GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 7, 2 September 1912, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

i (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) Xew York, August .'!(). At Pittsburg four persons were killI C( 1 and seven injured through a passenger train colliding with and wrecking a train employed in repairing the track, following derailment of a number of freight wagons. A misunderJ standing of orders was responsible j for fjhto accident. The passengers all escaped, although six coaches were derailed. j Ihe United State's will inaugurate* a | State parcel post system ou January j Ist. A million miles of rural deI lively will be covered. The private I express companies, which have hither* | bo been handling this business, will be i hard hit. I Speaking at Columbus, Ohio, Mr 1 Taft explained Ids exercise of ilm veto j power. Ho said his friends told him ; that if any King acted as he hail

done liis head would drop in the basket. and Mr Taft retorted that Ihe must act according to his conscience even if his head did fall in the basket. The trouble with the present

day reformer was that he wanted reforms put into force overnight an ,j have them ready for breakfast next morning. London, August .30. An inrush of water from old workings flooded a* colliery at Aberdare. 'Jlhiere were three hundred below, who had narrow and sensational escapes. Captain Evans has sailed to rejoin the Terra Nova. - The centenary of the first steamship, the Comet, was celebrated at Glasgow with an imposing maritime pageant of warships and merchantmen. Captain Cody won the £4OOO army prize in tike competition open to the world for biplane. Deperdussin monoplane was second, winning £2OOO. Captain Cody also won £IOOO for biplane of British manufacture. Bristol monoplanes secured two third prizes of £SOO each.