1915-02-09 — Page 3

GENERAL NEWS.

Big Salary, for Baseball Player.

A Chicago baseball club has just engaged a player for two yours at a salary of no less than £3,200 a year.

Mining in Malaya.

The Times of Malaya states that attheend of last year nearly 30,000 fewer coolias were engaged in mining in the F.M.S. than a the end of 1913, n fall of about 25 per cent, of the total mining force held. The outpat diminished. with attendant rise of prices.

'An Old Offender.

In the United States Court for China, at Shanghai, last week, his Honour Judge Lobingiersentenced Peter A. Grimes to an additional one year's imprisonment for es caping from the custody of W. B. Kilgore, at that time the American

oler in Shanghai, in Japan. His Honour said the accused was su old offender, and in the con- spiracy which resulted in bis escape, the Court did not believe that he was the passive instru- ment be now claimed to have. been. Ho was fourteen years older than his keeper, and so much more experienced in crime that it would be most unnatural if he were not the chief mover in the affair. The penalty imposed was the maximum.

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