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OTSU'S SACRED PINE. An interesting account of the sacred pine of Otsu, on the borders of Lake Biwa, near Kioto, Japan, has been given recently by M. Albert Tissandier. According to documents in the monastery of Miidera the tree was taken from the gardens of the first Emperor, who resided at Nara, the capital of Japan at that time (709-784 A..D.), and was transplanted by himself to its present site. It is therefore 1,100 years old, its trunk at 60 centimetres from the base is 11 metres in circumference, and the longer branches, supported by wooden posts, run north and south to a distance of 44 metres from the trunk, while those running east and west extend for 36 metres each way. Before it was struck by lightning some years ago its height was 72 metres, but it is nearly as high now, and is likely to flourish for many years. Every ar on April 14th and October 28th a pilgrimage is made to the tree, and a little sanctuary has been erected under the branches for the faithful to shew their devotion in buying images. Many tea-houses have also been erected within sight of it. The Japanese women collect the needles as a charm to guard them against all kinds of diseases.

REVOLTING MURDERS IN BERLIN. The population of Berlin has been thrown into a ferment by the report of a murder which in many of ita details resembles the crimes of "Jack the Ripper." It appears, telegraphs the Times correspon- dent in the city, that a woman named Nitschewas accosted on Saturday night in the Holzmarkt-Strasse, a small street in the northern part of the city, by man individual who accompanied her to a cellar- dwelling in the same street kept by a married couple named Poetsch. Almost as soon as the woman entered the room in the house she was attacked by the man accompanying her. The murderer first severed his victim's throat, and after- wards cut open the body. Just at this moment a second woman, named Mueller, arrived, and attempted to open the door. As soon as she did so, the murderer forced his way past her, pushed aside Poetsch, who had been aroused from sleep by the victim's scream, and gained the street. A man who accompanied the woman Mueller gave chase, but failed to catch him. As soon as the police arrived an examination of the apartment was made, but with little result. The victim was lying on the ground fully dressed, and from the ferocity with which the deed had been accomplished it would I almost seem as if the murderer was a person of unsound mind. Two knives were also found belonging to Frau Poetsch, the proprietress of the house, which had undoubtedly been made use of by I the murdeier. The police are, however, of opinion that these weapons were only used to make the I second wound, and that the first, the one on the I throat, was inflicted by a dagger-like knife which the murderer must have had in his possession, and which he took with him. The fact that the man accosted a number of other women of the same clasa before meeting with the wcman Nitsche excludes the idea of the deed being one of personal revenge. The low class to which the woman belonged also puts the idea of robbery out of the question. Baron von Richthofen, President of Police, has offered a reward for the apprehension of the assassin, who is described as being about 20 years of age, of middle I height, and slightly built, with blonde hair and moustache. 'H- This revolting crime is not the only one commnxea in Berlin dunng Saturday. In the Fransecki- strasse a workman attempted to murder his wife's paramour, while in the Acker-strasse a married woman attempted to commit suicide because her lover had shot himself. In the Luisen-strasse a well-dressed man attempted to shoot himself in a cab, but only succeeded in making a slight wound. All these crimes, coming as they do so closely after another series of murder cases only a week or two ago, have greatly excited the public mind. Thrs recent trial, for instance, of a man and woman named Heinze for the murder of a night watchman r disclosed such a fearful state of demoralisation among the lower classes of Berlin that the Emperor telegraphed from Rominton Castle to the Minister of Justice to take instant steps to increase the dieau of public security. Then there- were the murder of her mistress by a servant-girl barely 18 years old, in the Lutzow-strasse, in order to rob her of 500 marks, and the murder of a business man in his counting-house by one of his clerks, who then escaped with 12,000 marb and has not yet been t:

I SMUGGLED ARMS FOR THE CHINFAIR. Advices just received give details of the case of Mason, the Englishman who furnished the rioters at Tao-Tai with arms. The Shanghai authorities who investigated the matter found that many rifles and much ammunition had been smuggled. Two thousand stand of arms had been received at Chin Kiang. After the last consignment left Hong Kong it was learned that they had been shipped as steel. The Shanghai authorities were warned, and seized the arms on their arrival. Mason was arrested and charged with aiding the rebels, for which he was sentenced to two years' hard labour and a fine of 5,000dol., to be followed by banishment. It is believed that the steamer Kevang Lee, which recently went up the Yangtse Kiang, contained a large quantity of dynamite, arms, and ammunition. A number of Europeans are believed to be con- cerned in the conspiracy to incite rebellion. ——.———— I

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a FEMALE BIGAMIST. A ladylike young person, giving the name of Alice Wads worth, and her address at Gladstone- terrace, Willesden, was charged before Mr. Bros at North London Police-court, on Saturday, with aid- ing and abetting Richard Wadsworth in the crime of bigamy, on the 24th June, 1891. Mr. C. K. Young prosecuted, and said this prisoner was con- nected with Dr. Wadsworth, the Dalston surgeon, who on Tuesday was remanded on a charge of bigamy. She, he considered, was even worse than the doctor, because, whilst it was alleged, he was scarcely competent for his actions, she had gone through a form of marriage well knowing Dr. Wads- worth's wife to be alive. The prisoner was a Miss Watkins, of Gladstone-terrace. Willesden-green,who had been a patient of the doctor's, a visitor at the house, and on most intimate terms with the family —who, in fact, had condoned with the doctor's wife on his strange behaviour, and then gone off and married him.—Detective-sergeant Richard Nursey said he arrested the prisoner on Friday night, and told her the charge. She replied, "I understood he had left her. I didn't trouble any more. He told me he had left her. His daughter accused me of marrying him when he was of unsound mind. I did not know it." On the charge being read over to the prisoner at the police-station, she replied, "I knew his wife was living, but he told me he had left her." The prisoner, in reply to the magistrate, said the officer had spoken truthfully.—The prisoner was remanded on bail.

DEFRAUDING A CLERGYMAN. At the Old Bailey, on Saturday, Clement Allen. who described himself as an agent, was indicted for obtaining by false pretences and forgery several sums of money, amounting in all to upwards of EIOO.-Niesisrs. Besley and Paul Taylor said that the prosecutor was the Rev. Mr. Baxter, who had taken holy orders in Canada, who had inherited a large fortune from his father. He had a wife of considerable business capacity, who was industrious in the furtherance of her hus- band's views in regard to evangelisation work. Mr. Baxter and others founded the Gospel Union Mission. He was the president, and the prisoner was the secretary of the union, which was a purely philan- thropic body, Mrs. Baxter being treasurer, with a latty assistant. Mr. Baxter spent many hundred pounds a year in promoting this evangelistic work, and for many years had been closely associated with the prisoner, for whom he had great regard and esteem. But Mrs. Baxter was a business woman, and she did not approve of the loose way in which the prisoner kept his accounts, and in the course of an endeavour to get them into an intelligible state she discovered considerable deficiencies. The prisoner had pleaded guilty to minor counts, and with the consent of the judge and the assistance of Mr. Wheatley, of the St. Giles's Mis- sion, it was proposed to send the prisoner out of the country, towards the expenses of which Mr. Baxter had largely contributed.—Mr. Gill, for the defence, said the case was one of confusion of accounts rather than theft. The course Mr. Best had suggested would save a long, complicated, and difficult trial, that must have lasted a considerable time, and out of which no person connected with it would have got any credit.—The judge said under the circum- stances he approved the course suggested.

SHOCKING CRIME IN PARIS. Considerable mystery attaches to a murder which his been committed at Neuilly. The victim was a man named Charles Ollivier, nearly 70 years of age, who had been in service in different houses in the neighbourhood, and of late had done some business as a money-lender in a quiet way. Ollivier-who was a widower-lived by himself in a room at No. 107, Avenue de Neuilly, which is inhabited by workmen and their families, and "Le P6re Charles," as he was called, was regarded generally as being very well off for an individual in his position. As a matter of fact, says the Daily Telegraph, Paris corre- spondent,he was believed popularly to have increased his capital substantially by his money-lending transactions, and at length he had become so well known that quite "genteel people were seen to alight at the door of the house in which he dwelt, and to climb up the steep staircase leading to his solitary quarters. Thus it was that the appearance of two smart young men, who drew up in a cab b fore the house the other afternoon, and after spending an hcur and a half in the room occupied by Ollivier, drove off in the same vehicle, which they had kept waiting the whne, attracted no attention. It was not until 8 o'clock had struck I'cle that the concierge-surprised at not seeing Ollivier come down-noticed the fact, and told her husband. Soon afterwards the woman sent him upstairs to. ascertain what had happened. He had scarcely reached the door of the room inhabited by the money-lender when a female lodger who lived on the same floor emerged from her chamber with the remark that in the earlier part of the after- noon she had heard the sound of &A heavy fall, followed by groans, and would have hastened to communicate her suspicions to the concierge had she not feared that she might be assaulted in her turn. This news confirmed completely the apprehensions already entertained. The police were summoned to the spot, and the door having been opened by a locksmith, the body of Ollivier was found buried beneath a heap of mattresses and boxes. Round the neck of the victim was a stout rope, with which the aims and legs of "Le Pere Charles" were also bound tightly, and \t was evident that death had resulted from strangulation. When the unfortunate man had breathed his last his murderers had dragged the corpse to a corner, of the room, and had covered it with everything on which they could lay their hands. Cupboards and drawers had been ransacked, and all the money which Ollivier had about him had been abstracted with the exception of a banknote, which was found in an old pocket-book. His watch, too, bad dis- appeared, but plate anc "ther articles of value left in pledge by persons who -iborrowed of the old man had not been touched. The police officials, after a minute examination of the premises, took away with them a trunk filled with papers in the hope that they might throw some light on the affair. M. Goron, the htad of the Criminal Department, is conducting the investigation, and no stone is being left unturned in the attempt to discover the murderers. The authorities, however, are by no means sanguine as to the result of their inquiries. All their efforts to obtain something approaching to an accurate description of Ollivier's visitors have proved abortive, and the affair is complicated by the belief that they are no ordinary criminals, but young men engaged in business. Unlike hardened I malefactors they had no weapons about them, and it is noteworthy that they were utter strangers to the neighbourhood, chis being the first occasion on which they had beer. kuowa to ca-1 on Le Pire Charles."

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ATTEMPT TO WRECK AN EXPRESS. A dastardly attempt to wreck a train on the London and Brighton Railway was made on Thurs- day. The train, which is known as the Eastbourne express, leaves Eastbourne at noon and is due in London shortly before 2. Between Purley and South Croydon the passengers experienced a con- siderable shaking. At Croydon it was observed that the guard irons of the engine were broken off, the Sand pipe wrenched away. and indentations made in the engine. Subsequently, inquiries by the officials revealed the fact that two iron chairs and fish-plates had been placed on the up line, but they were thrown aside by the guard irons. Had the engine left the metals the consequences must have been disastrous. The attempt was a most daring one, the obstructions having been placed on the line in broad daylight. The authorities are very reticent on the matter; but it is believed that they have a clue which will lead to the apprehension of two persons, one of whom is supposed to be a woman.

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AN UNDERGROUND CITY. The Russians have discovered in Central Asia t The Russians have discovered in Central Asia what is described as "an underground city." It consists of a number of large caves hollowed out of the hills on the right bank of the Amu Darya, not far from the Bokharan town of Karki. From the remains discovered in these artificial caverns it would appear that they had been for a long time the dwellings or refuge-places of a considerable population some two centuries before the Christian era. Effigies, inscriptions, and coins of gold and silver have been found, along with pots, urns, vases, and all kinds of domestic utensils, a study of which ought at once to fix the exact date and possibly the exact relationship of the race who constructed thi.s subterranean town. for. town it is, if, as the account affirms, it is almost one and a third mile long, and composed of numerous corridors, streets, and squares, surrounded by houses two or three storeys high. In some of the streets falls of earth and rock have obstructed the passages,but generally the visitor can walk about freely without so much as lowering his head. Baked bricks axe the material out of which the dwellings are constructed, and the I general taste displayed indicates that the vanished race who found asylum here from the incursions of nomadic savages or roving robber tribes had at- tained a comparatively high degree of civilisation. I Though not vouching for the strict accuracy of the I ab details, the Standard remarks that there is i,- improbable in the circumstances men- tioned. Central Asia is still not half explored, even in a rough way and undeniably the havoc which invader after invader played in a region now so desolate, but which, from the ruined irri- gation works and the fragments of vanished cities, seems to have been at one time the seat of a series of densely-populated kingdoms, may acoount for a great deal more than a series of cave dwellings. All over that vast region there exist the remains of towns, which appear to have been at one time full of people; but of the vanished race who inhabited them no distinct legend exists. From under the mounds of drifting sands peep here and there the remains of buildint's, on spots where the desert blast has blown away the accumulations permitted to encroach on what were once fielcs and gardens. It is hardly possible to dig into any rumodred site of human dwellings without coming upon coins, and pottery, and other relics, which are the only history they have left behind. From Alexander of Macedon to Alexander of Muscovy, I conqueror after conqueror has ridden roughshod over these regions, and when one recalls the inhuman butcheries of Genghis Khan and Timur Leng, not to mention those of Greek and Persian, Turk and Chinese and Ubzek Tartar-civil war without end, and robbers always-the wonder is, not that the latest of its masters are coming upon testimonies to the ruin wrought in the past, but that one rood of the land should still be the abode of man. It is therefore likely enough that some such refuge as I that described was built by the remnant of semi- cultured people who remained as the last vestige of the colonies planted by Alexander and the Generals among whom his Empire was partitioned. When the hcrdes of Mongol barbarians began to pour in, they might, finding it difficult to hold their own against raiders of this type, have founded on the Oxus banks some easily cefensible cliff village such as that described.

"w- ALLEGED FRAUDS ON NEWSPAPER PROPRIETORS. Thomas Morton Scott Jones, aged 33, was charged before Mr. Vaughan, at the Bow-street Police-court, on Monday, with others not in custody, with con- spiracy and attempting to obtain from George Newnes, M.P., the sum of L100 by false pretences. Mr. Crawshaw prosecuted. The particulars of this charge, according to which the prisoner is alleged to have 0een concerned in conspiring to obtain the sum in question by representing that his son had been killed in a railway accident have already been reported.—Miss Flora Mclvor, post mistress at Auchnasheen, identified a letter received by her mother. She had previously received a communication asking her to for- ward letters arriving at the hotel at Auchnasheen and addressed to Grey, Bannerman or Newman, on to an address in London. An inquiry was made in it as to the terms for board at an hotel kept by her mother. She forwarded three letters as requested, addressed to Grey, Newman, and Bannerman, to the Temple News Rooms, Fleet-street, London. She had not seen anyone named Grey, Newman, or Bannerman at the hotel. The letters dbe received were signed Grey, and the writer represented that he and his friends were in the Government service, and wished tcf make Auchnasheen their headquarters during their holidays.—Mr. James Gordon, chief constable for the counties of Ross and Cromarty, said that there was no clergyman named Newman living at Auch- nasheen, nor was there a justice of the peace named Bannerman. He was not aware of anyone named E. P.Gi v living there.—James Finlayson, a clerk in the supei indent's office of the Highland Railway, said had read an account of the accident on that line in September in the Dundee Advertiser. No such occurrence took place. -Mrs. oopbia Hayes said she lived in Rupert-street, Shaftesbury-avenue, and had first seen the prisoner a fortnight ago, when he asked if he might have letters addressed to her shop in the name of Scott. On the 19th inst. he called there in the afternoon. At that time his letters had arrived, and a police-constable was in her shop. She gave him a registered letter and another, and he wrote a receipt (produced) for them. She made a communication to the constable.- Mr. Gilbert Dalziel's secretary deposed to the receipt of a copy of Ally Sloper's Half Holiday marked with the name of A. J. M. Scott, a medical certificate, a certificate signed Grey, Bannerman, and Newman, relating to a railway accident said to have occurred on the Dingwall and Skye Railway on September 26th, and a letter purporting to be from the father of the deceased, T. P. Scott, Hydro- pathic Establishment, Bridge of Allan. Witness wrote to the last-named at the address given, asking for further particulars, and received a letter, dated October 7th, with a cutting from the Dundee Advertiser, containing a report of the alleged accident. Witness wrote on October 11th for more detailed evidence as to the accident, the finding of the body, the signature on the number of the paper being that of the alleged deceased, &c., but had not received a reply. No money had been sent in this case. The letter produced, which was one of those received by the prisoner at Rupert-street, was that written by witness to Scott, Bridge of Allan, and had been sent on ircm th-re to Rupert-street. Mr. Francis Miller opened another charge against the prisoner for trying to obtain 9100 from Answers under identical conditions. In this case a cheque for £1CX> was sent to T. M. Scott at the Hydropathic Establishment, Bridge of Allan. It had not been cashed, and had been stopped in consequence of in- formation communicated by the police.-The prisoner was remanded

.ii. 7,op;¡-tIf CHILI AND THE UNITED STATES. TROUBLE EXPECTED. There is likely to be an international difference N between the United States and Chili. The Navy Department at Washington I-as received a telegram from Captain.Scbley, the commander of the Balti- more, which gives the details of the attack by Chilians on two boats crews of American sailors. Captain Schley telegraphed that the mob was com- posed of Chilian sailore, and that the attack was planned. Regan, a boatswain's mate, was shot by a policeman and American sailors were assailed at various points throughout the city. In view of the imminence of trouble, Captain Schley advises that Admiral Brown be directed to come to Valparaiso to aid t y his presence the effort to have justice done to the victims of the cowardly and bloodthirsty ruffians who tried to murder unoffending Americans. Captain Schley's report was considered in the Cabinet, and the opinion was that Mr. Egan should be instructed to demand an immediate reparation and indemnity from the Chilians. "I mean to have no more of this business from any nation," said President Harrison. "The demand upon Chili must be immediate and peremptory." There will, says a Washington telegram, be four of the most power- ful ships of the United States Navy at Valparaiso when the demand is made, and they will enforce the demand if it is necessary to do so. There is much bitter feeling against the English officials on the part of the American officers in Chili. For the first time since the difficulty between the United States aud Chili arose the matter looks serious. Captain Schley is one of the coolest and bravest officers in the navy. He has informed Secretary Tracy that it has become impossible for American officers to go ashore without beiag insulted. He says that here- after they mean to go armed and resent insults in a proper way. Any day, therefore, may bring the news of a serious quarrel between the Americans and the Chilians, the native mob being instigated and secretly encouraged by persons high in authority.