Second Edition LATEST MESSAGES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 6, 23 August 1911, Page 6

Second Edition LATEST MESSAGES.

By Electric Telegraph.—-Copyright. United Press Association. (Received 23, 12.35 p.m.) Washington, August 22. Congress has ended. _i no Fresident vetoed tho Cotton Bill, a Democratic measure lowering the tarills on cotton jsupci ts. All Lemooratic measures have now been vetoed. Iho narty, when the winter session is being field, will endeavour to puss the Bills over the veto. At Elgin, Illinois, Ralph Irwin, an automobile racer, was killed while racing at 75 miles an hour. The machine burst a tyro. The mechanism, it is thought, also, is fatally hurt. (Received 23, 2 p.m.) London, August 22. Mr. KVir Ha. die violently attacked tiie Government for the employment ol of troops. Mr. Lioyd-Goorgc indignantly repudiated the accusation that the Government sided with tho_ capitalists, and dew winced Mr. Hardio’s attack as contemptible. Owing to tbs short sea traders’ attitude all werkersin the coal trade in tho Port if London have been called out.

Paris, August 22. Leonardo da Vinci’s La Gioconda, one of the world’s famous portraits, minted on a wooden panel, has been stolen from the Louvre.