NEWS FROM ALL SOURBES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8878, 1 August 1907, Page 4

NEWS FROM ALL SOURBES.

Panic in a Church. A wild panic occurred daring vcs« pers at the Church of Villers-les-Nancy, near Nancy. While tl e congregation was at prayers the massive stone balustrade of the organloft fell with a tremendous crash among the congregation, one of the choristers falling with it. The congregation fled in terror from the building. One woman was tilled, and two others so gravely injured that they are not expected to recover. The chorister who fell with the masonry, was not seriously injured.

Maryiebone “Witch ’’ CaseIndicted at Oerkenwell Sessions for having obtained money by false pretences from an eighteon-yoar-old German waiter named Henry Thom' l , Oscar Follmi was found not guilty and discharged. Tiiis is the end of the amusing case of the Maryiebone cook who had “dealings with evil spirits.” Thoma alleging that Follmi had, by means of tales about the cook’s being a witch and so being able to get through keyholes, frightened him into entrusting him with his savings. Follmi yesterday denied the prosecutor’s allegations, and said the money handed to him had been spent partly on the prosecutor and partly on entertaining the cook to theatres at Thoma’s suggestou.

Killed by Ligntning. A tree, beneath which four men were sheltering from a thunderstorm, at Goring, on the Worthing and Littlohampton road, was struck by lightning. Two of tiie men Sidney Charles Orchard, aged IS), and Frederick Bennett Wadey. aged 23 —were killed outright. Their clothing was reduced to shreds. The other two men wore both injured, one of them, named Percy Wiuton, seriously. The fourth man was James Orchard, father of one of the men who were killed, who described his sensation as being like a blow on the head from a hammer. The “ Disgrace ” of Knighthood. At a convention of baronets, which met at 30, Hanover square W., to discuss the status of the Order, Sir Richard Harrington said he did not regard knighthood as of much account. He had a friend in a high position, who said he wished lie was a baronet, because it would save him from the disgrace of being knighted. Sir Lambton Loraiue said their position in this matter was analogous to Don Quixote’s attendants being promoted higher than Don Quixote himself. Objection was taken to sous of Lords of Appeal taking precedence of baronets, and a resolution was passed expressing regret that the report of the Home Office Committee of Enquiry into the status of baronets recommended no steps to be taken to safeguard their conventional privileges.