COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 99, 21 December 1912, Page 5

COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

BOY TRAIN-WRECKERS,

Hobart, December 20. Two lads have confessed to placing spikes on the railway at Evandale.

THE GREEN-EYED MONSTER

Perth, December 20. The Trew tragedy was the result of jealousy. The husband called his wife out of the bar on a pretence of speaking to her, and immediately shot her and then himself dead in the yard. THE FIRST FEDERAL RIFLE. (Received 10.10 a.m.) Sydney, December 21. 'Hie Federal Small Arms Factor;, has turned out the first rifle. TELEGRAPHISTS’ DISPUTE. The telegraphists have made a request to revert to the old condition: pending arbitration, and the request will receive consideration. TEACHERS JOIN THE TRADES. The Public School Teachers’ Union lias become affiliated, to the Trade?, Council. A HAUL FOR THE STATE.

The late Justice Owen died intes tate, leaving property valued at £13,897.

THE AGM TRAGEDY. December 20. Fulham’s case for the prosecution has closed. Mrs. Fulham and Dr. Clark reserved their defence. Dr. Clark explained that b.6’'used powdered glass for poultry. The evidence proved that Dr. Clark arsenic, atrophine, cocain| a'hd hydro-chlorate. FRENCH PRESIDENCY. Paris,. December 19. M. Bourgeois has declined to become a candidate for the Presidency, and it is expected M. Poincaire will be elected. ... I .. THE MONEY KINGS. Washington, December, 20. Mr. Pierpont Morgan, giving evidence before the House of Representatives’ Committee investigating toe money trust, said that all the money in Christendom and all the banks in the world could not form a monopoly sufficient to control money. He denied wielding a vast power at the present day in financial undertakings, and emphatically asserted that he never sought any such power.