GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 139, 30 October 1912, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

JL'ST IX TIME. A FORTUXE THAT ARRIVED. (Australian Cable Service). •Chicago, October 23. Worn out and discouraged, by the struggle for existence, a charwoman named Mrs. Effie Bender was about to commit suicide, when the news was conveyed to her that she had been left a fortune of £50,000 by a former suitor. The poor woman could not bear to leave her children uncared for, and'she wrote to a. friend of other days, Mrs. ■Helen Potter, asking her to look after the little ones.

Mrs. Potter was a sister of Mrs. Bender's old sweetheart, and she rushed to the charwoman's home and told Her of her glorious fortune.

MEDICAL SCIENCE,

FUTURE OF PATHOLOGY,

London, October 23. Sir James Goodhart, the famous surgeon, lecturing before the College of Thysicians, said that pathology was constantly on the move.

The latest phase of the science concerned itself with the functions of the body. A morbid function might cause ft structural change, and the future of pathology must be physical. The outcome must be the result of n* periment and more experiment.

LUMBERMAN AXD PKIXCESS.

CHASED ACROSS AMERICA.

New York, October 23.

Unable to subdue his infatuation for the Princess Sophia, a daughter of the Prince and Princess Gargarin, of the. Russian nobility, Graham 11. Wilson, a young lumberman from Portland, Oregon, is disconsolate here, while the object of his affections, whom he followed across the continent, is homeward bound. As the steamer America, of the Ham-burg-American line, was about to sail, the Princess' mother discovered that her daughter was missin?. She was found standing on the wharf talking earnestly to Wilson, who had traced her to the city to bid her a Inst good-bye. Wilson met his inamorata some weeks ago in the Yosemitc Valley in California, where he rescued her from a perilous position and immediately lost his heart to the young Russian. To the pressmen he had nothing to say, except that he intended to go to Russia • 009.

ALPINE TRAGEDIES. Berne, October 23. The toll of human life exacted by the mountains of Central Europe is shown by a report just issued by the Swiss Alpine Club.

According to this statement, 133 persons were killed during thu last year while making mountain ascents.

AMERICAN ELECTION GRAFT. New York, October 23. Mr. Elmer Dover, formerly assistant secretary of the Republican National Committee, has submitted to the legal enquiry an alleged duplicnlo list of contributors to the funds of the 1907 Presidential campaign. In this list the financier, Mr. G. W. Perkins, is down for .650,000. Mr. Pierpont Morgan for £30,000, Mr. Chauneev Depew, Mr. Harriman and Mr. Geo. Gould for £20,000 each, and several others for 6maller amounts.