GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 109, 24 September 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

MAX-CATCHERS RjR MOTORS. By Cable—Press Association-Copyright. London, September 22. Successful experiments 'nave been made at Brooklunda with a G erwan invention in tile shape of it- man-c.'itcher for motor cars, to prevent injury to pedestrians. SAMOS AND GREECE. Athens, September 22. Three hundred and lii'ty Cretans, eluding the cruisers Medea and Bruix, landed at Santos, and are iiiaruiiiug on Vathy, hoping to overthrow tile Turkish garrison and proclaim the union of Samois with Greece. A DEATHBED CONCESSION.. New York, September 22. At Huntingdon, Indiana, Mrs. John Epps, who has served 23 years' imprisonment on a charge oi murdering her husband, lias been vindicated. Henry Epps on his deathbed hiated that he poisoned his brother at Gary, Indiana.

A LLEIIO. New York, September iH2. William Hugh, «, newsboy, permitted the amputation of his crippled Jo£ for skin grafting on Miss Ethel Smith, a girl whom he had never even seen. The doctors said that she would not recover from burns without skin to cover the wounds. THE PRISON NEWSPAPER. London, September 22. Tile prison newspaper, which is to bo entitled The Compendium, will be supervised by the Comptroller-General of Prisons. It will not be of the nature of a tract, but will contain the news of the day. There will be no leaders and nothing political, secretarian, or controversial. It will publish suitable poetry. DIVORCE IN PRUSSIA. Berlin, September 22. Statistics show that the divorces granted in Prussia rose from (>BOO in 189!) to 14,G00 in 1911. Twenty per cent, of the births in Berlin, and nearly 30 per cent, of those in Munich, were illegitimates.

A FARMER ROBBED. London, September 22. Josephine Thompson, aged 21, has been arrested for having robbed Henry Edgar Depiere, au Australian farmer, o? £175 in bank notes in a London street. THE PERSIAN REBELLION. . Teheran, September 22. Salar-ed-Dowleh lias evacuated Kermanshali, which the Government troops have occupied. EXPLOSION IN A MOSQUE. Constantinople, September 22. A bomb exploded in a mosque at Akchitschelebei. It is reported fifty were killed. PANIC IN A SYNAGOGUE. St. Petersburg,. September 22. A panic occurred in the synagogue at Terespol, Poland. A lighted lamp overturned and the flaming oil spread into the women's section, which was crowded with worshippers. Four were crushed to death awl twenty-three were injured. SLIP ON MATN TRUNK LTNE. Taihape, Monday. A slip on the Main Trunk line between Ilihitahi and Ngarukehu delayed the express for about two houw. DEATH OF A CENTENTARIAN. Dunedin, Monday. Obituary: Hector McKirmon, a Highlander, of Cavei'sham. aged 105 years.