FRISCO MAIL NEWS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 391, 14 December 1889, Page 3

FRISCO MAIL NEWS.

GENERAL SUMMARY.

A rapid rise took place in pig-iron in Glasgow on November 12, and an enormous holiness was done, A large number of orders were not executed, the broken fearing to follow the rapid rise. This activity continued till November 13th, when the “ boom’’ suddenly collapsed. Mdme. Patti receives £7OO for each concert in the Albert Hail, London. Belfast baa established a strong branch of the Knlehts of Labor. Sir Henry Isaacs was installed Lord Mayor in London on November 6th. At the banquet in the evening Lord Salisbury, responding to a customary toast, reviewed the state of foreign affairs. Referring to the success of the Mahdi in Africa he said his conquests would probably induce him again to invade Egypt, but England would sustain that country against all its enemies. The British were not ready to evacuate and leave the land to its fate, fhe only known cause for disturbance in Europe was the faction fighting among Cretans, and all indications pointed to peace. Templeton and Co. fl carpet mills, Glasgow, were partially demolished by fi e on the afternoon of November Ist Tne total number of operatives killed Was 40, and 29 bodies were recovered. They had been crushed by the falling walls, The financial loss is £40.000. . . , A‘'Trademen's League" was formed in London on November 2nd against landlords, Its purpose is the introduction of a bill to create a court similar to the Irish Land Court, to arbitrate between landlord and tenant upon the renewal of leases, and to (ensure fair rents. Clergymen of the Church of England who held brewery stock as members of the Clergy Assurance Society have been directed 'to sell out. The English Court has ordered Dion Boiiclcault to pay the sum of £3O monthly as alimony to his divorced wife Agnes Robert* eon, Mrs Ltngtrv, ths English actress, bM engaged St, James' Theatre, London, tor a year from January next, when she will opsn with !< Twixt Axe and Crown," She is st present playing in the provinces, and It is more than probable that she has bidden good-bye to the United States. Sir J. B. Lawes says that the British wheat crop forecasts must be considerably discounted. The area under crop for 1889 is 2.540,720 scree, or over 120,000 Jess than in 1888. He puts the amount required for consumption at 27.000,000 quarters. _ According to this, England’s requirements will ba higher than last year. The closing of the Exposition at Paris on , November 6'h was marked by a brilliant fate, i gt which 400.000 people were present, that i being the largest attendance since the open. Ing of the Exposition. There were a few ao aidants, due to the crush. The weather was beautiful, end the fete a success. The Exhibition having closed, the Parisians are conUmplating statistics and counting the gains, ft is estimated that 5.000.000 French people went from the provinces to Paris, and 1 their aggregate expenditure was 50,000,000 1 francs. About 1.500,000 foreigners visited ■ Paris, and spent 70.000.000 francs. English- < men head the foreigners’ list with 360,000 ; t the Belgians come next with 236,000; the : G 'mana thirl, with 169.000; and America ( fourth, with nearly 120.000. The total , Dumber of paving visitors to the Exposition 1

was 25,000.000. as compared with 12,000,000 in 1878, and 8,000,000 in 1867. On Sunday, November 3rd, the elevator of the Eiffel Tower fell almost 100 feet, and thirty occupants were injured. It is said that since the opening of the Exposition a dozen men have lost their lives in the Eiffel elevator, and in no instance has such an accident been made public. Many workmen were killed during the construction of the tower, and this fact has also been carefully ''kept from the public. Despatches of November 11th say that General Boulanger bud issued from the Island of Jersey a fresh manifesto declaring that the revision of the Constitution has only been postponed, and the revisionists were never more certain of ultimate victory. The attempted Bonlangerist demonstration in Paris on the lltb was a failure. The Empress of Austria, while visiting the Italian shore of Lagodi Garda, early in November, was greeted by rough catcalls and bowls, and when the steamer left the landing a' volley of stones fell upon its deck, The Emperor was enraged bayond all measures when the matter was reported to him, and the Italian Ambassador at once called upon Count Kalnoky and presented the apologies of his Goverment. The Emperor William and the Empress Augusta sailed from Venice for Constantinople, where they had been received with great splendour, on November 6th. Among other gjfta, the Sultan presented the Empress with | {swelled collar valued at £51,000. A royal decree has been issued ordering an inquiry into the disordered finances of Rome. Despatches up to November 11th from flohtb Africa report a famine as the results of drought thronehout the Transvaal. The situation of Johannesburg was critical, and breadstuffs were selling at famine prices, At natal the government had offered a bonus of lODO dollars eachi for the first fifty waggons of provisions which started for Johannesburg, and all tariffs on articles of food were abolished A syndicate of London capitalists have paid 12,000.000 dollars for the associated breweries of fit, Louis, Missouri, The money to meet the first payment of 1,200.000 was t tabled from London on November 9th. The terms of the transfer gre the payment of 7,000.000 dollars in cash, god gn additional J,OOO 000 in first mortgage bdnda on the property sold, The associated breweries are Sixteen in number, but do not include the huge properties of Lempe and (’Father Damien Will be'supoaeded at the leper sotletß«Mi MolokO'f flwdwfoh islands, py his Broths?, ■The Swiss Government have apologised to the United States for arresting and imprisoning five Americans at Berne in August last, On suspicion of being pickpockets, offering reasonable damages if demanded. ■ The Ministerial elections throughout Italy pn'Sunday, November Brd. resulted jn a *ioW1 for the Liberals and Radicals, and the defeat of the Clericals. It is expected that the American Legation

io the Vatican will aoon be formed.. Some excitement has been cauaed by a reported great find in Western Nqrth Carolina, Experts declare that the gold shows itself in the same way, and bl as plentiful as it was in California, George Francis Train, who years ago had a Melbourne experience, and who has been in Boston gaol several weeks for debt, was examined On November 9th on a charge of Insanity, While it was found that his mind Was unbalanced, he was pot Crazy enough to be' confined fn an asylum. ' q'he French-Osnadisns now claim a majority in five cities of New England. This is the reason (according to Mr Honora, Premier of Quebec) why then is a considerable sentiment among that else* in favor ot the annexion of Canada to the United States, The words of •' America "i>have* been dropped from the title of the " Knights of Labor," making the organisation worldwide. ' ‘■ ' An electric light current In the streets of Jfew York on November 4th roasted a horse to death, threw the driver on the street, and knocked a polios sergeant senaelcM, Miss Gertrude Kimball, a Brooklyn society belle and member of several dramatic societies, being disappointed in love, shot herself through the hear: on November 11th. ' Up to November Ist the public debt had ft The Vanderbilte bare contributed 750,000 dollars to aid in fixing the World’s Fair Exhibition in Now York. This makes the tetal pledge so far 3,500,000 dollars, ’ L Oeteuel William Cassius |Gw4love and

Colonel A. M. Swope, prominent citizens at Lexington, Kentucky, were both killed in a street dual on November Sth. The Rev. C. Hudson Smith, an eccentric clergyman well known in California, com mitted suicide by jumping from a steamer when en route from Fall River to Now York. A despatch from Brownburg, Virginia, of November Bth. mentions a most sanguinary affair. Dr J. Walker, a member of the State Board of Medical Examiners, residing at Brownburg, charged Henry Miller, an elderly farmer, with having insulted bis wife. Walker threatened to kill Miller, and the latter had Walker arres’ed. When the case

was called the Magistrate's Court was crowded with friends of the parties. Walker was ordered under bonds, but refused to give them. At this juncture a window was thrown open and tour pistols were dropped into the oourt-room. Then the trouble began. Miller was instantly killed, it is said by Walker, with a knife; Mrs Walker was shot and killed ; Walker was shot twice and fatally wounded; Daniel Miller, a son of' the farmer, was killed by a bullet, and William, another son, was shot through the body ; and Samuel Weaver was shot badly and cut in the neck. A sheriff and posse came on the scene and stopped further bloodshed,

In Heflin, Alabama, Charles A. Smith was shot and killed on November 12th by C. A. Brown in a political quarrel. Brown is a prominent and wealthy man, as was also his victim.

The Rev. C. Hudson Smith, an eccentric clergyman well known in California, oom mitted suicide by jumping from a steamer on November 9th when en route from Fall River to New York. Colonel William Cassius Goodlove and Colonel A. M, Swnpe, prominent citizens of Lexington, Kentucky, were both killed in a street duel on November 9th.

the Vanderbilts have contributed 750,000 dollars to aid in fixing the World's Fair Exhibition in New York, This makes the total pledge so far 3,500,000 dollars. Mrs Charles Crocker, widow of the late Chas. Crocker, one of the great Californian railway syndicate, died suddenly of apoplexy on Sunday, October 23. She died worth 20,000,000 dollars, Her life was marked by many and munificent charities. Miss Kate Drexel, daughter of a Philadelphia banker, took the white veil in the convent of ths Sisters of Mercy, Philadelphia, on Thursday, November 7. Her robe cost over 200 dollars. When the black veil is taken Miss Drex-1 will go waat to establish schools for Indians, and south to place the means of education within the reach of the colored people. Her fortune Will not bo given to the catholic Church, as stated, but will remain in het hands to da with as the sees~ fit, She has 3,000,000 dollars in her owtr right, An electric light current in the streets of New York on November 4th roasted a horse to death, threw the driver on the street, and knocked a police sergeant senseless. Public opinion is strengthening in favor ot holding the Great World’s Exposition in 1892 at Chicago instead ot New York. The time by rail from San Francisco to New York has been shortened by ten hours, London county, Virginia, is threatened with a race war, The negroes are wild over the lynching ot Owen 'Anderson, who had criminally assaulted Annie Tolliver, a young daughter ot a leading Democrat at Leesburg, and vow vengeance.