GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1351, 31 January 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By Telegraph—Press Asaooiation—GODJrithl ■ — A MURDERER EXECUTED. (Rec. January 31, 0.15 a.m.) New Yorkj January 30. Albert Woltdr, who was found guilty of the murder of his stenographer, Ruth Wheeler, was electrocuted at Sing Sing Prison. Hβ defclnred his iiuiocenco to tho last, The girl was brutally done. to. death, tho body beiiig terribly mutilated. AN OVERDUE STEAMER. (Rto. January 31 0.15 a.m.) ' Sydney, January, 30. Fears are entertained for the safety of the French steamer France, which is considerably overdue at Noumea, from, the New Hebrides. The steamer Saint Louis bns been detained at Noumea searching: for the missing vessel. COUNT VON AERENTHAL. Vienna, January 30. The condition of Count von Aerenthal Austro-Hungarian Foreign. Minister, if considered hopeless. ) CANADA AND AUSTRALIA. London, January SO. The "Morning Post" commends tho proposed visit to Australia of Mr. Foster, Canadian Minister for Commerce, to negotiate a preferential agreement with Canada. A MISSING STEAMER. London, January 29. Several, lifebuoys and belts belonging 'o the missing Wilson liner Genoa have been found at Berwick. FROST AND FLOOD. London, January 29. Seventy degrees of frost have be'en recorded in many parts of England. The floods are abating. An earthquake shock has been-felt- in-Loch- Lomond. SUICIDED TOO SOON. Tacoma, January 29. H. M. Forbes, a Tacoma bookkeeper, committed suicide owing to financial troubles the day before news arrived th'at a fortune had been left him by a rich aunt in Massachusetts. PRISONER ESCAPES. Paris, January 29. A prisoner named Devos, who was sentenced to five years' imprisonment for robbery, escaped by means of a wire ladder which accomplices lowered from the gallery of the Palais de Justice, overlooking the exercise ground. HAIRDRESSERS' CHARGES. Sydney, January 30. The hairdressers have decided to increase the price of a shave to 4d. and of a hair-cut to 9d., as from February 5, with corresponding concessions to '• emoloyees. UNIVERSITY BOAT RACE. London, January 29. Many experiments am being made with the university crews. Arbuthnot (Cambridge) has replaced D. C. Collins (Wellington), and Oxford is trying C. Baillieu (Meibojgrtie) instead of K. T. Hamilton (Adelaide).