AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 November 1925, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

[Reuter Telegrams.] A GREAT FUNERAL. NEW YORK, November 17. A Chicago telegram says: An amazing display of respect and affection, surpassing the honours usually accorded to a great national figure, marked the funeral services of Samuel Amatmia called “ Samoots,” the benevolent despot of thugs, murderers, and bootleggers. Aniatuna was shot by rival gangsters, who resented his encroachment on their liquor sales areas. Amatuna’s richly garbed body lay in a silvered bronze casket costing ton thousand dollars. Innumerable enormous floral tributes, valued at thirty thousand dollars, were piled in the parlour and in every room of Aniatuna’s house, and they overflowed into the neighbours’ houses. Thousands of men and women of all walks of life, including Amatuna’s followers and rival gangsters, who called a temporary truce, politicians "ho respected the Amatuna vote in getting into power; lawyers and business men, and miserably poor men and women who existed upon Amatuna’s bounties, formed a continuous line passing the bier all the night and day preceding the funeral, which was longer and more imposing than any of the previous great gangsters’ funerals for which Chicago has gained an unenviable notoriety.

FIRE AT SEA. UK; UfASSENGEK LIST. NEW YORK, November 17. Cape May (New Jersey) reports that the steamer Lenapo, plying between New York and Jacksonville (Florida) is heading full speed for Delaware breakwater, eight miles distant, ablaze. The burning vessel was seen from thw shore. NEW YORK, November 17. A Cape Mae message states the steamer Lenape has aboard two hundred passengers. She is the fifth vessel of the Clyde Line to he menaced hv lire within recent years. A BIG BOCK FIRE. NEW YORK, November 17. A New Orleans telegram states that a fire is raging there at the Mississippi River Docks. The damage is five hundred thousand dollars already. A wide area of the waterfront is threatened.

NEW YORK, November 17

Tlie New Orleans fire is now under control. The damage is two million hillars. The fire spread over a five block section of the waterfront.

( AN ADA’S GREAT JUMP. OTTAWA, November 17

Mr Melville Dollar, a member of a linn of millionaire Pacific shipowners, -peaking at the National Economic tonferenee at Winnipeg, declared that the Pacific Ocean was wresting trade supremacy from the Atlantic. Canada’s exports to the Orient had jumped from five and a half million dollars to forty-six million dollars in one dorado and the Yaneouvcr ocean lines had grown from five to fifty-four in the uime ten years.

hospital, authority. YANCOUYER. Nov. 17

Dolour Malcolm MacEachern. Direct>r of the American College of Surgeons, and the highest authority on hospital management and effieieny in the continent, lias sailed by the Aornnri on a tour of the hospitals of AusI'ralia and New Zealand, as a distinguished guest of those Governments. He will proceed direct to Victoria. In an interview, he said: “My mind is open and unprejudiced. My objective is lo supply recommendations and suggestions to aid in their present excellent. hospital systems, which are unexcelled in the world.” Dr MacEachern directs 248 hospitals in America and Canada.

THE WHEAT OUTLOOK. X'l'.W YORK. Nov. 17. Tin* Argentina (.’handier of Commerce announces that the latest- indications are that the Argentine wheat ,-rop will reach sixty-four hundred thousand tons, materially exceeding ast year’s crop.