GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 74, 4 April 1913, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

VILLAGE DEVASTATED BY FLO. ID

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association J New York, April 3. The village of Shawneetown, Illinois has been wrecked by floods. The population of 500 fled for safety at tinlast moment. There is great danger from the weakened levees. THE TURAKINA’S PASSENGERS. London, April 3, The Corinthic, with 43 of the Tmakina’s third-class passengers, h.ts arrived at Plymouth. They saved all their effects. ROYAL VISIT TO EUROPE. London, April 3. The King and Queen are going to Berlin in a strictly private family capacity. No State visits have been arranged in Germany, France or Austria. REIMBURSING STRIKERS. London, April 3. The executive of the National Union of railwaymen is reimbursing the North-Eastern strikers the £IO,OOO which they were fined in the Knox case.

EVIDENCE AT MURDER TRIAL. (Received 8.15 a.in.) Paris, April 3. At the trial of Lacombe for the murder of Cartier, the postmaster at Begons, a witness gave evidence ti at he rang up the post office and Cartier’s daughter answered the call. Then ho heard revolver shots, and a shriek, and the girl telephoned: “Quick; they are murdering father!” Witness seized a revolver and ran to the post office, but the bandits had already fled. LEOPOLD’S ESTATE. Brussels, April 3. The effect of the judgment : a the appeal of the Princesses Louise and Stephanie is that they failed to establish their claim to 2) millions of Leopold’s estate except £60,000 of the Neiderfullbach, '>ud they wore ordered to pay costs