GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 253, 4 March 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

CRIPPLING THE PAPERS. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright, New York, March 2. Chicago papers are publishing fourpage papers, owing to the printers being out on strike. SAVINGS BANK ROBBED. New York, March 2. Joseph (!. Robin, a former president of the Washington Savings Bank, has pleaded guilty to the indictment charging him with the larceny of £27,000. THE SMALLPOX OUTBREAK. London, March 2. Cases of smallpox are reported at Ashton-under-Lyne, and three cases at Stalybridge. A BORDER RUFFIAN. Calcutta, March 2. Hakim Khan, who was killed by a British force under General Roos Keppel, had long terrorised the Abazzi border. ATTEMPTED BOMB OUTRAGE. Calcutta, March 2. A Bengali youth threw a bomb at a motor car in which Mr. Cowley, public works engineer, was riding. The bomb did' not explode. LEEDS PRINTERS' DISPUTE. London, March 2. The conference of the Provincial and Irish Master Printers' Federated Unions at Leeds agreed to a universal fifty-one hours per week, operating in May. The settlement is subject to the unions' approval. REDUCED TOBACCO DUTY. Calcutta, March 2. The import duty on tobacco has been reduced by one-third. CUTTING DOWN EXPENSES. New York, March 2. j Owing to the shrinkage of business the Lake Shore Railroad Company, of Cleveland, has dismissed 10 per cent, of | its working force.

ELECTION ANIMOSITIES. New York, March 2. The Senate voted that Senator Lorimer had been legally elected. Senator Lorimer, who was involved in allegations of election bribery, was snubbed by Mr. Roosevelt during the recent electoral campaign. "GRAFT" IN 'FRISCO. New York, March 2. An application for reviewing the charge against Abraham Rucf, the former boss of San Francisco, has been refused, and Rnef must serve bis sentence of fourteen years in prison. A SPEECH RESENTED. New York, March 2. Reports from New Orleans state that Zelaya, ex-President of Nicaragua, has issued a statement accusing the Taft Government of having shamelessly said that the recent rebellion should be a warning to the Latin American States that the United States intends to seize the Central American republics. A BOMB EXPLOSION. New York, March 2. The front of a tenement house on the East Side, where the Italian colony resides, was blown out by a bomb, anil thirty persons were injured.