Beyond the Dominion

King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 215, 9 December 1909, Page 3

Beyond the Dominion

SHIPPING CASCALTIKS. London, December 4. During a violent gale the steamer Thistlemor, of 2579 tons, foundered with her crew of 30 at Clovelly. Four bodies have been washed ashore. Tbe steamer Elian Vannin, of 380 tons, bound from the Isle of Man for Liverpool, also foundered at the Mersey bar. Twenty-one of her crew and 12 passengers were drowned. Much damage has been done by the storm inland. London, December 5. Nine of the Thistlemor's crew of 30 have been rescued in a small boat, but tbe other 21 perished. TWO HUNDRED BOATS LOST. Copenhagen, Deccmbper 6. Some towns in Denmark are isolated and without lights, owing to tbe floods. Only three out of 200 small craft in Eabjerg Harbour survived yesterday's storm. WORLDS' BOXING CHAMPIONSHIP. San Francisco, December 5. Jack Johnson and Jas. J. Jeffries bave signed articles to fight on July 4, probably in Nevada City, California. MORGAN'S MILLIONS. New York, December 5. Mr Pierpont Morgan, the millionaire banker, has secured control of tbe Equitable Life Assurance Society of New York with £94,000,000 assets. This is interpreted in Wall street as foreshadowing a gigantic merging of Mr Morgan's banking interests. Mr Morgan recently purchased the Guarantee Trust with capital resources of £20,000,000. Moderate American newspapers estimate tbe resources be now controls at £350,000,000. UNITED STATES LAKE NAVY. Ottawa, December 5. Mr G. E. Foster, Minister for Marine in Sir J. Macdonald's Government in 1885, raised a debate in the Dominion House of Commons upon the United States having seven warships in the Great Lakes, in violation of tbe Treaty of 1817. Canada he added was at the mercy of this formidable force. Sir Wilfrid Laurier deprecated tbe discussion in view of tbe correspondence now proceeding, but admitted that there was cause for anxiety. The situation was due to individual American States bordering on the Lakes, and states clamouring for a share of the military expenditure. AMERICAN TRUSTS. London, December 6. Tbe New York correspondent of the Daily Telegraph reports that a Bread Trust, with a capital of £3,000,000, bas been formed, and bas raised tbe price of bread by a balf-penny per loaf. The Beef Trust, as well as the Milk Trust, wbicb bas added a cent per quart to tbe price of milk, are cooperating. ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION. London, December 6. Tbe Scottish Antarctic expedition has appealed to the Government for a grant to complete tbe publication of tbe scientific reports of tbe voyage of the Scotia in 1902-4, and to reimburse those who advanced money. Tbe appeal urges that Scottish expeditions should have similar Government belp and honours to those accorded to English expeditions. THE SUFFRAGETTES. London, December 6. Three suffragettes spent the night on the roof of a Southport meeting hall in order to interrupt Mr Winston Churchill. Tbe meeting was stopped while a dozen stewards climbed on the roof to capture tbe women who had lathed themselves to window frames. London, December '">. Suffragettes at Leith and Preston threw stores through the Post Office windows, each wrapped in paper inscribed with protests against the Government's suppression of the suffragist movement. THE BARCELONA RIOTS. London, December 6. The "Times" states that 870 prisoners of Barcelona arrested in July for participation in the anti Constitutional riots, have been discharged. Tbe trials of fifty leaders are pending. THE CENTRAL AMERICAN TROUBLE. New York, December 6.

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