HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 175, 11 December 1912, Page 8

HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS.

j | HOT TIME FOR THE WORLD. I TROUBLE IN 11)13. ! I Paris, November 24. J Madame de Thebes, a well-known pro- ' phetess, and a former friend of Genera) Boulangcr and Alexandre Dumas the | younger, has predicted an exciting time | for the world in 1913. j Among the many tragedies which are j awaiting humanity will be an appalling theatre fire in Paris and a visit to j the French capital by the Kaiser —but not as Emperor. The Pope, says Madame de Thebes, willdie next year, and Italy will witness a political upheaval which may result in a change of dynasty. The Prince of Wales will resign his claim to the British Throne. Poland will regain, her freedom' and be once more a European nation, while ! Bulgaria will play a stupendous role in ' the concert of the Powers. It is said that Madame de Thebes I predicted the present Balkan war Inst I December. I FOR ANOTHER'S CRIME. Paris, November '24. | A curious case of one man serving . sentence in gaol for another has been revealed by the Bertillon system of fin-ger-prints. The records were being examined of a prisoner, Bretcher, who had just served a sentence of 13 months. It was discovered that "Bretcher" was really another prisonel-, Fedide, who had been sentenced to ten days' hard labor. Fedide admitted having changed with Bretcher. The two were in one cell, and Bretcher promised that if Fedide would take his place and serve Ims sentence of thirteen months he would give him £2O. Fedide agreed, and when the warder came to release him he stayed in the cell while Bretcher walked out.

' Bretcher has disappeared, and has left no money for Fedide.

INFURIATED lIUSCAND. Portland (Oregon), November 24. Giving way to an insane burst of jealous}', Byron Jennison shot his wife in a crowded street and then tried to commit suicide. Mrs. .Jennison was young and beautiful, and Jennison was absurdly jealous of her. He could not bear to see her speaking to a man. Yesterday he learnt that she was in the company of a young acquaintance, and the enraged husband went in search of the couple. He came upon them in a busy street and followed them for a couple of blocks. Then he seemed to lose his head. He rushed in front of the startled woman and fired a revolver point-blank in her face. She screamed and ran away from him, but she was mortally wounded, and collapsed on the threshold of a house. Jennison then fired at himself, but the only effect was to set his clothes on fire, the bullet missing him. Before he could fire a second shot he was seized by a policeman, who extinguished the madman's burning coat. JACK JOHNSON AGAIN. Chicago, November 24. Jack Johnson pleaded not guilty yesterday to a charge of smuggling a valuable diamond necklace into the United States. Tie recently offered to plead guilty if the Oovernment would accept a fine.

A second charge of infringing the White Slave Traffic law was brought against the negro, but he did not plead. He was given three weeks in which to file a demurrer.