HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13740, 23 May 1910, Page 7

HOME AND FOREIGN.

I United Prwse Asuociatioa—By Electrio • 1 Triesrapfe—Copyright. A HUGE OIL ENGINE. LONDON, May 20 The -Admiralty has ordered an oil «n----g- for Leith, of 10,000 horse-power, and if it .proves successful five others v.-ill be ordered. ■ TRAINING AdciDENT. LONDON. May 20. Allan "Woodman, a New Zealander, while training for a motor cycle race in the Islo of Man, fractured his log in a collision. WAGES AGREEMENT. NEW YORK, May 20. The Eiio .Railroad has adopted a ttages agreement with the conductors and trainmen, which is slightly under tho Baltimore scale. TERRIFIED HORSES. LONDON, May 21. Fifteen racers and steeplechasers in training at Henley escaped from a meadow through being frightened by a n:otor-car. The terrified and maddened animals rushed through Purley, Croydon, and Streatham, and a tramcar killed one. QUEEN OF SPAIN. MADRID, May 21. The Queen of Spain has given birth to a stillborn son. The condition of the mother is satisfactory. THE MARSEILLES STRIKE. PARIS. May 21. The Naval Reserves at Marseilles have abandoned the strike. FATAL THIJVDERSTORMS. (Received May 23rd, 12.50 a.m.) LONDON, May 22. Great thunderstorms have been experienced in tho Midlands and Southwest of England. Four men, and a child were killed in different localities. A NOTORIOUS CASE. ROME, May 21. Naumoff, Countess Tarnowska, and Prilukoff have been sentenced respectively to three, eight, and ten years' confinement. Perricr was acquitted. [Naumoff, a student, shot and. Rilled Count Kamarowski because of his infatuation for the Countess. Prilukoff, a lawyer, was said to be one of the dupes of tha Countess, and Perrier was her maid.]