GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 98, 2 May 1913, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES.

POLICE GRAFT IN NEW YORK. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright! [United Press Association.] New York, April 30. Four police officers have been accused of graft and placed on trial in the Supreme Court on charges covering a period of four years which have been preferred against them. An inj vestigation is proceeding in other | cases. FLOODS IN LOUISIANA. New York, April 30. Floods are inundating Yidalia, in Louisiana, and hundreds are homeless, but the loss of life is small. The waters are rapidly rising, and ; precautions ar'dt being taken for the | adequate warning of farmers. THE LUBEOKI MURDER. St. Petersburg, April 30. Baron Bisping, a rich Lithuanian landlord, has been arrested at Warsaw on a charge of murdering 1 Prince Lubecki, who was found dead in his grounds. VALUABLE DOG POISONED. . London, April 30. Miss Assheton Gross's’ Pekingese champion Chootai, valued at £2OOO, | died mysteriously of aconite ’poisoning ; at the Southairipton show, • •* * -——- 1; < >A RAIDWAY; COLLISION. • Delhi, April 30. i A passenger train collided with a i goods train-at Nagpur; ■ 1 iTwen ty-eight : Indians were killed and fourteen I Indians and two Europeans seriously injured. m.o>l f aaaxlc .••••inU-tf •■soJsfiun > . OUTRAGE AND MURDER. - ‘■■i New York-, May 1. A. negro at Hampton, in South Carolina, assaulted a white woman. He barricaded himself in the woods and ! shot dead three deputy-sheriffs dur- ! ing a pitched battle, and then, escap- | ed. A mob is '’Searching the woods i with bloodhounds, seeking to lynch , him. GRAIN HANDLING. Sydney, May 1. I The Government has decided to in- | Produce a Bill for the handling of I grain, and has secured the services of two experts from America to visit Australia and report on the scheme. SHOT BY A BRIGAND. Rome, May 1. It is reported that the Chief Issa, belonging to a band of Boletinatz, and a notorious brigand, assassinated Niazibeg, a well-known Turkish constitutionalist at Valona. PUBLIC PAY THE COSTS. Port Darwin, May 1. Kirkland’s fine was subscribed, and he has been released. A procession of vehicles drove to the prison and escorted Kirkland to the Town Hall, where a big meeting was held to celebrate bis regaining freedom. The speakers eulogised Kirkland’s fearless action in attacking and bringing to the bar of public opinion the bureaucratic methods of the administration.