GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 17, 11 May 1914, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES.

| CAUGHT IN QUICKSAND. | [By Electric telegraph—Copyright] I Times and Sydney Sun Services. Paris, May 7. | Customs officials found a woman I! buried in the quicksands in tlie Bay I of Authie. With the aid of ropes and | planks they rescued her. The woman I disappeared three days ago. It is presumed that she was gathering shells, and wandered accidentally into the I quicksand. She was unconscious when I extricated, and died in a few hours. I EVILS OF THE CINEMATOGRAPH ® London, May 7. n 1 A boy attempted to wreck the Edin- -: hurgh-Glasgow train. He said he was copying the moving pictures, and that .! he wanted to see the train jump. The r Magistrate expressed surprise that 8 such films were not censored. The boy j was birched. I i WHEAT ESTIMATES. { , Washington. May 8. I The Agricultural Bureau estimates that the winter wheat supply will be (>80,000,000 bushels. THE CHURCH AND DIVORCE. | ~ ! London, -May 7. The London Diocesan Conference recommended the churches to use their influence to prohibit the re-marriage of guilty divorcees. • THE OVERSEAS CLUB. j London, May 7. The Royal Colonial Institute Overseas Club is appealing to* Parliament to promptly pass a British Nationality and Status of Aliens Bill to enable i Dominion Parliaments to pass complementary legislation before the Imperial Conference of 1915. “A SMILE ON THE FACE OF THE TIGER.” New York. May 8. A lion, two .years of age, at the i Bronx Zoo, finding a door unbarred, entered the den pf a big Bengal tiger, and they instantly fought. The efforts of the attendants to separate them were useless. After an hour’s fighting the tiger won, breaking the lion’s neck. A PECULIAR FATALITY. [.United Press Association.] ~f H ydn<p May 8. I A man named Morrison was drowned in thre£ inches of water in a stormwater channel at Kensington. Apparently he tripped and was stunned. ! , ~fr —~ !i; - THE SAN REMO MURDER. • \ Rbn\e, May 8. j The jury "attended a. re-construc-tion of the murder at Sail Remo. Witnesses testified that Polimante was so infatuated that he once said hC it bifid let himself be 'murdered* for the Countess. Friends of the Countess testified that she was suffering from fits at the tijpa of the murder. (The Countess is charged with the murder of Pfjlimante, aijd admits the ; crime, sayipg; she had to defend her honor)! AN EXPENSIVE PROMISE. , London, May 8. Miss Drew, an American, recovered £6OO from the executors of Captain ♦Hamilton, an Army aviator, who was killed in September, 1912. Her claim was based on a deed Ofl settlement on their engagement. Hamilton broke the engagement and was killed while a breach of promise case was pending, COSTLY SMUGGLING. London, May 8. Christo Carifels, a merchant, was fined £IOO for a false declaration relating to n shipment of crockery to Egypt. The staves of the casks in which the crockery was packed were hollowed out and filled with hashish, which is forbidden in Egypt. The importer at Port Said was fined £1215. A MILLIONAIRE SUICIDES. New York, May S). Charles Post, a millionaire, suicided as the result of ill-health. He attracted a great deal of attention recently, when he rushed across the Continent in a special train to New York to undergo an operation. The train ma'*o a record traus-continenc.'J journey, and the operation was succ-u d il, but Post was unable to oven eipe ‘his depression. ESPIONAGE IN GERMANY, Berlin. May 9. Stroll, formerly a school teacher, h:i> been sentenced at Leipzig to five years’ imprisonment for espionage. 1 He complied a map of Strasburg forts and underground works, for the Fiench age it a. Geneva. “JOHN BULL” SWEEPS', » London May 9. Henry James Houston, of Burnley, William Dixon, and Ch.-r.les Towier of Birmingham were chaiged at Plymouth with a widespread conspiracy m the provinces tor the rale of tickets in the /‘John Bull” Derby Sweep. There was evidence that Houston l ad ordered eleven million tickets, totalling, with circulars, eight tons of printed matter. TROUBLE AT TRIESTE. Vienna, May 9. Many anti-Austrian brawls bars taken place at Venice, Verona, and Milan. Students burnt the Austrian flag in St. Mark’s Square, Venice, duo to the pro-Slav Governor of Trieste refusing to employ Austrian subject* of Italian nationality.