News by the Mail.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7914, 1 September 1905, Page 2

News by the Mail.

YELLOW FEVER. AN ARCHBISHOP'S SUDDEN DEATH. NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 0. A sudden change in his condition to-day culminated in the death ol Archbishop Chapclle, of the Diocese Louisiana. The news of his sudden death created a profound shock- Monsigner Chapelle was' taken ill on Friday with yellow fever. He ftad returned to the city three days below, having just completed a tour of Louisiana, and announced his intention to stamp out the fever. Dr., Larue, the Archbishop's physician, on Friday diagnosed the cased as one of genuine yellow fever. From the first he was apprehensive of 'the result. Archbishop Chapclle was very stout of build, full-blooded, and just sixty, years of age ; and fever is always alarming in a patient under those conditions. The disease made steady inroads upon the venerable patient, and carlyi to-day lie showed signs of increasing weakncsSj Before noon there was an alarming change for the worse. Eminent physicians were immediately summoned for consultation, but the archbishop was beyond succour.

Public interest in the general situation as regards the yellow fever epidemic suffered a temporary eclipse in the unexpected death of Archbishop. Chapellcj It is considered remarkable that the archbishop should have contracted the disease so rapidly. He had spent many of the later years of his Me in Cuba and Porto Rico, in both of which countries the disease has been epidemic, without ever having contracted it. Among scientific men there is little doubt that the Archbishop fell victim to a mosquito bite during a brief visit he paid to an old archbishopric on Ohartrcss street, or that an insect found , its way into! his residence, which is not far from the territory within which there has been infections COLLAPSE OF A BUILDING. MANY WOMEN AND CHILDREN KILLED. ALBANY, N.Y., Aug. 8. The middle section of the big department store of John Myers and Co., collapsed to-day, carrying down with it over a hundred persons who were caught in the chaos of brick, plaster and wooden beams. Between twenty and thirty men, women, and children were killed. Anvthing like* complete) list of the Kleaid is.-impos-sible until the workers have reached the bottom of the debris. With few exceptions the dead and injured were employees of the firm, the majority being jgirls. The : building was. old.' but was always , considered! :satc. Workmen were making extensive reP? lri '- A gang of Italian workmen started to remove a pillar which supported the main floor. Evidently, they failed to brace- the ' floor properly for scarcely had they loosened tho iron post than the whole three floors above came tumbline down., Iho itjuildiiig did not rtatos ntc, but when darkness came it was estimated that nearly fifty persons remained in the ruins, and that not more than half of these would survive the weight pressing upon them, ihe damage to the property Is estU , mated at from two to three hundred thousand dollars.

ADMIRAL PAUL JONES, NEW YORK, Aug, 8. After most imposing anil reverent ceremonies, the 'body of John Paul Jones, the naval liwo of tlio American revolution, has been placed iu a vault m the centre of the grounds w > l<! j ™ Academy, Annapolis, P®. body was found, alter search lasting some three years, diorii C T l } le Paris, where Jones . WenHficatic'rt toeing complete,, Mm ?? 11C » n G ° Vernm ent sent tho battleship Brooklyn to bear the ro mams home l fin state, aihc French Government took a suitable part in the ceremonies, and a French cruiser accompanies the Booklyn across the fonk n n»v»FFrenchu rench officcrs and men napolis ceremonies at Ajr A RUNAWAY SHEPHERDESS.

CHICAGO, July 24. Pillars of the "Church of Scientific Christianity" arc mourning to-day the sudden flight of Mrs Mayel A.' Jackman, the "shepherdess of Paradise, who, with her husband, is sup, posed t Q be heading for Australia with 50,000 dollars belonging to the church. They mysteriously disappeared from the church and Irom their home on July 13th, when they start, cd for San Francisco. Dr. J. a Price, physician to the head of' this mysterious cult, says he heard Mrs Jackmau read a letter from a rich man in Australia, offering the "healcr' inducement- to start her pro D athere. It is thought the i»anw may go to Australia, b pa lH