NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16321, 3 January 1924, Page 5

NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL.

PARENTS AND SEVEN CHILDREN BURNED TO DEATH. CONNELLSVILLEI, Pa., Nov. 26. Sam Rosso, his wife and seven children, were burned to death when their home in Confluence, Pa., was destroyed by tire to-day. Parts pf five bodies were recovered at noon when the ruins had cooled sufficiently to allow a search. SNUFFED OUT. LONDON, Nov. 1. —One of the old snuff mills nt Juniper Green, Midlothian, which has been working for over two centuries, lias ceased operations, owing to the decline of the. snuff habit. The remaining snuff mill in Juniper Green is believed to bo the only one .of its kind in Scotland. HEARD OVER, RADIOPHONE- AT 2000 FEET ALTITUDE. OMAHA, Nov. 24.—A new world's record for a- radio phone from a moving airnlane was reported here on Friday. Jack Knight , air mail pilot, made his voice heard in Kansas City while he was 2CGO fecti in flip air near North Platte, Nebraska. The distance is about 375 miles. The previous record was 175 miles. MULTIMILLIONAIRE'S ESTATE'. LONDON, Nov. 26.—Man rise Marcus, al almost unknown Surrey man, has left an estate ot £3,145,751. The .death duties will amount, it is staled, to £1,354,0CQ.' His butler and a. bailiff are to get- £IOOO each, and J3l-BCO goes to hospitals. Three- nieces are remembered to'the'extent- of £IOO,CCO each; three sist-ei's,' a brother and thre§ other nieces £SO,CCO each. BRITISH STEAMER BREAKS UP IN GALE. HALIFAX, N.S., Nov, 26. —The British steamer River Wye, from Swansea, for Boston, broke in two on Sunday night during a violent- south-east gale oft tins port* Captain Williams and acrew of thirty-live were saved. Tho Riven - Wye, with 5100 tons of Welsh anthracite coal, went ashore in a dense fog on Port Houton Island, south of Nova. Scotia, on Saturday. RUSSIA APPEALS TO HER. SCIENTISTS. MOSCOW, Nov. 26. —The All-Russian Union of Scientists, holding its first congress since the revolution, has been asked by Soviet leaders to let bygones he bygones and to come to th-e aid of Russia economically and for tho benefit of military dcfencer in the future. About iOO delegates, representing 8000 scientific men throughout Russia, attended the congress. FAMILIES- FARMING LAND FOR. 300 YEARS. PARIS, Nov. 28.—Tho Government announcement that it would decorate with the Order of Agricultural Merit the heads of all families which could produce, documentary evidence; of having farmed the. same; land continuously for at least three centuries, has brought to tlie fore no fewer than 750 families with tlie necessary qualifications. Tliei record is hold by the! LaFargus, formerly of Coutie, near Moiieres, who have lived on the present- estate since the year 772. SPAIN PLANS TO PREPARE FOR WAR. ROME, Nov. 28.—General Prime Rivera, president of the Spanish military directorate, is quoted by the newspaper Mattino of Naples as having said: “My Government will turn its attention to the production of war material as soon as possible; also to the reorganisation of private industry, so as to be able to transfer it into war industry should the necessity arise, “Wo plan soon to organise a powerful military aviation force, and wo have made an agreement with tho Italian Government to this effect.’ ’ DRASTIC QUARANTINE. LONDON, Nov. 24.—F00t and mouth disease is so alarming that in the whole of England except the; extreme southern and south-western counties the Ministry of Agriculture has forbidden the movement of a single cow or store beast. Nor can any sheep, pig or goat even bo brought- from the field to tlie milking byre if it has to cross a public road. The only relaxation that the order allows is for cows to he moved from one field ,1o another and to towns for immediate* slaughter as fat stock. Shows' may ho held only where specially licensed and orily.for fat- stock. Eleven Scottish and thirty-two English -counties are covered by the- regulations. AMERICAN RAILROADS. LESSONS - FOR* DOMINIONS. NEW YORK, Dec, 30.-The Australian and tl#fe New Zealand Press Association " interviewed Messrs. Ashworth, Stamp and Dillon, of the. Victorian railways, who have, spent six months touring the United States and Canada and studying the latest; railway.: developments. They said that Australia was .tip'nviig toward American practice, • and they-' hail’ . gained' .-valuable : experience which' would benefit tlie’ Victorian Administration. They had, come -to the’ conclusion, however, that Australian railway experts , were ? solving as effect-, lively their owh ■ problems ns American railroad '■ administrators were solving their difficulties. r /-

American railroads, with their heavy freights and long haulage,, used exceptionally; heavy equipment nfid locomotives and heavy roadbeds, while the Australian having, in greater part light-.'traffic and short:haulage, natural-' iy had • lighter . equipment. They had been impressed with ffhe'keormoss of coiii:petition and) highly-organised methods of operation, resulting in continued, inff provements and economies on the American railways. Australia, with an equal area and double the mileage per inhabitant, was earning half as much revenue per mile of railway.

. SEVEN WOMEN IN, NEXT. HOUSE. . LONDON, Dec. 7.—Of the 40 women candidates in the election, returns to date show seven have-been elected, h Of these three are Conservative, two Liberal, arid two Labor’. Lady 'Astor, Conservative, the • first woman M.P., retains her seat for the Sutton division of Plymouth over her Labor opponent,'Captain Brennan, by a major-ity-of 2676. Her previous majority ,was 3095. / ’ Another Conservative woman member is the Duchess of Athol, elected for jtho Kinross division of Perthshire, Scotland, over a Liberal opponent, * She had a stiff fight and , during, the' campaign' she .retorted to criticisms of her Vealth that she saw nothing to be ashnmed-of in that nor would, she attempt to-disguise?it. '.Mrs. Philipson, better known as [Mabel Russel, the actress, retains her seat for Ben-wick-on-Tweed, but her majority , is slightly reduced. ' Mrs. Margaret Wintringlinm, Liberal, who succeeded to the'seat;; of her late husband in Louth, Lincolnshire, was reelected. Lady Terrington, Liberal, was successful in her fight for the Wycombe division of Buckinghamshire, where her family seat is located. Miss Margaret Bondfield, chairman of the British Trades and Labor Congress, and an outstanding figure in the Labor movement in Britain, was elected for Northampton, ft lie polled 15,556 votes (o the Conservative candidate’s 11,520, and the Liberal's 11,341. The Liberal was the lit. Hon. C. A. McCurdy. Miss Susan Lawrence scored a victory over her Conservative opponent in tho East Ham division of London. The Countess of Warwick was badly defeated for Parliament in the Warwick and Leamington division of Warwick, where she had made a picturesque campaign as the Labor party candidate. The countess was at the bottom of the poll with 4015 votes only, against the successful candidate, Captain Arden, Conservative, with 16,337 and George Nieholls, Liberal, with 11,134.