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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 80, 13 July 1910, Page 3

NEWS BY MAIL.

•NEW AID TO MEDICINE. ■INVENTION TO USE ENORMOUS ELECTRICAL POWER. Berlin, May 15. A new cure for many kinds ot internal disease and a new aid to surgery have been found in the application ol an enormously powerful electrical current, such, as is good for wireless telegraphy, to the human body. A firm of electricians, Messrs Siemens and Halske, have invented and placed on the market an apparatus whereby such currents can be passed through the human 'body without producing any detrimental consequences. When the current is introduced into the body there is no convulsive movement of the limbs and no other effect than to produce warmth. It is now claimed that the application of the current to the part of the body tod be operated on will produce sterilisation and prevent blood poisoning. It would be premature to assume at this stage that the new cure can accomplish all the wonders attributed to it, but it has been favorably received by the medical scientists of Germany. One of them, Dr. Paul Meisener, says it opens up endless visions of medical possibilities.

HEROIC DEATH OF A NURSE. DID NOT WISH TO ALARM THE CHILDREN. London, May 16. Florence Jane Litchfield, a young nurse at Beddington Corner Isolation Hospital, whose clothes caught fire, and who was burned so severely that she died on Saturday, might have had a chance to save her life if she had gone into her children's ward and thrown herself on one of the beds. But rather than alarm her little charges she ran past the ward door and down the corridor. Every shred of clothing was burned off her, and when put to bed, wrapped in oiled clothes, she faintly asked the matron to look after her "kiddies."

LIP.E SENTENCE FOR A DOCTOR. MYSTERIOUS DEATH OP WEALTH Y RELATIVES. New York, May 16. Dr. Clark Hyde* was to-day found guilty at Kansas City of murder, in the first degree, of his wife's uncle, the millionaire philanthropist, Colonel Thomas H. Swope. A sentence of penal servitude for the term of his natural life was recorded, and is to be finally pronounced at a late sitting. The jury retired at ten o'clock on Friday night, and considered their verdict for forty-eight hours. Dr. Hyde was meanwhile taken hack to his cell, where he awaited the result of the trial with, amazing coolness. The scene when at length the result was announced was deeply impressive. Hyde stood up facing, his judge, but when the word "Guilty" was spoken he sank into his seat. His wife, rushing at him, threw her arms around his neck and kissed him passionately. iS'he patted his cheeks, and asked, him not to despair.

Hyde stared in front of him, and when the sentence which followed the verdict was read out to him, his eyes full, an! he gasped convulsively. Mrs. Hyde tried again to comfort him. "I have lost hope," he said in a low impassioned voice.

■ A few minutes later he was led to the cells. His wife remained dazed and faint.

Hyde's counsel has announced hid intention to appeal, but me-mwhile Dr. Hyde is to be treated as a.i ordinary prisoner, and will be allowed no luxuries.

BOY PRINCE WHO SAVED HIS GRANDMOTHER.

Berlin, May 17. The Kaiser has conferred the medal for bravery in saving life on Prince Nicholas, the heir to the crown of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg. Prince Nicholas, a boy of twelve years, was in a rowing boat with his grandmother, the Dowager Grand Duchess Marie, of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, when the boat capsized and both fell into the water.

The Dowager Grand Duchess, who is sixty years of age, was unable to swim, and was hampered by heavy clothes. Her grandson, however, held her above water for fifteen minutes, when help arrived and both were rescued. SKELETON IN A CUPBOARD. Vienna, May 13. An extraordinary instance of a husband's devotion to his wife's memory has just been revealed at Bucharest. An inventory of property left by Mi'klos Denner, a merchant, was being made, when the skeleton of a woman was discovered locked up in a cupboard. It was at first thought that a murder-had been committed, but. enquiry showed that the skeleton was that of Denner's wife, who had died a natural death ten years ago, and was buried in the.ordinary way.

AX -UNLUCKY " FIND." iParis, May 13. An unfortunate expi-vience has just befallen a stableman named Brodequin. Seven years ago, when cleaning a carriage, lie found a brooch with a white stone inset, which he took to be an imitation diamond. He married, and a year afterwards became the father of a girl. The brooch was used to hold up the baby's bib, and on her sixth birthday Brodequin took the child U °. ieweller to buy some earrings. The child was wear.'.-. :.c brooch,and the jeweller, recognising the white stone as a diamond, offered £4O for it. Brodequin refused the offer, and took the brooch to another jeweller, who handed him over to the police. Experts find the brooch to be worth £l5O, and Brodequin is to be prosecuted for theft, because he did not take his find to a police station seven years ago. The police have found no trace of the owner of the brooch. Had Brodequin taken the brooch to the police station, it would have become his property a year and a clay afterwards. SPANIARDS AS SLAVES. SOLDIERS HELD IN BONDAGE BY ABORIGINES. Madrid, May 18. Jose Harri Parello, who served as ft marine in *i'o Spanish-American war, and who it was believed died twelve vears ago, appeared at Pamplona yesterday. , He was supn.ved to have perished off Cavite. His aroint of his adventures is sensational. lie. with others, reached the coast of Ncveieta by swimming, and was taken prison; by aborigines. He was taken to Caviar, on the island

of Palawan, in the Philippines, and treated with the utmost cruelty. He was badly fed, whipped, and used as a. beast of burden. In January of this year ninety Spaniards, including himself, threw themselves into the sea. Thirty-five were drowned, twenty-seven swam back to the land, and twenty-eight were taken aboard the American steamer Baltimore. They sailed to Bordeaux, and thence made their way across the frontier to Spain. Parello declares that there are many Spanish prisoners still in the Philippines.

NO JUSTICE IN PERSIA. St. Petersburg, May IC. A telegram from Teheran states that the Regent 'has ordered the closing of ; the Ministry of Justice for fifteen davs, owing to numerous complaints having, been received of the tardiness and un-' fairness of the judicial authorities. The, officials refuse to obey the order. The President of the Mejliss is calling on the most notable personages to endeavor to induce them to put a stop to the agitation against the judicial authorities.