Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1909-05-21
FROM DER THE SEA-.
BY Staff Correspondent.

BY Staff Correspondent.
M. Clemencean, the Prime Minister
Of France, has issued instructions that
no person holding any Office under
government is to take part iu the fes-
tivities which are being organized at
Orleans on May next in honor OF
Joan of Arc. This ceremony, which is
Of annual occurrence, Is this year to be
on more imposing scale than usual.
In past years the troops Of the gar
rison have taken part in the procession,
but this year owing to the recent beau
tification by the Pope Of Joan of Arc,
the clergy are allowed to hold the pro-
cession all to themselves, and q sepa-
rate official ceremony is to be held
which will consist of review Of the
troops, at which all the authorities who
usually take part in the procession are
orderee to attend.
From Germany comes the report of
an interesting invention for combating
fires where petroleum, gasoline. BEN.
zine and all hvnro-csrbons lighter than
water are envolved, The use OF
streams of water has hitherto resulted
only in the spreading Of the confaga-
ton. The new apparatus generates
tenacious chemical foam, which forms
layer upon the burning substances
which effectually cuts of the access OF
air and SO causes combustion to cease.
The "Deutsche Tageszeiteeng' re-
ports in telegram from Bucharest
that while the Crown Prince Of Rou-
mania was driving in an automobile
with King Charles, man in the crow q
was seen to hurl something at the
Prince The King was alarmed, but
the Crown Prince skillfully caught the
missile in his right hand and showed it
to the King. It proved to be book
which had been thrown into the motor
car by German writer, who wished to
draw attention to his work. The man
was arrested and found to be feeble-
minded.
Mr.. S. Colridge-Taylor, the distin-
guished Anglo African composer, goes
to Berlin, Germany May 4 to negotiate
for the production there Of his Opera
recently finished. The Libretto is now
being translated INTO German.
An extraordinary story Of Polish
Countess who had travelled about Eu-
rope with enough explosives concealed
in her bosom and skirts to blow up a'
rayal palace Games from Berlin, where
she has been liberated from prison on.
the ground that she is nervous, hys-
.terical, and irratable. !"
The lady is Countess Non Sucho-
rowsky, wife of millionaire Duma
member, who was seized on the Swiss
frontier padded with dynamite, nitro
glycerine, and percussion caps. Had
she fallen in the corridor Of the train
said an explosive expert, EVERY one of
the seventy passengers would have
been blown to atoms" The Countess
is little pretty woman of thirty, ex-
tremely slight, but was SO laden with
destructive material that she was mis-
taken for fatp elderly woman. Her
career is romatic. Daughter Of q small
shopkeeper in Poland, she charmed by
her beauty and grace and married M.
Suchorowsky, one of the richest men in
the Cars Empire. A Radical himself,
he was nevertheless, Mortified to find
that the one idea Of his pretty school
girlish wife was to blow up notable
officials. He sent her for rest to
Switzerland, hoping that she might be
cured Of her habit Of taking bombs to
bed with her.
Instead she fell in with clique Of
Terroist desparadoes who used her
wealth in the cause Of liberty by bomb
throwing. 81
She was on her way to execute one
Of their commissions in her native land
when chance led to her being arrested.
The dynamite Countess is again at
large, much to the relief of her friends
in Geneva and to the horror of timorous
officials in Poland and Russia. N
Mr.. Harry +. Burleigh, the noted
baritone, will arrive in London with his
family May 10th and will be located at
81 Talbot Road, London W. for two
months. .ys