GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 13, 7 September 1912, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

o (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) RECOVERY OF JEWELS. Rome, September 6. The jewels stolen from Count Scrmani’s residence at Milan have been recovered. A Milan family named Brambilla have been arrested. ANGLICAN CHURCH IN AUSTRALIA. Adelaide, September 6. The Anglican Synod adopted a resolution that the Church in Australia should have full power to legislate for itself. JAPANESE RICE CROP. Tokio, September 6. The estimates of the rice crop are seventeen millions bushels greater than in 1911. BURNED IN A BARN. St. Petersburg, September C. Seventeen labourers were burned to death in a barn. FATAL ACCIDENT IN A COLLIERY. London, September G. A chain breaking, a water-tank fell 1300 ft in the Shakespeare colliery at Dover, and killed two and injured eleven, six seriously. RAISING SCALE OF ANNUITANTS) London, September 6. Owing to increasing longevity, the Government annuitants’ scale of payment has been raised. MEMORIAL TO GENERAL BOOTH. London, September G. In response to a widely expressed wish for a memorial to his father, Mr Bramwell Booth has issued an appeal for £150,000 to establish a training institute to equip officers for service in all countries. He states that the project deeply occupied the late General’s mind.

FIGHTING IN ALGIERS. Tangier, September 6. The disaffected Zuer tribes attacked Colonel Blondelat’s column, but were repulsed with considerable loss. CHINESE PIRATES. Hongkong, September 0. Pirates on the West River, near Wougmoon, fired on an oil lighter in tow of a launch, and captured the master and engineer of the launch. They demand 20,000 dollars ransom. OLD CAMPAIGNER DROPS DEAD. New York, September 6. Li cut. -General MacArthur was attending a re-union of bis old regiment, 24th Wisconsin Volunteers, when lie dropped dead from apoplexy. Captain Parson, a comrade in arms, was stricken with paralysis on seeing MacArthur fall. General MacArthur distinguished himself during the Atlanta campaign in the Civil War.