NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 497, 23 August 1890, Page 3

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Ths following items by the San Francisco mail are taken from the N.Z. Herald’s excellent summary:— Cholerine is spreading in Russia, and many fatal cases are reported. The present decennial census shows Chicago to have 1,100,000 inhabitants. A fire in Philadelphia, on July 13th, involved a loss of over half a million dollars. The general fruit crop of the Delaware Peninsula is an almost total failure this season. The Parish Church, synagogue, and 70 houses were burned at Rosenou, Hungary, July 17th. Earthquakes were felt in Moravia, at Tischnour;z, July 25, and also in the Muehi district. The floods are np in China. On the 22ud of July the waters covered the country as far as Pekin. Part of the town of Slomin, in the Department of Grodno, was wrecked by a hurricane on July 22nd. Andrew Carnegie, t he Pittsbury millionaire, has donated £lO,OOO to found a library at Ayr, Scotland. Cablegrams of July 17th report an increase in mould and vermin in some of the English hop plantations. The French gunboat Fusee stranded on a rock while attempting to enter Toulon Roads, July 10. Mr Wilson, Libera', was returned to Parliament from Mid-Durham, July 17th, by a majority of 2000. Countess Badini was arrested at Trieste, July Btb, charged with causing the death of her daughter, 12 years old. The Canadian Pacific offered, on the London Stock Exchange, July 21, £1,000,000 4 per cents, perpetual bonds.

Jeanne Hugo, grandchild of Victor Hugo, was betrothed to Leon Daudet, son of Alphonse Daudet, on July 20tb. A family of five persons—father, wife, and three children, named Meranda, wore burned to death in Quebec, July 17th. It is semiofficially stated that Ro-eia would soon ptopoee the Duke of Leuchtenberg tor the Bulgarian throne. • - - . J. The Porte is worried by a n'te from the Czar protesting against the concessions demanded from Ihe Sultan by Bulgaria. The Chinese Government stopped a party cf Buerian explorers, oh Joly 20. at Thibet/ and ordered them to return to Kashgar, General Clinton Bowen Fiske. Prohibition candidate for President for the United States in 1888, died on July ff,in his 62nd year. A great storm had raged in Galicia, lasting 48 hours, up to July 9th, and devastating the crops over an area of 2000 square miles. The territory of Idjibo was admitted as a State of the Union on' July 3. The territory of Wyoming was also admitted on July 10. The use ot th- Lake front, asked for by the directors of the World's Fair at Chicago, as a site, has been graptej by the City Council. It is officially announced from Odessa, July 25, that there have been 70 fatal cases of cholera in Baku and Vicinity, The heat is intense. .. A whole family, consisting of a father, mother, and six children were suffocated by eharcoal fumes in a room on the Bue Avon,

July I7tb. The Board ot Health at Vienna was in. formed, July 16, that the cholera had reap, peared in 31 communities of Valencia and Alicante, Spain. . Mrs Delia Parnell, mother of the leader of the Irish party in Parliament, is reported so ill st Bordentown, New Jersey, that there are fears of her recovery. In the United States Senate on July 12, the Tonnage Subsidy Bill passed—ayes, 29; noes,-lA-and also the Postal Subsidy Bill by nearly the same vote. By an explosion at King's powder mi’ls, on the Little Miami, B.P._, 28 miles east cf Cincinnati, on July 15, ten persons were killed and thirty or forty injured. Notice has been received from Antioch, North Syria, that a tremendous army of pauper Asiatics, chiefly Armenians, are pre. paring to invade the United States this autumn. While the fleet accompanying the Emperor William was entering Christiana, July 10th, a gun on board the Frederick der Grosse exploded prematurely, terribly injuring five of the crew. General John C. Fremont, U.S.A., intimately connected with the early history of California, as an explorer—the " Pathfinder," as he was called—died in New York, on July 13. The Siberian cattle plague is ravaging the province of Riagau, Russia. A number of peasants have also contracted the disease. Cattle, horses, and sheep are dying by thousands. .Ex-King Milan, cf Servia, thinking his divorce absolute, has contracted, it is said, marriage with a very rich young American lady, who will pay his debts, amounting to 600,000 dollars. . A band of Arnauts recently made an attack ppon the Montenegrin vi lage of Rogmore, plundered it, and murdered the inhabitants. In turn the Arnauts were attacked by the Turkish troops, who killed 60 and left many more wounded. A tornado passed over the northern portion of the town of Gallatin, Tennessee, on June 29 th, blowing a Methodist Church to pieces, killing the preacher, who was in the pnlpit, and hurting twelve or fifteen ot the congre- , gation, some fatally. A free hospital, for consumptives, is to bp established in Philadelphia. The treatment to bet adopted is air-tight compartments for patients, filled with oxygen, or oxide, or any vapor containing medicine, by the inhaling of which the patient is iable to be cured. r News was received, July 12, of a raid by the Zemmcur tribe on the camp of the Sultan’s son near Salee, Morocco. The camp was taken completely by surprise, and the troops and slaves mercilessly slaughtered by the raiders. Fifteen prisoners were burned a’ive. . Mr Gladstone, on July 24, listened through a phonograph to the remarks of General Sherman and others made at a recent meeting in New York. He said he was so accustomed to receiving notes of kindness from America, that his vocabulary of gratitude was exhausted. Pi i nee George, commander ot the British gghboat Thrush, of the North Atlantic Squadron, will visit Newport, Bbode Island, with bis ship early in August. Fetes are proposed in bis honor. The fortifications at Halifax are being greatly strengthened by the Home Government, and the strictest injunctions have been given to prevent any outsider from gaining admittance to the fqrt. Eugene Schuyler, late. United States Consul General to Egypt, died in Venice on July 19th, of malarial pernicioea, contracted during his term of office. Schuyler was eminent as a man of letters.

The Eastern States passed through a heated term during the first week of July that caused much suffering, prostration, and death. At Richmond, Virginia, themeroury marked 101 degrees in the shade. Tain Kwo Yin, the Chinese Minister to the United States, says that unless the American Government repeals the law which now excludes his countrymen, China will exclude Americans from the Chinese Empire. It is proposed to bring the detachment of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders now in Ceylon home via the Canadian Pacific route, the desire being to test the railroad’s capacity for military transportation Alfred vo*i Kendler, a banker, and formerly Swedish Consul in Vienna, has beep convicted on a charge of fp.|,d and ambezg'eHiopt, auq sentenced tp seven years' penal servitude and the loss of all bin titles, The j’orte has declined to give the satisfaction demanded by Servia for the murder of the Servian Consul st Pristina, ortooompensate the widow of the mudered man. Servia threatens to sever diplomatic relations. fames Gor 'on Bennett Is about to ereot an cnOrinous building for the business purposes of the New York Herald on the lot now covered by the o'd armoury, and bounded by Broadway, Sixth Avenue, Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth streets. fn'elligence reached Dublin on July 11th pf * horrible affair at Ballyneale, where John H«rt murdered bis mother and chopped the body to pieces; when discovered, he was fosasd lying beside the remains and eating a portion of them. The steamer St. Lawrence ran down the plea»ure-y»cht Catherine on the St. Lawrenoe near Alexandria Bey, in the Vicinity of Ltrcar New York, on Jnly 1 and out 0(

party of twelve aboard the yacht five were drowned. A regular Chinese bureau has been established in Washington for the purpose of securing a repeal cf the Exclusion Law. Correspondents from thence are tilling all the (rest dailies of the East with matter urging its abrogation, and at the same time abusing the people of the Pacific Coast. A despatch from London, Joly 20, speaks of the heaviest rainfall known in any one week since 1878. The pecuniary loss to the farmers has been something terrible. There is likely to be the worst crop yield since the unprecedented disaster of 1879. The stock of English wheat is now all but exhausted. There was a financial crisis in Urguay on July 8, and the National Bank suspended specie payments. In order to save the bank the Legislature passed 6 Bill sanctioning the suspension of specie payments for six months.

A shipment of 1,500,000 dollars in gold to Montevideo from Buenos Aytee relieved the money embarrassment in a degree. Work on the London and St. Catherine Docks was s'opped on July 24. The Dock Laborers’ Union ordered the men out in consequence of the directors refusing to allow representatives of the Union to go inside the docks, to ascertain if the men had proper cards issued by the union. Subsequently the directors yielded, and work was resumed. Mr Chaplin, Minister of Agriculture, delivered an address at the Lincoln (England) Agricultural Show on July 24, in the course ot which he said that the recent rise in the prices of agricultural products was due to an advance in the price cf silver, in consequence of the passage of tLe Silver Bill by the National Legislature of tbs United States. An appeal for help has been made to Protestants of all countries in favor of the Waldensee, now reduced to 1000 in number, and contending against natural difficulties in their own country, which threaten complete extinction ot the race. It is proposed to remove them to another land, and one more favorable in climatic conditions to existence.

A despatch, dated Paris, July 25, says the crops throughout France, except in the section east of the Rhone, have been destroyed by incessant rains. Official reports from the great wheat district of La Blange (!) State that the crop is rotting. The losses are estimated at ever 500,000,000 francs. Dealers in grain discount the scarcity, and the price of bread is rising. For the week ending July 20, there were further ravages by the potato blight in Ireland. ■ The Rev. Dr Lyons, of Castle Haven, in the diooeseof Ross, County Cork, writing under date July 17, says that in all the town lands of his parish bordering on the sea the failure of the potato cr p is complete. Distressing reports have also come to hand from other districts ot Cork, Limerick, Kerry, and WaterfordFour women were arrested on board the steamship Majestic at Queenstown from New York, July 17th, and on being searched their bustles were found crammed with tea, tobacco, spirits, and other contraband goods, The enormous size of these adjuncts to their drees attracted the attention of the Customs officers. A terrific cyclone ewept over Muscat (the city and seaport in the province ot Omaun, Arabia), and the adjacent country, on the 9:h July,' doing much damage. Many houses, both in the city and on the plantations, were demolished. The loss of life is appalling. There were reported to be 700 persons killed.

The National Seamen's Union of Great Britain, with a view to forcing English shipowners to influence Danish shipowners, made a general strike on July 26, with the under standing that the men, will not return to work until the demands ot the Danish seamen for wages equal to those paid to English seamen are conceded.

A despatch from Tiflis, July 22, says the Armenian Bishop of Ezeroum was among those killed in the riot of June 20, and his death has aroused the Armenians to the highest pitch of excitement. The whole country is in a state of anarchy. Half, starved Turkish soldiers and Kurds under the pretence of maintaining order, patrol the country wherever they go. The official correspondence between the Governments of the United States and Great Britain touching the seal fisheries of Behring Sea, was made public on ’July 23. The new York Tribune and the Times credit Secretary Blaine with the best of the argument; the Herald does not think he has added to his diplomatic laurels by the correspondence. A large meeting was held in Farnwell Hall, Chicago, on Sunday afternoon, July 20, when regolm jins were adopted by a lisingvote, that the Legislature about to meet in special session be earnestly requested to see to it that the World‘B Columbian Exposition, to be held in Chicago in 1892, closes its doors on Sundays, The resolutions dec’a-e that the injury to the city, State, and nation, of an “ open European Sabbath ” cannot be estimated. New York banker, named Bernard Aren son, was assailed on July 20 by a crowd of angry Polandera and his fbanking establishment raided. Arenson was badly beaten before the police rescued him. The assailants charge that the banker has misappropriated funds entrusted to him for the purpose of bringing out their friends and relatives from Poland,

A shocking accident occurred at Baden Station, line of the Southern Pacific Bailroad, on Sunday, July 13, whereby three women and two children were killed and others in Jarea• The casualty was due to too much drink, A party of Germans were returning from a picnic, and one of the waggons attempted to cross the track when it collided with the locomotive : the driver was drunk. .£ im ! U P tMeD « e * steamer, the Sea King, with a barge attached, conveying about 250 people to a State militia encampment at Lake City, Minn., one Sunday, July 13, was struck by a cyclone iu the middle of Lake Peppin, and became unmanageable. The barge was then cut loose, end after an hour drifted to the shore w|th about 20 people an board. The other 200 or more on the steamer were drowned. t ? 0 I e I Dor Nichole, of Louisiana, vetoed on July "th the Bill passed by the Legislature granting an extension of the lottery franchise. In his veto message he denounced the lottery as a dark shadow and a disgrace on the honour of the State. On the Bth the Legislature calmly passed thp Bill over the Governor’s veto. Ayes, 68 ; noes, 31. Starvation has forced the striking oloakit i ! ew York to acts of vio’ence. On July 8 they attacked employers* places of business, wrecking several of them, as well as inflicting severe personal injuries on the owners. Jews are the principal parties interested on both aides. Polish Jews arg for the most pirt employers, have forced the wage, from 25 dollar, a week down to 0 and 7 dollar.,