GENERAL CABLES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9182, 5 April 1910, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

• MILITANT MINE WORKERS. A STRIKE "THREATENED. ANOTHER - EXPLOSION. (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Per Press Association.) VANCOUVER, March 14. At Cincinnati the president of the mine workers of North America made a statement that unless the proprietors increased wages the miners would strike. He declares that the strike fund totals ono million pounds. SOUTH POLAR RACEGERMAN COMPETITION WELU U iVJL Xj 1/ • LONDON, March 14. English explorers welcome the decision of the . German Society to send ; an expedition in search of the South Pole, and declare that nothing could please the promoters of Captain Scott s expedition better than that the German, English, and American expeditions should start simultaneously. A SCEPTICAL GOVERNOR. VANCOUVER, March 18. Rear-Admiral Peary, of Arctic fame, who has been touring ,thc south of the United States for the purposes of lecturing has cut his tour short on aocount ot the' refusal of Governor Brown, ot Georgia, to introduce him to an audience at Atlanta, the capital of that State. The Governor described Peary as a "faker," who had changod his arctic plans. RUSSIAN SWINDLERS. HALLEY'S COMET AS A BOGEY. LONDON, March 18. Swindlers in many parts of the Russian Empire are at present reaping a harvest of wealth by playing upon the ignorance and superstition of the Kus sTan peasants. These unscrupulous persons aro frightening the people by declaring that Halley's comet is diking straight for the earth, and unless sum cicnt subscriptions are received to enable political prayers to be put up for the world's delivery from collision with the comet, the latter will not deflect one inch, and will cause the end of the i world. The peasants, in their ignorance, are | subscribing largely.

horrible murder.

FIVE PEOPLE KNIFED

VANCOUVER, March 18. A horrible murder is reported from -he Houston district of Texas, which has shocked the whole community. Uus 3chulz his wife, two chilarcn and a boarder named Hymann, were discovered in a room in Schulz s house brutally hacked about, and covered in deep knite wounds. No clue to the murderer has yet been discovered. RUSSIAN ESPIONAGE. j DENMARK AND SWEDEN INCENSED. LONDON, March 17. Russia has established secret police bureaus in Copenhagen and Stockholm for the purpose of espionage on £ mmsn politicians, and has done so without the consent of the Danish and Swedish Governments, who are much incensed in consequence. A diplomatic trouble is threatened. BRITISH AND PORTUGUESE. SERIOUS CONFLICT BETWEEN OFFICIALS. LONDON, March 17. It is announced in Lisbon that a serious conflict between the Portuguese and the British officials engaged in delimiting the frontier has occurred at Tete, on tho Zambesi River, in Portuguese East Africa. . Sharp diplomatic messages are being exchanged between tho Governments of Britain and Portugal on the matter. THE COLOUR PROBLEM. RACE .WAR IN AMERICA. . VANCOUVER, March 19. "Advice has been received from Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.A., that the town of Marion, in Arkansas, is on the verge of a race war, owing to the high feeling among the whites and the negroes, lhe authorities at Marion have requested the. police to get aid from Memphis in'order to enable them to hold the gathering mobs in check. ' Yesterday evening two negroes named Charlie Richardson and Bob Austin -were, taken out of gaol by a mob of insurgents and dragged through the streets of the town, with • ropes round their necks. No attempt was made to kill the men, but the moving spirits in the movement declared that" they would bo lynched tho following day. This morning Richardson and Austin were lynched by a mob of 50 men. Shortly before the ropes were placed on their necks tho unfortunate men confessed that there had been gaol-breaking recently among the prisoners in the Marion lock-up, many of whom had escaped. Among those who got away was a man named Ferguson, a wealthy citizen, who was awaiting his trial on a charge of murder. He has not yet been recaptured.

SKY SKIRMISHING. WAR EVOLUTIONS IN THE AIR. VANCOUVER, Morch 21. At Cologne evolutions approaching as near as possible actual warfare conditions have been arranged to take place in April. Zeppelin, Parsevpl, and Gross airships will be-used, and officers and engineers will be instructed in the art . of manoeuvring wireless experiments between the machines and land stations. In New York, Wright Bros, have obtained a temporary injunction restraining M. Paulham from making flights in a Farnham biplane, as it is contended that the machine infringes on their patents. M. Paulham will appear next week to show cause. In the meantime he will give exhibitions on entering into a weekly bond of £1200. THE PHILADELPHIA STRIKE. TAFT WILL NOT INTERVENE. STIUATION UNCHANGED. PHILADELPHIA. March 21. Federal intervention in regard to tho strike is considered the only real hope for peace. Every effort on both sides of the conflict as well as those by the general public, to have the question settled smicablv appears to have failed. President Taft has suggested that tho Industrial Peace Commission, founded by Mr Roosevelt, should interfere and endeavour to bring about a settlement. Philadelphia has been unofficially notified that President Taft will not interfere in the strike trouble, as he maintains that it is of a- purely local character. The situation remains unchanged, with the exception that more cars aro operating. There has been no trouble except at Kensington and Wilkesbarre.' AMERICA AND JAPAN. AN INFORMAL ALLIANCE. VANCOUVER, March 17. J.t is understood that the Mikado of Japan is arranging to make America an informal ally in the domination of the Orient policy. His plans in the latter respect * provide that the commercial equality of all nations will be guaranteed in tho East. Tentative proposals

I will be submitted indirectly, though not through the regular diplomatic channels. The officials at the American Foreign Office profess ignorance of the reported overtures. The report has also been dicrcdited by a. section of the American press, which states that diplomatic flurry in Japan would be welcomed in England, as it would give that country and opportunity to break the Anglo-Ja-panese alliance, which, m view of tno much-talked-of conflict between America and Japan, is proving the most unpopular diplomatic move which England has made for years. . , Later news from Washington states that the Japanese Ambassador is ot the opinion that the statement about the proposed agreement between Japan and America had reference to a memorandum which turned to New York from Europe to-for State (Hon. Elihu Root) and M. Takahua. in 1908. The memorandum pro r vided for the mutual guaranteeing of an ooen door in Manchuria, and for both countries exerting their good othces to bring that "about regardless of the antagonism of other nations. , AUSTRALIAN MILITARY COLLEGE. MODELLED ON AMERICAN LINES. ' VANCOUVER, March 20. The officers and men of the West Point (U.S.A.) Military Academy have lately been discussing the defence scheme ot the Australian Government, which was j revealed to them recently by an Australian representative of the British Army General Staff, who spent several days at the Academy. . . , When the officcr departed ho took with him a. comprehensive plan of the buildings, together with information about the courses of study and drill- 16 thought that the proposed Australian militarv collcge will be modelled aftor the style of the West Point Academy. The United States Military Academy | Stands at West Point, a post village of Orange County of New York. It was established there pursuant to a recommendation made by Washington in i 892. The natural strength of the place led to its selection for a fortress during tno Revolutionary War. The principal buildings of the academy, which comprise officers' quarters, cadet barracks academic buildings, library, superintendent s office, mess and riding halls, hospital, and the beautiful parade ground, occupy a plateau elevated about 180 ft above the river, and cover in their distribution an area of some 200 acres.

FRENCH FRAUDS

THE COUNTRY SHOCKED

PARIS, March The Duez scandal has aroused political passions to a degree comparable to those in connection with the Panama frauds and tho Dreyfus and Boulangcr troubles. The country is so shocked at the Government that the Opposition is preparing to exploit the scandal at the elecThe Premier personally did everything in his power to bring Duez to book two years ago, and pledged tho Government to probe the scandal to tho bottom. The defalcations aro estimated at £500,000. . , . . , i It has been discovered that no less than 150 members of tho political world and the press have been bribed by Duez, but no names have been disclosed. iVLr Martin, a former assistant, has been arrested for complicity in connection with the scandals. DISASTROUS FIRES. j VANCOUVER, March 21. At Boston a disastrous fire occurred, the damage being estimated at ±,4U,UUU. Tho railway workshops were destroyed and two firemen were seriously injured. At Jamestown, Hanson, tho foreman of:* Fire Police, was burned to death. T,ho fire destroyed Gorky's shoe factory and the-damage totalled £25,000. AWAKENED JAPAN. TOKIO, March 14. Japanese journals are urging the expansion of tho navy immediately. Captain Oguri says that more vessels are required, as in ton years ten battleships and nineteen cruisers will be useless for service.