GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 9, 26 August 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

O RICHTER’S RANSOM

By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. United Press Association. Salonika, August 25. The ransom of £IOOO for Professor Richter, who was kidnapped by bandits early last May, was provided from a private German source.

A STRIKE OVER. Berlin, August 25. The strike at Schichua .shipbuilding yard has terminated. THE PORTUGUESE PRESIDENT. Lisbon, August 25. Sonhor Arriga, tho now President, is a brilliant journalist. He was the candidate of the Moderates, and obtained 121, votes. Senhor Machada, the Advanced Republican candidate, secured 86 votes. OIL STOCKS. (Received 26, 9.30 a.m.) London, August 25. Owing to the accumulation of surplus stocks the Scottish mineral oil companies have sold to the Standard Company large quantities of refined oil at lid per gallon. GARDEN CITIES ASSOCIATION. (Received 26, 9.40 a.m.) London, August 25. The Garden Cities Association lias decided in connection with the formation of kindred associations in tho five overseas . dominions, to appoint a special committee to consider, their needs and opportunities. WORKMEN AT COLLEGE. London, August 25. Two hundred manuel workers at Oxford are meeting daily at Balllol College to study social and economic problems, • and are attending professorial lectures. The college authorities permit forty of tho poorest to live' at tho college. COLLAPSE OF A CHOIR LOFT. (Received 25, 8.5 a.m.) Berlin, August 25. Posen reports state that tho choir loft of the Binieff church collapsed during a service, and eighty-two persons were buried, whereof twenty-three were suffocated and the remainder injured—some seriously. JAPANESE POLITICS. Tokio, August 25. Marquis Katsura has resigned the Premiership, and has recommended Marquis Saionji as his successor. CRICKET. London, August 25. Vine, the cricketer, has accepted the offer to join the team for Australia, completing the team.

BURNING A NEGRO. New York, August 25. , Carler, a, negro, was identified as having attacked a ivoman at Purcell, Oklahama, and then set fire to her home. He Avas burnt to death by a mob in a town street. Three hundred witnessed the burning. The sheriffs attempted to protect Carter, but the mob locked them in the courthouse. They tied the negro to a stake and poured oil on his body before lighting the fire.