GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 65, 7 September 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

! TRAINS COLLIDE. j By Cable —Press Association—Copyright, j I New York, September 3. I I In a collision of freight trains at the ] I docks on the Junction, Erie railway, It two passengers, a tramp and an engineer, were killed and employees seri- I ously injured and passengers hurt. I " PREVENTING CONSUMPTION. London, September 5. Sir James Cricliton-Brownc, at the Sanitary Inspectors' Conference, questioned whether the large expenditure on sanitoria proposed under the Insurance Billi might not be more profitably employed in improving the housing of the people, as prevention was more important than cure. AN ACTIVE VOLCANO. Vancouver, September 5. Mt. Payloff, in the Aleutian Islands, is active. Smoke has been observed arising from the crater, and fine dust fell on passing ships. A BLOODTHIRSTY BRIGAND. Constantinople, September 5. A notorious Austolian brigand named i Tcharkirdjali, in the neighborhood of Mirmarico, assassinated several peasants suspected of divulging his movements. The Government has sent a Circassian officer and a hundred volunteers <to kill or capture him. DANGEROUS LINES. London, September 5. Evidence at the inquest upon the victims in the tramway accident at Lewisham showed that the line was choked with, sand for two yards. A verdict of accidental death was given, and the jury added a rider that grea/ter attention / should be paid to clearing rails at junctions and curves. LORD GLADSTONE'S TOUR. Capetown, September 5. Lord Gladstone was cordially welcomed at Bulawayo. MOTOR RECORD. New York, September 5. Bitrman put up a world's motoring record. With a flying start he covered one mile on a circular track in 42.025ec. at the Brighton Beach motordrome.