Ganeral Cables.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 27, 2 February 1914, Page 5

Ganeral Cables.

HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS.

SEPOY SHOOTS AN OFFICER. [By Eleotrio Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] Delhi, January 31. A Sepoy shot Captain Buker dead at a Sepoy dance at Jance, Waziristan. |The murderer was arrested. FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE. London, January 31. Fifteen cattle at Naas, Kildare, are suffering from foot and mouth disease. TAX ON CINEMA FILMS. Pome, January 31. The new taxes include cinematograph films.

ALBANIA'S KING.

Berlin, January 31

Prince Wied is leaving Tricate for Durazzoo in order to assume the crown at the end of February.

MAETERLINCK'S WORKS BANNED

Rome, January 31. The Congregation Index has condemned Maeterlinck's works.

STEEL TUBE WORKS.

London, January 31

The British Mannequin Steel Tube Company will shortly erect works at Vewport, Monmouth, at a cost of £750,000, and employing 3000 hands.

POISONED IN A RAILWAY CAR.

Rome, January 31

Chevalier Passalacques, Director of the Hamburg-American line, and five )ther passengers were poisoned by an rritant in the salt served in a res-:aurant-ear on the Genoa-Milan express.

Four of the victims, including Passaacques, are in a critical condition.

MURDERED BY BANDITS.

Shanghai, January 31

Bandits called "White Wolves" nurdered Father Rich, a French Jesuit missionary at Liuanchow, and mid Fathers Alia in and De Rataille Tor ransom.

Father Gilbert escaped. It is stated that a French gun>oat is preparing to proceed to Ankin.

NEW WIRELESS STATION.

New York, January 31

Marconi is completing a new station it Bel mar, New Jersey, and is arrangng for a quicker transmission over and lines. He anticipate*, > expedite rans-Atlantic messages, t not the sables, while reducing the rL. >s by a :hird.

BANKER'S DISAPPEARANCE.

New York, January 31

Lewis Clark, a wealthy banker, whose disappearance perplexed "Western America, was kidnapped by a gang )f bandits.

The Chief of Police at Los Angeles received a letter from the missing milionaire stating that the leader of the fang demanded £215,000 otherwise he would probably kill Clark unless the imount was paid within a fortnight. Hie note was dropped into the letterbox at the police headquarters.

THE RAILWAY MURDER.

London, January 31

Starchfield, when charged with thp murder of his son, protested his inno■enee. He was remanded.

OIL FUEL MONOPOLY.

London, January 31. Mr Ramsay McDonald, M.P., speak•ng at the Glasgow Conference, described oil fuel as a monopoly, adding that its control, and the cost of it, was one of the economic problems facing the industrial world.

BUTTER V. MARCARINE.

London, January 30

Several traders wore fined at the North London Police Court for selling as butter a substance which contained 100 per cent of margarine.

SUBMARINE SINKS.

The Hague, January 31

A Dutch submarine sank at Flushing, owing to an open valve. Seven men were aboard, and one was drowned.

A DISORDERLY CONVENTION.

New York, January 31

Scenes of disorder marked the session of the Mineworkers' Convention.

One delegate charged the president (Grompers) with drunkenness. Gompers called him a liar and a slanderer, whereupon wild disorder broke out, the Convention adjourning after ineffectual appeals for order by Gompers. His accuser stated he would take the first available opportunity of proving the charges connected with his statements.