GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 130, 23 November 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

RIVER CHANGES ITS COURSE. By Cable —Press Association—Copyright [ New York, November 21. j The Skagit river, Washington State,] suddenly changed its course. The floods cut a new cliannel, almost where surveys had been made for the new channel contemplated by the United States Government. A million dollars were thus saved. VITAL STATISTICS. London, November 21. Births in England and Wales for the third quarter of 1911 were 22,601 and the deaths 140,956. The birthrate was the lowest on record. HIGH TRICES FOR BIBLES. London, November 21. At the sale of the Huth library a Mazarin Bible realised £SBOO, a first edition Bible with date, printed at Mainz in 1462, brought £3050. A Flemish manuscript poor man's Bible realised £6OO. MILITARY AIRMEN. London, November 21. The balloon company of the London Territorials is being trained in aeroplaning. A MOTOR MAN KILLED. New York, November 21. At Savannah, J. McKay was killed owing to his motor car overturning on the racing track where he was practising for the Vanderbilt Cup. Three others were badly hurt. EXPLOSION IN A POTASH MINE. Berlin, November 21. By a premature blast an a potash mine, at Kleinbodungen, sixteen miners were buried. Eleven dead bodies have been recovered. POISONED BY TAINTED MEAT. Paris, November 21. Seventy sailors and two officers, who had partaken of tainted meat, have heen removed to the hospital at Toulon. EARTH TREMORS. New York, November 21. New Orleans reports that earth tremors were recorded at a distance of three thousand miles in a south-easterly direction. PANIC IN A THEATRE. Paris, November 21. Hooligans started a lire panic at the Aloazar Theatre and the exits were jammed. The hooligans wrecked the refreshment bare, adding to the stampede. The balustrades yielding to pressure, many persons were precipitated into the stalls, others jumped from windows. Twenty persons were injured.

COWBOYS FIRE INTO A CHURCH. New York, November 21. At Muskogee, Okkhama, two cowboys rode up to a church during service, and firing through the windows shot out the lights. Members of the congregation crouched on the floor for safety. Afterwards the men of the congregation secured rifles and pursued the cowboys, but without success.