GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 77, 13 November 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

ALLEGED EXTENSIVE POISONING.

(By Electric Telegraph.—-Copyright.) (United I’ross Association.) New York, November 12. At Chicago Mrs. Vormilya was arrested on a charge of murder by poisoning a policeman with arsenic. The accused attempted suicide, but is recovering at the hospital. It is alleged she killed twelve other persons by administering poison. The motive is unknown. TUNIS WOMEN’S RIOT. Tunis, November 12. Eleven hundred arrests have been made in connection with the rioting by women. INTENSE COLD IN UNITED STATES. New York, November 11. There is intensely cold weather throughout the middle States. In many of the districts the temperature is 21) degrees below zero, which is a record for this time of the year. A DISASTROUS CYCLONE. New York, November 12. Springfield, Illinois, reports that nine wore killed, and many injured by a cyclone in the Rock County. A whole family named Smith were killed by the collapse of a house at Oxfordville. The damage was heavy. SUPPOSED TO BE BURIED ALIVE. Now York, November 12. At Santa Barbara, California, a farmer named John Roch and bis wife were jointly charged with murder. Tho body was alleged to have been buried alive.

FOUR PERSONS KILLED. IN A MILL EXPLOSION. ■ (Received 13, 9.15 a.m.)' London, November 12. By an explosion of flour dust the Primrose Mills at Glasgow were wrecked. , Four persons were killed and seven injured, two of' tho latter being in a critical condition. THE CANADIAN” ELECTIONS. (Received 13, 8 a.m.) • Ottawa, November 12. The final election returns show that the Conservatives polled 623,218 votes and the Liberals 595,038. A SENSATIONAL FATALITY. BALLOONIST’S PARACHUTE BAR BREAKS. (Received 13, 8 a.m.) New York, November 12. A balloonist named Peller made an accent -at Oklahoma. In descending the parachute bar broke at a height of three thousand feet. He held the broken ends to within a hundred feet of the ground, when he fell and was killed. COLD AND WINDY WEATHER. (Received 13, 8 a.m.) New York, November 12. Numerous villages along the track of, .the., North-Western railroad were damaged by a cyclone. Intense cold prevails at Kansas, where the temperature dropped sixty degrees in nine hours. ■