GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 13, 14 January 1913, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

— o OARTHAGENIAN AFIRE. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright,' (United Press Association.) New York, January 12, iA fire occurred on the Carthagenian in mid-ocean. It was extinguished by pumping water into the hold. The damage caused was £2OOO sterling. There was no panic.

MILLION-DOLL AR SWINDLE

New York, January 12

Messrs Cameron and Collins, promoters of the Wireless Telephone Stock Company, swindled the public of one million dollars by stock-sell-ing-

They had been sent to gaol for seven and five years respectively.

SHOOTING AN ACTRESS

London, January 12. Gross has been sentehcedc to live years’ imprisonment.

Following upon a convivial gathering in a house at Bloomsbury by negro musichall artists, early in the morning on December Ist, a negress named Annie Gross shot dead on a staircase Jessie Mackintosh, an actress and an Englishwoman, who was living with the assailant’s husband. When the party rushed upstairs the negress pointed the revolver at her husband, but the cartridges were exhausted. The husband sheltered in a bedroom. The negress rushed into the street and the negroes pursued and captured her after an exciting chase, and handed her over to the police.

A STEAMER COMBINE

London, January 13

The Liverpool Courier reports that the Peninsular and Royal Mail companies have arranged an amalgamation, with a capital of thirty millions.

THE WEATHER IN BRITAIN

London, January 13

The London express from Whitehaven ran into a huge drift near Bootle and was snowed up all night.

The snowfall in the Peak district is unparalleled. Many villages have been cut off.

AN IMPUDENT ROBBERY.

(Received 8.10 a.m.) London, January 13

A gentlemanly cracksman took possession of a West End residence during the owner’s absence, the housekeeper mistaking him for a prospective tenant. The cracksman arranged with dealers to inspect the art treasures and sold them for £3OO cash, and escaped.