GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 106, 25 October 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

j JACK JOHNSON, CROCKERY SMASHER. ( By Cable—Press Association—Copyright I London, October 23. I His landlady recovered damages from Jack Johnson for smashing crockery and furniture. The defence pleaded it was fair near and tear. I EXPLOSION IN A MINE. New York, October 33. At Harrisburg coal mine nine men were killed and ten injured by the explosion of a keg of powder and an ensuing cave-in of coal. The fact that the men were chaging shifts when the explosion occurred saved many lives. Afteridamp accounted for several deaths. Fifteen are imprisoned deep in the workings. SETTLEMENT IN CANADA. Ottawa, October 23. The Duke of Sutherland, with a number of Canadian capitalists, is forming a syndicate to promote the immigration of English and Scottish farmers to the North-West. Two thousand dive hundred acres have been purchased in Alberta. A.NEGRO LYNCHED. i New York. October 23. !A! negro named Suddeth was lynched at Coweta, Oklahoma, for insulting a white woman. He shot the city attorney dead before being captured. A race war is threatened. A SUDDEN DEATH. New York, October 23. John R. Walsh, railroad man and publisher, who was imprisoned for misappropriation of funds and released a week ago, died suddenly at Chicago from heart disease. A CHARGE OF MURDER. London, October 23. At the inquest at Kidsgrove into the death of Mrs. Weir and her children, who were supposed to have been killed by tramps, the verdict the jury found was that Karl Kramer, a German who was arrested on suspicion, was guilty of murder.

A STEAMER WRECKED. Paris. October 23. The steamer Gorges has been wrecked at the mouth of the River Gironde. Fifteen persons were drowned. THE OSBORXE CASE. London, October 23. Litigation in the case Osborne v. Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, referring to plaintiff's expulsion has been terminated by arrangement. A XEW MARINE EXGIXE. London. October 23.. The Werry engines passed the Admiralty's shop trials and are being placed aboard the Australia's pinnanee for sea trials. CRYSTAL PALACE. , ; London, October 23. A meeting at the Mansion House decided 'to purchase the Crystal Palace for the nation. The Lord Mayor is issuing an appeal to the local authorities.' HOOLEY IX TROUBLE. London. October 23. Mr. E. T. Hooley has been remanded on bail on a charge of obtaining from , George Tweedale. of Rochdale. £2OOO in connection with the sale of an estate, falsely representing it as unburdened.