GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 10, 28 August 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

PREYEXTIVE Measures. By Electric Telegraph-—Copyright. United Press Association. London, August 2d. The Government has ordered the steamer Arizona at Barrow to be dismantled. She belongs to the owners of the Soa Foam, which was the vessel detained at Gravesend. The assumption is that she is intended to convey war material to Bahia Blanca, Argentine. FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE. London, August 26. It is officially reported that foot and mouth disease has broken out at Wosthallam, Derbyshire. INCREASED COST OF LIVING. London, August 2G. Apropos of the wages question, the newspapers publish details of the cost of housekeeping, which show that groceries and green groceries have increased by 25 per cent, in fifteen yeais. RED FUNNEL ENTERPRISE. London, August 26. The Union Steam Ship Company, of New Zealand, has purchased the West India mail liner, Port Kingston, for £IOO,OOO. MOTOR ACCIDENT. (Received 28, 8.40 a.m.) New York, August 27. Lusk, a veteran automohilist, wa> travelling at the rate of 65 miles an hour at Elgin, Illinois, when the machine cast a tyre, and Lusk was thrown out. Jacobs, the mechanician, was killed outright. COAL MINERS’ STRIKE. (Received 28. 8.50 a.m.f Ottawa, August 27. The cottages occupied by Austrian miners at Alberta were dynamited. Following the strike better conditions prevail in the coal mines. Two arrests have been made. SERIOUS FROSTS. Ottawa, August 27. An unexpected frost seriously damaged the wheat crops in Saskatchewan. In Northern Alberta it is anticipated that two hundred million bushels of wheat have been dashed to the ground. The loss is estimated at tens of thousands sterling. PANIC IN A THEATRE.

New York, August 27

There was an explosion of a moving picture film at the Opera House, Cannousburg, and the alarm of fire started a panic. Women and children wore jammed in- the stairway, and many were knocked down and trampled to death or smothered. The death roll totals twenty-five. ( Many were injured. Numbers of gallant rescues were effected.

WHOLESALE MURDER. Berlin, August 27. Clunderlock, a farmer, squandered liis patrimony and deserted his wife and family. He returned from London on Friday, went to his father-in-law’s house, shot his father-in-law, mother-in-law, sister-in-law, brother-in-law, and finally shot his wife as she was seeking to escape by a window. All are dead. Gunderlock committed suicide. AN ACCIDENTAL FIRE. (Received 23, 9 a.m.) Constantinople, August 27. An accidental fire destroyed 800 buildings at Aidin, Asia Minor. Ten persons were injured. CIRCLING THE WORLD. Paris, August 27. Schmidt, a French journalist, circled the world via Siberia, Japan, and Canada in 39 days 19 hours 43 minutes, which is a record. A MISSING PICTURE Paris, August 27. Energetic, searchings are being continued for the missing picture “La Gioconda.” Investigations show that there was incredible negligence in protecting the Louvre.