FOREIGN CABLES

Southland Times, Issue 19492, 24 February 1905, Page 3

FOREIGN CABLES

THE VIRGINIAN MINE DISASTER

FRENCH NAVY : SENSATIONAL STATEMENTS.

Per United Press Association. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.

LONDON, Feb. 22

The work of recovering the bodies of those killed by an explosion of gas in the Alabama Steel and Wire Company's Virginia mines has now been completed. There were 116 victims. Heart-rending Scenes were witnessed as their remains were brought to the surface.

M. Bass, commenting on the French Naval estimates, created a sensation in the Chamber of Deputies by declaring that the ammunition provided for the Mediterranean squadron would be exhausted in two hours, and that the coal supply was inadequate. There was danger, he said, of Britain 'outstripping Prance in building submarines. In the U.S. Senate Mr Elkins announced that there would be no railway rate legislation this year.. Latest SINGULAR ACTION. NEW YORK. Feb. 23. Received 2.3 rd. 9.25 p.m. In the action brought by John Platt, an aged millionaire, against a negress named Hannah Elias to recover 37,000 dollars, which he alleged was obtained by blackmailing, the New York Supreme Court“held that Platt, being infatuated with the negress, gave her property worth 200,000 dollars.