GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 244, 21 February 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

ARMOUR'S WORKS BURNED. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. New York, February 19. A lire at Armour and Co.'s stockyards, at Chicago, destroyed the lard refinery. The loss is heavy. The huge quantities of grease threatened a great conflagration. FAKING THE CENSUS. New York, February 10. The director of the United ' States Census Bureau announces that the census returns of 23 cities are inaccurately given. Conspiracies were general to make the population of cities appear the largest possible, and prosecutions of the enumerators are pending. SEQUEL TO RAILWAY DISASTERS. Paris, February 19. The Government has transferred the director and assistant directors of the Western Railway elsewhere. Clavescillc, road surveyor, and other public works officials, will replace them. LYNCHERS OUTWITTED. New York, February 19. A man accused of murder at Porterville, California, narrowly escaped lynching. A band of citizens in fifty motorcars left the neighboring town bent on the lynching. A sheriff's posse followed, and an exciting race resulted. An explosion occurred on the sheriff's motor en route, and the sheriff was injured, but he commandeered a second motor and won the race, hastily swore in deputies, and held the mob at bay till the prisoner was put in jail. MURDERED BY A MANIAC. Berlin, February 19. A secretary named Kerner, a maniac, shot two officials at Buea, in the Cameroons. He also wounded two other secretaries and then committed suicide. SNOWSTORM IN TRANS-CAUCASIA. St. Petersburg, February 19. A snowstorm is raging in Trans-Cau-casia, and many houses have collapsed at Psyrtcha, sixteen persons being killed. Many men have been snowed up on the Toads. DANISH HERO FUND. Copenhagen, February 19. Mr. Carnegie has offered Denmark 100,000 dollars to establish a hero fund. THE PRICE OF CHAMPAGNE. London, February 19. An increase of thirty per cent, has been made in the price of champagne, due to the scarcity of recent grape crops. A BIG CONTRACT. London, February 19. Norton Griffiths has contracted for a reservoir at Taku costing £1,250,000. A MILLIONAIRE'S ESTATE. London, February 19. Lord Winterstoke's estate is valued at £1,000,000. VITAL STATISTICS. London, February 19. The birth rate in England and Wales for 1910 was 24.8, and the death rate 13.4. Both these figures are the lowest on record.