GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 89, 19 August 1913, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES.

The following cable messages appeared in the Sydney Sun:— London, August 6. Tiie President of the Ended States lias asked Congress to accept a statue of William Pitt, which Inis been offered to the nation by British admirers of the great statesman. Mr F. id. Booth asked in the House of Commons to-day whether there had been any increase of late in the numbers of young women parading the streets. The reply was that there had been no ,increase. The police report on the matter stated that many of the street walkers appeared, in manner and dress, to be much younger than they really were. August 7. .No fewer than 50 fires have occurred in Toronto during the last four days. The authorities strongly suspect that the outbreaks are the result of incendiarism. The estate of the late Mr William M.‘Ewan, chairman of M'Ewan and Co., brewers, lias been valued for probate purposes at £1,503,940. The death duties paid amounted to £225,678. ' Chicago, August 0. John Harris, of Painhsville, Kentucky, and his wife, both of whom are afflicted with tuberculosis, have left this city for a walk pound the world, in the hope that they will Thus cure themselves. The couple are now on their way to San Francisco. San Francisco, August 6. “1 should advise you to get a shotgun and fill it full of buckshot, if you have reason to believe that this man is going to shoot you. Kill him first!” This is how the Judge Tappan, of Oakland. addressed Mrs Minnie Rowe, whose husband was before the Court, charged with having threatened his wife’s life. “If more wives would shoot their husbands,” further remarked the judge, “instead of enduring their abuse, it would b'e a good thing for society.” Xew York, August 7. The townspeople in Anoka, Minnesota, have just had the liveliest of encounters with an insane man. Barricading himself in a barber’s shop, the demented one, who was well-armed and plentifully supplied with ammunition, resisted for seven long hours all efforts to dislodge him from his position. ' The aid of the local firemen was enlisted, . but even the streams of water with which they flooded'the shop, failed to bring about a surrender. Every attempt that was made to force an entry into the building whs answered with a rapid succession . of shots fi|om the beleagnred madi:;i)fv Finally, ihowevpr, he gave up the! fight, and allowed himself to be secured. : Previously. to Taking charge’of Thebarhdr’s the maniac the..whole,t/own at bayfor ftoiv 'hoi'jrs. Tihep-Hnof of police was' rttruek*% a JjtfHWbhd: seriously womAcfl■Tiering tluV siege,.