GENERAL CABLE NEWS.
dT TELEGRAPH —PHESS ASSOCIATION —COPTBIOHT STEAMER WRECKED: FOUR SURVIVORS EATIiN., (R-ec. June 16, 9.56 p.m.) London, June 16. The steamer Ville de Bruges has been wrecked at the Congo River. Seventy natives were drowned. Of a number of Europeans who 6wam ashore,, four. jv.ere .eaten by cannibals. ■*•••'■ CHILD-SLAYING MOTORIST GOES TO GAOL. New York, June 15., Guy Stratton, a wealthy lumberman of Seattlo, has been fined £100, and has .been imprisoned' indefinitely for killing a child whilst recklessly motoring. THE KOPENIC? -TRICK* AGAIN. . Odessa, June 15. ' A. burglar at Odessa has imitated the trick played by the German,at Kopenick a year or two ago. Dressed" as" ft"captainof gendarmerie, ho telephoned for-armed detectives to proceed to the Governor's residence and search a house' in . the .1 vicinity. Having rifled the house; he sent the detectives back. TWELVE YEARS' PENAL SERVITUDE'.' ' London, June 15. John F. Spence, a Leicester drajer, has been convicted of five burglaries', and • sell-., tenced to twelve years' penal servitude. INCOME-TAX RECOVERY. Sydnoy, June 16. In a Bankruptcy Court case to test-the right of the Commissionerof Taxation to petition in bankruptcy for the recovery of income-tax, the Court .held that the. Comrhissioncr is legally entitled- to take proceedings in bankruptcy.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 226, 17 June 1908, Page 7
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205GENERAL CABLE NEWS. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 226, 17 June 1908, Page 7
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