GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 453, 11 March 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

(DT TELECIHANI—IMIESS ASSOCUTION-COPtalailT.) 4 TORNADO AND FIRE: THIRTY LIVES LOST. (Rec. March 11, 0.7 a.m.) New York, March 10. A tornado and fire destroyed Brinklcy, a small town in Monroo County, Arkansas. Thirty persons perished. BARON ECKHARDSTEIN DIVORCED. London, March 9. The Civil Court in Berlin has granted a divorce to the Baroness Eckhardstein (nee Miss Grace Emily Bhmdell. daughter of tho late Sir John lilumlcll Maple), who in 1907, in England, secured a judicial separation from her husband, Baron Hermann von Eckhardstein, formerly Councillor of the German Embassy in London. I DOWAGER-EMPRESS OP RUSSIA. London, March 9. _ Tho Dowager-Empress Marie of Russia, sister to Queen Alexandra, has arrived in London. AN AUSTRALIAN TENOR. Rome, Marcli 9. Mr. Walter Kirhy, the Australian tenor, sang by command before the Queen-Dowager Marghcrita of Italy, at Rome. OBITUARY. Rome, March 9. Mr. \V. E. Cornwall, Registrar of tho Melbourne University, died . suddenly at Rome, where ho had gone to marry an American lady. [Mr, Walter Emerson Cornwall, M.A., who had been Registrar of Melbourne University sines 1902, was born at Midhirst, England, in 1805, and was educated at St. Edmund's School, Canterbury, and Hertford College, Oxford. Ho was assistant master at Tonbridgc School, England, in ISBB, and becamo assistant tutor at Onnond College. Melbourne, in ISS9, and later lecturer in tho University of Melbourne.]