CABLE NEWS.

Cromwell Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 2208, 15 August 1910, Page 4

CABLE NEWS.

LONDON, August 13. A fierce riot broke out among the Chinese at G irdilr, many arrests had to be made. Whole to.vns and villages were washed away by IPods in Japan, and thirty thousand houses in Lower Tokio were submerged. Starvation is threatened in many places. la six months Russian Court Martials have sentenced to death two hundred and ninetyfour persons, of whom one hundred and eightyfour have been hanged. A Swiss baloonist accompanied by au Austrian Archduke and Baron Rothschild, crossed the Alps. The schooner Sea Q ieen, which had been blown about the Indian ocean for four months was picked up, one man was alive but the others had perished from thirst after terrible sul’f ;riug. The police are making investigations regarding the death of Madame 'De Levan whose husband is in New Zealand, she kept a small hotel, and received a blow in the eye from a man who had been refused lodging and died next day. Twenty aiditional cases of tomaine poisoning occurred at Wrexham, one proving fatal, thirteen occurre 1 at Castle Bromwich one proving fatal, they are attributed to ice creams. I'orty cases at St. Helens are alleged to be due to corned beef. The death is announced of Earl Spencer. Daring a charity congress at Copenhagen a Russian woman delegate drew a dagger and rusned at the chairman but was foiled though she wounded a neighbour. The woman who is mentally deranged, formerly attempted the lives of Casirair Eerier when he was French President also a Burgomaster in Berlin. Brisbane, August Ri. Two seamen from the warship Prometheus, named Edward Nixon and Henry Stark, are charged with the murder of an old man named Ducc found in a dying condition in • the street, having been injured on the head.