GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 321, 10 July 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

A HOlililliLE ACCIDENT. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright, j St. Petersburg, July 8. •Sixty workers? who were sleeping in the sheds at the Lipesk sugar factory were burned to death. TERRIFIC ELECTRIC STORM. Sew York, July 8. A terrific electric storm lias struck Chicago. Lightning struck twelve houses and floods invaded the basements. The storm relieved the heat wave. No lives wero lost. FATAL DYNAMITE*EXPLOSION. New York, July 8. An explosion of dynamite at the Nevada Consolidated Copper Company's mine at Ely killed nine men.. MEMORIAL TO MR. STEAD. London, July 8. A movement ia on foot to erect a journalists' memorial to the late Mr. W. T. Stead. Ml. CHAMBERLAIN. London, July 8. Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, who is in London, was the recipient of hundreds of congratulatory 'telegrams from alt parts of the Empire on the occasion of his seventy-sixth birthday. The tariff reformers are organising a shilling Chamberlain birthday fund. A CANCER CURE. Berlin, July 8. Professor Weiner, of Heidelberg University, reports that he has eradicated cancer by injections of choline from animals. He declares that he has treated fifty-six persons in the hospital, with beneficial results in every case.