GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 188, 7 February 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

A SWISS REFEREN-JM. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. . Berne, February 5. As the result of a referendum, a majority of the voters accepted the Federal proposals for workmen's invalidity and accident insurance. SUNDAY OBSERVANCE. London, February 5. A message from Toronto Methodist Conference on the subject of Sunday observance was read in all Methodist churches in the Kingdom on Sunday . ICE BRIDGE COLLAPSES. Ottawa, February 5. The Niagara Falls ice bridge broke in the mild weather. Mr. and Mrs. Stanton, of Toronto, and a lad of seventeen years, were carried down the stream and drowned. Four others escaped to the shore in the nick of time. Had. the accident happened later hundreds wOuld have been imperilled, as the crowd was arriving for the' pUi'pose of venturing out on the ice bridge. JOSEPH'S WORKSHOP. Jerusalem, February 5. The Franciscans at Nazareth report the discovery of Joseph's workshop, covered by the remains of a Crusaders' church. CHARGE OF BLACKMAIL. " London, February 5. The Countess De Manin blackmail case has advanced another stage. Glendinning has been admitted to bail in £IOOO and Swing's trial has been postponed until April. Page was not allowed bail. | SEVERE GERMAN WINTER. Btrlin, February 5. | Twelve degrees below zero have been j recorded. Icebreakers were required to | release the cruisers at Kiel. DARING BURGLARY. Vancouver, February 5. ' Dynamiters blew up a safe in a butch- > er's store, at midnight, and escaped with I hundreds of dollars. LUNATIC ON A TRAIN. Ottawa, February 5. At Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, a lunatic boarded a, train on the Canadian Pacific east-bound railway, and shot a passenger named John Klundt, a land seeker, and then committed suicide. A man and his wife who had been previously threatened left the compartment at the previous station. COTTON VESSEL BURNED. New York, February 5. The British steamer, Consols, cotton j laden from Galveston for Hamburg, was ! burnt and sank south of Cape Henry. I A wireless message secured assistance. The crew were rescued and landed at i Newport by the British steamer Castleden.