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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 727, 28 January 1910, Page 8

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INTERESTING NEWS BY THE MAIL Y London, December 17. ! Tho death lias just bee'u (announced, of ' \ •Boss Raymond,, who in his, .crowded '.life's > was convict,' naval officer,.! reporter, edi- ; tor, soldier of fortune,, and! many other . things. . After disappearing'. 1 ) from . a; Chicago,newspaper when' his salary" account' :.'•- was overdrawn, he was lost sight of for i while, until, he suddenly; furnished -his i former ..manager - with... a,, truthful and ■ graphic account* of "the battle; of Tel-el- : . , Kebir, at which he had been present." For . this. li'e; would"tike'; ;no payment regard-.:L---ing it as a' settltment of .his debt. It was,later that his career of fraud .began,' 1 v. ;„ in. earnest.";He - represented /.himself.: t0'.... Mr. ; Chamberlain:as a .'New. Jersey:orohid' farmer, to Stratford-on-Avon as'a. nephew", of: Mr.'Childs, benefactor' of that town, to tho Hotel!Bristol,-Paris, as courier ofi . ihe lOiedivG, to Birmingham as -..George . Augustus.Sala,:to.Wisconsin as an Eng- ..>. lish colonel... Among his/many escapades •' / was one in India, where he travelled with a ' huge, retinue': of servant?. 'and >•, many elephants as a -raja. So brilliant' were his gifts, however,. that when hot .'. in gaol;he could. alwayß obtain employ-/ ment, and ,once v was put "in charge of a.-'/). Pniladelphian newspaper. Daring Post Offico Robbery. .: .Seven men .were remanded at Old Street i •-'■ on a charge, of .being concerned in adar- / ing robbery of ; a safe containing 6omf< £1420 from a*sub-post; office;in boswell Koad.' A*detective noticed that the sand-.'. stone steps ■ of &i : hense :in Rcsebery Avenue " had been' recently-- chipped.: /.There. 7 was no - light : in: the front, But' one of : the rooms afc the; back was; lighted; up, , ■andsounds: of 'hammering were .heard • after midnight.-,;. The. house.: was /.eur-. rounded by tho police, , and the detective, : , having mounted, a. wall,, was able, to see J the. accused-trying , to; open a safe. Hearing .noises, the men bccamo . suspicions, ~ . and' ran out atithe back,.whei6 thoy. were arrested after a.struggle. '-. ; /- Detention of a Chief. > k In: the King's Bench Divisional.Couri an application was ■ made on behalf of a'. Bechuanaland chief, named..Sekgome Letshalathebe for. a writ of habeas corpus. to the Earl of, Crewe, : . Secretary of' State v for Greater; Britain- directing/the; releasa ,/;' of the chiefi, who is, at<present in custody by order of the Government. It appeared 'that while-on a -visit,-,to Kimberley, /the .',// 'chief .'was- deposed'- by .rivals, •• and."' his nephew, .Mathibe,; was raised,torthe phief. / . /.■) tainshipi iit being alleged*, that Mathibe :■ .was the ; real heir to thejposition'. ... Asvil; was'stated that' bloodshed would, tabs -.' ; - plhce ( if; Sekgome was allowed to return to his tribe, ho was detained, and is still , .<• •in custody. In giving judgment, the Lord 'Chief Justice said that they would ■ not - - ;be justified in sending a.-writ to a' Minis- ' ter of the Crown because he was respon- '■ sible for the advice, although not-for the '// actual custody of ..the chief. .The validity ' of the proclamation could be raised in . ■•! the Bechuanaland Court, which could' deal with the -matter.-; Sekgome could obtain releaso if he went to that courtand; satisfied;-the - authorities / that hia ■ contentions wore lawful. . The application ■ was discharged,-.with costs. ..;'/ - ."• Marriage,and-Divorce. - : , One of.the' most interesting facta con- ■■ tainW : in- the' report for'l9oß of the Re- •■'.• gistrar-G-oneral of -Births,. Deaths, and• '.Marriages in England; and .Wales.: s tho statement that the: number "of" marriage .•' unmade by the divorce court is steadily growing each year, but, at the samo time, there is a large increaso in tha number; of divorced persons who remarry, Here are tho : figures:— • '•; .1306. 1908. Persons divorced .. ; 1092 13U Divorced persons remarried 676 ' 703 . In the; twelve months, there were 7, 040; marriages, which was 0.9 per 1000 less. - ' than the . average of the .ten . preceding years. -..During,the.-;year., -births ware : registered, ..the birth-rate, being Lfl v „ , SperXlOOU. below,the average, of .the. pre-. V vions' ten years. The deaths of 520,456 .persons.'-were 1 registered in .the: year; of these; 2fi8,714: were males, and' were ; females.: In the year ; iiMer .review the deaths' from all; causes .corresponded to a . rate of 14.7; per .thousand of tho.popular';'■ tion. '-This rate -was 0.3 per IMO' below;.. the rate-of-1907, and lower than, the lata in any other year on record.. . i..■. Death of a Famous Chemist " The-death has-taken place in London ' of' Dr. Liidwig Mond,*' one 1 of 'the .for©.. : - inost -chemists in ; the .world. . Dr. Moqd, . ■ who was of German' parentage, came to England at , the : ~ age of twenty-threo. : .7 Bleven years .afterwards .he,, .with Sir : John Brunhor, perfected a process, for: . the .-production, of ammonia soda,, and .founded'the largest alkali works in; tha, , world—those of Brumijer, < Mond, and. Co.:'.'. (Limited),. at/Northwich,. Cheshire; whew ; 'more thin four /thousand workmen. viu* regularly' employed. ■ It : was early in. Idol that he announced his discovery o! , a new/process -of,pfoducihg ; gas,x which' ifl. l • now.known everywhere.' Dr. Mond'.mado - ■ many other.'discoyeriesi notably .-.one/for:/ 1 , an improved mauufacture of ; chlorine,: -, another for the recovery of ammoniafrom ■/' . ■decaying'substances, and' a third for a. 17 new-process for thejniniifactnre of nickel•■■■'; from its' ores'. Dr; Mond-.made- a large,--- /. 'fortune. Ho owned a'town house in- Eo - gent's Park, Winniflgtdn;Hall/;Cheshii6,; ' , /; ; , a.;palace 'in Rome/a'country seat near - Sevenoaks, and, formed one "of/the*finest; . art collections in the country.. Glass Bricks. . . | ;. ■ Experiments, are now being made by '•. the .Patent 1 Corporation! in liverpooliwitli . a .iiew.-invention,' which, it. is.-.claimed, - will revolutionise the iron and .slate. . ; trade. A process has been discovered, by. •which the waste;slagvin;'the 'blast furnace; system.; of; manufacturing ; iron i can be transformed into/ a. valuable commer- . - cial article. By the new .invention pro-; ; portions. of sand and - sulphate of soda,. ■ and'in some instancesiavlittle,.lime,'..aie- . . put in-the'blast furnaces so-.as to inakfl tho- 1 slag;, into/glass; -' This ,glass.'ls- then'. / ' iaast into various shapes for slates, pav- • ing. blocks, bricks, : ,and:;tiles.': ; The slatesil can- be' manufactured,,, it . is. stated,'/at . . less than . half , the, expense of-. Welsh ■ slates;'they, have a polished: appearance,■ ■ and 1 can be made in/any size or. shape.■",,/:/ in- A house : roofed. in;/with tna new glass- slates/ will'riot' . require .sky-;; ; ; lights, and ' even windows may/be: dis-/ . pensed with in-the top rooms. . .. Forcible Feeding Case. • In. the King's Bench /Division , an ao»; tion. .was' brought against the: Home "Sec-'/ v 7 retary and" tSe: governor 'and ''medical ./ .officer' of. Winsoh Green Gaol, Birming- ; ~; ham, by Mrs.. Leigh,'a. Suffragist; whose' . ; hunger strike*; ■was": abruptly, terminated . owing to. the authorities resorting .to forcible feeding. 1 Sir' Victor Horsley, th»' : " eminent ,'anti-vivisectionist and"'.surgeon;'/ ; '; said in '-'that ..of::./ ', forcible feeding by the •■'nasal/'method; / , : but, in/ reply -to. the/judge, said' that v if-,/';, a. person 'resisted 'till, health ! iihd life', ■ were in danger, " he 'would - ' use / that ■ ■ method. The Lord Chief. Justice" said . he should rule that it' was the "duty''of -"■ the governor : and ' medical officer' of the prison' to take , all- reasonable steps to keop the prisoners in : health,/ana- the ; jury, : without leaving tho box,' returned / ./ a: verdict for the defendants. ' : / /:-.' British Empire League. . . . The Duke of Devonshire, in moving tha' v adoption of the annual report,' at thetwelfth annual general meeting of tho British Empire, League, said that from '4. . all. parts of his Majesty's Dominions be- . yond the seas they had gratifying "reports 7 that- the league .was' .^strengthening. ita ; position and extending,its sphere of influ- 1 ' ence. The British Empire Club Was to be opened on January 1/1910. The' building 7 was one /which he ; felt/confident-would - admirably fulfil its purpose. • It' would -be a building ;where they:; could. meet. not. only in the oourse of business,vhnt ' for., social intercourse: as well. Proceeding, he . said that tliey every possible sue-" cess to. the linion of South ever might . have been tlieir views in the ■ past, they/most' genuinely expressed' the.? hope that the Union would, tend: to/the . advancement not onlv of South Africa, but of the whole of the British Empire.—; "Standard of Empire." ; ; ; : ,