GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 88, 9 December 1912, Page 8

GENERAL CABLES.

Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) London, December 7. The missing bullion boxes have been found, and will reach London on Monday. Moydrum Castle, Westmeath, has been damaged by fire. The household escaped in their night attire. Lady Castlemaine had a narrow escape. Lord Castlemaine rescued a number of servants. Valuable furniture and pictures were destroyed. St. Petersburg, December 7. The Government has been informed that China has decided not to send troops to Mongolia. Lisbon, December 7. During a galo a fishing fleet was foodless and waterless for five days. Four men became insane, jumped overboard, and were drowned. Boats containing seventy-two men are missing. Six bodies were washed ashore at Bre-

men. To Ido, December 7. The Council of Elder Statesmen, under Prince Yamagata’s pressure, recommended that Visdount Teranchi should lie sumonrncd to form a Cabinet. New York, December 7. President Taft, in a message to Congress, opposes the suggested independence of the Philippines, and advocates the return to the two battleships per year policy. Advices from Duluth, Minnesota, state that the Bootli Line steamer Easton went on the rocks during a snowstorm. Eifty passengers were aboard. A dozen tugs were despatched to help her. All the passengers were saved in the teeth of a. fierce blizzard. London, December 8. Fifty criminals in the new preventive detention prison on tho Isle of Wight mutinied because one was sent to tho punishment cells. The warders, aided by staves, quelled the mutiny. New York, December 8.

At Butler, Olabama, a negro named Curtis confessed to the murder of a planter. He was lodged in gaol. A mol) stormed the gaol and hanged Curtis on the scene of. the crime. The Convention of State Governors held in Virginia, repudiated Governor C. L. Blease, Governor of South California, who advocated lynching for negro assaults on women. Governor Blease defied the Convention, and an angry scene followed, hut he adhered to his principle. The Governors pi dged themselves to stamp out mob violence in every State, Governor Blease has received numerous threatening letters.