Second Edition GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 90, 20 August 1913, Page 6

Second Edition GENERAL CABLES.

THE HAGUE CONFERENCE. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Assooiattou j The Hague Peace Congress has been inaugurated. There are over 800 delegates. A SOLDIER’S MADNESS. Vienna, August 19. An officer’s servant at Boannaan, in a lit of madness ran amok in the barracks with a revolver. Ho killed the Countess Marianne Bolza, fatally wounded Captain and wounded another officer. The murderer flung himself out of the barracks’ window and is in a critical condition. A FATAL HEAT WAVE. Now York, August 19. Eleven deaths have occurred in Michigan State as a result of the heat wave. The temperature was continually over 100 degrees. ENGLAND’S OLD-AGE PENSION- j ERS. I London, August 19. | The Local Government Board re- j turns state that 17.8 per thousand j receive old ago pensions, at an annual I [Cost of £7,948,016. Three-fifths of the' septuagenarians in England are j old-ago pensioners. ACCIDENT ON THE AUSTRALIA, i London, August 19. The fall of a' derrick aboard the Australia, after leaving St. Vincent, killed Pefety-Officer Holmes.