GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 20, 8 September 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

PLAGUE IN VIENNA. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. United Press Association. Vienna, September 7. Two cases of Asiatic cholera have boon discovered hero. EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS IN GERMANY. Berlin, September 7. Strong earthquake shocks have been experienced at Dueron, Aix le Chapello and Esehweilor. COLLAPSE OF A PLATFORM. Ottawa, September 7. Sir Wilfrid Laurier, while addressing a meeting on the reciprocity proposals at Colburg narrowly escaped injury by the collapse of the platform. Many were badly bruised. The Premier and other Ministers were unhurt. A SOCIETY SENSATION. Now York, September 7. A sensation was caused in society by the refusal of the Rev. Frederick Brooks, a Methodist minister, to marry Colonel John Jacob Aster to Miss Force. The pastor declines to marry divorced persons. The wedding has been postponed. WRECK OF THE TUCAPOL. Santiago, September 7. It is now estimated that thirty were drowned in the wreck of the Tucapol. HEAT IN FRANCE. (Received 8, 8.5 a.m.) Paris, September 7. There were five deaths from sunstroke or heat apoplexy in Paris on Wednesday. TRADES^CONGRESS. (Received 8, 8.5 a.m.) London, September 7. At the Trades Congress, Air Ward commenting on the proposal embodied in the resolution for officering a citizen army, by a selection from the rank aigl file, contended that although the movers declared that a citizen army would not endanger the country’s institutions, any army would. Mr Ward added that it, was a proposition to impose on the country the heaviest burden of militism. Let them work for peace. He supported a fleet in preference to an army, because it was impossible to employ a fleet so well in labour disputes. Air Seddon, a representative of the Shop Assistants’ Union, declared that the workers had a much more powerful weapon than a citizen army—namely, the power to stop production.