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Horowhenua Chronicle, 6 February 1913, Page 2

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Cabled News From Abroad. (Sydney Sun Special.) REI'USES TO QUIT. LONDON, January- 20. A French actress is just now figuring m a ialitor sensational episud.' in I'aiis. As she was very much i" arreais with her rent, she was given notice by iicr landlord to quit tho promises, and this alio absolutely do dined to do. Oil Sunday the lady went out for a walk, and during her absence the landlord determined to get rid of her at ail hazards, employed a gang o'' housebreakers to pull down the house. The owner of the property was congratulating himself on having (as he thought) thus disposed of bis troublesome tenant. The latter however, showed that she was not going to l)e got rid of .so easily. Returning to the house, and surveying the havoc that had been wrought during her absence, the homeless actress simply gathered up her belongings, and improvising a tent, installed herself in the mils She is still there, and there she declares she intends to remain. .MORMONS ROBBED. The hostile feeling that prevails in this country against the Mormons continues to manifest itself. The latest -demonstration against the sect is reported from Ipswich in Suffolk, where 300 Mormon teachers who have just arrived from London. had a lively experience last night. They were, nolding a meeting in one of the local halls when the building was invaded by a hostile crowd and the gathering broken up. The chairs and all other furniture were ruthlessly smashed, and the harmonium was also wrecked. The missionaries themselves were mobbed and it was only by the aid of police protection that they finally managed to make their escape ARCHDUKE'S CLOSE CALL. The Archduke Louis of Tuscany narrowly escaped assassination yesterday. With his children's governess he was walking in the grounds surrounding his home on his estate in the Balearic Islands, in tho Mediterranean. when a workman fired several shots at him. One bullet just grazed the Archduke, and strikI ing the governess inflicted a rather severe wound. Nothing has been j allowed to transpire with regard to the reasons that prompted the attempt on tho Archduke's life. THE BEZIERS MIRACLE. LONDON", January 24. The woman whoso (laughter was reported to have been miraculously cured of paralysis after her moth'!!' had touched her with a handkerchief with which she had wiped the statue if the Virgin in the cemetery n+ Meziers. France, has given a denial to the story as published in -he press. She explains that -she was in t-lie habit of visiting tho statue to prav whenever in trouble. ITer daughter was about to undergo an operation, and in accordance with her custom she went to the cemetery and prayed. The operation was successful, 'ind she atiributed the result solely to her prayers. FLI'OW FOR CHARITY'S SAKE. M. Xieuport. the French aviator, was flying at Merville. France, yesterday, accompanied by a mechanic, when the machine fell from a height of 200 feet, and both men Mere killed. M. Niouport was the co-inventor ■if the monoplane that hears his name, as well as being an experienced p Hot. It was only in September last that his brother was killed while flying, and another sad fact connected with the tragedy is that the man who was killed yesterday took to active flying in order to support his brother's widow and child. WHAT SCIENCE HAS DONE. Some interesting facts are •Inclosed by the Dadium Institute's import on tlie cases with which it has dealt during the last 15 months. The report, which is published in the British Medical Journal, states that rodent ulcers, birthmarks, chronic eczema, and psoriasis yield to the radium treatment. 7n the case oP rheumatic gout i f is mentioned that striking benefit was obtained from drinking wat»r containing radium gases. With regard to cancer patients, some were cured, others apparently cured, and some showed improvament. while in the case of othens who manifested no improvement the treatment was abandoned. The treatment of epithelioma to. ; said to have been universally disappointing.