'FRISCO MAIL NEWS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 588, 31 March 1891, Page 3

'FRISCO MAIL NEWS.

AMERICAN SUMMARY.

Twenty-five illicit stills have been captured in Florida, and sixteen prisoners. The movement at New York for the erection of an equestrian statue of General Sherman has assumed working shape. The Renfrew Gingham cotton mills at Adams, Massachusetts, were burned. The loss i* estimated at half-a-million dollars, with 800 people thrown out of employment. The colored people who lately emigrated to Gklaohama are at starvation’s door. They number several thousand, and find themselves the dupes cf unscrupulous agents. It has just leaked out that 589,000 dollars in securities owned by the State of Delaware have been lost, and no oue knows how or when they disappeared. They are not negotiable. Mrs Thomas W. Fitcb, daughter of the late General Sherman, has confirmed the report that the famous Khedive’s diamonds sent by the Khedive of Eg)pt as a present to Miss Sherman when she was married to Lieutenant Fitch in 1875 are to be sold. Great political corruption is being exposed in San Francisco, and Elwood Bruner, an Assembly man from Sacramento, has made his disappearance to prevent his arrest. Miss Culbertson, a missionary among the Chii ese girls in San Francisco, publishes an exposure of a system of decoying Chinese girls to San Francisco, there to be nothing else than slaves, and in many cases to lead an abominable life of shame. The Hawaiian Consul at San Francisco (Mr McKinley) has received the jewelled insignia of Knight Commander of the Royal Order of Kuakaua. The Queen, in presenting the decoration, expresses her gratification at Mr M< Kinley’s services to the late King, and desires to bestow the Order in recognition of them. A man and his two children were attacked by two wild cats at Lake Weir, Fla., but the savage creatures were beaten off after a struggle, in which the man’s horse was badly clawed. News has been received at San Francisco by the arrival of the steamer City of New York, Captain Johnson, fiom Panama, that the Guatemala Government hue made amends for the action of one of its repre- • sentatives in seizing arms and ammunition on the American merchant marine steamer Colima on the 19th of last July, at the port of San Jose, Guatemala, by Colonel jTorriello, commandant oFtbe fort at San Jo?e The steamer Cohm belong* to the Pauifij Mail Company Oapiain Johnson, o! that cqmpsny, deputed by th • acting Charge d’ Affairs in Central America io receive the apology and explanation < f the Guatemaiaian representative at 4 o'clock in the afternoon of January 29th, Colonei Torrieliu, accompanied by his aide-de-camp, ain Caldron, of the amy, paid an official vine . to New York, and was received with al! the honors that could possibly.be paid ..by a ship of the U' ifed States merchant service. After the formal arrangements had been made, Colonel Torrielfo explained that at the date of the rtiaure war withJian-Salvador was byh»* Government deemed inevitable, and an »• excess of zeal'* prompted him to act, and that, on mature consideration, bi-Government refused to indorse it, Coloniel Torriello further stated that bv reason of the fact that the subordinate officers disobeyed positive Orders, arms and ammunition were not delivered in a manner befitting «he occasion. to those present, Cap’ain Johnson proposed three cheers for the ynitgd_fitales, fiag, which were promptly responded to { the Colonel and his aide joining in heartily, af*er which the uniformed officers of he aieamer hoisted at the foreyard. Ihe flag of Guatemala, to whiih a similar salute was paid. It is probable that.. Sir Charles Dilke will abandon the idea of eutering Parliainent Mr Gladstone having objectedjto his proposed Candidature, Mr Stead has published a pro teat against Sir Charles Dilk«’s return. ~ It is said that in consequence of unlucky speculations on the S'oak Exchange the exEmpress Eugene is about to sell the celebrated chateau Darenberg in Switzerland. Mr Henry Harrison, M.P-.r visited the offices of the Belfast branch of the National League on March 2nd and seized all the money and documents he could la\ h>nds on. It is said the central Branch of the League authorised the seizure owing to the disorganised state of the Belfast branch, and their disloyal at'itude to Mr Parueil. Mr . Harrison and his friends then declared the branch dissolved, A free fight followed between Mr Harrison’s friends and their Opponents of the Belfast Leigue, and fists, Sticks, and chairs were freely peed. ..Finally , the police cleared the building. Jn San Francisco on March sth a telegram was received by. Collector Phe'ps from Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Spaulding, th "the effect that the-limes-and other articles on the steamer City of New York, which did not bear the stamp of the produc (pg ‘ country, should be held and refused Custom entry until properly stamped with the name of the producing country. The goods, consisting of limes and coffee, are — now on the malt dock wharf, and consignees will be compelled to affix the proper mark. GENERAL SUMMARY. Dates to March 6. Over £9.000,000 has been spent on the Manchester ship canal, wh : ch is rapidly approaching completion If more money is not secured by August, fifteen thousand men wOl be out of emp'oym*nt. and the plant, 2 ioh is worth £1,000,000 will be left to t„ Application for avistaeoe.hu been made to the {City Council, which it is understood will advance nearly £2 000,000 for the completion of the canal. The San Franchco Morning Call says 11 The prospects are that the colonies of New South Wales; Victoria, Western Australia, Queensland, New Zealand, and Tasmania, Who now virtually manage their own affairs, and settle their Controversies without the intervention of Imperial authority, will at once adopt the Australian Federation plan with a Parliament Executive like that of Canada ; but unlike our northern neighbor, instead of the prospect of annexation in the future Federation is likely to lead to virtual independence. " -• A despatch from New York on March 2-d Says: •• T. P. O’Connor, late, editor.of th’ London Star, sailed for Rumps this morning, because hie -mission to America in the interests of the Irish party was a failure. He thinks the outlook for tbe Irish cause is distasl. He will start at London • paper called Tita Fpn, to be devoted to tbe Irish cause and American news, Qu March ihe 2nd the Pope received congratulations on the occasion of hie eightieth ... anniversary of bls birthday. Cardinal La Valletta presented'ah address from the Sacred College. His Holiness, in tbe course of bis reply; sold* be bad passed another year of anxieties and vexations, due to attacks on tbe Qbilrch. Ris position was similar to that in ' " Gregory's Pontificate, when the Church combated the Lombards. Though Barbarian - tried his patience, Gregory's greatest trials were with internal enemies, who were less ferocious but more evil than barbarians, so now lbs malice of tbe Church's enemies was subtle, but thesr spares would net prevail.