GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 228, 9 January 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

LOS ANGELES EXPLOSION. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. New York, January 0. Twenty-two indictments against unknown individuals have been returned j at Los Angeles by tiic Grand Jury investigating the Times dynamite outrage. The charge is wholesale murder as tiie outcome of a dynamite plot. True bills | have been returned.

THE STEEL TRUST. Now York, January fl. I William Corey is about In resign from the presidency of the United States Steel Corporation. The rumor thai prices of steel will shortly be lowered is not generally believed. A COLLEGE DESTROYED. Ottawa, January C. St. Joseph's College at Grandby, Quebec, has been destroyed by lire. The superior and assistant superior aided thirty students and teachers to escape. Later the superior jumped from a window and received injuries which terminated fatally. The assistant superior perished in the flames.

AMERICAN COAST DEFENCE. New York, January 0. A deputation of Pacific Coast Senators and Representatives waited on President Taft asking that more submarines and torpedo boats should be placed on the Pacific Coast. The reply, it is understood, was favorable. A FATAL DERAILMENT. z New York, January 6. At Santa Fc the north-bound express was derailed, an engine driver was killed and many passengers injured. EXCHANGE OF FLAGS. London, January G. Mr. Henry Hope, M.P., for Buteshire, unfurled the New Zealand flag at Rothesay'sent by the Rothesay School, New Zealand. A reciprocal flag is being sent to New Zealand.

SUPPRESSION OF OPIUM. London, January 0. The International Congress for the suppression of opium will meet at The Hague on May 30. Britain will pre pose that morphine and cocaine be in eluded. THE RECIPROCITY CONFERENCE. Ottawa, January C. Sir R. L. Borden, leader of the Opposition, declares that the very existence of the party led by Sir Wilfrid Laurier depends upon the outcome of the Washington negotiations. THE SHIPPING COMBINE. Ottawa, January 0. Canadian companies declare that they are not affected by the United States action against the Atlantic Shipping Conference, and hold the view that the proceedings are rather of the nature of an equity suit for testing the Government's jurisdiction. The Government's New York attorney denies this.