MAIL NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 950, 24 July 1903, Page 3

MAIL NEWS.

I. FETED BY JURY. . Acquitted of the charge of murdering Miss Florence McFarlanc (with whom she believed her husband had been too intimate),. Mrs 'Lulu Miller ..Youngs, of Rochester, Was the next day, the queen of honor ■at a dinner given her by the jurors .who freed her. During the dinner, speeches .were made by the jurorsj. in which Mrs Youngs was congratu- j lated and referred to in the most .eulogistic terms. Mrs Youngs Was in tears over these compliments afid at the conclusion she shook hands with all and thanked them for her freedom. A HOLIDAY, CROWD.

On June 6'th, for no apparent reason, a most peculiar crush occurred on Brooklyn Bridge, New York.- The mob swept police and guards aside like so many straws, receiving boxes for tickets were torn up, and the Stout brass railing guarding the entrance was uprooted and cast aside. .The tremendous rush began shortly after 12 o’clock. In a few minutes the crowd became so large that the polif (.men were powerless to check the rush. Women were thrust aside —children were knocked over—men Were hurled under-foot. Girls screa-) med as they, were caught in the crush ; many, of them carried jackets and parcels,' which were torn from their grasp. About ten thousand persons, the police estimate, succeeded in getting on the trams before the entrance was cleared of the dense mass , ofhumanity surging around it. Probably, none of the ten thousand bought a ticket or paid a fare. DON'.T! WANT, MORMONS.

Hugh J. Cannon, Superintendent 6f the Mormon Mission! in Germany, his wife, and secretaries, were ordered by the police to leave Russian territory ' within throe weeks. No explanation was given for the action taken, except that the presence of Mormons is undesirable. Mr Cannon will move his headquarters to .Zurich, Switzerland —and from there the missionaries will occasionally visit the Mormon communities in Russia, which have 1200 members, in groups of fifteen and twenty each. [A* PECULIAR PEOPLE.

The disciples of F.- W. San'dford, leader of the Holy Ghost, and hs Society, are on their knees praying that the foes which surround the town of Shiloh, homo, of the Sandfordites, will not destroy their tabernacle and other small buildings ■ of the religious community. The Sand•fordites say there is no doubt that their prayers will be answered,' and that God wll see that their buildings are not destroyed. They, take xt in turns praying day and night; some one being constantly on his knees. Rev. F. W. Sandford, who is now abroad, has been notified by cable of the foes, and asked to communicate with God regarding, the danger of the town of Shiloh being deStr SEWING A MAN’S HEART.

Suigeon Furnivale successfully stitched a 'Wound in a man’s heart in tlic London Hospital. John Long a laborer., was stabbed in the heart in a public-house row. Dr Furnivale decided to make an effort to get the centre of the wound. The surgeon had to temporarily displace the heart cartilage, the_ ribs, and * the lungs. • At first he thought the heart itself would have to be removed, but on washing away the blood-clots, and raising it a little the puncture was found and sewed un Almost immediately there was an improvement of the pulse, and the patient has continued to improve. similar caSe was successfully treated in the same hospital two

•Marie Duskakalie, a seventcen-year-old Greek girl, who has slept for five months despite all efforts of science to arouse her is to be brought io Paris for treatment. Her lungs became affected last December, andshe was taken to an hospital at Athens. She was in. a state of convalescence, when the sight of a person dying m i bed near hers, threw her into a fjT since then she has never -fully recovered consciousness-, thoug has been examined by all the doctors of Athens She rouses every five or six days for a few seconds, ind then relapses into a state of lethargy She barely eats anything Meeps 6 with her eyes open, and heats

n ° 4 -SflE POTATO IS COOKED.” ‘A clever band of swindlers known ns *' The Potatoes ” has been run to “'Se,r;'.ro ite method of working was to introduce herself into the houses of . old women and men having a comfort abl’ revenue, and by all sorts of pretexts to persuade them to her certain sums. They were finally caught by means of the number of .rrmVthev had deceived, who deSS item to tte police m » body. --