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been no deaths. The secret clauses in the AngloFrénch agreement of 1904, relating to Egypt and Morocco, which led to the International understanding and under which it was alleged Great Britain was heavily committed to the military support of France in certain eventualities, turn out to be of minor interest Hugo Von Tschudi, professor and historical writer on art, died, Friday, at Munich, Bavarih. Prof. Tschudi was born in Austria in 1851, studied in Vienna and in 1884 became curator of the National Gallery in that city. He was afterwards appointed director of the royal Bavarian state art gallery at Munich. He published many works on the history of art. Dr. Wilhelm Jensen, the well-known German author, died, Friday. in Munich, Bavaria. He was born in 1837. At one time he acted on the editorial staff of the Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, the semi-official newspaper of the German government. He retired from newspaper work in order to devote himself to authority and became a prolific writer. Phillips Andover Academy won an invitation three-mile cross country run, Friday, in Andover. Mass. Harvard Freshmen finished second, Cornell Freshmen third, and Dartmouth Freshmen fourth. The course was a sea of mud and all of the runners finished in an exhausted condition. Feeney of Andover was the first man to finish. Andover's time was 17 minutes, 11 2-5 seconds. Miss Eva Hassin, a second cabin passenger from Liverpool on board the steamer Ivernia. giving her residence as 957 Mystic avenue, Brooklyn, was detained. Friday, by the New York customs officers, who claimed that after she had declared nothing dutiable. jewelry valued at $1000 was found on her person. The government officials also found $300 sewed in her clothing, although she said that she was penniless. She was permitted to keep the money, but the jewelry was taken by the officers. Through giant seas that tossed her about like a cork, the liner Lusitania made New York, Friday, hours behind her schedule and at a speed of 25 per cent. below normal. Passengers and officers declared that they ran into a gale, Wednesday, which lasted for 24 hours. Many were hurled from their berths and few slept through the night. while mountainous waves swept the entire length of the promenade deck. Many of the crew slept only after lashing themselves to their bunks. Six shipwrecked sailors of the schooner James W. Maxwell, bound from Brunswick, Ga., to New York, reached New York, Friday, on the Morgan Liner El Rio. They comprised the schooner's entire crew and were picked up off Cape Charles, Wednesday, after passing 17 hours in a small boat. They said that the schooner had been buffeted by wind and wave for two days, had become dismantied and was settling with her decks awash in the heavy seas, when they left her. Benjamin Waterman, 60 years old and for 21 years an engineer on the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, was run down and killed by his own engine, Friday, at the freight yards in Providence. Waterman left his engine. early Friday, in charge of his fireman, Fred H. Parker. Sometime later when the engineer had failed to return, Parker started up the track to look for him and found the mangled body of Waterman. whom he had run over on the previous trip. The $50,000 two-years not which Thomas B. Taylor, president of the defunct New England Trust Co. of Providence, gave to secure his release from prison, where he was held for nearly two years in default of $350,000 bail to prevent his leaving the state., Was defaulteed, Friday, and Receiver Joseph P. Burlingame believes that none of the depositors will obtain any of their money. The note was secured by collateral made up of stocks in companies in which Taylor was interested. This collateral, it was stated. Friday, by Mr. Burlingame, will be difficult to realize upon. Taylor left the state immediately after signing the note The New England Trust Co. of Providence closed its doors on Jan. 10, 1908, with liabilities amounting to $350,000 and $40,000 in assets. It was 1400 depositors. A sentence of three years in the house of correction was imposed upon Edwin H. Hancock, Friday, by Judge White in the Bristol county superior criminal court, at Taunton, Mass. Hancock was found guilty on manslaughter, Thursday, for causing the death of Miss Lottie Thomas and George Hunt in Attleboro on April 19. last. He was operating the automobile which ran down and killed the young couple. Counsel for Hancock asked Judge White that a fine be imposed instead of imprisonment, speaking of the general good character of the prisoner. Judge White said that the jury was justified in bringing in such a verdict and imposed sentence. Sigurd Hartig of San Francisco, a real estate dealer, formerly of Cincinnati, accidentally lit a cigar with a $1000 bill there, Thursday. He intended to burn only the end of a bit of yellow
