CABLE NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 March 1917, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

Home & Foreign )PEB PRESS ASSOCIATION. COPYRIGHT-] Les Darcy Black-listed. New York, March 14 Minnesota and other States are following the example of New York, and have issued notices, black-listing Las Darey. Oa the ground that L 33 Darcy is a slacker, Mi Whitman, Governor of New York State, bai directed the State Athletic Commission to prohibit bis boxieg Jack Dilllon at Madison Square.

America’s Wheat

Washington, March 14 The visible supply of wheat is j 50,376,000 bushels. '

A Train Smash New York, March 12 Four kcown dead and 50 injured, one probably fatally, is the toll of the wreck of train No 12, Chicago, Burlington, and Qaincy, which ran into a broken rail 300 yards east of the station here last night, left the tracks and toppled down a 60ft embankment into a frozen slough. Scores of men and women in night clothes were hurled through windows and cut and bruised. They clustered about on the ice and suow in temperature below zero, until a relief train with physicians arrived from, , Oreston one hour after the wreck, \ Not until 12.30, nearly three hours after the wreck, were the last of the dead and injured, gome of the latter badly frost bitten, taken from the -j wreck. All of the dead and more seriously injured were passengers in the wooden chair car which was partly, demolished. Ocoupant3 of the three steel Pullman cars were cut and hrnissd, but noue of them was fatally injured. It is not known if there are any bodies in the wreckage, but search ie being made. _________ v Quchess of Connaught London, March 14 The condition of the Duchess of I Connaught is graver.