GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 706, 4 January 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

By Tolograph—Press Association—Copyright.

TTPHOID EPIDEMIC.

;;''j';;(Eec//sJanuary;;B/ 10.55 :p.m;)' 4 > .':'■':.'■;: V; ; v ; . ;v.v/,''-:. ':•.;•; /.Ottawa, 1 January. , , 8. ,< ■ ,A' typhoid fever; epidemic: prevails, .in Montreal.'.- ; , There (are 2000 cases,;, and , the 'hospitals ;are ;oyercrowdedi.; ■; -....■ •;;:/;:!;;;;

THE BANK WINS IN THE END.

;'"::!;;;:;;■ v;';v'' ' "-: ; ; Paris;' January :2;! ■; !.: Creuzier,'; the' Canadian, .who last ■ week - won- large: sums 'at ''the .-Mdnta Carlo gaming-tablesi, nnnllylpst the ../whole. of : his;, winnings. s ;/!;• !;< v ! " l -'^ : --'-- ly. r , : \ /.:>;';

TRAINS; COLLIDE:-;BANKEE KILLED.

■ : ■ : : r)'. ■■' ; '■.■'■'■':■ ;/•'',.rNew, York,''January : 2.V Mr. r Spencer Trask,;.the"New York ban-; ker, /has-been killed in a;'railway oollision'•■. at Crotbni-' about' thirty-five miles from New York.;' Mr. Trask ; was in' his private-oar,' attached to the Montreal- cxpress/.which was; ; standing, when a fast 'Roods , train' which '.was following ploughed through...the sleeping' compart-, merit: of- the'express^.;:t. ; /-:;■-."■ : vu?r '"-'. [Mr.'Tra9k; was interested, in*-Edison ..enterprises;-from, ■their pearliest days -as ''president and direotor,. and 1 was 'director of-several , railroads, .which were more' or-, less controlled' by - him; and his firm/: He was.6s'years of age.].•;';--.. ■■■■{.'. '. ;:

WATER FAMINE AVERTED.

■; :;.;.•- ■: ; , ': ' '.: Sydney, January 3..•;.. 'A heavythunderstorm . has ' given a month's water "supply, to' Broken -Hill, which. was on the verge of: a' water > fam- , ine. .';':.:.. n ■•.•■!■;."■■'... '" ■■:'-'■;:. r'■':.. W o '-

A FAMILY TRAGEDY.

;.;\.. ,■>■:-.% Melbourne,-January,3. 'Another •..death .has resulted ; from tho Cosgrove shooting, case,Willio_ : Clugston having succumbed tol his .injuries. , . : • -.:■ [Mrs., Lena Clugstori shot and killed two of her. and : . wounded -two' others and herself with a pea-rifle at her.home at. Cosgrove.; She is suffering from puer-. poral mania;] '.•■' -...-.•'• : .. . •■'.. '■ ■■.-.■' ■ :