GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 143551, 17 July 1911, Page 3

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

DEATHS FROM HEAT,

By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.

LONDON, July 10. Twenty-four deaths from heat have occurred in Great Britain in three days. A BANKRUPT EARL. LONDON, July 15. A receiving order has been made against the Earl of Yarmouth on the petition of a money-lender. MARK TWAIN’S PROPERTY. NEW YORK, July 15. Mark Twain’s actual property, securities, and real estate total in value £94,000. All is bequeathed to Mrs. Gabrielovitch, his only surviving daughter. KING GEORGE AS ARBITRATOR. SANTIAGO, July 16. The press and public of Chili are delighted at King George’s award in the dispute with the United States. Flattering allusions are made to British justice. DISASTROUS CYCLONE. NEW YORK, July 16. A cyclone struck the town of Electro, in California, and many buildings were demolished. It is known that two persons are dead PLAGUE AT PORT' SAID. PORT SAID, July 16. A case of. plague has occurred here. FREIGHT CARS BREAK LOOSE.

OTTAWA, July 16. Four freight cars broke loose at M’Leod, Alberta, and dashed down a hill, colliding with the sleeping car of a stationary train. It drove the car into tho waiting-room, wrecking tho station house. Many persons were injured.

VESSELS IN COLLISION. NEW~YORK, July 16. A dispatch from Port Limon, Costa Rica, reports the collision of the Irina and the M. C. Diamcnti in the estuary of the San Juan River. The Irina sunk, and 32 passengers and several members of thd*crew were drowned. ACCIDENTS ON AMERICAN RAILWAYS. WASHINGTON, July 16. Statistics of the Inter-State Commerce Commission indicate that thirty parsons are daily killed on the American railroads. a heroicTdeath. (Received July 17, 9.10 a.ra.) LONDON, July 16. O’Brien, a docker at Liverpool, who rushed into a blazing cellar and rescued two children, afterwards succumbed to his turns. A DANGEROUS BATHING PLACE. (Received July 17, 9.30 a.m.) , BERNE, July 16. A railwayman, whilst bathing in the Frodalunga torrent, was caught m a current and carried' over a cascade, falling over a precipice, called the Salto Della Morto,. which is 1000 feet deep. A NEW LINER. (Received July 17, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, July 16. Tho Australian liner Brisbane has been launched at Swan and Hunter’s yards.