NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16120, 8 May 1923, Page 4

NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL

HYDROPHOBIA PERIL: 14 BITTED . • BY BULLOCKS. PARIS, .March. 10. —Fourteen peoph were bitten at Boiseet and' Rouziers, ii the department -of Cantal, by two youhj bullocks who had been attacked' by i mad l dog. Tlie bullocks had' to be dto sbroyed with rifles. The 14 people are being sent to the Pasteur Institute in Paris for treatment to prevent hydrophobia. QUADRUPLETS. * NEW YORK, March 11.—Mrs. Homci MeMann, wife of a farmer at Greenbrier, \Ve%fc Virginia, gave birth to four boys, each weighing She is aged: Z7\ Her maternal record includes three sets of twins. Altogether she lias given birth t 0.20 children. The quadruplets are doing well, but the mother's life Is in danger. HUNDREDS ILL AFTER A . ; v ' . BANQUET. MANILA, March 22.—More than one litindrjpd, tourists, who are making a trip around . the world on the liner Empress of France, were ill yesterday with ptomaine poisoning after a banquet the previous evening. None were in a serious condition and all departed last night for Singapore aboard their ship. Physicians said shell fish caused the trouble.

WAGNER FAMILY* IMPOVERISHED VIENNA, March 11.—The financia troubles, of Cosima Wagner and lie; family have induced. Felix Weingartner as manager of the Popular Opera, whicl performs many of Wagner’s .works, tc start a benefit.movement in favor of tin heirs of the. composer by sending then: 1 per-cent, of Ihe takings of all Wagnes performances as “honorary royalties.' It is hoped that many other managers will follow this example, though Wagner’s works are now “free.” - M SLIP ; AEROPLANES. NEW YORK, ■ March 11. —Successful tests were made yesterday afternoon- ir Mitchel Field, Long Island', when an IS foot courier aeroplane, weighing les; than ICOOJb., was hooked on to a trapezelikei codtfiVan.ce lowered' from a large; machine overhead) while the latter wa: flying at various altitudes. Altogether eight contacts were made. The tests were carried- out to prove th-c possibility ...of furnishing necessaries t -aeroplanes ,in flight.,; -Hidden since, the war. STRASBOURG, March 12.—A freslproof of the brutal treatment which the inhabitants of Alsace-Lorraine met witl; at the hands of the German authoritier before the- return of the provinces t< France is afforded l to-day by the news papers. • They state that the military authorities have found l in German ' prisons—notably at Bochum—2o Alsatians whe were sent to prison doping the war. and were, not set free after the armistice. ENGLISH SWALLOW MADE 60C0'ivpLß Plight to Africa. CARMARTHENSHIRE, Wales, Marcl 28.—News’ has, reached here that r ringed! '.swallow, which was liberated frpm , Langharne, a neighboring village, lias been picked' up dead! on a farm nea Johannesburg, South, Africa, six thou skncf miles away. This is the first time actual proof ha been obtained! of a swallow’s flight frewr Wales to South- Africa. WHISKY THEFT IN DOCK. BOLD-LIQUOR PIRATES IN NEW • YORK. NEW YORK, March 10.—The in crews mg boldness of liquor pirates in New York was exemplified' dramatically las' night, when a band' of a dozen anno men climbed on beard* the Royal Mai liner Orbita in dock here, deployed' aloiij the decks', -broke open the storeroom, am removed 1 20 .'cases of Scotch whisky which they lowered into a launch. The robbery was effected in a leisure!; manner wlple the crew. was . playing poker in the forecastle. SHELL BURSTS AFTER USE FOR YEARS' AS COAL HAMMER. PARIS, March 10.—A shell 60 yean old exploded irr the. boiler room of ai hotel in the Rue d’Antin in Paris tliii morning. The shell, dating from the Second Empire, was believed to be ; harmless piece of iron and' had hem used for years as a coal hammfer. The handle having snapped 1 , the stokeof the hotel used! a piece of red-hot iror to-solder it bn. The result was the ex plosion, and he was seriously injured ii the spin© by a splinter. Other fragments split the pipes and let out boilin; water. SEANCE EXPLOSION. SEVEN SPIRITUALISTS BURNED I TO DEATH. NEW YORK, March 10.-Shelton Hall, a- public building at Pittsburg, wa; destroyed by fire last night after ;• mysterious .explosion which occurred .during the spiritualistic seance, SeVenty-fiye men and women attending the seance were trapped by the flames. Pwenty leaped from the third storey windows. to' the street without waiting for nets to be spread. They were taken to hospital, badly maimed Others finally escaped along the windov ledges to the roof of the adjoining build ing. ~ ' t Seven were burned to death. SHERIFF. IS SHOT BY BANK . . ... ROBBERS. TOPEKA, Kansas, March 27.—Sherif Albert E. Mayer, of Pottawatomie County, was shot and 1 seriously woundeo to-day by bank robbers after the ban dits- .had looted the Farmers’ State Ban! at West Mureland, Kansas, according tt word received at the office of the State Bank Commissioner h<;re. As the robbers had' cut wires ink West, Moreland, details were lacking. The sheriff, was .removed to a hospital 4i Manhattan. He'received two charges of buckshot, the report said. The' bandits blew open'the safe. When last seen they were* driving south from Pottawatomie in an automobile. The sheriff said) the robbers got about 2000 dollars in cash. - f ■ ' ' ''l-"- ; rtl ' ’ “ - '« BOY : LONDON, March il.—A scheme .to settle 10,000 boys between the.nges of 14 and 17 overseas has. Been launched by the Salvation Army following negotiations with, the Government 'arid the Canadian Government. Only a. limited numbei of boys between 17 and 18 will be selected. . The. Salvation Army, which gugranteei that tjm. boys will, have the chance of .a good-start in life, will, train the boys foi 12-weeks ;at one of their, institutions, and oil their farms at Hadleigh, Essex, in XYie rudSments of many handicrafts, in cjud'iirg carpentry, cobbling, cooking market gardening, and the handling o cattle and 1 horses. Overseas the bovs will be placed' oi farms. Each -will be required to fine 157, but a substantial sum will be sperr on his outfit. ... ~ v ; POPULAR MEDICINE. THRIVING CHEMISTS’ SHOP£ IN “DRY” NORWAY. ‘ , • COPENHAGEN. March 11.-Thc- pro prietor of a pharmacy in the small towi of; Fvedrikshald 1 . Norway, has been ac cased! ..of '.breaking the l prohibition lav .byvterving spirits without prescription ii 34,QQ0' .cflscs m., tW . cqurpe of one year An action Been Brought agains (wo doctors in the town for supplyiii, the pharmacy with fists of names pf per sons who couldl get spirits from tli pharmacy without prescription-. Fredrikshald has 11,218 inhabiltirik and, comparing this number with th 34,CC0 persons who are alleged to b regular customers of fhe pharmacy, on gets a vivid! impression of the working c prohibition.