GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 231, 28 March 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

SKI EUXXERS OVERWHELMED. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Vienna, March 20. An .alanche buried eleven ski excursionl; . at Hochschneeburg. • Seven corps .-, have been recovered. Another party was overcome by an avalanche at Stoinerteimeer and two. killed. MEAT PACKERS ACQUITTED. New York, March 2fi. At Chicago, ten packers who were tried for violating the criminal sections ■of the Sherman anti-trust law were found not guilty, after the jury had deliberated for nineteen hours. The case had lasted several years. THE KAISER IX ITALY. Rome, March 26. King Emmanuel visited the Kaiser aboard the Hohcnzollern at Venice. THE REJECTED ALDERMAX. London, March 26. Sir Thomas Brook Hitehings, who was recently elected alderman for Farrington Ward, but declared by the Court of Aldermen to be unfit for office, has withdrawn his candidature. He alleges that Iris case was prejudged by the Court of Aldermen, and that he was the victim of a conspiracy to rob him of the aldermanship.

A MANIAC'S CRIME. Ottawa, March 26. At Vancouver an insane Swede -who was firing a revolver indiscriminately was ordered by a policemen to cease. The Swede replied by killing the policeman on the spot. A squad of police surrounded the cabin where the Swede barricaded himself and riddled the structure with bullets. The Swede was found inside dying from wounds. THE DEVELOPMENT OP SKYSCRAPERS. Sydney, March 27. The Fire Brigade Commissioner's report views with alarm the increased heights of the buildings in Sydney, some of which are twice as ]\-,</h as the longest escapes. He feared that Sydneymight develop skyscrapers, which had caused great loss of life in Xew York.