GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 199, 11 January 1913, Page 6

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

DEMENTED LOVER'S FOLLY. REVENGE THAT RECOILED. San Francisco, December 27. In an attempt to destroy the house in which his sweetheart lived at Klamath Falls, Oregon, George Gowan met with a horrible fate yesterday. The man had become enraged because his sweetheart had told him she loved him no longer. This trouble, combined with the loss of his job, seemed to drive him mad. Gowan bought some dynamite, and entering the house of his'former sweetheart unseen, placed it near the foundations and exploded it. Part of the house was demolished, and Gowan wa s buried in the ruins. The others in the house were uinjured. Gowan was frightfully injured. His arms had been blown off, and his eyes had been torn out of his head, yet he was stili conscious. The rescuers'found him among the ruins, cursing hiedously. Two sticks of dynamite were still in his poeket.

Gowan was taken to the hospital, where an operation was performed, but he diod shortly afterwards.

TO FALLEN HEROES. RUSSIAN MEMORIAL IX GERMANY. Berlin, December 27. The Russian War Minister (General Sukhomlinoff) reaches Leipsie to-day, and will to-morrow officially open the memorial chapel erected to the memory of the Russians who fell in the war of 1813.

By the Czar's order, the Minister will a',so have an interview with the Kaiser. This was the campaign which followed on the disastrous retreat of the French army from Moscow. The Russians allied themselves with the Prussians, and, ic spite of the brilliant defence of Napoleon, invaded France and captured Paris. Napoleon then abdicated, and was placed on the Island at Elba. Napoleon suffered, perhaps, the mostf crushing defeat of Ins career at Leipsie. It has been called the Battle of Titans, and bejjan the downfall of Napoleon's fortunes, which was competed by the Battle of Waterloo.

PARROT OF LIEGE. TMITATES TRAITCONDUCTORS. London. December 27. Liege, the old-world Belgian city, has a parrot that is causing a great deal of amusement, and has a i so been responsible for an accident. The bird i s owned by some people who live in a house near a tram-car stop, and it has learned to imitate a conductor's whistle. While two people were entering a tram the parrot whistled, and the driver thinking that it was the conductor! started the car. The passengers were tin-own off and rather badly hurt.