NEWS OF THE WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 62, 4 September 1911, Page 7

NEWS OF THE WORLD

1 GAVE STRYCH.MM', IU BABIES. Pittsburg (U.S.A.), June -2!). One baby is believed to be dying and mors than a dozen ar» seriously ill as the result of having eaten candy containing strychnine, given by a man whose identity is not known. The city detectives are trying to find a man who was seen walking along the street, throwing candy over the fences to babies in the vards of their homes.

Dr. Daniel K. Sabel, city surgeon, has made an analysis of the contents of the stomachs of manv of the youthful victims. In each case the symptoms are similar, and candy Containing strychnine has been found.

Two-year-old Ethel Nelson, of Watsonstreet, was to-day removed to the Southside Hospital. The surgeons found candy dosed with strychnine. Little hope is entertained for the child's recovery.

Milton Thalimer, 4 years old, son of Milton S, Thalimer, of Bluff street, was given some of the candy this afternoon by the stranger. The child became ill immediately after eating it, and the quick work of a physician was all that saved his life. A neighbor who saw the man give the candy to the Thalimer child said that he walked up to the fence and called the child, who was playing inside the yard. He patted him on the head, and pulled out a bag of candy and gave several pieces to the boy, saying, "Eat it quick, now, little one.""

FALLS FROM A TWENTIETH STOREY. Chicago, June 27. Patrick Eustice, one of the human flies whose agility and lack of nerves make skyscrapers possible, lost his balance today and toppled from the twentieth story of the Helsen building. Ordinarily that statement would complete the itory. The structural iron erector slipped from a beam at the dizzy height, just as scores of others had done under similar circumstances, and his companions, certain of what would happen, did not even turn their eyes to see the mangled body below. As Eustace fell John Murray was pounding hot rivets into place on the nineteenth floor directly beneath him. Murray acted with the speed and precision of a star, in-fielder of a pennant baseball team. He lunged out and seized the falling man by a flying garment, but the weight was too great for him to hold. All Murray was able to accomplish was to swing his fellow workman out of his course, and into the opening in the shaft at the eighteenth floor. The result was that Eustice fell upon two crossed beams on the eighteenth floor, and slid half off, but clung there. His thigh was injured, but not seriously. He scrambled to his feet, dazed for a moment, grinned at the man who had saved his life, and started up a ladder to go back to work.

LOST DREADNOUGHT. COMIC OPERA PLIGHT OF THE lIAYTIAN FORCES. NAVY MAROONS AN ARMY. New York, July 10. President Simon, of llayti, has had the flower of his army shipwrecked and has lost his effective navy while engaging in combined manoeuvres intended to impress his fellow countrymen with his newly acquired naval might..

The story, which rivals the extravagances of comic opera, is brought by the Flanibut'c-Aincrika liner Allemannla, which arrived here to-day from Port-au-Prince after rescuing Hayti's battle corps.

'President Simon recently bought from Italy the obsolete cruiser T'mbria. and renamed her 'after himself "Antoine Simon Hayti's Dreadnought.'' Then to celebrate the occasion he decided to take the pride of his armv for a trip in the new ship. Accompanied bv his staff and followed by .i thousand soldiers, he embarked at I'ort-au-Prince, and Hayti's ''Dreadnought" put to sea. The -admiral in command was an extug boat captain, and the chief engineer was formerly a cowkeepcr. President Simon ordered his private yacht to accompany the,navy as a guard of honor. The voyage had proceeded merrily for thirty miles, when the "Dreadnought" suddenly bumped on something and sprang a leak, flooding the engine-room. She then drifted on a sand-bar. Panic seized the army, and President Simon's yacht began to manoeuvre round to effect a rescue. It took two hours to get the President and his staff on board. But as the yacht, broke her bowsprit, President Simon decided that it was dangerous to remain in the neighborhood any longer, and sailed for Port-au-Prince, leaving his army hehind but promising to send them re-, lief.

The Allemannia then happened to come along, and transhipped the army and landed it at Port-au-Prince. The "Dreadnought," when last seen, was resting on a sandbar, vigorously rocking itself to pieces. BATTLE WITH DAGGERS. A THOUSAND TURKS KILLED AND FIVE HUNDRED WOUNDED. Ilodeidah, July 17. The rebels, in great strength, surprised Mahomed Ali Pasha's advance guard of four battalions with four guns, which was encamped three miles outside Geezan, killing a thousand men and wounding 500, mostly with daggers. The remainder of the troops tied in disorder to Geezan, pursued by the rebels. The gunboat Entebbe shelled the town, killing and wounding several hundred soldiers. The Arabs ultimately retired after capturing four guns, two Maxims, -20(10 rifles, a quantity of ammunition and stores, and a hundred mules.

The Turkish commander is missing. The water supply of the expeditionary force has been cut oil'. The Yali has gone to Geezan with reinforcements and several hundred tons of water. A severe outbreak of cholera has occurred in the garrison. Eighty eases and 34 deaths are reported. An epidemic was also raging among the expeditionary forces at Geezan and Kuufuda.