GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 880, 28 July 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By Telegraph—Pres* Association—Oopyri&ht,

APPROPRIATION BILL PASSED. (Rec. July 27, 10.15 p.m.) London, July 27. The House of Lords has passed the Appropriation Bill through all its stages.

"JACIC-THE-RIPPER" MURDERS. London, July 27. Mr. Marsham, Magistrate at the Bow Street Court, stated that Dr. "Winslow's protege, mentioned yesterday, might sue the writers of any slanderous letters in the newspapers, connecting him with the "JacK-the-Ripper murders. ROOSEVELT AND TAFT. New York, July 27. Mr. Nicholas Longworth, Mr. Roosevelt's son-in-law, as Chairman of the Ohio Republican Convention, paid a glowing tributo to Mr. Taft's administration. TURKEY AND THE OLD REGIME. Constantinople, July 27. The Turkish officials to whom amnesties have recently been granted include Sliakir Pasha, the chief of ex-Sultan Abdul Hamid's Military Cabinet. LIBERIA'S FINANCES. ■ Monrovia, July 27. • A loan of 2,000,000 dollars (.£400,000) is being raised in Europe, under tho aegis of tho United States Government," for the purpose of reorganising the finances of the negro Republic of Liberia, in Africa, where many returned American negroes live. INFANTILE MORTALITY. London, July 27. Mr. Sydney Buxton, President of the Board > of Trade, has T issucd .Dr. Newsholme's report- on infantile' mortality in England and "Wales. This is the firet systematic attempt that has been made to investigate the subject. THE GREAT UNPAID. : London, July 26. In the House of Lords, the Lord Chancellor (Lord Loreburn) announced that future appointments as Justices of the Peaco would be non-political.

WEST AUSTRALIAN LAND PURCHASE.

London, July 26, A Scotch syndicate has purchased forty-five thousand acres along the Midland Railway, Western Australia, at 215.. an aero.

BRITISH MEDICAL CONGRESS. London, July 26. There are 5000 delegates attending the British Medical Association Congress in London.

CASHIER'S DEFALCATIONS. London, July 2G.' Later reports'show that Erwin Wider, cashier at the Russo-Chinese Bank in New York, who absconded with ,£120,000,. appropriated ,£60,000 belonging -to tho bank, and half a million in bonds belonging to the bank's customers.

THE JAPANESE TARIFF. London, July 26. Mr. Sydney Buxton, President of the Board of Trade, in reply to questions put to him in the House of Commons, said ho was fully alive to the detrimental effects of the new Japanese tariff. He added that the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Sir Edward Grey) was communicating with' Japan.

THE CAMDEN TRAGEDY. London, July 26. ■ The police have 'been instructed to arrest- Crippen and Leneve if they are aboard the Montrose on her arrival at ltimouski, and convey them to Quebec.

INSURRECTION IN CUBA. London, July 26. It is reported that General Minier has headed an insurrection at Caney, Cuba, and retreated to the .hills. Tho Government troops are pursuing him.

AN INDICTMENT DISMISSED. New York, July 26. The indictment of Gresser, President of 'tho Borough of Queens, New York city, on charges of maladministration, has been dismissed on the ground of. insufficient evidence. Vienna, July 26. Marienbad, the famous watering-place which he so frequently visited, is erecting a medallion in memory of the late King Edward. Brussels, July 26. Tho police raided rooms occupied by a literary society in the luirsaal, at Ostend, and seized J!U,000 in> tho shapo of stakes. Madrid, July 26. Tho iron miners who are on strike at Bilbao have wrcckcd a considerable amount of railway rolling-stock. Constantinople, July 26. In connection with the murder of Hcrr Fritz Unger, a (ferman expert, who was shot dead by the adherents of a defeated litigant after a lawsuit in which he gave evidence, seventeen arrests have been made.

Pekin, July 26. Tho Portuguese captured the leader of tho pirates, who recently seized tho island of Colowan (Macao), but were subsequently driven out with loss. Sydney, July 27. Pennant Hills, eighteen miles west of Sydney, has beon chosen as tho site for the Fedoral wireless station. Tho meat exported last year showed a big increase all round—mutton, from 765,000 to 1,475,000 carcasses, beef from 5000 to 28,000 quarters, and canned meats from 131,000 to 254,000 cases. Ottawa, July 26. Tho Premier of Saskatchewan (Mr. Scott) prophesies that tho harvest in that provinco will be the beat on record. Budapest, July 26. Storms in Transylvania wrought havoc with houses and bridges. Thirty persons were drowned. New York, July 26. There were twenty-sis deaths from the heat in tho United States, yesterday; inciudintt twelve in New. Tork.