published in the Christchurch Press, taken from the Eagle Pres3 Guide of August 6. Every man known to have travelled the road from !Mus([iiiz towards Nacimiento on the evening of the murder was arrested and examined privately. It soon became known that during the afternoon one Adolfo Villereal had twice inquired in person, and three times through his major domo, at Don Antonio Berchelman's store at what time Mr M'Kellar would leave Santa Rosa. Adolfo Villereal was a stockowncr against whom Mr M'Kellar had a suit for damages pending in the courts, and Villereal was arrested on suspicion. Amongst others arrested was R. Soto, Villereal's brother-in-law, who kept a small saloon on the outskirts of the town. Under rigid cross-examination of the judges Soto was unable to account for his presence on the road where Mr M'Kellar had been murdered, and becoming confused broke down anil confessed that he was the murderer. The paper speaks in the highest terms of praise of Mr M'Kellar and his family.