VARIOUS CABLES

Southland Times, Issue 16841, 18 September 1911, Page 6

VARIOUS CABLES

PRESIDENT TAFT AND THE TARIFF. |lly Telegraph.—Frees Association. —Copyright. ] NEW YORK, Sept. 15. President Taft is planning: a political to the Western States to explain ills veto of Congressional tariff legislation. SIX PEOPLE KILLED. SANTIAGO. Sept. 15. An Admiralty launch fouled a transport at Valparaiso. Five cadets and a stoker were killed by the propeller blades. INCENDIARISM. ANTWERP, Sept. 15. Stacks of cotton and wooden shavings have been found, proving incendiarism in connection with the fire at Campine dock. MISS CAMPBELL CONVICTED. LONDON, Sept. 15. Miss Campbell was convicted on a charge of obtaining £l5O by fraud from Mrs Foote, of New Zealand, and sentenced to seven months' imprisonment. The two were passengers on the same steamer and accused obtained a loan on the representation that she had been robbed. CONTROL OF ATLANTIC CABLES. LONDON. Sept. 15. The Western Union has leased the Anglo-American and direct United States cable companies for 99 years. The amalgamation entails only two British Atlantic cables passing to American control. CHARGED WITH MURDER. LONDON, Sept. 15. An inquest was opened at Lancaster about ten days ago in regard to the death of James Bingham, the keeper of Lancaster Castle, which occurred as the result of arsenical poisoning. Deceased’s father and two sisters died within nine months, and the symptoms of the father and of one of the sisters were similarto ' those of James Bingham. A third sister, Edith, has been arrested in connection with the affair. The coroner’s jury found a verdict of •wilful murder against Edith Bingham. Evidence was given that she cooked and gave her brother beefsteak dosed with arsenic apparently from “Acme” weedJtiller.