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SINGAPORE BREACH OF PROMISE..
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An amazing Wild West battle quarterly entributions, the coun- Justice (Sir W. H. Hyadmon in the State penitentiary was r oil of the Ancient Order of Fores-Joues) in the Supreme Court, ported on January 20 from Mo- tere annouices an arrangement Singapore, came to an abru. Alester, Oklahoma, where Mr. J. with the Post-master General by terminationon the 12th inst. The Fuster, a Federal Judge, the which members can pay their case was interesting mainly from deputy governor, and two other voluntary contributious by means the fact that the broken-hearted prison officials were killed, and of ordinary postage stamps week-plaintiff was a European, Gustav several others wounded, while at ly or fortnightly, as their wagne Siemers, who assessed the value tempting to prevent the escape of of his cardiac injury at $20,000, three convicts. The convicte Miss Ellen Terry's Tour. while the
were eventually killed by pursu defendant waa Miss Ellen Terry, who is sixty- Malay, Mrs. Ayesha Clunies Ross, ing warders, so that the death- five years old, has just made ar- widow of the late Governor of the roll numbers seven.
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The tragedy occurred in the ments Syndicate to give a series who has st income of £1,000 afternoon, when, as the convicts of lectures on Shakespear in Aus-year from her deceased husband's wore being marched back to their cella, thres desperate characters tralia and New Zealand. She estate. fatonda 10 sill from England at the The plaintiff's case having made a bolt for liberty. By some end of March, giving the first of heen closed Mrs. Clunies Roseane the men, whose nomes, thirty, to fifty lectures in the Town coupied the witness box and, were O Reed, T. Lane, and 0.1st April 1914. Half, Melbourne.
Kroonta, bad obtained revolvers, denied ever having promised to marry the plaintiff.
and they opened fire on the war- ders, who attempted bar their escape.
This is Miss Terry's first visit to the Antipodes,
Rev. Slevester Horne M.P.
At the close of examination and cross-examination, his Lord
Rend, who appears to have beso Acting on medical advice the ship intimated that he did not Rev, C. Silveater Hove, M: P., it wish to hear further evidence for the leader of the affair, and who Was annourced recently bus rethe defence as he was satisfied was nerving a sentence of forty signed the post of superintendent that defendant had never pro-years for murder, gave the signal of Whitefield's Tabernacle Totten-mised to marry plaiatill. Plain by stunning the warder who had ham Cort-road, W., which he has tiff's story that Mrs. Rose pre charge of the prison gates and held f
tou years. He intends posed to him at the Van Wijk seizing his keys, the three took lator, i. his health permits to lotel was improbable and to their heels. The other convicts restine pastoral work in some ot-ot supported by the clerk Nonis, began a sympathetic demonstra her place.
The latter's evidence, if anything. tion, hindering the officers: ss corroborated defendant's story
much as they could, and the Negotiations are provesding that Siemers proposed to her and fugitives were able to reach between the British and Dutch she ssid he would give her the gates. By this time the Governments for the laying of answer on her return from Eng- alarm had been given, and lelephone cable between Alde-load. The defendant's letters warders on the walle opened fire, burgh, in Saffolk, and hamburg contained no promise or mention but the desperadoes gained
His Lordship gavel temporary respite by seizing Misa on the cast of Holland, thus one. establishing telephonic communi judgment for the defendant with Mary Foster, the prison steno cation between London and costs, Amsterdam and the Hague.
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Details of very important physiological discovery, which
grapher and telephone operator, who happened to be in the gate house, and using her as a shield.
The warders immediately ceased fire, but one of the bullets struck the girl and inflicted a serious woundat
Having opened the gates the men dropped their hapless shield, na jumped into a light baggy which was waiting outside. The will probably havo farreaching buggy belonged to Judge roster, Ragtime and Death.
lecte nos only in physiological who was making an official visi While Binging ragtime science but on the practice of to the prison, and he joined in to big Бод. who wae medisine, have just reached Lon- the porsuit, with fatal results to suffering from toothache. John don from America. The effect of himesif, for he was one of the first Pratt, gummer in the Royal this discovery is that the human so fall under the hail of bullets Field Artillery, was Stated at a nervous system is composed of with which the fugitives ender Northampton inquest to havelectrical cables, and that nerve voured to cover their retreat. died suddenly. A verdict of impulses are electrical in their death from Natural Causes was nature. returned,
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The deputy governor of the The curione point was brought prison. Mr. P. Gates, who headed ont at the sitting of the Dominions The announcement is made by a party of mounted warders, was Royal Commission at Scotland Dr. albert C. Crebore, of the also killed in the running fight House, SW, that Canterbury High-Speed Telegraphy. A committee, with Captain Cornell Medical School, New which ensued, as were Mr. H. Hamb was actually dearer in New Norton, M.P., one. Assistant PosYork, and is made in. a leter to Grover, the prison Bertillon ex Zealand, its country of origin,
Army Advertising. tmaster-General, as chairman, bas his friend and co-worker ons in-pert, and a warder named God than in London,
So great has been the demand been appoined by the Posimas-tific subjects, Lieut.-Col. George frey. The exasperated purauer Mr Gilbert Anderson said there, for the War Office pamphlet ad ter-General to inquire into sys-0. Squier, who is n w military did not spare their bullets, and was an almost illimitable scope vertising the Army that all the tems of high-speed telegraphy.
for the English chilled and frozen first impresion was exhausted in attache at the American Embassy when the buggy was stopped by 105 Years In London. in London. Dr. Crehore was a shot bringing down the hores meat trade, which showed no sign less than a fortnight.
Wadsworth, of recently appointed to the new the three convicts were found of decreasing. In addition to the Mre. Sarab Pentonville, she bag
lived chair of physiological physics riddled with bullets. The men snormous and increasing demand practically the whole of her life in the Cornell Sobool, and he has appear to bave made their plans of the Continent, the United London, celebrated her 105th been working in collaboration for a general outbreak, but the States, and elsewhere for supply birth day last month.
with Dr. B. Williams, of the remainder of the convicts were through England there would be Hydrophobia from a Monkey. College of Pagiciane and Sur overawed by the guards, and greater demand for home con-
Bitten by a pet monkey, which geous, New York.
there were no escapes. A turn sumption if the commodity could itself had been bitten by a mad "I believe this discovery will key named Martin and a guard be reduced in price. The retail dog six months ago, Corporal bave important and far-reaching named Wond were badly wound parchaser in England paid 24. or 21d. more per lb. for Canterbury Gardiner, of the 44th Battery of consequences," said Col. Squier, ed in the affray.
lamb than the farmot received for the Royal Field Artillery, has died in explaining the details to an
the carcase put into the gold store for shipment."
Asked why the price of Can terbury lamb was higher in Can- terbary (New Zealand) than in London, witness said this was due to the large quantities exported.
of hydrophobia at Bangalore, Evening Standard representative. "it gives as a new angle of view Southern India. Seventeen com- rades, who were also bitten, are and at least mast modify existing $20.000 Gift To Employees. to undergo Pasteur treatment. ideas. Lecause their speed along Mr. Francis Reckitt, of Messrs, the nerve is only some thirty Reckitt and Sons the starch and Famous Hymn Maker
metres a second physicians have blue manufacturere. has given Author of "Onward, Christian always rejected the theory that £20,000 to extend social work in Soldiers," "Now the day is over, nerve impulses are electric 1." connection with the firm's face. Sir Rider Haggard: It seeme "Through the night of doubt Artificial Nerves Made. lories at Hall. The money will mysterious that meat should be and sorrow," and other well- "Dr. Crahors had been working be used for the erection of a cheaper, after it has been stored known bynios, the Rev. S. Baring on the heart, and bis discovery institute and other purposes. and carried 12,000 miles over|
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Gould, the rector of Low-Tren- was to some extent accidental. shard, Devon, was eighty years At least, the inception of it lay old last month. **
in an incident connected with the
work he had in hand. He hadtion of the number of fibres there Sleepy Defendant. When, sleepy-eyed and over sever regarded this speed arga- na hour late, a prisoner on bailment as c nclusive, and in order ought to te in the nervo to give be measured velocity, he fund appeared at the London Sessions to test the matter he obtained data that this number coincided ex it was explained that he was in of the dimensions, structure, and actly with the number of fibres bed when policeman called with electrical resistance of nerves, which the microscope revealed
from which he calculate what in the nerve.
a taxicab to take him to court would happen supposing that "To put the theory to a far- which had been kept writing,
Buffalo Herd for Sale. the nervo forco was purely a aurther test, Dr. Crebore construct Sir Charles Assheton-Smith is rent of electricity. His caloned an artificial cable which was disposing of the herd of bufations showed that the speeds replica of a certain length of faloes in Vaynod Park, Carnavon- should bathirty metres per second terve trunk. Then he took
shire.
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under
"Further investigations lent records from this and from a real support to the theory. He found, norve trunk by means of a strong Seaside Hoard: of Gold. under the microscope that the galvanometer. Physicians and A story of a lunatic's disclosure
examination
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roas mbled eznotlyan were unable to distinguish which riggen, County Dublin. A few electrical cable; that it was com were from the natural and which weeks after being committed to posed of a bundle of fibres, from the artificial nerve." an asylum, a native of the locality continuous from the nerve centre announced that he had hidden to the terminal point, and in 6200 in gold by the sesaliore at sulatod in a sheath the myelin Balbriggan Persisting in his heath. Moreover, the nerve bad
statement, he was taken in a capacity, per unit length almost you have lost your appetite, taxicab is the shore, where he coinciding with the capacity per one of the big Variety to pointed out a niche in the rocks, unit length of a cable. And dainty dishes at the ALEXAN In the niche were found two bags when he ome to tent his colonie. DRA CAFE is sure to tempt
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