GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 66, 5 August 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

i r —— A SHIP ON Frii !■:. Cable—Prea» Association—Copyright. San Frjunjss.o, A-.ignst 2. A fire broke o.it ou the passe: »er steamer J. A." Ki'.W. wfci'o oil' the coast on Wedn.Ml-.V )::_>ht. A few passengers were ■ ini ir ?i While an c>Jer was replenishing fuel in '.hj oil ,«t s ne-.slipped, and a five moke out. r, 'he ventilators fanned lII* Ma-.* «hi;-h enveloped tlie ship: The wireless opera,tor, while sending ,a i s for help, was driven trom the room >,y sn.ulcs and /sines, The crew worked ad 0.-Hc, and -hved the ship Jrom sinking, and s»e r-A.pul into Eureka. California. T\y> year.' ifo the Kilborn wis b.irnt to i lie vaterlino.

RAILWaY ACCIDENT. . — w York, August' 2. At Garrison, Montana, -seven railwaymen were killed through a day caboose and outfit car of .the Northern Pacific Railway Company pverturniing.

infantile paralysis. . , New York, August 2. ■One lm ndred and seventy-three cases of infantile -paralysis have occurred 1 at L-os Angeles, with tihi.rty4hree deaths. An edict issued excludes children under ten from playgrounds, and those under fifteen are forbidden to attcn-d' entertainments and Sunday-scOiods.

FLOODS IN NEVADA. New York, August. 2. iraflic and telegraphic communication with Reno ; Nevada, is interrupted by floods in Western Nevada-, attributed to cloudbursts. Several washouts have occurred on the railway, but it ,is not known whether any 'deaths have occurred.

BEAR BEEF IN CHICAGO. . New York, August- 2. Chicago report,? state that beef is at the highest price in the history of tihe city, {.he-cause bein scarcity 'of • land and excessive immigration.