Additional Cables.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 3 April 1913, Page 2

Additional Cables.

BERLIN, March 15

Mr Joseph Brucker, the GermauAmerican aeronaut, lias almost completed his plans for the flight across the Atlantic that he intends to make ■by moans of his dirigible 'balloon, Suchard 11. Starting from one of the Canary Islands he proposes to embark on his hazardous journey sonic time between April 12 and 14. Tho balloon is the largest in existence, and has a diameter of 80 feet. Mr Brucker will be accompanied by two assistants, and be will take with him three weeks' supply of provisions. Ho expected to land first in the West Indies and afterwards' - on the .South American coast in from five to ten days. NEW YOlUv, March 115. An aeronaut in New York who enclosed himself in a steel cylinder, and was then blown from a gun to a height of 3500 feet, paid rather dearly for his mad freak. The cylinder was constructed in such a way as to open itself at the end of its flight, the occupant accomplishing bis descent l>y means of a parachute thnt he carried with him, It was about the most thrilling experience an aeronaut ever had, :but the result \\as not encouraging, for although tho foolhardy fellow who thus risked his life effected descent safely enough, he was bruised, burned, and lacerated prettty well all over his body. CHICAGO. March 15. If a sponge is left floating about in the interior of a patient who has been operated on, and i.s not discovered, until seven years have elapsed, does tho Statutes of Limitations apply from the date of the operation or the date of its discovery? This is tho U-giil teaser that Judge Carpenter, of this city has been called upon Id decide. The point arose- in a case in which a man named George Montgomery .sued i\ Dr. Kalke. alleging that tho surgeon negligently left a sponge in his abdomen after an operation for appendicitis. v'vi'ii years later -other physicians discovered the presence of the sponge. and another operation had to be performed to remove it. The defendant avars that the period covered by the .Statute of I.imitations began when the original operation was carried out.

IX)NDON. .March 16

Dr. .Friedmann'« New York patients are reported to be making notable progress. Hundreds of other consumptives are awaiting treatment and tho State Government has placed the Bellevue Hospital at Dr. Kriedniaun's disposal. The .Royal Geographical Society intends to present Lady .Scott with a casket containing tho patron's medal. A similar menial will be awarded to Mrs Wilson, the widow of Dr Wilson, chief of the scientists' staff of the ."■cott expedition, and a gold watch is to be presented: to Lieutenant Campbell, who commanded the easto! n party. Three medical men have complained ih.at Lilian Fenton, one of the suffragettes, wiik forcibly fed at Holo\v:-y Gaol. London, by Ctvo doctors and seven w.ardresses. They allege that she Mas tied to a chair and her "head ulagged backwards .across the hack of the chair by her hair, and that fond was twice forced into her nostrils. The first, i.imo it. did not go through, and the second time it caused a violent choking, so that it was almost impossible for the woman to breathe, and the food was ejected through the mouth. The tube was then removed and Lenton fell against the wall. She continued to couch ilid complain of pain extending from the waist upwards, accompanied by a rattling noise when she breath-t-"d. In the night her temperature rose to 102 degrees, and she was in a pneumonic condition. The estate of the late Mr. JO. H. Mammaii. tho American railroad king, has been appraised at CM.{)()().000. Dr Flexner. of the Rockefeller Institute, in Xow York; claims to have discovered the germ of infantile pashms. It is declared to be the smallest organism ever identified. NEW YORK. March 17. Some clever and daring burglars made a great haul during Sunday night. Tunnelling from one side of the street to the other they gained an entry into a pawnbroker's establishment, from tho safes of which they abstracted jewellery to the value of £50,000 and £20.000 worth of negotiable securities. This haul constitutes a. irecord robbery for New York. LONDON, Marcli 18. German hankers held a meeting in Berlin to-day, at which it was dedared that the money market was as bad ins it possibly could he, and that there was no hope of improvement until the political situation became more tranquil. Money is becoming dearer every day. the present Berlin open market bank' rate 'being 8.1 per cent for the best three months loans. A uegress, who grew Hire a mushroom, has just died in Savannah. After an illness in November she weighed lOst. -51b. But suddenly she started to expand in all directions, and added flesh at the rate of lOOlbs a month. Tt was possible at times to see her growing. When she died a day or two ago she weighed 44st. Her neck had increased in size to a yard in circumference, previously the distance round her waist. Following the attack made by the M'orning Post upon the speech of Mr Bryan. American Secretary of State, at the St. Patrick's Day ban(|Uet in Chicago, the Daily Mail says that if Mr Bryan really expresses the views of the United States President and Cabinet, the relations between Britain and America may enter upon a phase that will be regarded with extreme regret by the majority of sensible and moderate persons of both countries. The Standard describes the speech as "a fine example of tho virulent, inflated nonsense that the inferior kind of demagogue talks when lie wants to catch. Irish votes." The Standard adds that utterances to pass as a mere indiscreit is impossible to allow Mr Bryan's tion.