BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS

Greymouth Evening Star, 4 December 1911, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS

[pub FKiaa association —oonsian.] FATAL TRAIN ACCIDENT. NEW YORK, December 2. —A passenger train running at a high speed Was thrown into a ditch at Padukah, Kentucky, and four were killed and ten injured. A DESPERATE PLOT. NEW YORK, December 2. Four sticks of dynamite and nvelve loaded revolvers was discovered m ' a penitentary at .Lauken worth in Kansas. The plan to enable a, number of desperate prisoners to escape w.as foiled. THE KING OF SIAM. BANKOK, Dec. 3. The King was crowned amid an elaborate ceremonial. Prince Alexander of Teck represented King George. AFTER EMPLOYMENT. LONDON, Dec. 3.—Extraordinary scenes occurred at Covent Garden, where Mr. Murray, of Sydney, was selecting bricklayers, plasterers and join ors. Fifteen hundred men were clamtnouring round the office and there 'were scenes of disorder when the men were informed that the New South Wales Builders’ Association was not paying the passages. The police were called in, but an excited crowd remained throughout the day. YOUTHFUL EMIGRANTS.

LONDON, November 3. —ln response to Victoria’s advertisement for youthful unemployed as emigrants from London boroughs 1,500 applicants have responded.

SUPPOSED MURDERER MISSING. PARIS, This Day.—The police are searching for Bonnot the notorious Lyon’s anarchist, who was seen at midnight bending over a dying man named Mandino who was lying in the snow at Melun. Bonnot escaped in a motor car. A gamekeeper had previously heard shots. The police suspect tat Bonnot and Mandoni quarrelled over the booty after participating in the robbery of the Indian Mail, near Macon. Bonnot’s motor car, which was abandoned on the roadside has been identified as stolen. A BIG LOCK-OUT. BERLIN, December 3.—Some 70,000 metal workers have' been locked out for rejection of their union’s delegates settlement. SEQUEL TO A PARLIAMENTARY SCENE. VIENNA, December 3.—Mikolon’s Njegus has been sentenced to seven years’ hard labour for attempting to murder Herr Hochenbarger. The trial was the outcome of an outrage in Parliament. THE PACIFIC CABLE. OTTAWA, December 3.—The Dominion Government has agreed to the extension of the Pacific Cable between Now Zealand and Australia, POISONED FOOD. NEW YORK, December 3.—Rumours that the striking garbage men were poisoning the food of nonstrikers, caused a panic among the men still working. The rumours were due to the death in a hospital mysteriously of a non-striker. A FATAL r i’f T SSLE. PARIS, December 3.—A prisoner in charge of a Sergeant of the Gendarmes endeavored to escape from the Bordeaux express. He climbed through the window to the footboard. The Sergeant followed and a desperate struggle ended in both being thrown to the ground and killed. RIGID MILITARY LAW. PARIS, December 3.—The court martial at Lille condemned a trooper named Benzehoc to death for flinging his cap at the President of the court martial. That man’s motive was a desire to share the imprisonment of a friend who was sentenced to ten years for throwing a shoe at a surgeon in a penitentiary. WEALTH VERSUS DISEASE. PARIS, December 3.—A supposed American multi-millionaire named Bishop suicided with a revolver owing to the fact that he was suffering from an incurable disease. SAVING A CARGO. BOMBAY, December 3.—lt is expected that the cargo from the steamer Beachy, recently stranded on the Indian coast,will be saved. There was little Durbar material on board.