BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 59, 2 November 1912, Page 7

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

UNEMPLOYMENT IN LONDON. London, October 21. The Popular Distress Committee reports that its labours under the Unemployment Act have been a dismal failure. It declares that those in authority appear to treat unemployment with callous indifference. The committee points out that the problem is a national one, and appeals for the establishment of a Department of Labour, under the administiation of a Cabinet Minister.

THE LASH FOR BURGLARS. Charging the Grand Jury at Middlesex Sessions, and replying to the presentment made regarding the necessity for more stringent punishment of burglars, the presiding judge expressed the hope that tne representatives would strengthen the law. His Lordship recommended the lash as a deterrent to the crime of which the Grand Jury complained. KAISER IN NEW ROLE OF v PARSON. The Kaiser, after unveiling tire Coligny memorial at Wilhelmshaven, said that loyalty to a king could flourish only in the soil where faith in a heavenly King held sway. Fie commended to the navy the example of Coligny’s life and work. GERMAN TRAITORS PUNISHED. Two Germans were sentenced in Leipsic to eight and six years’ penal servitude respectively for having betrayed to the French war authorities information respecting the fortifications at Met A third culprit was condemned to 1 six years’ imprisonment for the theft of military plans. CHILDREN’S HAPPY EVENINGS. Lady Jersey is appealing for furthei help on behalf of the Children’s Happy Evenings’ Association.

A FORTUNE THAT ARRIVED. Chicago, October 20. Worn out and discouraged by the struggle for existence, a charwoman named Mrs Effio Bender was about to commit suicide when the news was conveyed to her that she had been left a fortune of £50,000 by a former suitor. The poor woman could not bear to leave her children uncarcd for, and ishc wrote to a friend of other days, a Mrs Helen Potter, asking her to look after the little ones. Mrs Potter was a sister of Mrs Bonder’s old sweetheart, and she rushed to the charwomans’ home and told her of her glorious fortune. SHOT DEAD ON WEDDING EVE. * ft New York, October 20. At Cordon, Oregon, Miss Virgie Hart, a pretty young society girl, was shot dead on the eve of her wedding with George M’Danill, an engineer. Bob Morgan, an 18-year-old prodigal, is the girl’s murderer, and he is still at large. He was once her sweetheart. /

AMERICAN ELECTION GRAFT. Mr Elinor Dover, formerly assistant secretary of the Republican National Committee, lias submitted to the legal inquiry an alleged duplicate list of contributors to the funds of'the 1901 Presidential campaign. In this list the financier, Mr G. W. Perkins, is down for £50,000, Mr Pierpont Morgan for £30,000, Mr Oh ami - eey Depew, Mr Harriman, and Mr George Gould for £20,000 each, and several others for smaller amounts. ENGLISH REFEREEING TRIED. The English method of refereeing boxing matches was tried at the Fortyfourth street Sporting Club last night. Young Corbett looked after the fighters from a seat outside the ring, and the plan appeared to work well. Packy M'Farland fought a no-decision contest with Kid Alberts, of New Jersey, while Ad Wolgast had no difficulty in winning over Teddy Maloney in six rounds. Wolgast had the bettor of it in the first three rounds, but in the last session Maloney got busy. Doth men slipped down near the ropes, and when they rose Maloney landed three terrific wallops on Wolgast’s jaw just as the final gong went. DIED TO SAVE ANOTHER. “I’m glad I did it. Toll her I hope she will soon get well, doc.” These words were whispered into the ear of Dr. J. A. Craig, a medical man at Meary, Indiana, by William, a crippled newsboy, who died early yesterday morning after sacrificing the skin ol his withered leg so that the liie ol Miss Ethel Smith might bo saved. “She’s a girl I’ve never seen, and it makes no difference to me.” Rugh gasped. “A cripple can’t do nothing. Everything’s against him. I’m satisfied.” Miss Smith was frightfully burned in a recent motor cycle accident and the doctors announced tht she would die unless someone volunteered to lose enough skin to be grafted on to her body. Rugh volunteered, and after the operation lie rallied, and it was believed at first that he would live. The girl practically recovered and was sent home on Tuesday, but the bravo boy contracted pneumonia the same • day ,and gradually sank and died.

A SAILOR AND TWINS. A message from Bergen, Norway, aptly illustrates the traditional adaptability of the average sailor. On hoard a steamer bound from Trondbjem a young woman was taken

ill, and as there was no doctor on board, and none of the other women could be induced to act, the mate, after a perusal of the medical guide, performed the accouchement. Twins were born, and when the ship arrived at Christiania the medical man who was called, said that Ids services were unnecessary.

GIRL’S PATHETIC REQUEST. A pathetically tragic story comes from Pasacoula, in Missouri. “I have been mistrusted all my life. I want to feel just one touch of human kindness. Won’t you please kiss me?” was the plea, made by Miss Ada Welsh to a stranger in the street. The man fulfilled Ter wish, and the young woman drank a phial of poison and died instantly.