General Cables

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 43, 11 July 1914, Page 5

General Cables

AMERICAN MURDER MYSTERY. Times ami Sidney tSun Services. New York, July 9. Mrs. Carmen has been arrested in connection with the supposed murder o1 Mrs. Bailer, who was found shot in Dr Carmen's Biirgery. Received 10, fI.S p.m. New York, July lit. Tliere is a revulsion of feeling in America in favor of Mrs. Carman. It is considered that she was intimidated by Detective Burns. The sheriff who arrested her wept as he apologised for doing ii MAORI OJHEFS RETURNING. Received 10, 9.50 p.m. London, July 10. Th» Maori chiefs return hy the OtVOLCANOES IN ALASKA. Xeeeived 10, 0.20 p.m. Seward (Alaska), July 10. All the volcanoes in the Alaskan Pen»sula ere active. Mt. Katmas is throwng out lava and dust, and discoloring the sea for a hundred miles around. Mts. Sishaldin and Pavlof are venting nimiee in huge quantities. ANARCHISTS IN FRANCE. Received 10, 10.40 p.m. Paris, July 10. Tour Russians, whose names were 'omul in the documents on Trojanovski, ivere arrested. One is said to belong io a titled Russian family. It has been suggested that the bomb-camera are igents-provocateurs.

PRISONERS PLAY UP. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 10, 5.5 p.m. New York, July 10. Forty convicts at Blackwall prison mutinied. Tliey hurled dishes and furniture at the warders, four of whom were seriously hurt before the outbreak was suppressed. A CADET CHAMPION. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 10, 5.5 p.m. London, July 10. Lord Roberts, after his inspection of cadets expressed gratification that General Sir lan Hamilton, as a result of < his personal investigation of the Australasian defence scheme, had changed lug Mind, and now approved of universal training in England. MILITARY IN NEW SOUTH WALES. Received 10, 8 p.m. Sydney, July 10. This year's drafts of senior cadets to the militia bring the total of the latter to 50,447. QUARANTINE REGULATIONS. Received 10, 8 p.m. Sydney, July 10. In connection with the smallpox, the Quarantine Department has decided to issue surveillance forma, similar to those in New Zealand, to passengers travelling on inter-State steamers. A RECORD BUTTERFLY. Receiver 10, 8 p.m. Sydney, July 10. Mr. Meek, collector at Papua for Mr. Walter Rothschilds' museum, is visiting Sydney. Amongst his prizes he has captured the largest butterfly in the world, a Triodes Alexandra, 11% incres across the wings. It is such a high flier that it has to 'be shot with a gun. NBW MACHINE-GUN. Ke«eived 10, 8 p.m. Melbourne, July 10. Caldwell, an engineer, has invented a new machine-gun, which can be regulated to fire flrom one to 1000 shots a minute. It ean be handled by one man, and can be taken apart in fifteen seconds. It only has eighty-four pieces, as compared with the Maxim's eleven hundred. NEW ZEALANDER'S DEATH. London, July 0. James Mathieson, of Dunedin, a well-known stock dealer, was found drowned at Felixstowe. He had been staying at the Kenilworth Hotel. Loudon, where a doctor diagnosed a clot on the brain. At the inquest an open : verdict was returned.

POLAR TIMES. London, July !). The South Polar Times, an intimate record of Captain Scott's expedition indicating the warmth of their camaraderie, has been published. The edition lias hecn limited to 350 copies. BOMBS FOR FRENCH PRESmEXT. Paris. -Inly n. The police have definitely ascertained (hat the bombs of Kierichek and Trojanovsky were intended for President Poincare, who is visiting Pontoise ne.\t Sunday. Four more arrests have been effected.