SUN CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 24, 29 September 1913, Page 5

SUN CABLES.

HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS A LIQUOR FIGHT. [By Electric Telegraph—CopyrightJ Times —Sydney Sun Special Cables.

New York, September 28

The Governor of Tennessee, is trying to force two Lills against the liquor trade through the Legislature. The opponents of the measures thwarted him by absenting themselves, thus blocking the necessarys quorum. The Governor stationed armed warders from the prisons so as to keep mem. hers in their places.

The Mayor sent the police to see that members were not coerced.

The Opposition made obstructive speeches and waved revolvers.

TYPHOID IN NEW YORK.

New York, September 28

Typhoid cases on the east side of New York are spreading alarmingly. 275 cases having been notified.

REVOLUTION IN SPAIN.

Madrid, September 28

The. Royalists who were arrestee are alleged to have confessed to having been hired to foment disturbances in isolated parts of the country ir order to mask the movement of regu larly recruited troops in the nortl under the command of a naval officer

NARROW ESC A P'l OF EXPRESS.

Vienna, September 28

The night express from Ostend tf Vienna narrowly escaped being wreck ad. A ganger found five shoes wedged tightly across the rails ,and had only just removed them when the express, crowded with passengers, thundered past.

TYING THE NUPTIAL KNOT.

(Received 8.0 a.m.) London, September 28,

The Registrar-General’s returns show that 20 per cent, of the mar riages in England were celebrated a registry offices.

. PICTORIAL ENTERPRISE.

London, September 27

The latest cinema film shows John sou losing the championship to Grog net, the French heavy-weight chain pion. - Grognet asks the hand o' Johnson’s niece. The champion con septs provided that Grognet beat; him. The light goes against Grogneuntil the fourth round, when his niec< begs Johnson not to hurt her lover and Johnson withdraws from tin light, forfeiting the championship Oarpentier, rushing into the ring, effu sively congratulates him.

TOM SAWYER UP TO DATE.

Now York, September 20.

Five youths, natives of Hannibal .Missouri, who had evidently beei reading “Tom Sawyer,” have mad< their homo town ring with their desperate adventures.

Using the case at South Hanniba that was mentioned by Mark Twain ir his book, these young hopefuls have been storing plunder there for some time, and it is alleged that they arc the ringleaders of a band ofyouthfu! robbers. * j They have already confessed that they have committed many robberies in and near the city during the last four years. Their ages are 17, 15 1.9, and two of them 18. Four othei known members of the organisation ar still at large.

SPANKED HIS FATHER.

New York, September 21

A sensation has been caused by the admission of Dr. E. A. Hanly, president of the Franklin College at Indianapolis, one of the best known educational authorities in the State, that lie went to his father’s home at Middletown and switched and spanked “the old man.”

Over his ..own. signature lie says:— “I have been keeping rny hands off my father for 2o years, and much as 1 regret my action I believe I accomplished some good. Wnen I learned that ho had called my mother an unspeakable name, and said that he wished she was in hell, I could stand it no longer. I did not strike him with rny fist or with club. I just spanked him.”