GENEREL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 69, 16 March 1912, Page 6

GENEREL CABLES.

(By Electric Telegraph.—-Copyright.) (United Press Association.)

(Received' 16, 10.45 a.m.). London, March 15

There are indications that the commander of the submarine A 3, recently sunk, was aware of the danger and took proper means to avoid collision, but a submerged block of wood jammed the propeller at the critical moment and prevented her going astern. Mr Samuel, Postmaster-General, explains that what he said at the Chambers of Commerce banquet was that the Government looked forward to controlling cable rates, not cable business.

■The steamer Irishman lias sailed from Liverpool with 1232 emigrants for Melbourne.

The Drapers’ Company have givei £60,000 to build the London University’s senate house and .administration offices.

At the suffragette conspiracy trial the Crown Prosecutor stated that the Women’s Political Union’s funds amount to a hundred and fifteen thousand pounds. The present was one .of the most extensive and deliberate conspiracies extant.

(Received 16, 11.55 a.m.) New York, March 15. A heavy blizzard is raging over a large area in Kansas. Traffic on the railroads is suspended, three trains being snowed up and three hundred passengers starving. Relief ploughs are working. , There is a shortage of provisions in many Kansas towns.

At Telluriado, California, an avalanche caught a dozen miners ;tnd carried them down a hillside. Four were dead when dug out. Mine buildings were destroyed and several men are missing who are believed to be buried in the ruins of the works. (Received 16, 1.5 p.m.) Ottawa, March 15. It is understood that, negotiations are pending fer another fast Atlantic steamship line. Halifax 'will bo the terminal point and the line will probably work in conjunction with the intercolonial railway. / London, March 15. Eight thousand Irish Methodists in Belfast have protested against Home Rule. Mr lA. J. Balfour has returned to the House of Commons, looking well. Mr Justice Bucknill, in summing up, said that the case of Mrs Seddon was not on a parallel with her husband’s, but the presumption that she was acting under her husband’s coercion did not apply to the murder. After the verdict, Seddon re-argued the evidence and said that he was surrounded by ,a; set of*■circumstances from which there ; secihed. no , way .of extricating himself. He declared before the Great Architect of the Universe that he was not guilty. Justice Bucknill, in. passing sentence, agreed with the verdict of acqpi|ta| ,mf :r the wife.. Seddon has given notice of appeal. Paris, March 15. , ~iiLe Preux, a dark for thirty years in the-employment of. the Suez Canal Company, and who absconded in October after' embezzling £BO,OOO, with which he speculated on the Bourse in the hope of making a fortune for his daughter, has been arrested at Lille. Only £2680 was left. New York, March 15. A Chicago and North-Western train was derailed at Jury, one person being killed and 33 injured. Three convicts—MorleV, Taylor and Dowd—undergoing sentences for bank robbery and murder in Lincoln, Nebraska, blew up the door of the gaol with dynamite. 'They then engaged in a revolver duel with the warders, killed tw<] warders and one usher, wounded another, and escaped.