GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1001, 16 December 1910, Page 8

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By Telegraph—l'res3 Association—Copy'ritM. AN AMERICAN FRAUD. Now York, December 14. ' James Huston, es-Treasarer "of . ths united States, lias been convicted oE using mails for purposes of fraud. Huston was. concerned with others in the National Trust Company. [No Secretary of United States Treasury' of name given appears in the list sine© the foundation of the. Union * to date Huston apparently was a subordinate of' Jicial.J FRENCH MATCH MONOPOLY.' . ' Paris, December U. riie increasing use of automatic light ers, due to the miserable quality o{ matches, has led the Government to propose a tax ranging from 2s. to 17s. 6d. in / order to protect the match monopoly, which yields £1,120,000 to the State revenue. A PARIS ROBBERT. . _ Paris, December 14. George and William Maxtin have been sentenced to five years' imprisonment respectively in connection with the robbery from a bank collector in. Paris in October last. They stopped the man in th« street and took from him a satchel containing JC22FO. STOLEN CHALICES. - London, December 14i -J;,!™ men . have been arrested in Lain« bath charged with being in possession of portion of the chalices stolen from St. Georges Cathedral, Southwark. OFFICERS FOR AUSTRALIA. r, London, December li. Colonels Maclagan and Gwynne, whrt have been appointed to the staif of the Commonwealth Military College, will sail for Australia by the Otranto. AN INSANE PRIEST. Rome, .December 14. Father Daly, formerly of Victoria, wilt , . disturbed the vespers. service at St Peter's recently, has been found mentally deranged, and committed to an asylum. > MINING DISASTER. New York, December 14. Twenty-two miners, were killed, and twenty-six others entombed, by a terrifia explosion in Green mine, Tacoma, Virginia. i .. ' REVOLUTIONISTS ROUTED.'. Mexico, December 14. • The Mexican Government, troops com* pletely routed the Revolutionists, "caphired_ the city of Guerros, and are. clear*, ing the State of organised resistance, FROZEN TO DEATH. : Vancouver, December 14. Mr. Neil Keith, a prominent contractor has been frozen to death at Moose Jaw; in Assiniboia. THE NEW HEBRIDES. Sydney, Deoember 15. The council of the Women's Liberal League demand that a commission shall' be appointed' to investigate the chargea against French traders in the New HeW.. rides. ! ■ EXPENSIVE -STATE COAL. ' : |. Melbourne, DecembeT 15., . The Chief Railway Commissioner, states that his department is paying. i 45,000 a year more for coal since the establish' ment of . the State mine at Powlett-Rives ; TROUBLE AT BULLFINCH. : Perth, December. 15. The strike of miners at the Bullfinch, field continues. All hands have j been paid off. - A KETCH FOUNDERS. . Hobart, December 15. ; The ketch Myrtle May turned .turtle ia D'Entrecasteaux'Channel and, sank. The' crew of two escaped in a boat. -