GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8772, 26 March 1907, Page 2

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Press Association —Copyright. London, March 25

Obituary : Tho death is reported of the widow of Bishop George Selwyu. Lasker won the fourteenth game at the chess tourney. New Yoek, March 25.

The President of Honduras has fled in a steamer. Tho Nicaraguans are, pursuing him. 1 ,• ' •Constantinople March 25.

The son of Robert Abbott, a British merchant at Salonika, has been kidnapped within a stone’s throw of the British Consulate and is held for ransom. AnsTEODAn, March 20.

Lieutenant Sohurman was_ killed at Amsterdam arsenal while filling a new model, shell of his own invention. Another man was killed and two wounded. JjONDon, March 20.

The Russian warships Oosarowitoh, Slava and Bogatyr were feted au Portsmouth. They will proceed from there to the Baltic. New York, March 23.

Ex-President Cleveland states th it the outcry against railroads resembles delirium and presently tbe nation will bo asHa-med. XXo lulmifs flint som© form of. government supervision is necessary but it ought to be planned quietly, not in a period of excitement. Ho appeals to Democrats to foreo tariff reform on the broader ground, of enlarged national hfo and says Americans ought to abandon a policy of selfish isolation, excluding other nations from tbe American market and cutting off Americans from foreign markets. -