GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 79, 20 August 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

A LUNATIC PASSENGER. By Cable—Pre.s» Association—Copyright, Berlin, August 18. A youth, apparently a lunatic, attacked three ladies with a long knife in a suburban train, and stabbed them seriously. The alarm cord was pulled, but ho escaped. | A HORSE'S PERFORMANCE. | Paris, August 18. I The Australian horse Biskra, a I thoroughbred, tied (clearing 7ft. Oin.) | with V ittelj beating Conspirateur'a rej cord. j SIR GEORGE REID IN CANADA. i Ottawa, August 18. Sir George Reid/'who is touring in Canada, spoke at the dedication of the Memorial Tower in Nova Scotia. THE MINAPUR CONSPIRACY. Calcutta, August 18The High Court exonerated Mr. Weston and two policemen, who were, charged witii the Minapur conspiracy, and dismissed the suit against them for damages of about £20,000. LOS ANGELES OUTRAGE. New York, August 18. Clarence Barrow, a Chicago lawyer, after a four months' trial at Los Angeles on a charge of bribing jurors in the Jk'Namara dynamiting case, baa been acquitted. AN INTERRUPTED MASS. Vienna, August 18. liefmann Pxing, a lunatic, stabbed Dr. Prlugen, the bishop, in the shoulder, but not seriously, as he was proceeding to church to celebrate high mass on the Emperor's birthday. GERMAN SOCIALISTS. Berlin, August 18. There are 224 Socialist members of the various Diets. The income of the party was £845,000, of which the Reichstag 'election expenses absorbed £45,500. The party issues 89 newspapers, with, a circulation of 1,478,042. ILLUMINATING SHELL. Copenhagen, August 18. Jourgenson, a Danish artillerist, lias invented and tested .an apparatus for throwing a shell to a height of a thousand feet, and then, when it bursts, casting a brilliant light over the countryside for two minutes, enabling the discovery of a niglrt attack. A WOULD-BE EARL. London. August 18. A paper-bag maker of Manchester, named Colclough. is claiming the earldom of Newburgh. The estates are worth £0,000.000.

I AERONAUTICS. | Paris, August 18. [ Piloted by Gaubert, Lieut. Scott won £2OOO at Mourihelon by dropping twelve [out of fifteen bombs within a sixty-five feet circle from a height of 650 feet. WHARF COLLAPSES. New York. August 18. Tho steamer Newp'drt was lying at the wharf at Balbao, Panama, when the dock slieds unaccountably collapsed over the vessel, forcing her under water. All aboard were saved. UNION LINER LAUNCHED. London, August 18. Mrs. Borden launched the Union Shipping Company's new steamer Niagara at Clydebank She will be able to burn oil or coal. Mr-Borden, in a speech at the luncheon, said that lines of steamships were the arteries •of the Empire and must be made safe. He hoped the Niagara was the foretoken. of .much greater development betweeft Canada and Australia. BLACKMAILERS ARRESTED. London, August 18. Graham and Crawley were charged with having a bogus marriage, in an underground room at Seaford', by marrying Evangeline Healey to F, Bannering. Crawley, passing as a clergyman, read the service, antl Graham as a solicitor. They secured signatures to two promissory notes for twenty pounds apiece, pretending they were certificates. After the marriage Crawley and Graham attempted blackmail. Suspicions were aroused and they were arirested. RUSSIA AND FRANCE. Paris. August 18. M. Sazonoff. Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, will visit London as a sequel to M. Poincare's visit to St. Petersburg.