GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 8, 20 December 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) London, December 19. At a conference of coal nun era it vas understood the latter moditied tne niiiimnm wage proposals and were prepared to discuss means ensuring a air day’s work. The new situation was ■el'erred to the districts for consideration, and the outlook is hopeful. The tinplate works at Pontardaw ,iavc been inundated, and live hundred workers are idle. Railway bridges have been swept away, and the services suspended. Five survivors of the steamer \ ilk) Jo Carthago, wrecked in tiie Bay of Biscay, have landed at Las Palmas. Twenty are reported to have perished. Hie Amalgamated Railwaymen’s Society has received scores of resolutions carried at meetings demanding cho publication of the result of the jallot . When the counting has been •ompleted, the joint executive will iccide whether the decision shall he iiiblishcd. Many of tiie branches applaud the ■xeentivo for effecting a settlement. St. Petersburg, December 19. A Terrorist at Usofska, in Southern Russia, took refuge in an Englisiiuan’s garden. Police and Cossacks .urronnded the place, but the man escaped, after killing four policemen md critically wounding four others. New York, December 19. By a railway smash at St. Paul wveive persons were killed. The engine of one train ploughed .ivo feet into a Pullman car, the latrQi* telescoping a car ahead. Hero the greatest loss of life occurred. Fifty-one bodies have been recovered at th Cross Mountain mine. The total number of fatalities is eighty-four.