FRISCO NAIL NEWS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 304, 28 May 1889, Page 3

FRISCO NAIL NEWS.

"Y* AN EXTBAORDINABY SIGHT IN THE FBONTIEB COUNTRY. AN ABMY OF HOME SEEKERS. A "KINGLY" ADVENTURER—HANGING THE BEBELS. GLOBIOUS CELEBRATIONS OF THE CENTENARY. BALL ROOM INVADED BY DRUNKEN WAITERS, POLICEMEN, AND BOYS. "TREATING” THE GUESTS. A TEBBIBLE BAILWAY ACCIDENTAGONISING SCENES. WOMEN— POLITICS — BIGOTISM—AND PUGILISM. BBUTAL FIGHT—SIXTY FIVE BOUNDS THE SAMOAN CONFERENCE.

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San Fbancisco, May 5. What is known as the Australian

. Electoral Law has been adopted by Jk Houses of the State of Missouri Legislature. The contract for building a powerful coast defence ironclad has been W*arded by the naval authorities at to San Francisco. One of the most extraordinary sights ever seen in a frontier country was presented in the heart of the Indian territory for a week or more before April 22nd, on which day a large area of land, known as Okolohama, formerly held as a military reserve, but lately turned over to the Interior Department, was proclaimed by the President open to settlement by American citizens. Thousands upon thousands of intending settlers had gathered, waiting for the signal to advance, and were only held back from anticipating the date fixed by the President, by the presence of a large body of troops. When the order was given to advance, this army of homeseekers flowed over the promised land like the rush of water when the floodgates are opened. There were some fights, and one loss of life, as a conseSuenoe among the “ selectors,” but 11 things considered the settlement, under the circumstances, was effected without much trouble. A United States Revenue Cutter was sent, on April 20th, to one of the Aleutian Islands to overhaul a man named McPherson, a former San Franciscan who had taken possession, and under a set of forged papers declared himself King, hoisted a flag, and hanged three natives for questioning his authority. He will be brought to San -w-Francisco and tried for murder. It is now charged by naval experts that the defects pointed out in British war vessels have been copied in the construction of vessels for United

States Navy. Reports state that the scenes at the r New York celebration of the Washington centenary were terrible beyond description. There was nearly a panic in the parade on account of the Aides of the Marshall being unused to horseback riding. The animals became unmanageable and the riders would not obey their chief’s orders. At a grand ball on the occasion of the celebrations the waiters, policemen and messenger boys drank most freely of champagne. In the corridors free fights were indulged in, and the drunken waiters invaded the ballroom flourishing the fizzing bottles of wine. Nope of the distinguished were cared for in the least. The guests fought madly to get out of the building, but even this privilege was denied. Then women were insulted, plants stolen, and wine passed out by the waiters and sold. The arrangements were altogether inadequate, and a reckless disregard of all the decencies of life prevailed. The ball cost 82,000 dollars.

The St. Louis Limited Expressen the Grand Trunk Railroad jumped the track a few miles from Hamilton,

Ontario, on April 28th. and went over an embankment. The train was going at the rate of nearly a mile a minute. Eight coaches were wrecked and twenty persons killed. The baggage car telescoped the smoking carriage and then both caught fire. There were 115 passengers on board, and 10 train ' hands. Thirty of the passengers were in the smoking carriage, from which 15 charred bodies were taken. Thirteen passengers escaped, but two in attempting to do so were killed instantly. Those who were free tried to save the passengers who were pinioned in the blazing smoking carriages but without success. The wrecking of the water tank cut off the supply of water, and all that could be obtained was dashed on the flames by means of pails. The agonising appeals for help from the imprisoned passengers who were roasting to death was Heartrending. Many of the bodies were so badly charred that they broke |o pieces in the handling. It is asserted that the recent visit of Count Bismarck to England, ostensibly on a political mission, was really for the purpose of arranging a marriage with a relative of Lord Londonderry. It resulted however in a complete failure, and the engagement is off. The London Telegraph of April 17, ases a national reoognition of the rer Stanley’s services, on his return from Africa. General Boulanger is said to be almost unnoticed in London, where he expected to have become the lion of the season.

Twenty hotels and boarding houses |n the Catskill Mountains district have pntered into an agreement not to Receive Hebrews as guests in the coming HMM.

Professor Sullivan, a teacher of dancing, became unduly familiar with a pupil named Nealette, at St. Bernardino, (Cal.), and was slain by the girl's mother, who shot him, Mitchell, who haa accepted Slavin’s challenge to fight for£looo, has named England as the place for contest. Sir Julius Paunoeforte presented h|» credentials to President Harrison

on May 3rd in a neat speech, the burden of which was the maintenance of the relation of peace and friendship between the two countries. The President replied in the same spirit. Deputy Naquet, agent for the Boulangists, is negotiating a loan for. the cause in London of 20,000,000 The loan is offered at 50 per cent discount.

The Duke of Edinburch, who returned from the Mediterranean in the Alexandra, besides being stricken with fever, was in disgrace, owing to the abortive attempts to save the ship Sultan, wrecked off Malta. Alf Mitchell and Alf Ball fought a terrific fight of 65 rounds with bare knuckles, near London on April 17th, for £lOOO aside. Both men received terrible punishment. The slogging ended by Ball breaking a bone in his arm, at the end of the 65th round, which forced him to give up. The faces of the men were frightfully battered. Neither could see and their friends had to lead them home. The Samoan conference opened at Berlin on April 19, but little of its doings have been made public. On May Ist Mr Carson, the United States Commissioner, speaking for bis associates, asked if there existed any secret understanding between England and Germany in regard to the partition of the Tongan and Samoan Islands. In reply Prince Bismarck, and Sir E. Malet, the British representative, denied the existence of any such understanding. This incident was afterwards denied officially. King Malietoa, having ottered a suitable apology to the German Government, the Kaiser has decided to release him from exile. A Committee of the Conference, consisting of Herr Krauel, Mr Bates, and Mr Scott, had prepared a report on the land question in Samoa, which provided a Native ruler and a constitutional tribunal.

The Berlin correspondent of the London Times says while England’s attitude was not entirely clear, there was nothing to show that the British Government leans towards Germany.