AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 August 1925, Page 3

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] A LONE .MARINE!!. VANCOUVER, Aug. 10. A message from Victoria. British Columbia, states Commander .Maude who D-ft in a. sloop for England in M ay, and whose whereabouts have been the cause of anxiety for several weeks landed at an Indian village on the Washington Coast on Sunday, partially blinded by the sun’s glare. 'The lone mariner said he was hit on l lie head by a boom and for many days was in a semi-conscious state-. Ikvoyaged as far as Santa Barbara. COAL CRISIS IN AMERICA. NEW YORK. Aug. 9. A telegram from Atlantic City, New Jersey, says: “Tile hope that the anthracite coal operators and miners might reconcile their differences in time to avert a suspension of work on September Ist. has failed. .Mr .John l-iewis, the President of the I niled States .Mine Workers has informed .Mr Samuel Warriuer, the ehairinan of the Operators’ Conference, that further negotiations are useless until the mine operators abandon their opposition to wage increases and to the adoption of the check-oil' system. .MERGER I'll! SUICIDES. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, August 11. As officers surrounded Ills apartments in San Francisco, Charles Schwartz, the perpetrator of chemistry scientific murder of G. E. Barb a wandering missionary committed suicide. Schwartz mutilated Barb's body to make it; appear that he hiinsen had been killed, while experimenting with artificial silk formula. The object was to collect the insurance of thirty thousand sterling and also to avoid a suit for breach of promise of marriage. LORD ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE. NEW YORK. Aug. HI. A message from Detroit states the locomotive which Henry Ford believes will he the next, step in world railroad transportation is ready to make its trial tests over Ford’s Dot roit -T’oledo'Trenton railroad. 'The locomotive is the longest ever built, being 117 Icet long, and electrically driven, developing a maximum of five thousand horse power, sufficient to pull a train o( freight cars I.V miles long, at a maximum speed of 35 miles per hour. Each of its sixteen axles is driven bv a separate motor, the current being obtained from an electrified line. Ihe cab lias 12 plate glass windows, and elaborate precautions against shocks arc taken. AMERICAN WHEAT PRODUCTION. WASHINGTON. Aug. !«. The Department of Agriculture estimates the total winter wheat product ion in 192.1 will he -110.000.000 bushel sas compared with 590,000.000 bushels in 1921. 'The condition of the spring wheat is 73.9 per cent, indicating a total crop of 503.000.()()() bushels against 283,090,000 in 1911.