GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 92, 9 April 1914, Page 8

GENERAL CABLES.

STRIKE CONFLICTS IN COLORADO £Br Elkctkio Tkuegbaph—Copthight] [United Press Association. ! Washington, April 7. Testifying before the House Investigating Committee, Mr J. I). Rockefeller admitted that the conditions in the Southern Colorado strike district were serious, according to reports reaching him, as he was interested in some of the coal companies affected. He and his associates would rather, that the present violence continued, and lose all their millions invested therein, than that American workmen should be deprived of the right under the Constitution to work for whom they pleased. CANADA'S RECORD TRADE. Ottawa, April 7. In introducing the Budget, Mr White, Minister of Finance, stated that Canada had decided to refuse the offer of the United States for an interchange of free wheat and flour. Despite the world-wide financial stringency, Canada’s trade had beaten the previous record, exports reaching over eighty millions sterling, and imports almost a hundred millions sterling, for the eleven months just ended. LOAN FOR EAST AFRICA. London, April 8. A loan of three millions is being raised for East Africa, Uganda and N'yassaland, chiefly for railways. THE KING OF SWEDEN. Stockholm, April 8. The is suffering from an ulcer in the and an operation will be., performed immediately.

A FAMOUS MODEL. Home, April 8. The Duchess Eugiuia Litta, mistress of King Humbert, with whom she was left alone in his dying moments, is dead. Balzac dedicated “Line hide d’ Eve,” to Duchess Eugiuia, who was the model for Vincenzo Vela’s statue, “A Virgin’s Prayer.” THE ENGLISH FARMER. v London, April 8. Lord Lucas, Under-Secretary to the Board of Agriculture, speaking at Hit chin, announced that 'the Budget would include considerable grants to assist the rates. It was particularly unfair that the farmer should be assessed upon the whole of his stock-in-trade. * WOME& AND LIQUOR. New York, April 8. As a result of granting the franchise to women, twelve large cities and twelve counties voted for prohibition. The movement is spreading throughout Illinois. Prohibition also scored heavily throughout Minnesota. Without heat. , j New York, April 8. Professor Bancroft, of the Cornell University, speaking at Cincinatti, anhbuucod the discovery of a light known as “the electric firefly,” or a heatless light, which is not commercially available yet.

GREAT COTTON FIRES. Bombay, April 7. Two further cotton fires were extinguished after damage amounting to £40,000 had been done. Another is still burning, and already £40,000 worth of damage has been done. Some experts favor the theory of spontaneous combustion. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Bombay, April 8. The cotton fires are causing a panic among the insurance companies. The damage in four outbreaks totalled £147,000. It is estimated that 100,000 bales of cotton were destroyed. No trace of incendiaries has been discovered.

TEMPERANCE IN U.S. NAVY. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Washington, April 7. A tremendous sensation has been caused in naval circles at Washington by the promulgation of an order that naval officers will have to be total abstainers at sea, and in houses and clubs within the naval yards on shore. It is explained that Mr J. Daniels, Minister of Naval Affairs, considers alcohol bad both for health and discipline, and that the popularity of the Administration is not prejudiced by its blue-ribbon tendencies. The army is fearful lost it may be treated like the navy. POLITICS IN CANADA. Ottawa, April 8. During the Budget debate, Mr Dugal, Liberal member, in the Now Brunswick Legislature, charged Mr Fleming, the Premier, with extorting through the agency of the Crown Lands Department £20,000 from lessees of Crown timber lands, and failing to account for the money. LETTER THIEVES. London, April 8. During the prosecution of a bookmaker’s clerk for receiving a letter containing a cheque, addressed to another person, counsel for the Post Office stated that the prisoner was believed to he associated with a gang of letter-thieves in the Post Office, who stole letters containing money orders, cashed them, and, used the money for their own purposes.