GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 156, 19 November 1912, Page 6

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

(Sydney Sun Special Service). CHILDREN AND ALCOHOL. RUSSIA'S AWFUL STATE. London, November 3. Statistics officially collected in the Moscow district of Russia sliriw that 90 per cent, of the adults who arc addicted to drink acquired the habit when- they were at school. Of 18,130 schoolboy's between the-ages of eight and thirteen years, 12,152, or roughly GG per cent., had taken to drinking vodka, while among girls the figures were less appalling, 4733 out of 10.404, or 45 per cent'., being regular drinkers. FIFTEEN CHILDREN. YOUNG MOTHER'S RECORD. New York, November 3. Mrs. Stephen Nageotto, a resident of Franklin, Philadelphia, has given birth to six children in little more than 13 months. The latest arrivals are three boys. In September, 1911, the woman also bore triplets (two girls and a boy), and in 12 years she has had 15 children. | ■ MOTOR LAUNCH DISASTER. CAPTAIN'S STRANGE ACT. San Francisco, November 3. • A motor launch named the Osprey, carrying a crew of four and two passengers, has been lost near North Bend, Oregon, and all its occupants drowned. | The accident happened during a vain attempt to steer the craft around the jagged north jettjr of Coos Bay bar. The little vessel was jambed against the rocks and 'dv^rtufned, 'She tried to make the bar'in the darkness of early morning, and in the teetli of a terrific gale. The tug Rescue noticed that the'dsprcy was in-difficulties, and the skjpper stood by, and after » gi'eat deal of strenuous effort managed to throw k line aboard. ' ;Acting like a maniac, Captain Johnson, of the motor boat,'threw the line aAvay, and,. fi . nipment, later his vessel overturned* 'and was swallowed up by the waters.

'An aj.iator, Mr. Silas ChristolTerson, flew out at daybreak and circled over tlie j6tty times in an attempt to 16cate the "bodies,' but lie was unsuccessful i; .. .. . < . . BROKEN UP. ' AX EXTRAORPINARY EECOVERY. ■ ;■ London, November 3; ' John (King, a . Yarmouth man, has had an' extraordinary experience. " In a vehicular rteqi.dent lie sustained compound ■ fractures of. the cjieek, jaw arid frontal !bbnea, shoulder blade and collarbone, and three ribs, as well as a-.miscellaneous assortment of inyinjr injuries, j : The doctors gave him two hours to lyve, but. he has entirely recovered. j | CITY OF THEATRES. NEW.,YORK'S PLAYHOUSES. -London, November 3. :New.York is. destined to-become the i greatest, theatre centre, in the world, j : At the: present time no fewer \tlian 18 \ new playhouses .are in the course of erection in: that city. . j ' ■ CHICAGO CRIME.' . ; STRANGLING OF SOPHIA SINGER. j i Chicago, Nevpmbor 3. , A sensational development lias , occurred in connection with the brutal murder ' 'oI Sophia' Singer, tlie young unmarried woman who :on; ; Tuesday was found strangled in ii Cliicagb rooming-house. ■; i Robbery was tlie motive of the crime, l as £9 in money and £2OO worth of ' jqwelley which the" victim' was known to b'e possessed of, was missing: . ■ 1 . j It now turns out that the other young I Woman, Beatrice Ryall, who was report- 1 ejd to have disappeared, and concerning \yhose fate some anxiety was felt, is the yife of Charies Conway, the professional tjigh divqr, for whom the police immediately: started, looking-after the discovery qf the murder.:. C,on way occupied a room ljot far from Miss Singer's apartments, ajnd bloo'd spots were found leading from one room to the other.: ' Conway and his 'wife. Were traced to Ohio, where they were arrested to-day on suspicion of being, implicated in the murder, The male prisoner admitted that he knew before' he left Chicago that Miss Singer had been killed, but strenuously denies, that' he had anything j to do with the crime.. Mrs. Conway is oh tlie stage, and Beatrice Ryall is the name by which she is professionally known. . I . WOOTTON'S WINS. , i London, November S. At Liverpool races, yesterday, Frank Wootton, the Australian jockey, had four mounts and recorded four wins. Two of the horses that lie steered to Victory were favorites and.. t.wp were outiiders. " ' •

• I BERNHARDT AND A BEAU. ; London, November 8. ■Madame Sarah Bernhardt, who is playing at a Liverpool theatre; had an exciting experience at the local menagerie yesterday. . She was playfully shaking, hands with a big bear, when the animal attacked her through the bars, and seized her furs, dragging the frightened actress close, up to the cage. He was beaten off after an exciting fight. SHAKY AZORES. ISLAND EARTHQUAKES. London, November 8. Repeated earthquake shocks are bein" felt in the Azores Islands. ° i The people are in a state of panic. Women rushed through the streets of the towns yesterday shrieking in terror, and some damage has been done. NILE IRRIGATION SCHEME. LAND FOR EGYPTIANS. London, November 8. Lord Kitchener, Consul-General in Egypt, yesterday initiated the scheme of irrigated land distribution now bein» carried out at the delta of the Nile. ° Altogether 610 feddars (about 633 acres) are distributed in five feddar lots to the landless fellaheen. For the first three years they have free possession of ,the land, during the following ten years they will he charged a moderate rental, and thereafter the land will be their own property for life. Alienation of the holdings is forbidden, unless with the' consent of the State. BACKING UP ~ BOBS." M.P.'s SCORCHING COMMENTS. London, November S. Mi. I*. E. Smith. K.C., M.P., made some severe comments yesterday upon the criticism to which Mr. F. D Xchind Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the

Foreign Office, while speaking at Taunton, had subject Lord Roberts' recent utterances regarding Britain's utiprcparedness for war. "A priggish underling of a man." said Mr. Smith, "who is not of the slightc.it account anywhere, has the insolence to lift his tiny little tongue and squirt his feeble litle venom over a man great Acland has been ever born."