GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 41, 18 February 1914, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

PHIL MAY’S DRAWINGS. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] Times—Sydney Sun Special Cables. London, February 17. Fifty-nine of Phil May’s black and white drawings were sold at Christie’s for 130 guineas. RAILWAYS IN $/lA MINOR. Berlin, February 17. The French and German representatives have completed an agreement for the construction of railways in Asia .Minor. j CHINESE OILFIELDS. London, February 17. A Pekin correspondent states that the Chinese Government asked for a three millions’ loan from the Standard Oil Trust for the exploitation of Chinese oil resources. The Trust refused the loan, but is giving free 37]- per cent, of the stock of the company formed to exploit the concession. The rights given for the construction of railways are regarded with disfavor by the Japanese. THE SALVATION ARMY. London, February 17. Her Majesty the Queen has written to the Salvation Army, congratulating them upon their work '.at the Mothers’ Hospital, Clapton ; and the .maternity homes at Stoko and Newington. The A rmy is preparing for the great International Congress in June. Delegates will come from all parts of the world, attending in native costume, SUICIDE IN A CATHEDRAL. Madrid, 1 February 17. The attendants at Seville Cathedral found the body of a sergeant on the altar, where lie had shot himself. He left letters to the Cardinal and the colonel of his regiment, and to his young wife, asking their pardon for committing suicide, and explaining that he had appropriated regimental moneys to pay a gambling debt. The cathedral was closed to the public till the Cardinal had consecrated it again. The King sent a message to break the news to the widow, ,and ordered that she be nursed at his.expense during her approaching illness,. LYNCH LAW IN AMERICA. [United Press Association.! New York, February 16. : Fifty masked men stopped, the Illinois Central passenger trpin near Love, Mississippi, and forced , the sheriff to deliver up two negroes, accused of wounding a mill-owner. ‘ The mob prejpared* to lynch both. The, sheriff, however,: .declared l that one, negro was not guiltjl, ; The mol) thereupon released him, but compelled the other to leap the bridge with a rope round'his neck. The mob dispersed l after seeing the negro dead. The mill owner was ambushed a week ago, and is not likely to live. U Cl ... . f.U !i. . nr- , ’ , , f , AMERICAN IMMIGRATION, Washington, Fe'/n'iiVry 17.' v It is annouueeiFtliat' President Wilson will veto Burnett's ■ Immigration Bill unless the literacy test is eliminated. The Senate Immigration Committee had arranged a favorable report on the Bill, including the literacy test. Later, Senator Smith conferred

with the President,-and it is understood that ■President Wilson did not consider literacy any character test. He believes that other means of barring uiidesirahies ought to he devised. ' an UNPOPULAR PRIEST. Xew York, February 16. In a riot at South bend, Indiana, seven were seriously injured and nearly 100 hurt when twenty-five policemen tried to aid the sheriff to carry out the order of Judge Fink that the Rev. Stanilaus Gruza be placed in charge of the St. Casimus Polish Roman Catholic Church. A mob of 200 men and women, fighting for two hours, prevented the efforts of Gruza to obtain possession of the church. The lire department was called out to help the police, but all was unavailing, the mob threatening to cut the hose. Gruza was appointed to the. church a year ago, but the people objected, and asked the bishop for another priest. The request was refused, and the ease taken to court, when the judge ordered Gruza to have possession. A JAPANESE LOAN. London, February 16. Reuter reports that the Japanese railway loan of millions is being floated in London at Ij 1 per cent. CHEAP COAL FROM GERMANY. London, February 17. London gas companies are reported to have purchased a million tons of German coal at 3s below the English prices. THE PICTURE BUSINESS. London, February 16. During 1913 the British Board of Film Censure, dealing with the world’s output, examined 7,628,931 feet of films, comprising ->.7486 subjects. Of those, 6861 were passed for universal exhibition. The reasons for rejections included cruelty to animals, indecorous dancing, impropriety of conduct of dress, executions, operations, materialisation of Christ and the Almighty, and foreign customs abhorrent to British ideas, painful insanity scones, morbid death scenes, and incentives to crime. CHICAGO’S WOMEN POLICE. London, February 16. Scotland Yard commends Chicago’s women police. Scotland Yard has its own secret staff of women in London, and they have rendered splendid service.