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PRINCE OF WALES.
AN ABSURD" SPANISH REPORT.
BURIED CITY.
| EXCAVATION WORK BEGINS AT HERCULANEUM.
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SUICIDE IN A BATH. RABBIT SKIN RUSH.
MAN WHO SUFFERED IN
SILENCE.
Suicide while of unsound mind
worth on William C. H. Allen (58), was the verdict returned at Wands boot manufacturer, Hazelwell
Road, Putney, who was found dead cut. In a letter to his wife he in an empty bath with his throat said:
An authoritative denial of the King Victor Emmanuel of Italy rumoured engagement of the on May 16 realised a century-old Prince of Wales to Princess Bea-scientist's dream by inaugurating trice of Spain was given by a highly in solemn ceremony the excavation placed official. He said there was of the buried city of Herculaneum, no warrant whatever for the report says the British United Press. published in Spain, and quoted in this country, to the effect that the yacht, and motored over to the site. He arrived at Naples in the royal Price was about to become en-Against the background of the gaged to the Infanta Beatrice. alopes of Vesuvius were gathered The report added that the two the archaeologists, engineers, and
Although I have not said much, Royal families had approved the workmen who will give back to the
I have not been feeling well for matk; that the King and Queen of world. the buried treasures that lie Spain were coming to England hidden in Herculaneum, sister city-appeur to make any improvement. a considerable time, and did not shortly in connection with it; and to Pompeii. that the Spanish Ambassador in
I am louing my grip on my work. London was giving a ball in honour shorelful of earth. The work is King Victor took out the first
I want to thank you for your kind- ness, help, and cheerful company of the prospective union. reculled by the officia! that a very important archeological undertak-
It was considered to be one of the most during our long life together. similar report had been publishedings of modern times. on at least two previous occasions,
There are those who believe that
on each of which it called forth anthe lost books of Livy may at last emphatic denial.
"The reports were untrue then. see the light of day, and that some, and they are still untrue," he said.if not all, of Sappe's priceless odes "I am astonished that such
may be unearthed to enrich the abaurd report should have been re-poetry and spiritual wealth of the
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vived. There is absolutely no truth in the story,"
MR. CHAPLIN'S WEALTH.
THIS OWN ESTIMATE ONLY £250,000.
Mic. Charlie Chaplin, the Alm comedian, filed at Los Angeles an answer and founter-charges to the suf for divorce brought against him by his wife. Lin Grey Chaplin. j He denied emphatically the sensa tional charges levelled against him. In particular he declared his res lations with the 6m actresses nated by his wife were of a purely, professional character. He depict- e his wife s "enleulating" young wontan, au inattentive wife and different mother. as a free imbiber Rejurors, and as having been infatuated since her marriage with two men. His remonstrances, he i, brought from her the state- meat that she no longer loved him; and that she desired a divorce and settlement,
Fir estimated his fatal fortune at £250,000, whereas his wife had esti- mated it at £3,200,000,
From the date of his marriage he had received, he said, a salary of
world.
TRAPPERS WHO EARN £30 A WEEK,
con-
The old joke about Scotsmen be
est, seums to need revision, for the rabbits being the country's worst Ing numerous in Australia, but
rodents are means of their fur quite a
now providing by
yearly in an effort to stamp out the siderable export trade.
A large sum of money is spent
rabbits, which do great damage to crops, but now an army of trap pers is at work trying to meet the the United States. In some cases, demand for skins. particularly from it is said, they earn as much as 230 a week.
A Canadian Government liner recently sailed from Sydney carry
No man could have better wife
I feel I haveing more than 1,000.000 akins, and and helpmate,
an even larger consignment will made a very inadequate return
probably be despatched a week for all your kindness to me, ami deeply regret I have proved such hence. It is expected that the de- a failure. Try to forget all the
mand will be still,larger during the next few years, so that the rab trouble I have caused you.
bits may compensate with their skins to some extent for the losses caused by their teeth.
It was stated at the inquest that he had a dourishing business,
KENNY MILLER WORLD G
Thousands of barrels of oil going up in smoke as a result of the ignition of a wild running gusher in the Spindletop Field near Beaumont, Texas.
£50.000 a year as director, but his A BAR TO MARRIAGE.
net income did not exceed £32,400
♫ your.
Mr. Chaplin is now at Atlantic City, and his plans for a visit to England are still somewhat nebu- lous.
COSTLY DISPENSATION.
$2,000 FEE LEADS TO A LAWSCIT.
"SPIRITUAL AFFINITY" IN ·
SERMIA.
STRANGE VISITORS. FLIGHT TO SCOTLAND
INSECTS THAT TRAVEL BY
BANANA CRATE.
WOMAN PILOT'S LECTURE TRIP.
pilot to fly from London to Glas- Mrs. Elatt-Lynn, the first woman
gow, reached Renfrew aerodrome. She is to lecture in Glasgow on British aviation. She had intended originally flying north Bournemouth in the Westland Wid- geon, the aeroplane in which Major Openshaw met his death.
from
at
NIGHT ON A MAST.
T
SAILOR DROWNED AFTER' HELPING BOY,
A graphle story of the sea was
bont Dixmude, which was lost off years-old apprentice of the fishing- told by Pierre Quintrle, the 14-
the Isle-de-Sef, near Brost,
When the boat sank injured men were drowned. Pierre Quin- trke climbed up the mast, which re-
mained above water, where he found a sailor named Kerdreux holding on. Kerdreux gave the boy a piece of rope with which he lash- ed himself to the mast.
In about an hour Kerdreux be- came exhausted and, after saying goodbye, disappeared in the raging waters. Quintric had tried to hold his companion first with one hand and then with the other, but in vain, and he would himself have been carried away but for the rope which Kerdreux gave him.
He remained in this position all waves constantly night with the washing over him. At 7.30 a bout steered by with an 80-years-old fisherman named Tenniou on board.
The boy cast off the rope and tried to reach an oar which was thrown towards him, but his He atrength failed and he sank. was saved, however, with a boat
hook.
POSED AS POLICEMAN
MAN WITH A "KINK" AND A YOUNG COUPLE.
A man who was said to have a "kink" about the police. William Reed, aged 86, a labourer. WAS charged on remand at West Ham Police Court with posing as policeman and being in possession of firearms.
According to the evidence, Reed one evening went up to a young man and woman who were sitting in a field at Barkingside and told them he had "got them" for tres.
had passing, and that he
#got people months and you will get it." He took their names and addresses and later called
[1] the young woman's mother. He showed her a revolver and said he wanted to see the young woman.
It was arranged that he should call again, and when he did so he was confronted by two police offi- cers, who arrested him.
Detective-Sergeant Crispin said Reed seemed to have a "kink" about the police. He had relations in the force and had been himself turned down on account of his education; but he had still an idea that he was a policeman. Reed, added the
for work from his employers. officer, had a wonderful character
Mr. St. John Morrow, taking into account the fact that he had a good character and that possibly he had a "kink," fined Reed £5 or 31 days" imprisonment.
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Mr. Under-Sheriff T. Howard Deighton. for, the firm, expressed Messrs. Blades' deep regret at the accident, and said that Sir G. Rowland and Lady Blades had at once gone round to see the boy in the hospital. They took a particu- As a bottle of ether was being lar interest in the welfare of their
Mr. William Hunt, an employee, said that there was a lighted gas
ture of the room must have been ring in the room used for drying photographic glass. The tempera- about 80 degreas; and he thought it was change of temperature
more than two feet from the boy that caused the bottom of the bottle ta fall out. The gas ring was not when he passed it.
Belgrade, June 6. Strange little insects are among A distressing crime, which shows the uninvited guests who come to considerable light on Serbian social England all the year round, and ideas, has accurred here. A young especially in the summer. They workman of twenty, named George- wike one morning to find them- vitch, was seen walking in the even-selves in entirely new surroundings, ing, happily enough, with n sixteen- and are perhaps just as disconcert- year-old girl to whom, his fathered as those who And them.. had been a god-parent; and a few When Prince Edward Lobkowitz police-station to any he had killed minutes later rushed to the nearest berare engaged to marry Anda Libine, of Chicago, he being road with a knife sticking out from Miss her. She was found lying in the Catholic and she Protestant, it be: her breast. It transpired. from the cante necessary to procure a papal youth's story, that the young couple the Natural History branch of the Humber, lunched at Edinburgh. emotional as a dog. Pedestrians GR dispensation, as, she would not con- had for some time been desperately sent to children of the marriage in love. Their respective parents, being brought up Catholics.
The Prince applied to Count seeing them constarily together, did Vetler von der Lilie, formerly coun- more than a friendship of "koume." not at first suspect that it was cillor of the Austrian Legation at or gad-relations; but when they ai the Vatican, who agreed to obtain last realised the truth they were the dispensation for £2.000, to in- filled with indignation and horror, clude, expense. Count Vetter intro- duces Dr. Kammerer, a Vienna ad- as all those who are bound by this vocate, who went to Rome and ab. Spiritual tie are in Serbia regarded tained not only the papal dispen-In the eyes of orthodox Serbians, in the same light as blood-relations. sation but the papal blessing for marriage between the young man the young couple.
Count Vetter and his secretary,
and the girl would have becn Dr. Skrein have brought an action equivalent to incest against Dr. Kammerer to recover
It was the despair which took £1.600. They say they promised possession of young Georgevitch him £200, which he must obtain when he realised that not only the from America in addition to the Church, but all his own relationa £2,000. The expenses were about and the girl's and the opinion of society were against him that drove Dr. Kammerer stated in court him to take the desperate step for that he spent six weeks in Rome which he will now probably pay and did all the work, and that he with a term of several years' hard never made any agreement with Count Vetter and Dr. Skrein, and, owes them nothing. The case was adjourned.
Many come housed in crates of ber, which is sometimes sawn up placed a Noth machine at her dis- bananas, while others prefer tim The Hor. Lady Bailey, however,
unwelcome presence is discovered. and built into house before their posal, and Mrs. Eliott-Lynn, flying mon-place, and yet a cat is a most carried by an errand boy into the solo, left Stag-lane at 4.30 8.m. self-possessed animal not half so Major E. E. Austen, keeper of break-fasted at Brough-on-the-
process room at Messrs. Blades, British Museum, South Kensington, and later landed by mistake
East and Blades premises in S.W., told a "Daily Mail" reporter Inchinnan, dve miles beyond Ren-kitten hold up a huge lorry. The the bottle fell out and its contents
the Barrhead Road, Peterborough, lately were amused to see a small Leonard-street, E.C., the bottom. of that finders occasionally send him frew. She reached Renfrew an some of these visitors to examine, hour later, and was warmly wel-driver pulled up so quickly that burst into flames, fatally burning on record where such insecta have She said she had had although, he said, there is no case comed by thousands of spectators, the startled horse was
almost the lad. forced to its hind legs. There, delightful lived to breed here. Major Austen trip, and after tea took the Lord tiny cat sat demurely playing with in the middle of the wide road, a Provost's daughter and other guesta "There is a large green grass up for a short flight.
Its tail, and it had to be gently hopper which is imported with
lifted aside by the lorryman be cauliflowers, from Italy. Or-
fore truffle could be resumed. chids also sometimes bring over
Probably the driver would have Insecta, while the so-called great
aworn and shouted at a brother The motor age has dawned in man or even a sister worzan! the woodwasp, or great-tailed wasp, often comes over in timber. In Africa as elsewhere.-Sir Mont-kitten he treated more respect the museum here we have several ague Barlow. pieces of sheet lead which were wrapped round a larch pole and through which Insects in the pole | wormed their way."
£103.
WHAT AMERICA READS.
labour.
SUDDEN DEATH.
PEER WHO MARRIED MME.
STEINHEIL.
Lord Abinger died suddenly on There is in America now a vast his estate at Ewhurst, Surrey, aged new democratic public, writes Mr. fifty-one. Hugh Walpole in "The Nation."
He had exceptionally good health, This public wishes to read and but was taken ill while in the renda almost anything that comes woods on his estate and died shortly its way. One result of this is the afterwards. The heir to the barony great increase in America of cheap is a brother, the Hon. Hugh Richard and shoddy magazines.
While Scarlett.
said:
Major Austen showed part of a wooden artificial leg through which insects had made their way while a wounded soldier was wear- ing it at Roehampton during the
war.
SWEEP WINNER. `
VIEW THAT STATE CAN SEIZE
HIS £80,000.
The legal opinion is expressed here that not only is the State on- titled to take proceedings for the recovery of every penny received by Mr. Kilpatrick, the Capetown den tal mechanic who has won more than £80,000 in the Calcutta Derby sweepstake, but that Mr. Kilpatrick is also liable to a fine of £200 with
Moreover it' is held
་
that the
"Harper'a" and "Scribner's" and Lord Abinger succeeded to the the alternative of 6 months' impri "The Forum" and "The Golden title on the death of his brother in aonment under the Cape Province Book" maintain a fine standard, May, 1917. A month after he came | Lotteries. Act. the railway bookstalls and the into the title he married Mire. smaller newspaper shops are flood-Steinheil, the beautiful French-syndicate which purchased a share ed with terrible publications. "Sex woman, whose name was familiar in Mr. Kilpatrick's ticket is also Stories," "True Love Magazine," to everyone eight, or nine years liable to be proceeded against for "True Adventures" and the magn- previously in connection with the recovery of the money won. zines of Mr. Macfadden filled with tragedy in her Paris home, where photographs of nude ladies em- her husband and her mother were phasizing, but I am afraid not ad- found murdered.
BRIDE STABS GUEST..
A wedding breakfast following the marriage of a Honfleur traw- ler-owner and a young widow was
vancing, the necessity of physical Mme. Steinheil was gagged and fitness. There are also what are bound, and she declared that the known as the "tabloid" newspapers outrage and murdera had been of New York and Chicago, Illus-committed by burglars. She was trated duilles in form resembling arrested and charged with murder, dramatically interrupted at Hon our "Daily Mirror" and "Dally but was acquitted after a sensa Sketch" but in contents filled with tional trial. the vilest and foulest of Illustra-
After the ordeal me. Steinheil
tions and letterpress; these sell in adopted the name of de Serignac, millions.
fieur.
A chance remark by one of the women guesta so angered the bride that she took up a. table- knife and stabbed her guest in the breast.
and settled in England to live in peace and rebuild her health.
She resided in the Tulse Hill dia- trict, and it was in the Roupel! The injured woman was remov Thre is an ever-increasing Park Wesleyan Church, Brixton, ed to hospital, and the bride is competition for the retail trade that her marriage to Lord Abinger-pending the rest of the day in of the country.—Sir Harry Greer. Cook place.
prison.
fully.
Stanley George Stark, 15, of Ben- This was stated at the inquest on
yon-road, Southgate-road, N., when the jury recorded a verdict of accidental death.
A rider was added that proper regulations should be made for the sofe
manufacture, transit and
Mr. John Crowder, departmenta! manager to Messrs. Blades, stated that they had considered the highly inflammable,nature of ether and storage of such an inflammable sub- He had not known that ether was had put it in stronger containers.
so dangerous.
stance.
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