MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13902, 29 November 1910, Page 7

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

United Presa Association—By Electrio '•"elejjr tpb—Copyright. The American Federation of Labour unanimously endorsed the principle of ■women's suffrage. Gray's score has reached 4000. ■ including a break ot 010. Nelson lia.s made- 2113. Moran, at A>an Francisco, knocked out "Battling" Nelson in the eleven til round of a twenty-round light. In tin? chess championship at Berlin, Lasker has won four and drawn three. Janowski has not won a game. The Arras panel, which was sold at miction in October i'or £6600, is now known to have been .'.old at auction in Cornwall in !SOB for £2. A man named Richard Touel, tvlio ■was* found in a wo mini's bedroom at Mayo, Florida, was lynched by tho townspeople. Increases will be made in the wages of those in the lower branches of tho Federal Civil Service, totalling £-13,000. peace footing of the German ar"iy lias been increased from to 510,321, which will cost £5,210,000 more during tho next five years. The Liberal Unionist Council of Glasgow has urged tho laying down of two capital shins for evory ■ one commenced by the next strongest naval Power. A French steamer from the New Hebrides and New Caledonia reports that a severe earthquake occurred recently at Port Sandwich and elsewhere. Several buildings were destroyed, and the small craft oscillated until they were- almost overturned. . Tlio Government of Portugal will continue to pay to Queen Mnria Pia (grandmother of tho deposed King Manuel) a pension of £13,500, deducting a loan of £60,000, which Queen ■ Maria Pia borrowed under a Government guarantee. The 51 ad rid correspondent of "The Times" states that King Alfonso has renounced the arbitratorship of the Peru-Ecuador frontier trouble, owing U> the President and the Cong re:--' of Ecuador not desiring that the 'qucs.\.ns be decided by arbitration. The ex-Shah of Persia is travelling to Vienna and Paris. The Persian Government believed that ho was plotting to regain the throne, and their emissaries accordingly shadowed him. It is now proved that tho ex-Shah is seeking to persuade a nineteen-year-old Irish dancer to become his fourth wife. Tho dancer has refused.