GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 79, 30 March 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) London, March 28. A hundred thousand signed the petition for the reprieve of Seddon, recently convicted of murdering Miss Barrow. Divers entered the strong-room of the steamer Oceana and recovered a case of gold and specie and some silver bars. Operations are progressing. The Dickens Centenary Fund has been closed. The amount received was £12,000 thus assuring the grandchildren of Dickens £l5O each annually. A further donation of £50,000 has been received by the London University. ,! 1 Parts, March 28. Professor Goucet has sent an important communication to the Academic de Medicine, showing the virulent infectiousnesS of the sweat of consumptive patients and urging their isolation and the disinfection of their linen. Eighteen hundred additional police are being enrolled and repeating rifles are being served with which to punc- - ture the tyres of fleeing motor cars. New York, March 28. Martial law has been proclaimed at Rock Island, and all public gatherings have been suppressed. Dynamite outrages are feared. Two persons were fatally injured as the result of a police charge. Lee de Forrest, chief of the American de Forrest Wireless Co., has been arrested and charged with misusing mails with intent to defraud. It is alleged that he floated a fraudulent company, exploiting the Radio-Tele-phonic Co. Other arrests are pending. The annual primaries of New York favour Mr Taft’s nomination for'the Presidency. Mr Roosevelt characterises the methods used to secure his defeat as infamous. The primaries of New York arranged means of trickery and fraud. Ottawa, March 28. The Presbyterian Church of Canada voted nearly three to one in favour of church union with the Methodist and Congregational Churches. The vote is not complete. West Indian delegates are conferring with the Government regarding reciprocity on an extensive basis. Jamaica was , pot represented because the Jamaicans fear retaliatory tariffs by the United States.