AMERICA.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XL, Issue 11, 14 March 1908, Page 9

AMERICA.

Anarchists have threatened Archbishop Farley, of New York, and Cardinal Gibbons, of Baltimore, with death. The candidature of Governor Hughes, of New' York, for the Presidency, lias been endorse d by the Republican Committee of that State. The Prince and Princess of Wales will be present at the tercentenary celebration of the landing of Samuel de Champlain at Quebec during the coming summer. Another noiseless and smokeless gun has been invented. A Swiss-American named Baumgarten has offered to sell such a gun to the Government of the United States for a million sterling. Owing to the serious increase of crime in ail large cities the Immigration Commissioner is consulting the police with a view to co-operation in ridding the United States of alien anarchists under the deportation law. With a view to relieving the financial tension in the United States, stockholders representing 40.000,000 dollars have assented to the reopening of the Knickerbocker Trust, freeing 46,500,000 dollars of deposits. Two masked robl>ers entered the Canadian Bank of Commerce, Winnipeg, and. firing at the* teller, made an attempt to carry off several bags of gold. The latter, though seriously wounded, himself used a revolver, putting both robbers to flight. The Governor-General of Canada (Earl Grey) has expressed a hope that representatives of every portion of the Empire will attend the Quebec Tercentenary. He said he believed the children of the Empire would join the. Canadian children in assisting in the comm emo ration

School Children in a Death-ti&.p At Cleveland, Ohio, on March 4. a frightful holocaust took place, owing to an outbreak of tire in Lake View public school. The building was a six-storeyed one, and the fire started in the basement during the morning school. The smoke’ quickly filled the building, creating a panic. There were in the school, at the time, 360 children, ranging in age from live to fourteen years, and those on the upper floors rushed pell-mell down stairs, only to find the lower corridors already choked by children from the lower classrooms. all pushing and struggling for their lives. The result was that the passages and doorways were choken with a mass of children, many of whom were trodden on and killed, while others were suffocated by the smoke. The fire raged for two hours, and when the ruins were explored, 178 mangled and charred bodies were discovered, the limbs and skulls becoming detached at the slightest touch. A number of those who escaped were terribly injured, and others were killed by leaping from the windows. Nine teachers. who escaped, were badly hurt. The building was an old one, and structurally defective. It had two exits, but the back one being cloned, the front one soon became blocked by the frenzied children in their efforts to escape, and the place became a veritable death trap. There is great public indignation ove* the lack of precautions for safety.