THE WORLD'S NEWS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13671, 9 April 1908, Page 8

THE WORLD'S NEWS.

FACTS IN'BRIEF. ' * *+ -■«. - - > - - ~ f ' (srow the. Loft4qn Daily ,Xf r aU, , : . February 29). * -> - - „ r .. FRIDAY? February 21. The event of the hour in New York j& the appearance J>f ;Mts. J4*n?s B. FJustis iv a series of tableaux vivants ajtrangod by -Mrs Waldorf Astor. , When tjie curtaSn' was rung tfp Mrs\J2ustis wi^ discovered , posing as Salammbo, the XDarthagiriian heroine of Flaubert. \»dth a live boa constrictor twined round her body. The spectators shud•dored in horror. Ifor weeks past society had been , for toe tableati:^ which, ..were, .organised for cjiaritv. Mrs Eustis rehearsed her pic-. ture,w»ish a "property" snake, «nd was. forced to submit to much banter on the.< ujorealiiy of they cotton serpent with spring stuffings. - Recently, one of her friends "dared" her -to appear with a genuine snake. She took ,up the chal- N lerige, *and a, large boa cpnstrictor was obtained from the Zoological Gardens. TJI9 sntfke was. coaxed round. Mrs Eubtjs's waist and neck while its . heajd rested on her neck. Thunderous applause greeted the performance, but the intrepid lady refused to respond to calls for an encore.' 1 . Mr- Andrew Carnegie has given de25,«K) to the Robert Koch fund in Berlin for the campaign against tuberculosis. . sThe son of a well known Munich merchant has been sentenced in Russia, to fifteen years' penal servitude for caricaturing the Czar. |i4r\Edison> the .celebrated inventor, has 1 way. % operated on for mastoiditis., Mastoiditis is inflammation in the mastoid—the large mass of bone which can be felt immediately behind the ear. , SATURDAY, February 22. ' The social extravagances, of Baltimore' and Philadelphia are rapidly placing New York in the shade. At a recent, .faney v dress ball in the Quaker city/,a beautiful young matron appeared in a ravishing bathing suit. While supper was in progress someone suggested that the costume .was incomplete unless it was wet. Two gentlemen, quietly leaving the table, returned in a few minutes dragging an immense bath-tub filled with cold water. Immediately, the , young, matron was lifted * by a dozen eager arms and deposited in the tub, where. 'the guests surrounded her and douched her vigorously with siphons of aerated water. ThQ" lady of the tub is welj 'known and a great favourite in New, %otTk. and the guests were all leaders' of ; o #altimore society. - wP^ <.* '' '• Prince Eitel Fritz, as Grand ' Master of the Germain Knights of StJJohn, receive^ at the Castle' of Bellevue tlie Tibetan explorer,' Dr. von Lceqcq, and pinned on fiis breast the gold medal for life-saving conferred on him - by the BTr-itishv branch of the :prd»r- for' the braver l^ he displayed' in saving the life of Captain Sherer, a British officer, in, t]ie*Karakorum j Pass. Dr. von • Lecoeq and Captain J. D.~ Sherer were travelling together from Kashmir into India, when Caotain Sherer was taken ill 'with Ghteric fever and pneumonia. Dr. von Lococq set out. for^wssistanc^j and travelled lor nine days, during which ho Kv#d on flour balls dipped in grease. He had left meat and othor stores be* hind bun in order that Captain Sherer should .liot runshort. ».' ' SUNDAY, February 23. ' , An Italian- smuggler, named Predonij accompanied by his daughter Rose, aged eighteen* alter na*tt& conipie&U purchases in Switzerland of contraband goods, wt out t© cross the Fraele Pass {7200 ft.. high) into Italy. Thd two were approaching the summit . of the pass when they were overtaken' by a thick mifit, in which they lost their way. They roped themselves together.- Sutf(Jonly Predqni, . who was leading, ffll, qver./^V precipice, jerking his daughtci' off heir reot. By means of her ice-axe, jjtose stopped herself from being dragged over tlie precipice where her father was dangling, suspended in/ mid-afr. Her father hung in -this terrible position for an hour and & half,, hintii three v other smugglers, .hearing, the brave, girj's cries, came to the rescue. '• - , \ ' . I MONDAY; February 24. % - . A crime which has scarcely a single parallel in ill the c^ntur^jSf Roman Catholic history was ' perpetrated at Denvor, Colorado, where,, an Italian Anarchist, named Giuseppe \Guanacote, in the presence 1 of a crowdWF congregation brutally murdered Father Leo Heinridhs at the Communion tabled Gttanacote was kneeHng at 'the alttfr railing of St. Elizabeth^ Church with the consecrated wafer of the Holy Sacrament in his mouth. Suddenly, as the venerable priest laid 'his. hand on the' Anarchist's head and administered a blessing, the Italian rose to his feet t?itby,a dreadful , curse, pressed a revolver' 1 against his victim's breast, and pulled the trigger. The priest, with & cry of agon;/, fell dead, shot in the heart.' Wlier. arrested Guana oote explained that he shot Father Heinrichs loot because he hated hint personally, but because he had a", grudge against all priests, who,' he said, opposed the rights of working men. , The Italian "Black Hand" Society has/threatened to blow up the Amenepf Army magazines at lona. Island, in the Hudson -River, owing to the -distfi&rge of some Italian workmen. ' The 1 guards have been doubled.. While sheltering from a snowstorm, after losing their way for twenty-four hortrs,. three' railway surfacemen off ! Hassoni, Nevada/ discovered a three-inch SOAnyor gold in the desert, tfrelvfe inilos fr&in Qi-xi place. ": *' > ' , TUESDAY, February 25. SignorvNapi has been -sentenced in ltome to imprisonment for ele?en months and. twenty days* and is alab debarred from holding any public office for four-, years. So ends a trial without ftaraJfol in Italian history. Signer Nasi fn 1001 filled the post o£ Minister of Education. Young, pushing,, and ambitious, the Premiership seemed within his roach, w'fien a new Cabinet came into nowcr in November, 1903. To the general surprise, he was not invited to Join it. Then came ugly rumours of Jombezak'menfc of Government funds by Nasi., A Commission was appointed to inquire, and reported against him. He Aqcl tlio country. Disgraced in Rome. Nasi became a hero in Sicily. Hp had sat in Parliament for tho town of Twpani'.« His constituents re-elected him five limes, while tbc Chamber refused to accept him. A "Hymn to.Naai" boc&ijto a secQnd national anthem for islnndprs. "Nasi mania" became wt acutf* that Jii« constitnents flung dnv/n th(; bi.ist of the Kjn£s.,pf Italy,, and <JVpn hoistod the French, -flag. A gunboat momentarily quenched their ardour for tlie "martyr's" cause. But riots occurred in which some fo\y were killed and many injured. All tins timo Nasi, as a member of the Parliament rin which ho never sat, \vat> immune .from arrost, ,autl as an ok-Minister 'could /Only be tried by the »^enate, transformed into chisit court. , B,nt his sense of the melodramatic wns Jitn undoing. In June of this year he suddenly reappeared in Rome, entored the Chamber, .and delivered a dramatic speech declaring his innocence. Tho p^cossary steps were taken to onoble the Senate to try him, and he was arrested and brought to trial. The evi-

vdence sfiowed that as Minister he '^cßikrge'd over £3000 for. travelling expenses, although he had a free pass on 'all raifways. He dispensed £12,000 in o^pensionsj" receiots ,for which were signed, scores in tlie same handwriting,' rby non-existent persons. THURSDAY, February 27. • -■ ,Mr* Charlos M. Sanford, a wealthy Jbwj'er, of Brooklyn (New York),' was shot arid dangerously wounded in his 'office at New York by a young and oomoly. woman named Jennie Blunt. Vho deolares that Mr Sanford treated her as Stanford White treated Mrs Eyelyn TJbaw. She calmly announced tfcat in snooting him her hand had been guided by Heaven. Mr Sanford is not expected to recov/er. Tlie deed accomplished; the woman- rushed into the crowded where slje was nearly lynched by a mob. Mr Sanford, who 4»as recovered consciousness, denies absolutely the young woman's story. General Tung Ftisiang, who organised the Boxer insurrection in 1900, has died in exile at Kangsou, .and the Chinese Government- has confiscated his property. » . ' -Dr. Maublanc, medical officer to the Messageries Maritimes Company at Marseilles, has been shot dead by a sailor whom he had declined to certify as unfit for service. " At a trial of a tramway-car conductor accused of knocking down and killing a little girl, the jury of the' Supreme r Ckmrt*of- New Jersey, anxious to end the case, decided to settle the man's fate by> spinning a' coin. , The judge coming to hear of it Sharply^reprimand- ■ the jurors and fined each of them ; Four jAwfriiean' Mormon missionaries |ro£i tttah, whp were invested recently 3n Switzorland, have been sentbneed to £10. three davsj -imprisonment without tho pption oi a fine and also to expulsion from Switzerland. for preaching.polygamy. . . . v