BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

West Coast Times, 17 June 1912, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

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[TEB Pit ESS ASSOCIATION.—COPTBICni.] FAITHFUL SERVICE REWARDED. ST. PETERSBURG, Juno 15.—Henkel, a German merchant of Moscow, has bequeathed his business with his fortune of half a million sterling to his employees.

AFTER THE THRONE OF PORTUGAL. BRUSSELS, June 15.—Zeasroggi detained a Glasgow steamer Edith, Which was suspected of being about to embark 150 Portuguese Royalists and fifty thousand cases of ammunition. DIABOLICAL CRIME. VIENNA, June 15.—A Rashcndorf schoolmaster’s wife and eldest son poisoned three younger members of the family with cyanide potasium. -Then Hie oldest committed suicide. The affair is the result of financial worries.

GREAT WHEAT CROPS. OTTAWA, Juno 15.

The greatest spring wheat crops in the history of Canada are predicted. The estimated yield is 250 million bushels. FATAL RAILWAY SMASH. OTTAWA, June IC.—A train was wrecked at Moosejaw, and two engineers, two firemen and two brakesmen were killed and dozen passengers injured. The cars fell into the gulch.

THE CANADIAN ERUPTIONS. OTTAWA, Juno 16.—Torror-strlck* on Indians aro flocking to the coast from the volcanic regions. Alaska reports a considerable death roll. Some of the villages are covered with ashes, and the canneries have been compelled to stop owing to the water being dogged with ashes.