CABLE NEWS.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13644, 8 February 1913, Page 6

CABLE NEWS.

(From the Sydney "Sun.")

New York, Saturday, 19

i A'dozen, boys found a cardboard box on a. vacant lot at Brooklyn, and started playing football with it. When they wer© tired they eat down, and one boy undid the string round the box and opened it. They discovered a male baby four days old, which appeared to be dead. A policeman was called, who took, the body to the hospital. An hour later the baby was crying • -lustily, and will probably live despite the kicking it.received. '.

A serious water famine is threatening the town at. Grass Valley,. California oil;-; account of -a- -heavy '• fell -of iß3k>>¥> :chocking the" «iipply ?caltal A~ No: >vat4r was obtainable ,yteterday,;.a^d:'th.e eitliia'tiQln is rapidly^&Esbprain'jg.acuto. ." !

A terrible' tragedy took place dt Maple Vhlile.v, Washington, last night, when a dmuken eon murdered his father and assaulted his mother. Aiiley Gault oame^ home drunk and began to; qxiari'el "with, his father. Th'« motiher remonstrated with him, and the son then became venraged and rushed at her. The father, Albert Gault, who was 63 years old, tried to stop him, and the infuriated son fired point-blank at his father's head with a revolver. The old man dropped dead. Auloy Gault then turned upon the rest of the family,-but neighbours, attracted by the mother's screams, rushed in. ajul overpowered him.

Evelyn Thaw, the wife of Harry Thaw, the millionaire-who k now in a lunatic asylum, has admitted, through her solicitor, that she is penniless, and cannot stand the expense of contesting a, suit brought by affirm \of jewellers to Jreeoyer a£4oo wortli ;qf. ; iew^» 'which:;; ?\w«r^-b^ght.; wlieii'-^W^.'^v'as-ia^ai^i^."; VPre^den^t:; abolislV the inaugural ball at the White House because ol its great expense. It is coneidered that Dr. Wilson's attitude is merely a democratic poS6.' '■■.

Customs officers have been warned to inspect; aH coffins coming into NewYork. It i« euspected that rum and other liquor is being illegally brought into the country in coffins.

Mrs. Marcellena Elizolda, aged 105, a- wealthy widow, has been granted a lioenee--at Los Angeles, to marry Pleaetaino Leon, who is 80 years old. Leon is now trying to have a recent order of the Court, which appointed Mrs Claudia Lugo, a. granddaughter, guardian of Mrs. Elizelda, sot aside. Mrs Lugo is opposing the application. ' The steamer Auchenarden collided with the- La Blaneba, near the Mersey., test night. The former vessel sanlc, but the La Blanche picked up all the: crewj with the exception of the captain atid one sailor, who "wore loft clinging* .to- the propeller:. Tlicy -wcro resciied later by atug. .

Dozens of English girk are claiming to have the same proportions as the statue of the Venus of'Milo. Offers of marriage are flowing in upon, the in.