NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 179, 21 August 1909, Page 4

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

AltA BRAVED FOll A WIFE,

UNAVAILING HEROISM 01 f A HI'SISANI).

Xew York, June 7.

A woman named Cohen was walking| along the banks ol' Niagara vapids ye** 1 tcrday, accompanied bv her husband. 1 when ijhe suddenly sprang into the river. Without a moment'!} hesitation, and regardless of the uxiruine danger of .lis action, Mr. Cohen plunged in after his wife, but, although a very powerful awiminer, a quarter of ati hour elapsed before he reached her, by which lime she was evidently dead. He, however, clung desperately to her, and, after battling witli the strong current for nearly an hour, was pulled out by a 11ope, bearing the dead oody of his wife I in his arms.

MADMAN" IN A CHUKCH.

SAVAGE ATTACK ON A I'IUEST AT

THE ALTAR.

Dublin, June 1,

A madman caused a sensational disturbance yesterday in the Ban try Koinan Catholic X'hurch during the eidebrat.un of Mass Sy Father O'Uriscoll. The prieM was about to deliver the customary sermon from the steps of the high altar, when a member of Ihe congregation I named McCarthy, a stonemason, daslu'd up the central aia'.e shouting |ou6 expressions aud gesticulating wildly. The priest as he advanced waved him back, before anyone could interfere the man had scaled the sanctuary rails, rushed up the altar steps, and struck the clergyman in the face. Several members of the congregation ftcrcamed in panic; others' rushed out, while a few went to the .priest'a protection, and saved him from a-second blow. The man, struggling* violently, was brought outside, and was subsequently certified a dangerous lunatic and removed to an asylum. A few weeks ago he was convicted of breaking windows in the Trappife't Monaster}* of Mount Mellary.

MRS. EDDY A "PUPPET."

CHRISTIAN SCIENTIST ON THE

BOSTON FICTION.

New York, June 6.

Mrs. D. M. Gilbert, a rich Brooklyn Christian Scientist, has issued a call to all Christian Scientists to help her in an attempt to reorganise and purify the Church.

"The Christian Science , Church," she writes, "is without a spiritual leader in the flesh. Mrs. Eddy is either dead or a helpless, mindless puppet in the hands of conscienceless men.

"I appeal for the purification of our Church. 1 have studied at close range the fraud, trickery, and revolting mystery whereby the Boston organisation seeks to perpetuate the pernicious fiction of an unseen and unseeable leader "The time has come when Christian Science must purge itself of dishonesty. Mary Baker now lives in history only. The* fetish of her name is all that remains. The hour is at hand for the reorganisation of the faith on the lines of honesty and unity." The virulent attack made by Mrs. Gilbert on the Christian Science central organisation in Boston has drawn a prompt reply from Mrsf. Eddy, the founder and head of the sect.

Mrs. Eddy to-day issued a _ signed statement informing Christian Scientists and the public in general that Mrs. Gilbert was under a slight misapprehension in declaring licr to be "either dead or helpless, mindless puppet in the hands of conscienceless men," and adding that she is still in possession of her mental faculties.

A QUEEN'S EXAMPLE,

A LITTLE GIRL SUCKS (POISON FROM]

HER SISTER'S LIP.

Pembroke, June 10.

There is a little girl in the village ofl Frcvstrop, Pembrokeshire, who has not forgotten the story of Eleanor of Cns-i tile, the heroic queen who sucked the poison from licr husband's wound when Edward I. was attacked by an assassin on his wav back from {he Crusades. | The little girl, the twelvc-ycar-oUi daughter of a resident named John Uier,] has just saved her baby sister's life byi following the qit'jen's example. The baby, playing near licr father's] doorstep, picked up an adder. She put it to her mouth,' and when her older sia'tev ran "P a few momenta later she was horrified to sec the snake still in the baby's hand. Hurriedly she Hung 't ns ' l ' c , an '' crushed it. and then sucked the poison from her sistCT's lip. The little girl is n ow recovering, and efforts are being made to acknowledge her s'istcr's devotion.

TORTIHIKD BV HIS COXSCfEXCE.

DRAMATIC COXFESSIOX OF MURDER. London, June o. A dramatic confession of murder was made at tlic Tower Bridge Police Court| yesterday by Patrick Molloy, a yoUng laborer. On Bth December last a woman named Kate Brown was found fatally stabbed in a house in Tabard-street. Borough. An inquest was held, and a verdict of "Suicide" was returned. Molloy now confessed that he killed -the woman Ixscause she had robbed him. "I told my s'ister and my uncle." he stated, ''but the answer 1 pot was: 'Shut up; you will get yourself hanged if you' go on like thai.' '•The reason I have mado this state-l ipent is that every time I pass St.| George's Church I think of what T ought 1.0 confess. Being a Roman Catholic, 1| cannot go to confession -without telling what I,have done, and I know thcv| would not give me absolution until t have been to the police and stated jvhatj I have done." 1 A remand was ordered.