MISCELLANEOUS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 80, 24 May 1911, Page 6

MISCELLANEOUS.

Second Edition.

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AN APPEAL ALLOWED. (Received 21, 10.10 a.m.) London, May 23. Sir Algernon West’s appeal has been allowed on the ground that there was no evidence of slanderous statements. SUEZ CANAL. Paris, May 23. Tho Suez Canal authorities are reducing dues on January Ist, 1912, from 7 } 4 to 6$ franca per ton. THE IS3Y DISASTER. Paris, May 23. Tho Magistrate exonerated the aviator Train in connection with the Issy disaster. SHOOTING A NATIVE BOY. Capetown, May 23. Lewis went to a newspaper office and caused tho native newsboys to be paraded. Ho identified one, whom lie accused of making indecent overtures to his girls. He, marched the native to a vacant ground behind th6‘ office and shot him dead. Lewis then (Surrendered himself to the police. He was charged with murder, and released on £3OOO bail. Public opinion is entirely in his favour. DOMESTIC TRAGEDY. St. Petersburg, May 23. . Kurtz, a German, married Moresoft-, a wealthy widow, in 1909. Many quarrels ensued, and yesterday, the man fired thrice with a revolver at his wife, who was taken to tho hospital. Kurtz barricaded the doors of his house, .threw petroleum on the furniture, hud then sele fire to it. He harangued a crowd from the balcony, and ended' by shooting himself in public as tho house was being ■ enveloped in flames.