GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 883, 1 August 1910, Page 7

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By Telegraph—Press' Association—Copyright, -c ■■■ ' MR. WESTINGHOUSE-AND HIS COMPANY. (Rec. July 31, 5.5 p.m.) London, July 30. Mr. George: : Westinghouse, for twenty-five years the auiuciaue hoau ui the Westinghouse Company, has been deposed by the directors from tho presidency after prolonged friction. AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN MANOETF- ' ,VRES. Vienna, July 30. An outbreak of glanders in the cavalry regiments, and the danger of the men contracting tho disease, has caused the Emperor Francis Joseph to abandon the Austro-Huugarian grand army manoeuvres. ' PLAGUE AT CAIRO. __ Cairo, July 30! Two cases of plague are reported hero.. ' GRANDMOTHER .MURDERS FAMILY. - ■. t „ , Berlin, July 29. At Cologne, Frau Wefer, in a fit of strangled her daughter, aged 33, and two grandsons, with her hands, and a granddaughter with a cord. Sho afterwards committed suicide. . AMERICAN CURRENCY LAW..' New Yorh, July 30. Iwenty-seven National Banks have founded a National Currency Association in New York under the terms of tho emergency currency law. A SCOTTISH MONUMENT.' London, July 29. Lord Rosebery reopened the Auld Brig of Ayr, which has been restored at a cost of £10,000. • DISMISSAL 6Fa CADET. • London, July 29. The trial by jury of tho cadet Archer blee, dismissed from • Osborne Naval College, camo to an abrupt conclusion; the Admiralty had dismissed the youth and resisted tho demand for a publicmqmry into the charges against him. The Court of Appeal recently ordered that Ike grounds of dismissal should be submitted to a jury, and tho Admiralty has now admitted that Slee was innocent of tho charges of -havine forged a name and cashed a postal order made against him.

DERELICT IN THE PACIFIC. London, July 29. The hull of the Peruvian steamer Huallago, recently reported to havo heen burnt at sea, three men being lost is drifting. It is hoped that it will be possiblo to tow her. to port, •EGYPTIAN PRINCESS INJURED. „ . '■ • Par's, July' 29. Frmcoss Hassan Rassom Bey, a member of the Khedive's family,'fell while bicycling at Evian-les-Baiiis, on the south shore of the Lake of Geneva. A passing automobilo caught her dress and dragged her sorao distance. Her ribs were broken, and she sustained other injuries.

THE FRENCH CROPS. „, Paris, July 29. .the newspaper "Lo Matin" estimates that the win destroyed one-fifth of the French crops, the loss being two milliard, francs. VICTORIAN PARLIAMENT. Melbourno, July 29. A by-election for the Walhalla seat in tho State Assembly took place. Mr. Barnes retained the seat for the Government, securing a large majority over the Labour candidato Melbourne, July 30. Tho first application for probate in connection with tho estate of a passenger by tho missing steamer Waratah has boon lodged. Tho estate is that of Mrs. Starke. Tho seismograph at tho. Observatory recorded several earth tremors during the week. ' Goldsbrough, Mort, and Company are increasing their capital to tho extent of £239,570 by the issue of new shares. ,' , , Syjnoy. July 30. 'With regard to tho meat trade trouble, tho slaughtermen have .refused to (indorse tho proposal to introduce piecework. Tho employers have given them till Wednesday to consider the position.