CABLE NEWS

Cromwell Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 2203, 11 July 1910, Page 4

CABLE NEWS

London, July 9. Throe deaths from plague took place at Tunis, the cause being plague rats. When aeroplauiug at Vichy, Gaubert fell 250 ft into a river and escaped injury. The so-called Mahdi, with 400 followers, has been suppressed after some fighting, by the Egyptian authorities. ' » Britain won the Kolapore Cup at Bisley, being two points ahead of Canada. Baroness De la Roche, while aero-> planing at Rheims, sustained terrible injuries by falling from a height of filty metres. The mishap occurred by Lind Painter flying too closely above her as he believed German aviation was at stake. The South African Government will not permit the bioscope pictures of the Johnson-Jeffries fight to be exhibited. The river Seine is rising and Paris is again threatened. The residents are alarmed. Forty Apaches in Paris encountered the night police and stabbed three of them. Six of the apaches were arrested. The Chief of police has re ceived many letters since Liabeuff was guillotined, threatening him with death. Ten anti saloen league detectives raided an alleged illicit saloon at New York, Ohio, and fatally shot the landlord. Subsequently nine of them were arrested, A mob battered in the prison door and lynched the shooter in the public square. Thomas Hardy, novelist, and Sir William Crooks, scientist, have been awarded the Order of Merit, At a picture sale the portrait by Hoppner realised 7550 guineas and a Gainsborough portrait 02,000 guineas. Melbourne, July 9. William Harward, an inmate of Ballarat asylum, has just died, aged 107 years. He was one of the early surveyors of Australia.