MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Evening Star, Issue 15342, 17 November 1913, Page 6

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright The French Senate adopted the Miners' Kight-honr Day Bill, which, has passed the Chamber of Deputies. _ The Police Commissioner of the Champs Elysee district of Paris, when making a piivate inspection of the salon before "the Kxhibition-opened, ordered a study ir. the nude to be removed. At Leipsic. Erni* •ATsaban. an engineer, was sentenced to three years' servitude for selling to France information eoneerninii ammunition and fortress guns. A committee of British officers will organise a. riding team to compete at tho Berlin Olympic Gam?/.. A fall of earth occurred ir, the Artvin copper mines, Russia. Six men were killed and 28 were injured. The searchers at the Senghem-dd (Wales) mine found the body of a."maii clasping a purse containing 50 sovereigns. Pomothers were, lying with their arms interlocked as though Tunning together when thev -were overtaken by after-damp. Tho Archduke Fran;: Ferdinand of Austria and the Duchess of Hohenberg hav-> arrived in England. Thev join their Majesties at Windsor on Mondav. In th-j Press libel case a verdicl. given for the 'People.' Tho defence, accused Lctinga, who had sued the paper for wrongful dismissal of grave dereliction of or.ty in accepting a salarv from a man called Diamond in connection with a foreign sweepstakes. Mr Joseph Chamberlain, who has just celebrated his silver wedding (Mrs Chamberlain, who is the third wife, is an American lady), received congratulations from all. over the world, including mcssa.~ei from the King and Queen. Lord Headier, following the example r>f the late Lord Stanley, of Adderlv. has been converted to Mohammedanism" No small-pox cases were reported in Sydney during the week-end. This is tlie first time since the outbreak that there have been two davs clear of fresh cases being notified.

Ilie death of Kiamil Pasha, ox-Grand ]izier of Turkey. at Larnaca. is confirmed. Ho was buried the same afternoon that ho died.

.Spencer, who confessed, to 29 murders (many of winch the police sav never hap': pcned)_has been convicted at Chicago of murdering .Mrs Re*roa -y, Whe.,to„ (St.t- ---" HbnoM). and sentenced to death in tV olectnceiair Ho hj, red his victim to tliiiilvray track, where he shot her i,ul tiedthelodvt„therailssot ha ta-p:';! »ig train might mvtilate it bevond recUilion. Prisoner appealed to "the jury" to na« tho death sentence or, hi,,. ' and airecd not only the prosecuting counsel U.t tho lawyer who defended him. The pohce declare. Spencer to be an opi', ,? eating degenerate. ' ' M'Manfgal, wlio turned .State evidence and whoso test.iir.ony was the means of co„ v cting the L« Angeles dynamiters, wi G bW up The Times' Office in Oclobe 1913, has been i-cleased He is now en unite for Europe. Ihe immigration autho ntics, however will -refuse to allow him to enter Canada, if ho presents him-elf Forty feet of a snven-story concrete building collapsed at Cedar Rapids. Towa burying 14 workmen. Four were recovered ,n ti r « \t li I,ncrc ,s no hjo P« fa the others' Ho Ifthe corn crop in the Bahin, TUancii. ntftnefc (Argentina.) has been lord.