CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Herald, 3 November 1904, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

, A VAST PLCtTrEVEALED. (gg ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. 31. ' It is officially announced that an investigation of a charge of high treason against ex-Senator Schaumania, the father of General BobrikofPs assassin, has revealed a vast plot on the part of the leaders of the Wedophile party in Finland. The scheme, it is alleged, included the instruction of all Finns in rifleshooting preparatory to armed resist- : ance. 1 WARNING TO CANADA. OTTAWA, Nov. 1. Mr John Morley, who is visiting Canada, speaking at Toronto, urged Canada to avoid military entanglements with the Old World. Any apparent trade benefits in the meantime would be poor compensation for such evil. murdEr and suicide. " \ .SYDNEY, Nov. 1. A man named Lowe shot a.woman named Penson dead at Guyra, in the Armidale district, and then com.mitted, suicide. Jealousy is supm posed to have been the cause of the •Ijrime;" . ‘retribution for murder. 1 ' '■ SYDNEY, Nov. 1. News from New Guineo states that , Jbetwsen .sixty and seventy natives were shot down and about a, dozen others captured and executed in connection with the recent massacres of missionaries. r " She tringleader, one Toman, was among those shot down in the ~! npQuotains. He died hard. He exchanged several shots with the con- & «tabv}lary before being mortally wounded. Fighting side by side with him was his aged mother. After, the fight was over, her body ; ; Was found alongside that of her son. UNFORTUNATE LAUNDRY UNION. SYDNEYi Nov. 1. By a majority decision the Arbi kation Court refused to extend to the ■ 1 laundry business the principle of preference to unionists on the ground that the membership of the Laundry Union was less than one-fourth of those engaged in the business. TWENTY YEARS’ HARD. f PARIS, Nov. 1. Galtie, the young widow of a French magistrate, has been sentenced to 20 years’ penal servitude at the Auch Assizes for poisoning ‘■her husband, grandmother, and her . brother by arsenic in order to obtain Insurances on their lives.