Events That Have Happened.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 101, 3 May 1904, Page 4

Events That Have Happened.

DOINGS IN ALL I'AUTS OF THE GLOUE.

A WORLD-WIDE COLLECTION

MASTODON FOUND IN ALASKA. DAWSON, ALASKA, March i. The complete form of a mastodon was found at Hillside, on Quartz Creek, to-day. It was embedded 38 feet in the earth when found, and it necessitated the use of a steam thawing plant to unearth the im-, mense animal. The hair and the akin of the beast are in a perfect stato of preservation, although the flesh decomposed, and the long tusks, which remained fastened to the skull, are in good condition. It is said that the skeleton is worth about 50,000d01., as there are but one or two of them in exexistence in this condition. Three men, Hereon, Swason, and Hcrtcr, discoverpd the Mastodon. It was buried in an old channel, and well in the zone of almost perpetual frost, which accounts for the good shape it is in. TWENTY YEAUS IN A THANCE. PARIS, March 8. Professor Lancereaux, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of Paris, read a paper before the Academy of Medicine to-duy on tho case of the sleepong woman of Thenelles, who recently awoke from a cataleptic trance and then died from consumption. The daughter of an alcoholic father, she was twenty-two yeurs of age when she fell asleep after extreme excitement followed by convulsions. It was not possible to awaken or to feed her in the ordinary way. A feature of the somnolence was convulsive seizures at intervals without recovery of consciousness. When at length tho woman awoke after a severe lit, she rememlKTed things that had happened before the attack. She only lived a short period afterwards:.

A CHRISTIAN- 11IOT. HOME, Marcli ii. Lenten preaching, accompanied by noting, would sewn to be popular iii Southern Italy. Last veek the Catania Cathedral figured prominently. This time the scene is llio principal parish chinch of I'alermo, where Padro Michelangelo da l'errara is holding forth daily. An elo(|ucnt discourse on Christian democracy had been listened to by ' -<an immense crowd, with frequent outbursts of applause. The preacher left the church, and was being honoured with a further ovation in the , square, when a knot of Socialists shouted, "Viva Giordano liruno." Padro Michelangelo's admirers raised counter-cries of '-Viva Gesu Cristo." The hostile crowds threw them--1", selves upon each other, and a fierce battle began. The belligerents fought long and stubboroly. After an hour or so the carabinicri were able to establish a truce, while doctors in various parts of the city were busily employed binding up the wounds of some scores of crusaders, who had fought and suffered valiam- ■,- 'ly if not well. A BOGUS BOER EMISSARY.

BERNE. March 6. Henri Albert Aunsch, of Altenhau•sen, Prussia, who for many months posted as a Boer emissary to Europe, sent for the purpose of collecting funds for the Boer women and children, has just been sentenced <it Zurich to six months' imprisonment and expulsion from Switzerland for fraud.

In court it camo out that Gunsch had. never been to Africa, and that he gleaned his information concerning the war from German sources He gave lectures throughout Switzerland, and collected large suras of money, -which it was found • never reached the Boers. He violently attacked the honour of the English troops, was always ready with talcs of cruelty committed by them, and fpr a time was the most popular man in this country. There are three other charges waiting him when he comes out of prison..

MORMON ELDER'S CHILDREN. . NEW YORK, March 8. President Smith, of the Mormon Church, said at Washington recently that he has forty-two children, equally divided ra-,scpt,il)yihis! live, wives who live in separate houses, which he gave them by deed. He said that Mr Siuoot became an apostle on April gth, 1900. By the testimony of a Mrs Kennedy, the opposition to the retention of Mr Smoot in the Senate sought to prove that the Mormon Church, in spile of the Woodruff manifesto in 1890, is still gamous marriages. While not nonliving as a plural wife, Mrs Kennedy countenancing and encouraging polvstated without hesitation that she was married to a Mormon as a polygamous wife four years after the manifesto was issued, and that the marnago ceremony was performed by Brother Y r oung, an apostle of the ehurch. Later she said that Brother, Young was lSrigham Young This woman is twenty-six vears of age, bright and intelligent, 'and presented the appearance of a younf woman in gqod circumstances. She said her husband's first wife gave her consent to the marriage. HUSHING IT A SCANDAL. , BERNE, March fi. The last scene in a German Court scandal has just been enacted at Basle, when Countess Wedel-Bnrarcl the authoress of the book "My Relations with the Emperor William II," has been placed in a lunatic asylum Some years ago the Countess was persona grata at the Courts of Berlin and Vienna, bud she lost the friendship of tho Kaiser after the publication of her book. It is stated that she intended writing a similar work concerning the Emperor of Austria, and on the fact becoming known, great pressure was brought to bear on her relations to have tho Countess put under restraint, and with success. ; AN AMERICAN ROMANCE.

. NEW YORK, March 7. A retired captain, who is an in- ■ ' mate of the Sailors' Home, ami known as Charles Stewart Scaton, but who says that his name is John Shand Burns, declares that he is sol.heir !to the estate of Lord Shand, in Aberdeenshire. Ho says he has kept quiet so Ion" because he ran away to'sea when a' boy. He has been in the home for twenty years. He is eighty-six years of age, and says he is second cousin to tho late Lord Shand, and has a trunk full of papers to establish his

jg)V-." claims. His mother, who was a Miss if|"» Whyto before her marriage, was, lie fe';'; states, the daughter of u physician. fi-j. and a cousin of Lord Shawl's jnoihJj ( - tT. lie himself grew up with Lord |,V Shand until he ran away when four- |"';; teen years of age. : sjgy PERSECUTION OP STTJNDISTS. If . BERLIN', Fel). 28. t,':-.'-' Several Stundist meetings have tff..;■? been closed liy the police in the pro- ;>' vinces of Kiefl, Kharkoff, and Kher- •£■. 7. sou. For some time past the revivS, ed activity of this!, body of RvangeliW- cal Protestants, who have sundered p-: themselves from the Orthodox |*f,■; Church, has caused considerable tin-

easiness to tin- Holy Synod, and h 'rt has been resolved to crush them Wherever they are strong enough In afiscinble in small congregations, f- ■' The Stundist movement, which ivarl:ed its greatest strength in the enrh years oF Alexander 171., was subjected to severe persecution -during the ~-. reign of this monarch, and in conse- ► _ qucnce lost ninth of its strength. f."- Many of its most trustful leaders Y t .. . died in exile or banishment. The

f,* body, which immbprnl about, a t|uar•/j tcr ol' a uiillion adherents ten years ago, has rapidly dwindled until its ' , numbers now do not jirokilily exceed / 10 000.