GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 150, 21 December 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

C ATTLE-DRIV-INO IX IRELAND. By Cable —Press Association —Copyright. London, December 19. Twelve fanners have been arrested on charges oif cattle-driving arising out of seizures for rent on Lord Sligo's estate. UNITED STATES AND RUSSIA. Washington, Beceml)er 19. Mr. Taift, in a message to Congress, asks for the ratification or abrogation of the Russian treaty. RAILWAY IN LIQUIDATION*. New York, December 19. An application by the Westinghouse Airbrake Company of St. Louis, asking for the appointment of receivers for the Wabash railway, has .been granted. EX-PRIZE-FIGHTER SHOT. New York, December 19. Billy Smith, a former prize-fighter, quarrelled with the chief of police at St. Louis, who shot Smith, probably fatally. The chief recently married Smith's divorced wife. RACING MAN'S ESTATE. London, December 19. The estate of Mr. T. W. Jones, a well known Victorian racing man, has been sworn for probate at £102,500. FRAUDULENT TRADERS. Paris, December 19. Armand Quintand, a shopkeeper, and three accomplices have been arrested on a charge of defrauding British, French, and German firms of £IOO,OOO. They obtained goods on credit and sold them cheaply. HOBBLE SKIRT CONDEMNED. Paris, Decem'ber 19. The Minister of Commerce severely condemns hobble skirts, and states that if this style of dress is persisted in Paris will cease to be the centre of the fashions. RAILWIAY EMPLOYEE'S HEROISM. New York, December 19. Three persons are dead as the result of the suburban railway wreck at Kansas City. An employee named 1 Roscoe Agers, though his hands were burned to tlile bone, threw the fragments of a broken stone from a wrecked car, thus preventing the wreckage taking fire. His heroism saved dozens of lives. The accident was due to a collision between two trolley cars. ' ! FIRE AT CHICAGO. New York, December 19. A fire at Chicago destroyed the Board of Trade building, and frightened a thousand guests in throe hotels. A number of records of Chicago Federation of Labor were destroyed. Incendiarism is suspected. Guests at the Kaiserhof, Victoria, and Sanford hotels adjoining we re panic-stricken, but left the buildings safely. BANK HELD UP. Ottawa, December 19. Another bank hold-up was attempted at Vancouver by two masked men. A bank clerk named Gibbs, living on the premises of the Northern Crown Bank at Central Park, shot at the intruders, but missed them. The latter returned the fire, wounding Gibbs in the wrist. The men decamped. A DIVORCE CASE. London, December 19. Thomas Onniston Chant, civil engineer, who returned from New Zealand in 1908, has been granted a divorce with £2OOO damages against th 6 co-respond-ent, on the ground of his wife's misconduct with Captain Robert William Harling. . L. THE DELHI 'DOOMED. Tangier, December 19. The Delhi is gradually filling. The crew and forty cases 'of gold have been landed. MOVING PICTURES FOR SCIK^OLS. London, December 19. The Board of Education has decided to make grants for cinematograph displays at day continuation schools. LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL. London, December 19. Mr. Cyril Jackson has succeeded Mr. Hayes-Fisher in the leadership of the municipal reform party in the London County Council.