SUNDRY CABLE ITEMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 8262, 3 October 1905, Page 5

SUNDRY CABLE ITEMS.

President Roosevelt, on his return to Washington, received a remarkable ovation. A woman at Cambridge, Illinois, killed her seven children with an axe. She then laid all the bodies on a bed, soaked it with oil, and set fire to it. Having done this, she cut her own throat and jumped into the flames. The woman's husband committed suicide later.

The Natal, the most powerful cruiser in the world, has been launched at Vickers, Son, and Maxim's yards at Barrow. Mr Vickers has hinted that in future cruisers of that type will be merged into battleships.

Dr Dowie became paralysed while recruiting his health in Mexico. He has chosen his successor, whose name will not be divulged till after his death.

Early on Sunday morning the police removed thousands of posters in Dublin and its suburbs, urging Irishmen not to enlist in the Army and Navy

Through a brake failing to act, an electric car dashed into a wall at the curve of a hill at Malta, when five were killed and twentythree were injured.

A drifting mine at Shanking blew up the Chinese steamer Hsiesho, and fifteen of her crew perished.

Thirty-five thousand workers are locked out at Berlin. The strike is expected to collapse owing to the absence of funds.

An attempt to assassinate Senor Estrada Palma, President of Cuba, by derailing a car in which he was travelling, failed.

The invitation to the Moroccan Conference asks the Powers to assist the Sultan to reestablish personal safety in Morocco, restore financial stability, and insure the better collection of taxes. A Foreign Government, having deciphered American official despatches, President Roosevelt has authorised a new code system. A broker's clerk has confessed to the forgery and theft of £70,000 worth of securities belonging to the National City Bank, in New York. The securities have been recovered. The name of the accused has not been divulged. London swimmers farewelledß. B. Kieran, at Frascatis' restaurant. Two hundred swimming enthusiasts were present.