GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 65, 17 November 1913, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

A FEMALE DAN i EL. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] Beilin, November 15. Emma Destine, the Austrian prima donna, wiio shared the triumphs of the London season ol 1912 with Tettrazini, received £2500 for a single aria from Mignon while five minutes in a lions’ cage, for a firm of cinematographers, who also'insured her lor £25,000 against death or injury.

FOURTEEN WORKMEN BURIED.

New York, November 15

Forty feet of seven-storeyed concrete building collapsed at Cedar Rapids, lowa, burying 14 workmen,. Four Vvere recovered-injured. There is no hope for the others.

THE P. AND O. SERVICE.

London, November 15

Under the P. and O. Company’s new scale of pay, captains of mailboats will receive £IOOO per annum, captains of intermediate steamers £6OC to-£9OO, chief officers £lB to £25 per mouth, second officers £l4 to £l7, third officers £l2 10s to £l-4 10s, and junior officers £8 per month. The company will grant its officers three weeks’ holiday each year. It is also elaborating a pensions scheme. A DESPERATE CRIMINAL. Ngjv York, November 16. Spencer, who confessed to 29 murders, lias been sentenced to death at Chicago on a charge of luring Mrs Roxroat to a railroad track, where he snot her and then placed her body where a train would mutilate it. Ho appealed to the jury to impose the death sentence, and cursed his •own counsel and the prosecution. PRINCE WILLIAM OF SWEDEN. Stockholm, November 15. The reports connecting Prince William’s wife with an espionage case are denied.

COPPER MINE DISASTER.

St. Petersburg, November 15

A fall of earth in the Artoin copper ipines killed six miners and injured •twenty-eight.

Atl.-AL.SATI AW SPY.

Berlin,, ( November 16

•Ei;ny, an Alsatians engineer, has been sentenced to three years’ penal servitude at Leipzig for selling France information concerning ammunition aml fortress; gunkl* .1 " : H:h! AN UKBESIRABLE IMMIGRANT. - -- - ■ Ottawa, November 16. Ortie McManigal, whose testimony convicted the Los Angeles dynamiters has been released and is now en loute to Europe, proposing to travel through Canada. , The immigration authorities refuse to allow him to enter if lie presents himself. jsmL.mr A STEAMER ON FIRE. Ottawa, November 16. Cape Race reports that the Spanish steamer Raines is afire. A hundred passengers were transferred to the Pannonia and the Raines was abandoned. The Raines was not abandoned, and is proceeding to Bermuda under her own steam., accompanied by the Pannonia.

WRECK OF A COLLIER,

Ottawa, November 15

Wreckage on Bird Island reck, in the St. Lawrence river, indicates that the steaiu collier Bridgeport sank. Forty-two of the crew were drowned, and ten thousand tons of coal were lost.

A PRUDISH COMMISSIONER.

Times— Sydney Sun Special Cables

Paris, November 15

A police commissioner in the Champs Elysees.district, making a private inspection of the Salon before the exhibition opened, observed a study in the nude which he condemned, and ordered its removal. THE WELSH MINE DISASTER. ‘ Ijfindon, November 15. The searchers at Senghenydd found the body of a man clasping a purse with fifty sovereigns and four (others lying with their arms interlocked as though they had been running together when overtaken by afterdamp.