GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 210, 11 March 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

STEAMER ABANDONED IN MIDOCEAN. By Cable—Press Association—Oopyright, London, March 8. The Mararra, bound from Leith to Valparaiso, was abandoned in midAtlantic. The crew were saved. CONVICTED OF SACRILEGE. St. Petersburg, March 8. Damazy Macoch has been sentenced to twelve years' penal servitude in connection with the robbery of churches at Genstochowa in 1909. Helene Macoch received a sentence of two years, Izydor Stacezewiski five years, and other accomplices sentences ranging from two months to two years. A CIRCUS TRAGEDY. Vienna, March 8. Two Germans, named Joser Krammer and Franz Kami, were killed in a circus at Fiume. Krammer's sister loosened a rope of a trapeze at a great height because Kann did not reciprocate her love. FATAL RAILWAY SMASH. New York, March 8. A train was wrecked on the Wabash railroad at Danville, Illinois. Five people were killed and many others are believed to be dying. Several were pinned beneath the wreckage. The cause of the disaster is unknown. FATAL MINE EXPLOSION. Ottawa, March 8. Seven men were killed by a gas explosion at the. Merritt mines,' British Columbia. Eleven men were entombed during the rescue operations through a cave-in occurring in the main shaft, but all escaped, managing to reach another level. > CANADIAN FARMERS AND RECIPROCITY. The graingrowers' organisation officially denies the report arising from United States sources that the Western Canada prairie provinces are particularly anxious to separate from the rest of the Dominion because of the defeat of the reciprocity scheme.

RUSSIA AND THE PANAMA CANAL. London, March 8. . The Pall Mall Gazette, in an article on Denmark's concession to a syndicate for developing at Saint Thomas a huge harbor, points out that Russian financiers, including a Danish princess, sister of Queen Alexandra, own the bulk of the stock, and declares the enterprise is intended to provide a Russian footing near Panama. ATTEMPTED LYNCHING. New York, March 8. At Jacksonville five negroes have been arrested, charged with the murder of a man named Silverstein and assaulting his wife. A mob of several thousands gathered and sought to lynch the negroes. The militia were called out and are now guarding the gaol. THE SEDDON TRIAL. London, March 8. Mr. Marshall Hall, in opening the defence of the Seddons, who are charged with the murder of Miss Barrow, stated that the prosecution liad failed to prove that the Seddons had possession of or administered arsenic. Seddon's daughter would give evidence that Miss Barrow had sent her' for fly-papers for domestic purposes. Miss Barrow was weak-minded, and possibly drank water in which fiy-papers had been immersed. Seddon's evidence is not completed. THE LATIN REPUBLICS. Monagua, March 8. ! Bitter newspaper attacks are directed against Secretary Knox because he declared himself unfriendly to the Latin j republics. Efforts are being made in official quarters to minimise the attacks.