NEWS BY MAIL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 106, 25 October 1911, Page 3

NEWS BY MAIL.

SITiGBONT GOBS MAD DURING AN OPERATION. DESPERATE STRUGGLE TO SAVE : THE PATIENT. I Paris, September 1. i A strange story of a surgeon going macl while performing an operation is reported by the St. Petersburg eorre-j spondcnt of the Petit Journal. J The .scene was Chita, in Siberia, and • the doctor's patient was a working man whose condition admitted of no delay, lie was chloroformed and two assistants had placed everything ready for use by the ;doctor when the latter, much to their surprise, began to make irrelevant remarks. He took up his bistoury, however, and made the required incision with his usual skill and precision, his assistants being thereby reassured. Suddenly he burst into a laugh, saying tliat all their trouble was useless, adding: "It would be better if we finished him off with a stroke of the knife." In a flash the assistants realised tliht their chief had gone mad and one oil them placed himself between the doctor and the patient, whilst the other threw himself upon the lunatic and endeavored to wrest the knife from his grasp. With maniacal rage the doctor struggled with his assistant, while the I nurses fled from the surgery in terror. Another assistant, however," with ready resource continued the operation already begun, and when the madman had been nver)>owcred successfully completed it. The doctor has been placed in an asylum. J

JEERED TO HIS DEATH. FATAL FLIGHT IN RESPONSE* TO TAUNTS. FOUR AVIATORS KILLED. Norton (Kansas), Sept. 2. Mr. .1. .T. Frisbie the American aviator, fell yesterday, and was crushed wider bis motor. He died with an hour. Mr. Frisbie sustained a fall on Thursday and did not wish to go up again yesterday. The crowd, however, jeered at him. taunting him with cowardice, and in the face of this he made an ascent. While attempting to turn, his aeroplane tipped and. losing control of it, he crashed to earth. His wife and daughter witnessed the accident, and the former bitterly denounced the spectators. Mr. Frisbie was an Irishman, and 'pent 2(i years in Europe as a balloonist and parachutist.

ROMANTIC OF THE EAST. MI!. WILLARD STRAIGHT MARRIED AT GEXEVA. Geneva. - September 7. The marriage of Mr. Willartl D. Straight, representative of the Morgan financial interests in China, anil Miss Dorothy Payne Whitney, a daughter of the late Mr. William C. Whitney, who wai at one time a prominent member of the American Cabinet, took place here to-day. Fewer than twenty guests were present at the ceremony. The bride wore a dress of white satin and a veil of old Venetian lace. After a brief honeymoon the couple will proceed to China.' They first met in the Far East, where Miss Whitney was visiting friends. Mr. Straight was at one time in'the Imperial Chinese Customs at a small salary. During the Russo-Chinese war he wns appointed American Consul-Gen-eral iit Mukden, in consequence of his intimate knowledge of Chinese affairs. After filling this post with distinction Mr. Straight returned to Washington to become head of the Asiatic bureau of the American Department of State. He resigned this position to join the financial syndicate of which Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan is the head, and was sent back to China to represent these great interests. The Morgan syndicate is endeavoring to secure a large share in the important financial transactions which are a part of the development of China. Miss Dorothy Payne Whitney is considered to be one of the wealthiest young women in America. Her brother, Mr. Payne Whitney, is married to a daughter of the late John Hay, the American diplomat.