GENERAL NEWS ITEMS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2334, 27 September 1921, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS

How a tangled sock caused a mans’ death from apoplexy was told at a Brixton in qu 6st on Mr Edward Townsend Ede. He wag late for breakfast, and he was found dead in the bathroom. He was seated on a chair, with one sock on and the other partly on. Death, said a doctor, was caused by apoplexy. Mr Ede’s sock had become entangled in his trousers, and his exertion in trying to pull it on his foot probably accounted for the seizure.

As a result of mishaps at cricket, two players have died. When batting at. Pontesbury, Shropshire, the Rev. J. A. V. Haynes, vicar of Hope, was struck by a sharply-rising ball. After the match he complained of feeling ill, and died soon afterwards. ITe was only 30 years of age. In the second case, Jack Francis Goodrich, of Newport, tried to catch a swift ball, which struck one of his fingers. A slight wound was caused, but blood-poisoning set in, and subsequently he died. Two hundred police at Philadelphia wept copiously at a trial of Major Stephen de la Noys’ lachrymatory gas invention for repelling mobs and criminals. The guardi-

ans of law and order, led by the superintendent, were driven back three times with their eyes brimming witli tears. The inventor said the gas was not dangerous, but merely tear-producing, choking, and nauseating. He advised them, however, not to swallow too much.

A strange Alpine accident happened to a party of 20 Swiss schoolboys and two masters from Zurich, who left Engelberg to climb the Jochpass at an altitude of 7,2(i5ft. The party entered an ice grotto, formed inside a glacier, and the roof of the grotto collapsed. Three boys, aged from fourteen to sixteen, were killed instantly, and several were injured. The injured were taken to the hospital at Engelberg. The boys were singing patriotic songs at the moment of their death. The accident was caused by the great heat melting the glacier. Five persons died from heat in New York City one day recently. Seventeen others fell in the streets and were- taken to hospital. For three days the temperature on the street level has reached 102 degrees in the shade. A detective in charge of a raid on a saloon in search of intoxicating liquors, apparently maddened by the heat, ran wild with his truncheon, and attacked 30 persons, knocking them insensible and dragging them, one by one into a room at the back of the saloon before going out to search for fresh victims. Among those he attacked were several women and children.