GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 57, 29 June 1914, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

A SCENE AT AN IRISH WEDDING. [By Eleotbio Telegraph—Copyright] [United Pbem Association. 1 London, June 27. A mob of angry women caused a .wild scene outside , St. Columbia Church at Omagh at the ’wedding of an Ulster volunteer with a woman who was formerly a Ciltholic but lately turned Protestant. There was bitter feeling in the district, and the crowd followed the couple, who were escorted by friends and police, to a hotel, which the mob attacked during the night. A TEETOTAL NAVY. New York, June 2G. The other banishing intoxicants from the navy will operate from July 1. As the “wet” days draw to a close speculation increases as to how the decree will he accepted. Under the new regime officers will not be allowed to have liquor aboard ships or on any erf the naval reserves. DEVASTATING FLOODS. New York, June 27. Large sections of Wisconsin, Minnesota and lowa were, devastated-by a third violent storm this week. Many railway wash-outs occurred, and the water ran to four feet deep. Wide areas of country were buried in sand and mud from the flooded rivers.

A MAN ELECTROCUTED. New York, June 2G. A man died in Seattle hospital about nine hours after he came into contact with a live wire carrying sixty thousand volts at the sub-station of the Puget South Traction Company. He met with an accident and regained consciousness and then walked into a room containing a transformer, contrary t< the rules, passing through a narrow place, and his side brushed heavily against the charged wires. MAD KING’S FREAK. New York, June 26. What is believed to be the mosl valuable suit of male attire ever made Was brought to New York by Anitr Keoch from Stuttgart, Germany. Ti is valued at twenty thousand dollars and was for the late mad Kinj Otto of Bavaria. The coat, waistcoat and trousers are embroidered with gold ancf silver, and on the coat then are said to be a thousand pearls. STEAMER FOR AUSTRALIA. 4* I Berlin, June 27.

The Norddeutscher-Lloyd’s 16,000ton steamer Zeppelin, advertised, a* the largest steamer to trade to Australia,' via Suez, makes her maider trip in January, when the canal hat been deepened to thirty feet. EX- P R ESI b R 0 ost V E LT. New *Yoi'k, June 27. Mr Roosevelt, ex-President, hattaken off his coat to re-enter the political arena. ", •He described President Wilson’s and Mr Bryan’s handling of foreign affairs as being such as to make the United States a figure' for fun. in the international world. They were pursuing a course in regard to Mexice which was wavering between peace and war, and exquisitely designed to combine the disadvantages of both. THE PACIFIC PROBLEM. London, June 27, The Times, in an article on the Round-Table Conference on the nava' policy in the Pacific, says the question develops the argument thgt the real danger to Australia is Japan. The Commonwealth i.< justified in not reposing too much trust in the AngloJapanese Alliance. The success oi Australian, efforts must ultimately elepend upon the co-operation of Great Britain and the other dominions. The real need is another Imperial Conference.