CABLE BREVITIES.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1862, 23 September 1913, Page 7

CABLE BREVITIES.

(Reo. September 22, 11.20 p.m.) Rome, September 22. A firo Kaa dostroyed tho cclobrated 14th qeutury pharmacy attached to the Franciscan Monastery at Regnsa, together with some precious vases used for the preservation of herbs.

London, September 21. A fire in a Jewish tenement house at Boir resulted in a mail being incinerated ill the attic. Anothor also perished in o fruitless effort to rescue his daughter,

Brisbane, September 22. Jamos Lyons, who was training for a boxing match, dropped dead while having a friendly spar with a companion.

St. Pctorsburg, September 21. Six hundred houses and many commercial establishments at Nmguta, Manchuria, liavo been burnt. The damago is very heavy.

Sydney, Septombor 22. After a spell of warm, dry weather, a cold rain has set in.

DREADFUL TRAGEDY.

A FATHER'S CRIME.

MOTHER AND SON ATTACHE:

IN THE NIGHT*

By .Telegraph—ProeS Association—Copyright (Reo. September 22, 8.55 p.m.) Sydney, Soptombor 22, A dreadful tragedy has occurred at Crow's Noßt, a suburb of Sydney. Tho Bon of Mr; Maokay Woodruff,. a wellknown city iusurauco adjuster, was awakened from sleep by a stunning blow on tho head, and found his father standing ovor his bod with ail axo in his hand. After a desperate struggle, tho son secured the axo, pushed his father into an adjoining room, and locked the door.

Thon, staggering into his mother's room, ho found her in bed, unconscious, with a largo wound on her head. Making ft last effort, he telephoned for a doctor.

On tho arrival of tho police, WoodTuff's room was found to bo empty, and splashed with blood. Woodruff himself was fouud lying outsido tho window in a liudo stato with his throat cut, and Ills wrist 3 and lop terribly gashed. Ho was raving wildly. All tho victims were removed to tho hospital in a serious condition. Woodruff spent the woek-ond in the mountains, returning to town last night. His crime is unaccountable, but it is supposed that ho was seized, with a Budden fit of madness. . His wife and son woro struck with the back nf an axo, and their skulls wero fractured.

THE DEATH PENALTY, QUEENSLAND MURDERER EXECUTED. (R'ec. September 22, 8.55 p.m.) Brisbane, September 22. Ernest Austin, who was convicted of tho murder, in Queensland, of tho little girl named Ivy Mitchell, has been, executed. Death was instantaneous. Tho condemned man mado a speech on the scaffold, in which ho admitted tho justice of the punishment, adding that ho did not know at tho time what ho was doing.