GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 278, 16 April 1913, Page 6

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

•MARRIED HER NEGRO BUTLER. SOCIETY LEADER OSTRACISED. DIVORCED WOMAN'S '.TRAGIC END. (Sydney "Sun." Special Service.) London, April 2. Terribly tragic is the story that comes from St. Luuis (U.S.), of the fate that has. just overtaken a society leader in that pity, Mrs. Gerhart, Little more than a fortnight ago, Mrs. Gerhart ; figured .in the divorce court, when her husband secured a decree for the dissolution of their marriage. Fifteen days' later ail St. Louis was startled by the announcement that the city's well-known society leader had actually married a negro who had been in her service as a butler. The grave social offence she hart committed was soon brought home to her. Her friends would have nothing to do with her, and she found herself completely banished from society. Realising then the degradation to which she had beeji reduced bv her illconsidered marriage,' Mrs. Gerhart fled from her home. The negro . promptly followed lier, and finding that there was no escape from the man to whom she had tied herself the unhappy woman ended her life yesterday by taking a dose of poison. ELOQUENT AND PATRIOTIC. GREAT SPEECH BY MR. WATT. London, April 2. Earl Grey presided at a luncheon at which Mr. Watt, Premier of Victoria, was entertained to-day at the Royal Colonial Institute. Mr. Watt made a magnificent speech, with which lie completely captured the large and distinguished gathering that assembled to do him honour. Earl Grev described the speech as one of the most vigorous, eloquent, patriotic, and instinctively Imperial deliverances he had ever heard. Incidentally Mr. Watt urged the London Press to devol 3 morn space to Australian news. Mr. Watt will bi Ihe pr'neinal speaker at the Empire Day celebrations at the Royal Albert Hall. VICTORIA'S COURT LIFE. A SENSATIONAL BOOK. • ' London, April 2. A book that has just m:ide its appearance under the title of "The Court Life of Queeu h;\s created a great sensation in socie'ty eirclea. London papers are reproducing some of the more startling statements contained in the new work. It is declared that the Prince Consort dominated the Queen, and imported German ideas into the relations between the Crown and Ministers. The author further asserts that Prince Albert, if he had not died as early as he did, would have precipitated a struggle between the throne and the peonle. The hook has been published bv Evoleigh Nash. HUNGER STRIKERS. . TO BE LET OUT Otf LICENSE. S ' ' 4 London, April 2. Mr. McKenna, the Hotrf Secretary, introduced a Bill into the House of Com-. moijs to-day to authorise the release of hunger-strikers, provided they were of good behaviour otherwise. The measure also stipulates that if offences with .which prisoners were charged' were repeated, the practice of forcible feeding would be reemployed as soon as they were again in custody. GERMANY'S AERIAL SCHEMES. BRITAIN AND NEW FACTS. London, April 2. The "North German Gazette" praisos the discretions shown bv the British newspapers in dealing with army aviation in their own country, and expresses a hope that the German Press will be similarly discreet in its -eferences to military matters in the Fatherland. WOMEN'S UGLY FACES. DUE TO WEARING VEILS. London, April 2. Sir John Cocklmm. lecturing before the members of the Royal Sanitary Institute yesterday, advocated a crusade against the wearing of veils by women. He claimed that the fearful grimaces that women were in the Vibit of making tb keep, their veils in no'ition. were a

deterioration to the features. 1 A £20,000 MQUEST. GIFT TO SALVATION ARMY. London, April 2. The late Miss Emery, an American lady who lived in London,, has left a bequest of £20,000 to the Salvation Army for work airing women and girls in foreign countries. A LAKE OF SODA. DISCOVERY IX EAST AFRICA. London, April 2. An Italian scientist reports that Lake Magadi, in East Africa, consists of pure soda. : i The' surface of the lake, which covers an area of thirty square miles, is perfectly solid and dazzingly white. With the completion of the railway Hne tlwt is now being built, facilities will be provided that will enable the world to.be supplied with soda. NAVIGATION' ACT. • ' London, April 2. The Imperial authorities arc disposed to recommend the disallowance of the Australian Navigation Act unless the measure is amended in some particulars. WIRELESS TELEPHOXY. 1 London. April 2. An Italian engineer has succeeded by wean* of wirelcs* telephony in speaking from Rome to Tripoli. srx SHOT DOWN'. FURTOUS FIGHT XEAR XEW YORK. New York. April 5. A street riot at Aubnni. near New York yesterday, resulted in six being shot by the police. " The-crowd made an attack on the plant of the Columbian Rope Co., and were met by the police, who made a baton charge. Two strikers were fatally hurt. • The Mayor called out the militia and the fire department. The mob, which had been temporarily routed, reformed in front nf 'ilie factory. The police down again, and seized the strikers* leader. A counter-charge was made at once, and the man literally torn from the hands of the police. The police then fired a volley over the heads of the mob. but it bad 110 rjnifienino- effect. The order was then siven to fire straight nt (he people. Two women and four "men dropped to the jrte'nd. alt badly wounded, two fatally. The strikers' however, seemed to lie Absolutely careless of deatli. Thev rushed upon the police again, throwing

handsful of salt into their eyes. The police withdrew behind the mill-gates iu order to avoid shedding more blood.

The strikers then tried to tear the gates down, but the firemen hail fixed the hoses, and drove the infuriated people oil' by squirting powerful streams of water in their faces. The militia, who had been called out, gradually restored order through the town. MILITANTS AROUSED. PANKII.URST PARTY FURIOUS. London, April 4. The more militant of the suffragettes have been aroused to fury by the sentence of three years passed upon Mrs. Pankhnrst, and threaten to make strong reprisals. One of the leaders declared to-day that human life would no longer he respected. : Speaking in Glasgow lust night, Mrs. Johns said that the militancy of the 'past was the merest pinprick compared with what would happen almost immediately, There would, she averred, be a reign of terror throughout the country. Scotland Yard has been stirred into activity by these threats, and the police everywhere are taking extra precautions against the perpetration of outrages. At a meeting held under the auspices of the Worn ens Social and Political 'Union, Miss Kennedy appealed to those who were indignant at Mrs. Pankhurst's severe punishment, to come forward .within forty-eight hours prepared to prove by deeds the genuineness of their indignation. They wanted deeds, not words. It was always the law-breakers |who "made things go." and because Mrs. /Pankhnrst had been imprisoned the wo■;men who supported her were not going /to sit like sheep until sh was released. iTheir militancy would continue even more furiously than over. HELPING GERMAN ARMY. BRITISHERS IN FATHERLAND. London, April 5. The tterman armament levy includes lall British subjects who are following profitable occupations in Germany. It Vvas originally intended that they should !be exempt, hut the temptation to mulct them was irresistible. PORTUGUESE 'PRISONERS. 'HOW ROYALISTS ARE TREATED. London, April 5. Lady Bedford, in a letter to tlie "Times," draw a horrifying picture of the barbaric treatment of political prisoners in Portugal. Two gallant royalist soldiers, she writes, were imprisoned in cells so small that they were forced to kneel. They were denied the consolations of religion. Their eyes regarded the visitors with •an indescribable pathos, imploring help. INFLUENZA IN LONDON. ALARMING EPIDEMIC. London. April 5. The influenza epidemic in London is assuming alarming proportions, the death rate from the malady having trebled during March. The Health Oll'ice is offering to disinfect. in a scientific way, the rooms occupied by patients. ' , MORE FLOODS IN OHIO. TORNADO UPSETS TRAIN. London, kpril 5. Additional rains have caused further floods in Ohio Valley. A tornado swept along the valley of the Missouri test night..' A goods train at a siding, was blown bodily from the rails. PADEREWSKI IN POLAND. CENSORING THE BOUQUET. London, April 5. ; , An extraordinary incident was witnessed during one'of the series of concerts that Padercwski is now gfvin» in Poland. " The famous pianist is in his native land, and his countrvmen have been manifesting the most intense enthusiasm over liis performances. In Warsaw yesterday evening Paderewski met with a tremendous reception. Several of the, audience brought bouquets and wreaths of red and white flowers, decorated with amaranth streamers, but as these are the Polish colours the Ru«iiin police seized the floral tributes and cit off the streamers before allowing the (lowers to be handed up to the platform. < • FLASH-LAMP DANCING. NEW YANKEE CRAZE. London, April 5. Dancing in the dark is the latest faslnonahle diversion of the exclusive circles, of Washington. The dangers carry red electric flashlamps, which they turn on now and then, ami the gaiety usually lasts till davlight, when a breakfast of scrambled eggs and sausages is served.