MAIL NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1547, 31 August 1905, Page 3

MAIL NEWS.

COLLAPSE OF A BUILDING.

(Per R.M.S. SkswmirtS KAckJand.) HIT Albany, N.Y., August 8. The middle seotion of the big department store of John Myers and Go. oollapsed to-day, oarrying down with it over a hundred persons who were caught in the chaos of briek r plaster and wooden beams. Between twenty and thirty men, women and children wore killed. Anything like a complete list of the dead is impossible tihlil workers have reached the bottom of the debris. With few exceptions the dead and injured were employees of the firm, the majority being girls. The building was old, but always considered safe. Workmen were making extensive repairs. A gang cf Italian workmen started to remove a sillar which supported the mam floor. Evidently they failed to brace the floor properly, for scarcely had’they loosened las iron post than the whole three floors above came tumbling down. The building did not take fire, but when darkness came lit was estimated that nearly fifty persons remained in the ruins, and that not more than half of these could survive the weight pressing upon them. The damage to the iropeityis, estimated at from two to three mndrsd dollars.

A GREAT FIRE. New York, Aug. 8. A. conflagration, aeoond only to;the mat fire of five years ego, : swept the en-. ire water front of Hoboken last night, lausing damage which ran into millions of Icilars. The list of destroyed properties fdeludes the great depot terminal of the Delaware and Lackawanna Railroad Company, and the four storey boathonnes of the Barclay street Ferry Company, seven passenger trains, which were caught m the j ™iway terminal yard, the new and mag- I aifieently equipped ferry boat Bioghampion, two other ferry boats, the historic Duke’s Hotel, and passenger sheds of the E’ablio Servloe Corporation. Great damage pas inflicted at the North German Lloyd md Hamburg-Amerloan Steamship Company’s piers. Passengers by the ferry joat Binghampton, which caught fire m ciid-stream, had a narrow escape, while many of the crew were compelled to leap into the river to save their lives. ihe intire Hoboken fire department, ihat of lersey City, and later, that of New York, loughl the flames, and a strong flotilla of tiro-boats ware pressed into the servioe. fihe firemen were handicapped by wind, which swept the flames Inland and seemed lo threaten many buildings. The fire originated in the ferry boat Hopatoiekong, but the cause is not known. An explosion was heard, then there, was a £«•» «* (lames, and in an instant the boot was hfire, The firemen suffered terribly from heat and smoke.

ADMIRAL PAUL JONES. New York, Aug. 8. After most imposing and reverent cereMonies, the body df John Paul Jones, the j naval hero of the Amerioan revolution, has been placed in a vault in the oentre of the grounds of the Naval Aoademy, Annapolis, Maryland. The body was found, searohrlasting some threejeira, in “S’ Oery in Paris, when vones died. Identifioa Hoa being complete, the American Govern ment sent the battleship Brook y . tho remains homo in stale. ji 0 the Government took a editable part ini the ceremonies, and a French cruiser acoomdenied the Brooklyn across Atlantic, and Frenoh officers and men took part m fjhe ceremonies afr Annapolis*

A RUNAWAY SHEPHERDESS. Chicago, July 24. Pillars of the "Church of Scientific Christianity 1 ’ are mouming to-day the sudden flight of Mrs Mayol A. Jackman, tho " shepherdess of Paradise, who, wild her husband, is supposed to be headmgfo Australia with 50,000 dollars belong g the churoh. They mysteriously disap peared from the church andl * home on July 181 b, when they Bterted from San Franoisoo. Dr.J. A. Pric • physioian to tho head of thi® “I B*® 8 *® , cult, says he beard Mrs Jackman read a letter from a rich man in Australia, olHer ing the‘‘boalor’’inducement to start ner propaganda there. It is thought the party may go to Australia.

On tho whole, it wflnld'seem that, so far as the colony is concerned, it would have bean better to give the London creditors no assurances at all than to give them Buon as Sir William Bussell hod to offer. Ana why people like Sir William, who when they are in the colony confess that they do not understand our financial position,] should go Home and, xn .circles where ft is supposed they speak with the voice of authority, pose as though they knew everything, can only be explained on the assumption that they are quite willing to do evil to the country in order that good may come to the Opposition oause. And yet Sir William wouid be surprised if anybody were to suggest .that be is a bad friend to the nnnntfv and not the.best per»

Bjj telegraph, Frees Asa’n, Couyriglit Received 1.11 a.m., Aug. 81. Goode Island, Ang. 80. The Aparims, from SamaraDg to Auok land, passed last night, reporting nil well.