GENERAL CABLES

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXXI, Issue 19, 11 August 1920, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

HAM 8S PER POUND. London, July 22. A message from Smithfield reports that prosperous northern miners and mill employees are now the. readiest purchasers of high-priced English meat. They are willing to pay from 6s to 8s a pound for ham. Londoners, except those of the weal, thiest classes, have ceased buying fresh meat, and depend solely on frozen and chilled. WHISKY SEIZURE. Vancouver, July 15. The greatest whisky seizur© in the history of Canada occurred to-day, when 14,000 gallons were taken by •the authorities. The owners have been charged with illegal selling. NIAGARA CLAIMS VICTIM. Vancouver, July 12. Thousands of people at Niagara wit. ncssed the tragic death of Charles Stephens while attempting t© go over *(ho falls in a. steel-bound padded barrel of his own invention. H© was dashed to pieces on the rocks below the cliffs at th© Horseshoe Falls. Stephens wag a Britol barber, and came to Canada specially to make the attempt. H© leaves a wife an<J nine children, who wore confident of the success of the venture. Stephens was a barber, and frequently exhibited at circuses, shaving himself in lion cages, METHODISTS AND FASTING. London, July 21. Th© Hull Methodist conference has resolved to institute quarterly fast days to assist in spiritual advance. Dr Kirkland, of Portsmouth, commenting on this decision, said that fasting was either a spiritual duty or it was not. “Let ns clean onr minds of cant,” he said. “If one.quarrter of th© Methodists did not smoke a vast sum would he available for foreign mis. sions. In Lent I try not to smoke, God knows, but I fail.” GUARDING WILHELM. London, July 21. b, A message from Doom states that owpsg to the presence of undesirable foreigners, hotels in the - town ure required to supply daily listg of guests to! the Burgomaster. The order! is regarded as confirmation of the recent story of the attempted assissination of the former Kaiser. • • • 1 '