GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 98, 8 December 1911, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.)

London, 'December 6. Hubert, Oxley, a young aviator and a passenger, were killed at Filey, Yorkshire. The planes buckled and they fell eighty feet. Buenos Ayres, December 6. As a result of an explosion at a fireworks factory fifteen were killed. Calcutta, December 0. Three hundred goorkhas effected a perilous crossing on rafts made of waterproof bags filled with straw and after a march through the night outflanked the Abors stockaded at Kokarnionying. The Abors fled into the jungle. Colombo, December 6. Williams, convicted of obtaining £44,592 by fraud, has been sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment. London, December G. There were 2000 spectators at the Nottingham match between the English League team and the Australasians. The Englishmen won by five points to three. England scored a try which was converted in the first five minutes. An even game followed. The Australasians by clever passing. The threatened danger. After the interval, Farnsworth and Russell made brilliant runs. The English backs’ tackling was faulty. ' Frawley scored a clever try, which was not converted. The jury stopped the case and acquitted Carnott of stealing Lady Abdy’s brooch at the Savoy Hotel on November 3. He pleaded that he was entrusted with the brooch to raise money on it. Stevenson has scored 4332, including a break of 543, and Gray 4316. New York, December 7.

Counsel for the International Harvester Company was'informed that the Supreme Court of Missouri had granted; a 1 whit in error allowing the case of Muster against the company to proceed in the Federal Court. An appeal will lie made immediately. Six trainmen were killed and five injured in the wreck of two freight trains at Manor, Pennsylvania. Washington, December 7. Alleging that conditions approaching peonage existed in the sugar beet fields of Colorado, James Bodkin, a witness in the Sugar Trust investigation, created a sensation and said women and . children were working in the fields in a state of bondage, alongside Hindus and Russians.

Mexico City, December 7., A mob lynched Jose Gfomey, the leader of the Jnchitan rebels, and seven of his followers at the Rancho Antonio.

There was a great demonstration against Madero, and the crowd paraded the streets on receipt of the news.