GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 27, 15 January 1912, Page 8

GENERAL CABLES.

A COURT TRAGEDY. (By Electric Telegraph.'-—Copyright.) ([United Press Association.) London, January 12. Thos. Stephens, barrister, 78, excandidato for Parliament for Plymouth, was charged with libelling his son. When called upon to surrender at the Old Bailey he did not respond. Ho was called again and a messenger hurried in and stated that Stephens had cut his throat and was'dead. BULGARIAN BOHB-THROWERS. f Vienna, January 12. A band of Bulgarians threw three bombs in the midst of an open-air demonstration in favour of the Turks at Zilkowa. Three persons wore killed and twenty-two wounded. DEATH SENTENCE COMMUTED. Madrid, January 12. The King has commuted to perpetual hard labour the six sentences of death inflicted in connection with the Cullera outrage in September. The seventh prisoner will bo executed. THREATENED COAL STRIKE. London, January 12. The price of coal has risen three 'shillings per ton to-day on the Lonjdon exchange. (AFRICAN NATIVES REVOLT. Lisbon, January 12. The newspaper “Seculo” states that the tribes in Northern Angola have revolted and control the situation. Several Portuguese havo been' burnt alive, some having their lips cut off and their eyes gouged out before being incinerated. The natives also attacked a British merchant at Lunda and murdered his servants. The Portuguese are sending a punitive expedition. A FAMILY POISONED. Ccttinge, January 12. Makovac, a master baker, fatally poisoned a family of ten at Podgarica by supply them with lulls containing potassium cyanide. The crime, which was on tho day of the daughter’s betrothal, was committed out of revenge for her refusing to marry Makovac, who was subsequently arrested but committed suicide in his cell. DEAD PREMIER’S MEMORY. London, January 12. Tho National Liberal Club memorial to Mr Campbell-Bannerman has been unveiled at Westminster Abbey. A CANADIAN LLOYDS. Ottawa, January 12. A movement has been started at Montreal to form a Canadian Marine Lloyds. Government aid is promised not to exceed a million dollars. The move originated through dissatisfaction with Lloyds’ charges on steamers using the St. Lawrence route. A BANK FAILURE., Ottawa, January 12. Tho Dominion Government has decided to appoint a Royal Commission to investigate the-failure of the Fanners’ Bank. A BIG FIRE. Halifax, January 12. The “Halifax Herald” building has been destroyed by fire. A gale hampered the firemen’s work. The offices of numerous mercantile firms also the [United States Consulate were destroyjed. The buildings of the Provincial Legislature, situated near by, escaped. FEDERAL BANKING SCHEME. Melbourne, January 13. Mr Fisher has announced that the Federal Government desires the States as co-partners in the Commonwealth banking scheme, to have a controlling interest and sharing the responsibility and profit. If the States decided to throw their savings' banks into the Commonwealth institution their indebtedness to the savings banks would bo as a first call and they would be allotted loans from future business. Mr Fisher will sugr gest that the States have seventy-five >er cent and the Commonwealth twon-ty-fivc per cent of the now business. The matter will bo discussed at the Premiers’ Conference.

THE ACTORS’ UNION. Sydney, January 13. A meeting of theatrical managers decided to contest the registration of the Actors’ Union. It is stated that many actors who are unwilling to join have been subjected to intimidation.