Second Edition GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 29, 9 June 1913, Page 6

Second Edition GENERAL CABLES.

A PRESBYTERIAN PROTEST. [Ly Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] London, June 8. Thb General Assembly of the Irish Presbyterian Church, by a majority of 878, adopted tho laymen’s memorial against Home Rule, signed by 131,351 . persons. 0 THE CRYSTAL PALACE. The local authorities in South London' have giiaranteed half the amount necessary, to acquire the Crystal Palace. Tho Lord Mayor has opened a fund for the balance. Lord Strathcon a has offered to find tho final £lO,000. AN EX-AUSTRALIAN CRIMINAL. An official of the Scottish Office , states that Greaves was released m duo course of the Taw. Newspaper comment states that the minimum of imprisonment with exemplary conduct should be thirteen and a half months. Greaves was known to the New South Wales police by various names, and was prosecuted in Sydney, in 1910, as an • uncertificated doctor. (Received 9.10 a.m.) - In the “New York American”, Greaves reiterates his, assertions. He states that' the Dossier (document) was stolen from a man named Schmidt on board the Kaiser Wilhelm H. Siii'bs occupied the cabins on either side of Schmidt’s cabin.

1 SLAVERY IN ASSAM. London, Juno 8. Thb Chronicle publishes statements by Dr. Fraser, medical, missionary at Lushai, in Assam, accusing the British officials of countenancing slavery. Families are ruthlessly, sundered arid sold to chiefs. Dr. Fraser charged the authorities with banning him for interfering with the customs of the country. A STOCKBROKER’S DEATH. Ml* Englebeft, a member of the Stock Exchange, while motoring at Tonbridge, crashed through a fence protecting a bridge, and dropped 16ft. into the‘Medway. His relatives passed a night of anxiety, and next morning the car was discovered in, deep water. Englbbert was drowned. .) t , : A FROZEN MEAT MONOPOLY. (Received 8.45 a.mTj i ' Buenos Aires, June 8. ' ‘ '■ ' Six*' largo’ frozen meat companies have presented a note to' the Government ■declaring that if the present burdensome conditions continue, they will close their factories, because other companies are preparing a monopoly by selling meat to the English markets below cost. The note urges the Government to take the necessary' stops jVhuj-j- 3zr

v „. A BOSTON ACQUITTAL. . • • New .Y.ork;' June 8. The jury at Boston acquitted William Wood' president of the American Woollen Company, who was charged with conspiracy to injure the textile workers in connection with the St. Lawrence Strikes. The State alleged ‘that Wood arranged a plan to dynamite them in order to throw the blame of the outrage on the strikers and thus discredit their movement. ALASKAN VOLCANOES ACTIVE. A number of Alaskan volcanoes are active. Flames and dense smoko are visible for miles to seaward; THE ANTI-TRUST LAW. John White, the president, and eighteen members of the United Mine Workers’ American Association, have been charged at Charleston, West \ irginia, with violating the Anti-Trust Law, and conspiring with coal operators to came the .wages on the West Virginian coal fields in order to prevent'competition with other States. The case is the first of its kind heard under the Sherman law. FATAL MINE EXPLOSION. Thirty miners' are imprisoned following an explosion in the Snsqnalxanna Coal Company’s shaft in the Shamokin district. Six men, much burned, were rescued, and two dead bodies were recovered. BAND OF DESPERADOES. (Received 12.5 p.m.) St. Petersburg, June 8. Bandits robbed the passengers of a motor omnibus at Plock, and then took a. passage by steamer to Warsaw, where, detectives awaiting their arrival, two were captured and locked in a storehouse while a third was arrested; When the storehotise was reopened tp admit the third, the bandits fired Browning pistols, killing five police and others, and then escaped.