GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10496, 5 November 1912, Page 3

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

AST INFAMOUS TRAFFIC. The detectives at work in Chicago on the Johnson case are said to have •unearthed evidence of a systematic traffic in white girls to supply the demands of rich negroes and Chinese. The Grand Jury is now endeavour ing to find out what it can about the Narcissus Club, which is said to be composed of negroes with white ’wives. Reports are current that Johnson had associations with a least a score of other white women. A strong effort will be .made to send the negro to gaol for a long term, and to drive him out of public life for ever. MILLIONAIRE PASTOR ALIST. Mr Glenalyon Archibald Campbell Chief Inspector of Indian Agencies in Canada, has received a letter from an Australian firm, of solicitors informing him that he has inherited a fortune of £1,500,000 from his uncle, the late Archibald Sterling, formerly a large sheep-station owner. QUACK MEDICINES. Some remarkable revelations have been made before the Select Committee of the House of Commons thatis investigating the sale of patent medicines. The case was cited of one man who spent £20,000 in advertising a fraudulent remedy for alcoholism, and who died leaving a fortune of £BO,OOO. Other evidence was given that a foreign duchess received 'los a week for allowing her name to be used in advertising a quack medicine. COSTLY BOOKS. A presentation copy- of the first edition of Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Underwoods” has been sold in London for £33, and a first, edition of Sir, Walter Scott’a u Wavexiey” for £BO. j