CABLE NEWS. BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIV, Issue 256, 5 November 1910, Page 4

CABLE NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

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[PRESB ASSOCIATION.] THE VETO CONFERENCE. LONDON, Nov. 4. The Veto Conference continued its sittings yesterday. GOOD TO HAVE SHARES. LONDON, Nov. 4. The report of J. and J. Coates, cot-* ton spinners at Paisley, rhows aprofitf of £3,171,000. A dividend of 35 pe* cent, has been declared. BURNED AT THE STAKE. NEW YORK, Nov. 4. A Mexican who confessed to murdering ia woman was burned at the stake by a mob at Rock Spring, TeXaS' TE!RRIBLE STORM. NEW YORK, Nov. 4. A terrific storm is raging in the Behring Sea. The streets of Nome, Alaska, are inundated. Boats were wrecked, but no lives were lost. "ABDUL THE DAMNED." SALONIKA. Nov. 4. Abdul Hamid, the deposed Sultan of Turkey, is seriously ill. He takes only liquid nourishment, is almost entirely deaf and dumb", and moves with difficulty. A BOYCOTTED GARDENER. LONDON, Nov: 4. TTio Gladstone League presented a gardener named Walter, emigrating to Western Australia,, with fifty guineas, as compensation for allegeoboycotting owing to politics. BECOMING SERIOUS. NEW YORK, Nov. 4. The Chicago garment workers'strike is likely to extend to otlier . cities. Some women strikers were arrested' for picketing. A slight disturbance was quelled. NO SURRENDER. LONDON, Nov. 4. Meetings of the Hull, Glasgow and Hartlepool boilermakers, by larga majorities, resolved to reject the amended agreement on ;the ground, that it does not differ materially' from that previously balloted upon. 1 THOSE BRITISH GUNS. ; ' \:' , ■ .'..VIENNA, -Nov. '4.' ■ " Tho Neve Freie Pressa says thsli Greut Britain's 13.5-inch guns will involve Austria-Hungary in a seriousplight. Either her new "Dreadnoughts" will be outclassed before they are launched or there must Delnew and vast expenditure. EXTRADITION DEMANDED. NEW YORK, Nov. 4. It was reported that several men suspected, of being responsible for thedynamito outrage at Los Angeles had escaped to Mexico. It .'s now stated that the escapees are bank embezzlers. Their extradition has been demanded. A WELCOME VISJTOR. . NEW YORK, Nov. 4. President Taft, Mr J. P. Morgan, and loading literary lights of New York attended Miss Ellen Terry's lecture on Shakspere, and presented th©celebrated actress with a book of welcome signed by literary notabilities of the.United States. Mr Percy MaoKayo read a sonnet welcoming MissTerry on her return to America. GIVEN THE LIE. LONDON, Nov. 4. , The Glasgow Citizen published, an article 'with sensational headlines alleging that the Australian Labor Party had arrayed itself against any 1 increase of immigration. Sir George 1 Reid, in a letter, quotes Mr Fisher's" I statement in the House of Representatives on the 7th of September, im ! disproof. ,• - AMERICAN BLAZES. NEW YORSC, Nov. 4. > The building of the Macon Telograph, in Georgia, was destroyed by fire. The printer perished by fire. > Many had narrow escapes. The paper ; was published as usual ■.•his morning, the staffs being transferred to the*Evening News office. A fire in tna warehouse district of Pittsburg caused great- damage. No lives were lost.