HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 13474, 14 July 1909, Page 7

HOME AND FOREIGN.

CABLE NEWS.

United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. THE LATE EARL OF RIPON. LONDON, July 12. King Edward has offered Lord Ripon (formerly Earl do Grey) his sympathy on the occasion of the death of his "excellent and distinguished father," the Marquis of Ripon. THE MAFIA. A Mafia gang threw a bomb, -without doing any damage, at Mr , Whittaker'a residence at Palermo, where King Edward and Queen Alexandra were lately entertained. Mr Whittaker had refused to pay blackmail to the Mafia. PERSIA. (Received July 13th. 10.30 p.m.) TEHERAN, July 13. * The Shah is negotiating with the Nationalists westward of Teheran on lines which the foreign Legations consider reasonable. BOILER EXPLOSION. LONDON, July 13. A boiler in the United States cruiser North Carolina, lying off Naples, buret and killed an officer named Stewart. PRINCE BULOW'S SUCCESSOR. There are indications that Herr yon Hollweg (Minister for the Interior) will bd Prince Bulow's successor. AN M.P.'S TOUR. Mr William Crooks, M.P. for Woolwich, sails on 10th September to spend three weeks in Canada and several weeks in Australia, starting back at the end of December. Hβ hopes to dearn something of the spirit of the peoples overseas.

[Mr Crooks, burly and blunt, a man of tho people who has experienced the hard lot of the poor, is a well-known figure in the House of Commons. There can be no doubt that when Mr Crooks goes on his lengthy voyage abroad Poplar will be inconsolable (says "M.A.P."). By tho good people of that district he is regarded as almost a father, and many are the stories told concerning the veneration in which he 13 held. But there is at least one man. in Poplar who is somewhat disappointed in Mr Crooks. This worthy went about his house one day sulkily muttering: "Wot's the good o' Crooks? 'B ain't no good!" "Wot yer talkin' abahtP W'y ain't 'c no good?" asked his wife. "Well," replied the grumbler in disgust, "it's three weeks that our sink's been stopped ,up an' 'c ain't been rahnd to see about it yet!"] THE SUFFRAGISTS. The Suffragists who took part in the stone-throwing on the 29th were fined, with the alternative of terms of imprisonment of a month and six weeks. The Magistrate intimated that in future offenders would be imprisoned and not fined. ANOTHER COLLIERY DISASTER. MADRID, July 13.. An explosion at Hc-lmaz, near Cordova, entombed many miners. Seventeen bodies have been recovered, and forty-two men have been rescued. CHOLERA IN RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG, July 13. The cholera in the Russian provinces is spreading.