GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 1 August 1929, Page 4

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

DEATHS FROM FUMES. (Australian Press Assn.—United Service.) <By Cable—Press Alesn.—Copyright.) CHICAGO, July 17. Three members of one family were found dead to-day as the result of inhalation of methyl-chloride fumes from a mechanical refrigerator in their apartment. Altogether a score of deaths which have occurred I’ccently during the heat wave have been charged to similar incidents, in the operations of various makes of refrigerators now so - popular in big city apartment houses. Following to-day’s tragedy; - the Health Commissioner issued an order banning methyl-chloride as a refrigerant, which will mean the temporary non-usage of thousands of refrigera : tors. In this particular case Joseph ' Painter, his wife and son, evidently felt ill before retiring, and were conscious for some time, but were too weak to rise and obtain ventilation. AGED COUPLE BURNED. LONDON, July 17. Mrs Lees, an octogenarian shopkeeper, of Redhill, near London, finding that paraffin had ignited the kitchen, hurried upstairs to assist her bedridden husband. > The flames quickly cut off her escape and a neighbour climbed a ladder and entered the bedroom window. Mrs Lees refused to leave her husband, and both were incinerated. MALTESE POLITICS ' LONDON, July 31. The Daily Telegraph’s Vatican City i correspondent has been informed that i high Vatican circles condemn Lord , Strickland’s rejoinder as offensive and inaccurate. It is understood that Cardinal Gasparri will reply. I- • i EMDEN’S CRUISE L 11 < SUVA, July 31. i) The steamer Tofua reports, sighting ’ the cruiser Emden in a lagoon at Wai- ; lagilala Lighthouse; N.E. of the Fiji 7 group yesterday morning. The Emden i refused to answer her wireless. E The cruiser left Suva on Sunday for i Pago, and proposed calling at two J islands in the Fiji and Windward - group. The reason for calling at Wai- - lagilala is unknown. There is only , the lighthouse keeper on an atoll. ? WEALTHY MAN’S WILL , ) "LONDON, July 31. t Mortimer Singer, who died on June 24, through an overdose of veronal, left £462,225. He bequeathed to his 1 brother £12,000, as compensation for I selling him a racehorse which turned > out a failure. ARSENIC MYSTERY ; LONDON, July 31. At the Croydon inquest, the Coron--1 er found a verdict that Mrs. Sidney , died from acute arsenical poisoning, ’ there being insufficient evidence I whether she killed herself or was mur- , dered by some person or persons un- - known. STOWAWAYS’ EXCUSE. # ’ LONDON, July 31. George MacDonald, of Glasgow; Robert McClement, from Belfast; Henry ■ Meech, of no fixed abode; and David William Smith, of Dunedin, were sen- ’ fenced to a months’ imprisonment at ' Woolwich, for stowing away on the ‘ Matakana, from Wellington. All de- ■ dared that they came to England because work was unavailable in New ! Zealand.