The Monmouth inquirer., 1906-09-13
News OF
A Week
Paragraphs Photographs Of the
Worlds Doings

of Count Hans Ferdinand Won Hoch-
berg. heir to the duchy of Rohnstock.
playmate and companion of the Ger
man crown prince ksld ,was r of the
Grand Duke Michael of Sake Weimar,
romance was revealed. The story
relates the supreme sense of honor that
prompts a man to sacrifice name and
fame and fortune to do justice to a
poor shopgirl, his morganatic wife in
Europe The count has become q
chauffeur
The keeping of Ota Benga, an Afri-
can dwarf. among the animals i'll the
Bronx ZOO, New York city, has arous
The little man was rescued from can
nibals and brought to New York by
S. =. Werner, an explorer Officials of
the zoo say that Ota is well treated and
| is becoming civilized and that he was
placed i'll the zoo only after charity or
ganizatiolis had refused TO care for
] him
Mrs Hermann Oelrichs of New York
will, it is sad. coa.Sst the will of her
husband Friends Of the widow say
that Mir. Oelric.is left an estate of al
least $10.0U0000 and that a great
wrong was done her when her husband
cut her off without cent. For years
Mr. and Mrs Oellichs had rarely beer
together.
-Four of the finest cruisers in tht
American navy. the West Virginia
Colorado, Pennsylvania and Maryland
started on race of over 5000 miles
across the Atlantic and then on to the
Philippines, total of 1900 miles
The four vessels are alike in design
and engines, but their boilers differ.
Deer are multiplying so fast in Con
necticut that the game commissioners
are receiving many notices of claims
for damages from farmers. 1t is eX
pected that at the next general assem-
bly, the farmers viii force legislation
to check the increase of deer. The
law protects the animals until 1911.
After his trip abroad Mgr. John NJ
Farley, archbishop of the diocese OF
New York, returned home on the Gu
nard liner Campania robust and seem
ingly in the best of health. Mgr. Far
ley said he had seen the pope three
times and that his holiness was, as he
phrased it, quite WE'LL
The fight made by Mrs. Mary Scott
Hartje of Pittsburg against her hus
bands suit for divorce is said to have
been financed by Andrew Carnegie
Mrs. Hartje is granddaughter OF
Thomas A. Scott, late president of the
Pennsylvania railroad, and Mr.. Carne
gies friend.
Courts martial for Captain Samue
P. Comfy, commanding the Alabama
on July 81. when she was in collision
with the battleship Illinois at New
port, R. l., and for Lieutenant Alfred
w. Pressey, officer of the deck of thai
ship. are recommended by the court
of inquiry.
A remarkable story of man who
attempted suicide at sea by leapine
from a steamship, was given up fol
lost and was finally picked up by an
other vessel after being in the water
eight hours, was told when the steam
er Carpathia arrived in New York from
Naples.
Commander Coffman of the cruiser
Boston. which is now in Bellingham
harbor Washington, after having been
injured by grounding on Peabody rock
has reported that he hopes to have the
shin free from water soon. The Bos-
ton has gone to Bremerton navy yard.
The sale of cast iron junk on the
isthmus of Panama for $4,000 has en-
couraged the commission to helieyt
they have fortune in worthless ma
chiperv purchased from the French ca
nal company. The junk left by the
Frenchmen may be worth Sl,000,000.
The ecclesiastical court of review
before which the case of the Rev. Dr.
Algernon S. Crapsey, the Episcopa
minister found guilty of heresy, is te
be reopened, was organized in New
York The case was adjourned unit.
Oct 10.
Pinkey, one of the two famous cat
of Wilkesbarre, Pa, to which Benja
min Il. Dilley bequeathed S40t'a
home. was put to death after beng
treated by able physicians. Pinke5
bad an ircurable tumor in her throat.
Edward L. Frash of Columbus, O,
who recently became the father OF