GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 310, 29 December 1908, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

ANOTHER KOEPENICK. Berlin, December 27. • A man in uniform ''Koepcnicked" the l'ost Office at Munich. He asked for and obtained possession of the entire mail for Nuremberg, aud then disappeared.

RADIUM CURE FOR CANCER. Paris, December 27. Two leading Paris doctors have reported to the Anti-Cancer League that they have used radium for cancel- during a period of three years, and had only six failures in 02 cases. I'HE PERSIAN CRISIS. Teheran, December 27. The Shah refused to issue a rescript concerning the new elections until the Nationalists quit the Turkish Embassy. HEAVY FAILURE. New York, December 27. IJ. Poor, a member of the New York Exchange, has failed with liabilities amounting to five millions. FATAL STRIKE RIOTS IN AMERICA. New York, December 2". 'The Governor of Kentucky ordered out a company of State-Militia to assist the Marshals to suppress rioting in Whitely County, where the miners are oil strike. A miner and a Marshal luive already been killed, and several were burned to death in a hotel fire following a light between Marshals and miners.

A UEKOiXK. London, December 2". l'or the lirst time in the history of Lloyds a silver modal has been bestowed upon u wonia i Kate (iilinour, u stewardess, who saved many Arab lives when a pinic :>cu'rred aboard the steamer Sardinia, o;i November 25.

PALTERS IX LOXDOX. London, December 27. The number of paupers in London is 130,">43, the highest for thirty-eight years. The expenditure on jio : r f lias reached £387,840.

M A DLSASTKOL'S TOIiXADO. .Sydney, December 28. I A tornado at Coil's Harbour destroyed the Catholic. Church and damaged j a number of other buildings.

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