GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 155, 29 December 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

GERMAN PAUPERS POISONED. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Berlin, December 27. A party of paupers at the municipal shelter have been poisoned. Already fifteen are dead. The cause is unknown. CONSERVATIVE VICTORY. Ottawa, December 27. The Conservatives are certain of victory in the Prince Edward Island elections in January. They have secured six seats unopposed. MURDER AND ARSON. London, December 27. Millstein and his wife, restaurant keepers, have been found stabbed and battered with a poker in Hanbury street, Spitalfields. It is .believed the house was used for faro gambling. The murderers put a feather-bed saturated with paraffin above the bodies and fired the house. MAIL BAGS ON FIRE. Rome, December 27. A fire was discovered among the mails of the P. and 0. Company's Isis when two hours from Brindisi. The outbreak was due to a short circuit. The ship returned to Brindisi and the brigade were all night extinguishing the flames. The Isis has sailed again. The English portion of the mail was not affected.

A FATAL PANIC. Berlin, December 27. During an entertainment in the east end of Berlin a cinematograph ignited. The operator's hands were burnt, and his cries of pain caused a panic among the audience, who rushed to the exits. Two children were killed and many seriously injured. KILLED BY A PET LION. London, December 27. Terence Barclay, son of a Norwich banker, died from the effect of wounds 1 inflicted by a pet lion. *UTT CASES FILLED WITH DYNAMITE. New York, December 27. At Mouslin, Pennsylvania, the police ' | arrested a stranger carrying a suit-case ! 1 filled with dynamite. The man refused 5 to disclose his identity. Another suit- ' case filled with dynamite was found in the barns of some contractors at Ro- '* Chester, Pennsylvania.