’FRISCO MAIL NEWS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 507, 16 September 1890, Page 3

’FRISCO MAIL NEWS.

GENERAL SUMMARY. The growing of sugar beet is about to be attempted in the South of Ireland. Dairs Dalton, an American, accomplished, August 18th, the feat of swimming the English Channel from Griz Nez to Folkestone, on his back, in twenty-four hours and a-half. London was scared on August 19tb by a case of Asiatic cholera brought from Calcutta in the person of Robert Leigh, a eoalpasser. The doctors pronounced it a severe ease when they diagnised it in the hospital to which the man had been conveyed from a coffee-house, the Britannic, Whitehall. The place was thoroughly disinfected, and the wall-paper of the room in which he bad slept torn down. Every house and bar-room he is known to have visited was treated in the same way. The scare is spreading. The doctors have no doubt Leigh's case is one of Asiatic cholera of the most malignant type, and although the patient was doing well, according to last accounts, they are still apprehensive lest a relapse may come. Sir William Harcourt, speaking at Derby, August 13, attacked the House of Lords as a standing obstruction to useful legislation. He said it had done nothing during the present session beyond promoting a Bill to preserve hares and to secure an extension of the game laws.

John Ruskin was reported rapidly sinking, August 15th. He is almost continuously delirious, and during these irresponsible moments attempts suicide with a razor. In a bar room on King Lane Road, London, July 31st, a discharged soldier, named Harper, quarelted with two men, and, drawing a revolver, killed them both. He had just returned from New York, where he had unsuccessfully looked for work. In a speech at Manchester, August oth, Balfour declared that Gladstone’s insinuation that the Government had sacrificed the rights of .the Protestant residents at Malta in order to secure the favor of the Catholic minority, was totally' unfounded, and a most barefaced attack from the man who sent Errington to Rome, in 1881, to enter into direct relations with tho Pope. “It was,” said Balfour, '• one of the many instances of Gladstone’s perversity in attacking the Government through his own reputation. “Why,” asked the speaker, “ was | Gladstone determined to repudiate every act of the first fifty years of his life, and to eoom the Government where it followed his precedent ?" A declaration of war on the part of " her caste was recently made by the Duchess of Buccleuch in failing to invite the newly-rich A mericans and Others to her ball and garden party. Her lead is to be followed by all her Kt, in order to repair the disintegration in London society, wrought by the so-called “ society papers.” Shannon, tho Dublin solicitor of the London Times, concerned with the Pigott scandal, turned up on August 13th, after several months’ disappearance. Lord Hartington’s marriage wi‘h the Dowager Duchess of Manchester js fired for April next.

The English Government informed Cardinal Rampolla, the Papal Secretary of t’tate, on August 11th, that it was impossible for England to receive a Papal Envoy, or to send a Minister to the \ atican. It has been suggested by the Vatican that a secretary be attached to the British Legation at Vienna, whose duty it shoqld be to conduct negotiations with the Vatican and sometimes visit Rome. The town of Wallace, Idaho, the great mining centre of the Csour d'Alene district, was completely destroyed by fire on July 27th. Fifteen hundred people were rendered homeless. Wallace is situated 110 miles pljst of Spokane Falls, Wash., and was one of the most flourishing towns in the north-west. Village of Brae, in Scotland, was nearly obliterated on July 28th by a conflagration. Four women were killed, and many persons injured. The business portion of Seneca Faile, New York, was swept away in flames on the morning of July 80th. An anew of nearly three acres was burped over. Careful estimates place the loss at between 600,000d015. and 1.000.000d015., with insurance of IOO.OOOdoIs. Up to July 80th, five ineendiary fires had taken place in one week at an ail village oalled Bairdstown, 20 ihiles south of Toledo, Ohio, In the last blaze, that occured on the date mentioned, every business house in the place was destroyed. The cause of these fires is thought to be the passage by the authorities some time ago of an ordinance forbidding the sinking of gas or oil wells witbin the town limits. It is alleged that men who are holding town lota at big prices, hoping to sell them to oil-men. finding their aspirations checked, leagued together to burn the town, with a view to tum the site into an oil-producing territory. The citizens have employed a detective to look into the matter, and an armed posse patrol the streets to guard aeainst incendiaries, A fire in East Saginaw, Michigan, July 29th consumed 19,000,000 feet lumber, ten dwelling-houses, sixty-sii yailroad cars, and other property

Total loss, $375,000 ; insurance, $185,000. Jif«aimmdns and Cannoli's docks on the lake front,- Chicago, took fire on July 30th, a’’d before it was controlled from ten to fourteen acres of lumber were cleared off. besides a number of freight cays, and a large quantity of railroad material. Thp loss will reach 1300,000, The business portion of Walnut, Illinois, was swept away by fire, July 81. Fifty six bouses and stores were destroyed, and sixteen families burned out. toss l? 5,000 dollars. Same day, the Hungarian settiemen t at Braddock, Pa., was destroyed. 120 families were rendered houseless. A benzine explosion in the 'pharmacy of W. A. Mitchell, Denver, on August 5, resulted in the wrecking and ignition of the building. The clerk whose carelessness led to the accident, was taken to the hospital, •horn of his clothing, and a blister

from head to foot. Two firemen were terribly injured by the ruins falling on them. One had both hips brsken, the other both legs ; a third was severely but not seriously hurt.

FRANCE. At the funeral of the victims of the St. Etienne mining disaster on the 31st July, some of the coffins were inscribed “To the Martyrs of Labor,” and “ To the Victims of Capitalists ” Several Socialists spoke. The Chamber of Deputies voted 200,000 francs to the families of the victims.

Recently a military pupil, while visiting relatives in Alsace-Lorraine, was arrested, handcuffed, marched to the depot, and put in the train, and his host mulcted in the sum of fifty marks for failing to notify the authorities of the presence of a Frenchman in the district.

The French Government has granted amnesty to all persons convicted of offences in connection with labor strikes; in some instance partial, in others total.

On the 4th the Senate voted 100,000 francs to prevent the entrance of the cholera into France by the establishment of frontier posts. By the terms of Zanzibar agreement between France and England, the former gives her assent to the establishment of a British protectorate over Zanzibar and Muscat, in return for recognition of the French sphere of influence in Algeria to Niger River.

MM. Jolvis and Hullet propose to cross Central Europe in a balloon, ascending at Nancy and descending somewhere in Russia or Norway. A French military attache will accompany them. Tie French Government has accepted the Italian Government's proposal for a convention to establish an international maritime service on the Red Sea. The object of the proposed service is the suppression of cholera. England’s adhesion is doubtful. RUSSIA. Orders have been sent to the frontier customs posts and railways to watoh for a threatened migration of Jews from Poland, as the new Russian regulation will tend to drive from the country vast bodies of artisans and farming Jews. London Jews are asked by their fellow religionists in Russia to prepare relief for suffering brethren.

It is announced that transportation to Siberia will shortly be abolished as a judicial punishment, but the fact is omitted that it will be retained as now without judicial sentence. Fresh Nihilist plots against the Czar have been developed at St. Petersburg, leading to the arrest of Professor Corte Coritovaski of that ilace and a number of students of the University; also the suicide of two army officers, and the arrest of many people of importance. Advices from Siberia, August Bth, say that a body of 180 prisoners, on foot, escorted by 53 soldiers, on arriving at Jeumen, demanded c irts for their conveyance. The demand being refused, they attacked the soldiers. The escort wounded ten prisoners before the gang was reduced to order.

The Czar ordered, on August 9th, the operation of the anti-Jewish laws suspended for one year, with a view probably of an indefinite postponement.

Several of the crew of the Russian man-o’-war Johesina, were killed at Sebastopol, August 6th, by the bursting of a steam-pipe. Among the victims is Prince Khilijoff.

GERMANY. The Prussian Minister of Commerce has conceded most of the demands the miners’ delegates recently submitted to the Government, including the eight hour shift, re-instatement of ell strikers who w'ere dismissed, arbitration in courts to which mining officials shall be made amenable, and the abolition of farming jobs. The International Medical Congress opened in Berlin on Monday, August 11th, a session that lasted six days. Virchow delivered the address of welcome to 18,000 physicians and surgeons from all parts of the world—--3,000 from America alone.

AFRICAN EXPLORATION. The Frpnph bishop of Levinhao, who returned to Zanzibar on July 29th from a mission in the interior, reports that he met Emin Pasha on his way. Emin was not well, and there was considerable sickness among his company. Several of his officers were thought to be dying. Emin had had severe fighting at Masai and Ugogo. He defeated the latter tribe with great slaughter. Many of the savages were armed with Maxim guns. It is announced that Lieutenant Azevodo Cotinho, who in June went with an armed expedition to the Shire district, for the ostensible purpose of attacking the Makololos, seized the Steamer ’James Stevenson, belonging to the British African Lakes Company, and that the oyew of the steamer had been sent to Qulllamane for trial.

Germany agrees to apply the fur trade provisions of the Berlin Act of 1885 to the whole German sphere of, influence in East Africa, except a strip of coast territory ten pijles deejT belonging to Zanzibar. A decree was issued by the Sultan of Zanzibar, August 1, announcing that the ordinances relating to slavery generally will remain as binding as before the Anglo-German agreement The sale of slaves is forbidden and slave depots are prohibited. In the House of Commons, same date, Sir James Ferguson, said, in reply to a question, that no date liad been fixed for England to assume a protectorate ever Zanzibar. He could not undertake to say whether slavery would be made illegal after the establishment of the protectorate.

MISCELLANEOUS, Accounts from Shanghai, July 30, are to the effect that the plain around Tientsin is submerged by the recent overflow of the Peiho river. All the roads in the flooded districts aye -destroyed and the crops ruined'", All communication has been cut off, andfor several days no news from Peking was received at Tientsin. Business was paralysed. Nine thousand acres of rice and cotton land in the province'of Berbers

Egypt, have been covered with an inflow of salt water, and the growing crops are destroyed. Famine prevails in the Soudan. In some parts of the country deaths from starvation average 100 daily. Desertions by tho wholesale have occurred of late from the Italian regiments stationed along the French frontier. The regiments have been removed into the interior.

Turks are torturing Christians since martial law was proclaimed in their towns, for the purpose of extorting

money. In more than half the railroad stations here, says a Calcutta despatch, August 9, huge placards are displayed warning travellers against accepting hospitality from the natives, or purchasing drinks or edibles of any kind. Organised bands infest the stations, peddling poisoned fruits, cakes, drinks, etc., to travellers. Inhabitants of villages also poison and rob those whom they receive as guests. A mania for such crimes is spreading among the natives.

There is reason to believe the King of Holland is in a dangerous condition of health The Dutch newspapers are not permitted, says a despatch of August 16th, to discuss the matter ; but it is known that the King suffers from a combination of disorders which his constitution cannot shake off.

Stanley has found time and opportunity to talk about missionary prospects in Africa. He foresees trouble between Protestants and Roman Catholics if the native converts be not kept well in hand ; but he has no fear of Mohammedanism in the future. That faith, he thinks, is fast dying, and he ventures to prophesy that within five years there will not be one Mahommedan south of the Equator in Central Africa. He also assigns the space of time for the completion of the railway from the seabord at Mombazi to Uganda on the Victoria Nyanza. The Paris “ Siecle ” says the French agents in the Upper Senegal country made treaties with chiefs, Maciva, Jateuga, Aribunda, Teourma, and Masse, by which they secure a protectorate over that territory and greatly extend French influence on the Niger.

The “ Cologne Gazette ” of August 15th publishes a letter from Emin Pasha, in which he denies that he has bound himself to Germany after promising to assist England. He writes that he is under no obligation to anyone, and is marching into the interior of Africa merely as an adventurer.

Henry M. Stanley has surprised Frenchmen by expressing an opinion that Ribot made a good argument in the Anglo-French agreement. Stanley believes that had Salisbury known Nigritia better he would not have signed the agreement. Stanley applauds the scheme for a transSaharan railway, and thinks the road will not cost more than 200,000,000 francs, and can be built in ten years.