GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 7, 18 December 1911, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

(By 7 Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)

(United Press Association.) (Received 18, ! .40 p.m.) London, December 17. Nineteen members of the Royal Academy have sent a letter to the King of Spain requesting clemency lor Sagusta, cartoonist, who is undergoing a sentence of nine years. The cartoon was entitled “Homage to F mtcv. Tne Scottish Minors’ Federation, representing a hundred thousand mcmuors, nas instructed its delegates to the Miners’ Federation Congress to support a national strike. While Mr. Lloyd-George was leaving tne women’s meeting, a man

tlirow a brass-bound despatch-box through the window of his motor-car. The Chancellor sustained injuries to Jus face, and narrowly escaped losing an eve.

One body lias been recovered from the Cannock Chase mine. It is believed the others are dead. New York, December 17. Lillian Graham and Ethel Conrad have been acquitted on a charge o!

shooting a millionaire i.sportsmau and hotel-owner named IV. Stokes. A seism osgraph recorded violent earthquake four thousand miles away. The direction is unascertaiuabie.

At Santa Barbara, California, the annexe of the Hotel Potter was burnt down. Five persons wore injured. A panic occurred among the girls working in the laundry, many being rescued after being exhausted by the smoke. Fogher (Brooklyn) and Jack Clarke (Australia) won the six days’ bicycle race by a lap. Two other teams tied for second place. The distance covered was 2718 miles and 9 laps. A tentative agreement for the dissolution of the Plumbing Trust has been reached between the Department nf Justice and the Pacific Coast Plumbers’ Association. > New York, December 16. The Federal investigations of dynamiting outrages revealed that there were five explosions in Kansas City directed against the houses employing non-union labour. The Ironworkers’ Union is not opposing the investigation. St. Petersburg, December 17. The Government has refused the British Embassy’s application to waive the law against the admission nf Jesuits to enable Father Pigott, an Australian scientist, to undertake seismological studies at the Pulkowo observatory. Canea, December 17. A French cruiser stopped a G’cck steamer carrying Cretan deputies to the Greek Parliament, and compelled them to land. Madrid, December 17. A court-martial at Sueca, \ alcncia, tried twenty-two rioters for killing a Magistrate and two Court officials. Six were sentenced to death. Delhi, December 17. Obituary 7: The Maharajah of Nopa ul. In compliance with the request of the late Maharajah of Neoanl, the King’s Nepanl programme will not be altered. Washington, December 16. Portions of the wreck of the battleship Maine will, be distributed to the museums and patriotic societies. A portion will probably 7 be given to the Republic of Cuba for incorporation in a public monument at Havana.