GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1886, 21 October 1913, Page 7

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

MYSTERIOUS OUTRAGE AT A LONELY HOUSE. London, October 19. Alexander Maclaren, a farmer, living lonely houso at Portencross, Scotland, reported that while ho and his family wero reading by lamplight, six shots were fired through a window, his. sister-in-law being' killed, his wife wounded, and himself wounded, in the hand. Tho police found the sister-in-law with throe bullets in her side, and tho wife with two. HUMAN ELECTRIC BATTERIES. "Times"—Sydney "Sun" Special Cables. London, October 10. Dr. Arabella Kenealy, tho novelist and writer on medical and ethical subjects, as tho result of many, experiments, maintains that human beings, animals, and plants aro all electric batteries, giving out electrical energy capable of scientific measurement. SEIVIER'S~LIBEL ACTION. London, October 19. 1 Tho jury m tho Siovier caso found that there was justification for tho blackmailing charge, but that defendants had been guilty of a minor libel to tho effect that Siovier had not paid a hotting doht. Defendants were cheered on kavin.tr tho Court. GERMANY AND THE PANAMA EXHIBITION. Berlin, October 19. Horr Bnllin and other merchants have ■ induced the Government to unofficially support his scheme for German manufacturers to exhibit at tho Sail Francisco Exposition..

CANADA MAY PURCHASE BRAZILIAN WARSHIP. London, October 19. It is rumoured at Newcastle that Canada may buy the Brazilian battleship Rio do Janeiro, now completing at Elswiok. Mr.' Churchill (First Lord of the Admiralty) will inspect her on Monday next. MILITARY AIRMAN KILLED. Moscow, October 19. A military aviator named Metchinski and a mechanic were killed while aeroplaning in a high wind in the ftalvga district. '/LABBY'S" BIOGRAPHY."' (Rec. Oetober 20, 0 p.m.) London t October 20; The late Mr. Laboucliere's biography, just published, js filled with bright satirical and cynical stories of famous men and women, and discloses new political secrets relating to tho late Mr. W. E. Gladstone, Mr. Joseph Chamborlain, and Mr. Piggott. Tho book shows Mr. Labouehoro as an "eccentrio and unscrupulous" genius.

HIGH DISTINCTION FOR WILDING. (Rec. Ootobcr 20, 6 p.m.) London, October 20. Tho London "Times" says that Anthony Wilding, who defeated A. F, Lowe in tho covered courts championship, is undoubtedly one of the greatest players tlio world has' ever known.— Sydney "Sun" Special. TOBACCO WAR. ' (Rec. October 20, 6 p.m.) New York, October 19. A huge war iu the retail tobacco trade is commencing. Tho United Cigar Stores, which already holds tho field, has purchased tho Wicker Hegeliiaii Jayres drug stores. Henceforth tobacco, cigars, and cigarettes will bo sold at thoso shops. Tho capital involved is ten nii]lioii6.--S.ydnoy "Sun" Special. DEVASTATING FIRE IN SHANGHAI. ! (Rec. October 20, 6 p.m.) Shanghai, October 14. A fire at Shanghai denuded half a square mile of the city. Ten thousand i people aro homeless., . WHICHELOW AND "WHICHELLO." <

London, October 20. Mr. George Whichelow, leather manu- | facturer, or Bermondsoy, on throaten- , ing Mr. Henry Arthur Jones, playwright, with a libel action on the ground ' tlmt Mr. Jones had used tho nanio of Whiehello (who is also a leather manu- ' facturer) in_ the play "Mary Goes 1 First," received a reply of over two ' thousand words embodying 'the politest, most delightful, and complete dressingdewn a man over got. Tho writer points out that the names Whioholow and AVhichollo, aro distinct, and trustß that the publication of tho details of the matter on the programmo will allay tho widespread consternation existing throughout tho British Eiupir<s—-if itdoes exist—that George Whichelow, of .Bermondsoy, has been libelled.—Sydney "Sun" Special. LABOUR FEDERATION. (Rec. October 21, 0.20 a.m.) Sydney, October 20. Tho Trades Union Congress Ims resolved in favour of the formation of an Australasian Labour Federation.

SMALLPOX IN SYDNEY. (Roc. October 21, 0.20 a.m.) Sydhey, October 20, Eleven cases of smallpox woro report-: ed to-day.