GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2412, 1 April 1922, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

In an attempt to overtake his wife, who left earlier on a passenger train, P. C. Briggs, of St. Ifaul, hired- an aviator to bring him' to Iron wood, Michigan,, recently. The plane made a landing twelve miles west of the town when darkness stopped the flight. The passenger’s wife was believed to be en route to her parents’ home in Mareniseo, east of Ironwood.

Yester J. Mabeus, of St. Helena, has just been married by telegraph and cable to Maria Hahn, who is in Paris, 4,000 miles away. The ceremony was performed by Judge W. F, Bryant, of Ilartington, who declared the ceremony, which lasted seven hours, was legal. Mabeus was in France with the American Army, and met Miss Hahn, who was in Red Cross work.

A radium mine has been discovered in Brazil by Mi’s Alexander Grasse, F.ILG.S., who lias just returned from an expedition into the interior, where she is the first woman to have penetrated. At the base of the mountains is a medicinal lake, used by the natives, which is radio-active. Mrs Grosse is at present in Paris in consultation wtih Mme. Currie, joint discoverer with her husband of radium.

Shortly after Blanche A. Ogle became the wife of C. B. Ogle, be deserted her, she told Judge Summerfild, at Los Angeles recently, in Divorce Court. But once a year for five years Mr Ogle would return to his wife for one night, then go away for another year, the wife testified. On each occasion she pleaded with him to stay, she said, but he always had an explanation. She was granted a decree.

A black cat does not always bring luck; one brought death to a Peckham baby boy while he slept. Mrs Johnston, wife of an engineer’s fitter living in Trafalgar Road, Peckham, put her 11-weeks-old baby to bed on a recent afternoon as usual after his meal. An hour later she went to-take the boy up, and found a large black cat lying across his face. A doctor who was summoned found that "the child had been suffocated, and a verdict of accidental death was returned at the hospital.