A Belgian missionary kidnapped by Chinese brigands

Brussels, 7. The missions of Scheut are informed that a missionary, who has been in China for fifteen years, Rev. Father Maurice de Olippale d'Alost, has been in the hands of Chinese brigands for forty-five days.
Captured on January 21 last, during a visit he was making to a sick Christian, two leagues from his Christian home, the father was kidnapped by twenty-three brigands on horseback. Since then the soldiers have been pursuing the brigands, and the father is forced to accompany them on all their journeys day and night.
According to the latest news received in Scheut, the father, who was able to send several notes to his confreres until February 4, was sold to another band of 200 brigands who crossed the Yellow River with him in the direction of the Ortos desert.

His 27th divorce at 96 years old!

Cairo, 7. The Chicago Tribune is informed that the native Khamis Mohamed el Arabi, aged 96, a guard at the Alexandria customs, has just divorced his 27th wife.
He states that he is seeking to marry a 28th time. This person has children whose number is uncertain, but in any case he exceeds fifty. The youngest is aged 6.
Khamis, who is in excellent health, does not appear to be more than 60 years old and does not allow anyone to say in front of him that he is old.

A mutiny of young girls

Naples, 7. Three hundred young girls, most of them very young, hospitalized in a penitentiary in Naples, have mutinied. As the police were sent to restore order, the young rebels found nothing better to do than to throw loose tiles at them on the roof of the establishment.
The nuns charged with guarding these restless inmates found themselves locked in their cells.
The causes of the mutiny were insignificant: it was a protest against the punishment incurred by three young prisoners, a punishment that their comrades considered unjust.
The police arrested six of the most turbulent of these young people.