GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 111, 26 September 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

FATAL MILL FIRE. By Cable—Press Association-Copyright. New York, September 25. A fire destroyed the pi nut of the Puritan Mill* Company at St. Louis. Seven employees were fatally injured through jumping through a window. Two have died.

A JEWELLER POLSONED. London, September 24. Turnbull was poisoned. [A cablegram received the other day said that David Turnbull, a jeweller,(was found dead in his shop at Glasgow with a wound in the forehead. The safe had been blown up and house-breaking tools and cyanide of potassium were found near him. Tt was a mystery whether death was due to an explosion caused by his striking a light wlu-n entering to investigate noises, or whether he was poisoned.] A REBELLIOUS REGIMENT. Berlin, September 24.

The captain of the Foot CI nurds has been sentenced to a week's imprisonment, the sergeant to four months, and others to sentences varying from two days to three weeks. A STEAMER ASHORE. London. September 24. The steamer Hanau, bound from Hamburg to Sydney, is ashore in an exposed position at Ra'takola, Greece. LORD KITCHENER. London, September 24. Lord Kitchener has departed for Cairo. THE SALVATION ARMY. London, September 24. Commissioner Howard has succeeded j Mr. Bramwell Booth as chief of staff of I the Salvation Army. MOTOR FATALITIES. '' London, September 24. The increasing number of fatalities through motor-propelled vehicles is j arousing a demand for greater restrictions of speed. Ten people, were killed vesterday in London and the provinces.