CABLE NEWS.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13756, 23 June 1913, Page 8

CABLE NEWS.

(From "Sydnoy Sun.")

New York, Juno 10

A curious .railway accident, which was responsible for tho loss of four lives, occurred yesterday at Bluofield, Virginia. Two trains collided, with tho result that ono became derailed and rolled down an embankment right on to a house occupied by Mrs. Sarah Owens and her daughter, both of whom were killed. Two of tho train men also wcro killed in the smash, and nearly all the rolling stock was completely wrecked. A romance of the Titanic disaster hae como to light. Among the names of passengers given as lost was that of Madamo Bruri, tt, married woman, who Tosided in Paris. Her husband mourned hor loss for some time, and then remarried. Two days ago he received a letter from his. first wife, stating that she was well, and was on her way hack to him, and would explain when she arrived. Greatly excited at receiving tho litter, M. Bruri purchased a revolver, and fired four shots at his second wife, killing her instantly. He then commit tod suicide.

Tho stockholders of tho Standard Oil Company of New Jersey have ratified the proposal of the directors to increase the capital from £3,000,000 to £15,000,000. Out of the undistributed surplus each shareholder will receive a bonus of 400 per cent, on his or her holdings.

A terrible domestic tragedy is reported from Canton, Ohio. Enraged because ho arrived home and found his wife absent, a man named Robert Roach wont to* her parent's place, shot and killed her mother and his sister-in-law's baby, and fatally wounded a sister named Law. When he got to the house-, Roach caked his mother-in-law where his wife was, and despite tho assurances of tho family that sho had not visited them, he insisted that they had harboured her in tho house. Thero was an argument, and maddened by the emphatic denials of his wife's people, .'Roach drew his revolver. Hearing the firing, several of the neighbours, reinforced by police aid, rushed the place, and the assailant wa a arrested, but not before he* liad succeeded in shooting a policeman in tho leg.

Againpt tho opposition of the Mayor of New York tho Board of Estimates has approved of a project for starting a munk'ipil plant, tit a. cost of £10,000, to supply ice to th* city. Any surplus ■will b ■ .•<"»!(.!, at a Jov>- cost, to the poor

people

A scathing arraignment of the detective bumiu of tho New York Police Department is contained in tho report of the Curran Committee. It claimfl, among other things-,, that partnerships exist hpiwe-on detrx Lives and criminals. The ronnrfc on pohVo conditions instances a ofiso in which a man named Benjamin "I'vvy, who was never convicted of a erfi;;.', testified that at tho request of tho detective bureau he often induced criminals t:> commit burglary, so" that tlis officers might secure a conviction. Levy was strongly corroborated by the evidence of reputable citizens, including «;r.- o'ifrcial of an insurance company, a merchant, and ethers Tho man stated o:i oath that in one case Doputy-Com'tiissioner Dougherty, in charge of the. directive bureau, give him £5 to purchase burglar's tools for a man, and after tho burglary was committed gave him another £15. City vouchers in Levy's favour .for these amounts have been found. Tho report states that tlie bureau is'hopelessly inefficient, and should bo ro-or-ganisod on drastic lines.