THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Evening Star, Issue 7367, 12 November 1887, Page 1

THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Austrian ‘Lloyds,’ in. an inspired article published on October 20, expressed the readiness of Austria te. enter into the closest alliance with England. The closing meeting of the Liberal Conference at Nottingham on October 19 was one of the largest ever held in England. Nearly' 6,000 persons were present. The hit of the meeting was when Mr Gladstone, takingT#" candle in hand, read a telegram announcingthat Mr Caine had repudiated Mr Chamberlain's Parliament for Ulster. Major Saunderson, the.. Parliamentary leader of the same party# had presumptuously repudiated his land-purchase: scheme. The second point of enthusiasm jDUi\e ' when Mr Gladstone referred to Mr Chamber- ? lain’s demand for a plan of dealing with Ulster. Michael Davitt reached Queens town- ,u«r October on his return from.New York.. Qe was given an enthusiastic welcome, bqtdecl{nflcL to receive an address from the League. ( Sis ' health has been completely restored. , ,'.j, Mr, Evelyn .{Conservative) has-reaigncd hlaseatfor Deptford, being unwilling to support the Irish policy of the Government. ■■■•;/ ■ ;,< Sir Charles, Dilke and Lady Dilke Juid> extraordinary reception ftoin the Sultan Turkey. They were receivedtwice in audience, ■ and a special State banquet given them, jrfcfn* all the Ministers and household, were present.. The Turks and Greeks vied in their hosphp&y. . Mr Eider Haggard has 'written to VTljfl , Times’ complaining that in Americawork. ‘Me,’companionto ‘She,’has been issued,gay which he is entirely innocent. book ‘Allan Quariermain’ was sipreptitaQijalypublished from proofs whioh by some, mystqnous means found their way to American firmsv.yand , spoiled the sale of the authorised edition. The Marquis of Ailesbniyhas subuu)te4thoJockey Club’s decision ruling .him off the turf, for unfair practices to the Attorney-General, and, acting on the latter’s opinion, hasinstntotcdr the lawyers of the Chanoery Court to apply Jo| an injunction suspending the notice warning him off English raceeoqfses as.a niehmiaary ■{■(>,< farther action against the stewards of the Club.' The defence of the Marquis is that he did not djrect.his jockey (Martin) to pull his kon?. He will, bring evidence to prove that Martin’s,oriv . dense is false. .... ».V Several influential English and .Scottish newspaper proprietors have offered; the c use. s|j their premises, machinery, and. stalls it the Government-close the ‘Nation’ office in Dublin. The Scotland Yard officials profess to have received information to the effect that anumber - of American officials are contemplating a sCries of dynamite outrages in Ireland and'Hngland. All the special police precautions that were in use during the troublesome times of 1881 and: 1882 have been revived for Mr Balfour’s profcCl tion. Major Saunderson, M.P., in a speech at Belfast, spoke in high praise of the policy of Mr Chamberlain. , He said, that the Govemnwnk were not worth their salt unless tbey.sefe the Parnellites to oakum-picking in Kilmainham Gaol., i ; Mr Chamberlain addressed 4,000 persons at Ulster Halj, Belfast, on October 12. Heralds., be did not intend to submit Ulster to a Dublin' Parliament, because he objected to submitting Ulster’s orderly and regular life to the inventors of the Flan of Campaign. A FariiaiwpV in Dublin would be simply an American Tamanny Hal transferred from New York to Dublin. . < -■- •tt'STS At Tuam fair on October lO head of cattle and sheep were offered for. sale, at ruinous. prices, but despite I,the. Jow%ui»; there yverei; no purchasers. Large gfasaefs elate they, cannot continue business aiiyjqpaer, and must take advantage of the. bankriiplioy,, i . Three tenants on the estate of. Lord carde were evicted on October ,20.,- Patrick? Uampbell strenuously resisted the officers* r (during the meUe his’ daughter Margaret _wa«. struck on the bead with a crowbar ,;sssrt‘ women 'and., two.’men were .arrested. : the effiriqu.-

The London ‘ Chronicle’s ’ Berlin correspondent! writing on October 13, says the condition of the (Sown Prince of Germany is precarious, and that Dr Mackenzie s treatment has failed. It is now admitted that he is suffering from cancer of the throat, and the case is similar to that which caused the death of General Grant. The German physicians consider the Prince a doomed man. The very severe caustics used have destroyed not only the tissue primarily affected but the parts themselves. So severe has the treatment been that some portions of bone are now visible. Maurice Strakosch, opera impressario, died in Paris on the 18th October.

The Pope recently declared in a private audience that the solution of the Roman question depended upon restoring Borne to the Pontiff, and that the Italians must leave. The Pope received 1,600 Prench pilgrims, headed by Count Mun, on October 16. They came to offer congratulations on the occasion of his Jubilee. A despatch from Teheran of October 11 says that eight associates of Ayoub Khan in Ms flight from Persia have been captured, leaving eight others still missing. The scarlet fever epidemic continues to spread in London. On October 12 there were 1,900 cases in the hospitals. Richard Tichborne, ‘‘the Claimant,” was removed to the London City Lunatic Asylum on October 10. He broke the street lamp in front of the Mansion House a day or two previously, saying he wanted to see the Mayor to get Ms title. Dhuleep Singh has written a letter to the native papers of India, according to a Calcutta despatch of the 10th October, in which he says England has offered him L 250,000 in settlement of his claim against the Indian Government, and he rejected the offer. Embittered by his arrest at Aden, he expresses eternal hatred to the British Government, and declares he will serve his new sovereign, the Czar, with his life’s blood.

Extraordinary precautions have been taken in Chicago to guard the County Gaol where the condemned Anarchists arc confined. The police cordon has been trebled, and eighteen additional deputy-sheriffs appointed. Mr T. M. Healy, M.P., spoke at the Longford meeting on October 9. The platform fell, and the Government reporter was injured. Healy chaffed him while he was suffering on his first trial of a plank bed. In his speech the Irish M.P. said that there would soon be no more leagues left in Ireland, and he hoped the mortgages of Lord Grannard would not leave him a “ brass farthing ” to bless himself with. At the trial of the man for the raid on farmer Sexton’s house, where Whelan was murdered, Callenan, an informer, testified that he planned it in order to deliver his companions over to the police, and that all his expenses were paid by Government. The Fenian fraternity in London, Paris, and New York, have been profoundly moved by these disclosures, and are beginning to believe the Government can checkmate at every turn. The prisoners were committed for trial on the Bth. The populace cheered them as they were led back to gaol. An immense meeting was held in the Round Room in Dublin on October 11 to protest against the prosecutions directed by the Government. Bishop Moore, of St, Augustine, Florida, has appealed to Rome to have the case of the Rev. Dr M’Glynn, of New York, re-opened. Dennis Kearney, the Californian agitator, is now in the East. It is said that he has been subsidised to the tune of 5,000d0l by New York politicians to break the influence, if possible, of Henry George and Dr M'Glynn with the working masses of the city. Emma Abbott, the opera singer, being in the Methodist Episcopal Church, Nashville, on Sunday, October 9, when the Rev. W. A. Chandler attacked from the pulpit the show business and show people, arose in her place and replied to the clergyman, defending herself and the theatrical profession. The incident created a sensation. Michael Davitt failed to secure the cooperation of the Knights of Labor in the contest for Home Rule.

Minister Forsyth stated in an interview that the Dominion Government will propose to Parliament that Canada take the first steps in laying the proposed Pacific cable by inaugurating next spring a preliminary survey. The Government will fit out a vessel thoroughly equipped for the survey, and invitations will be sent to Australian colonial Governments to appoint delegates to participate. He believes that active work would begin on the cable within a year. The Canadian Government had been offered ample capital in London to prosecute the work alone, without the aid of Australia. The St. Louis ‘ Globe ’ (Democrat) of October 8, speaking of the depressed condition of the wool market in the United States, says : “It so mystified the factories in that city that a secret investigation was recently on foot, and disclosed one of the biggest rings among Eastern manufactures and New York and Boston Customhouse officials ever organised in America. It has been found out that New York and Boston Customs officials have been systematically undervaluing imported wool, and have loaded the market with it.” The Bostonians deny the St. Louis impeachment. The National Rubber Company of Bristol, 8.T., owning the most extensive works of the kind in the world, failed on October 16 with liabilities placed at 1,000,000d01. Some 1,400 employes have beee thrown out of work. Thomas Courtland Manning, United States Minister to Mexico, died at New York on October 11.

Governor Washbourno, of Mass., dropped dead on the platform in Springfield, on October 5, while the annual report of the American Board of Foreign Missions was being read. A reception was given at the Cooper Institute, New York, on the night of October 5, to Sir Thomas Es'monde and Arthur O’Connor, members of the Irish Parliamentary Party, who bad come to the States to present their cause. Anew political part}, called “The Personal Liberal Party,” has been formed in the Eastern States. It is composed almost wholly of Germans, and the object of its formation is to secure the passage of laws permitting the sale of liquor between" the hours of 2 p.rc. and one o’clock on Sundays. The leaders claim 50,000 votes in New York already, and that they can give a majority in the next Legislature of that State to either the Republican or Democratic party as they please The movement of gold towards the United States from Europe during July, August, September, and October is taken by American business circles to indicate a large balance of trade in favor of the Republic. The total influx bo far for the months named is 12,894,692d01, ell but half-a-million being in gold. A meeting called at the Union Hall, New Jersey, on October 2, to protest against the death sentences of the Chicago Anarchists, was broken up by the police, who clubbed the people assembled unmercifully, knocking many of them senseless, and warned the speakers to leave the town.

The Rev. Dr Parker, of City Temple, London, delivered a memorial sermon at Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, on October 2, on the late Henry Ward Beecher. He declines to accept a call from the church.

President Cleveland issued on September 26 a proclamation suspending the discriminating duties between Cuba, Porto Rico, the Philippines, and all other countries belonging to the Grown of Spain and the United States. Jacob Sharp, the New York millionaire, convicted of bribing members of the Board of Aldermen to secure street railroad franchises, was, after some legal delay, ordered to Sing Sing on 29th September to serve his sentence. George Bubear, the English rowing champion, was defeated by Charles Courtney on September 28, on the Susquehanna River, in a race for l,ooodol a-side—a mile and a-half and return. Time, 19min Sssec. A British-American Association was organised in New York on September 30. The object is to unite within its membership citizens and residents of British birth, and their sons, who have become or intend to become American citizens, to promote good-feeling and harmony between the Governments of the United States and Great Britain, and encourage English people to become American citizens and to vote and exert themselves generally in politics. Two Burlington and Missouri freight trains collided near the village of Woodlawn, Nebraska, on October 19. The engine and a dozen cars were wrecked and burned. Devonport, the brakeman, was confined by the debris, and seeing the flames approaching chopped his loot off in order to escape. He died from the ■hook.

A tremendous explosion of natural gas took place in Pittsburg, it Albemarle and Theatre Block ,on October 19. The concussion shook the buildings for several squares and broke every window in the block. The damage will teach 50,000d01.

Courtenay has retired from aquatics. Eight negroes have been tried for murder in Greenwood, Missouri. They had a secret organisation, through which they condemned certain persons to death, and cast lots as to who should do the killing. On the Ist of October the Vigilante of Western Virginia lynched several desperadoes accused of murdering the Kev. E. P. Kyan. They went to his house for the purpose of robbery, and he warned them off, when they shot him. The district of Charleston, where this occurred, is infested with bands of lawless men. The walls of a four-storey brick parochial school-house, building for the Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, at 443 East One Hundred and Fifteenth street, New Ycrk, collapsed on October 13, burying twenty-one men in the ruins. Five were killed outright, and the rest badly injured. A young Englishman named Thomas Norris, happening to be in a building on South street, New York, that took fire on October 16, saved (our woman at the risk of his life, and one man who weighed over 2001b. He will receive a medal. The Laundxymen’a Convention assembled in Washington (B.O.) on October 12. It was chiefly occupied in debating the ways and means to save their business from the hands of the Chinese, who by means of low charges and inwroved machinery are gradually absorbing it. David L, Stains was arrested at Franklin (Hass.) on October 3, charged with being consented in the Dexter (Maine) robbery in 1878, end with having murdered the treasurer, J.; W,' BurOd. The arrest was made on the confession Sf Stains’ son. ,

Powderley, the Grand Master of the Knights of Labour, has resigned. At the convention held in Minneapolis on Ootcbir 16 he was defeated on the question of reorganising the Executive Committee. On Sunday, October 16, as Stephen W. Rawa well-known banker of Chicago, was leaving the Third Presbyterian Church, at the corner of Ashland and Ogden avenues, he was met by his step-son, Ralph W. Slaymaker, who shot him on sight. After Eawson fell, he fired four other shots into his prostrate body. The assassin avers that the banker gave out that he had not married Slaymaker’s mother, an improper woman and an adventuress. The mother applauds the act of her son, and says her husband deserved his fate. A riot occurred at Plevna, Eoumania, on Sunday, October 9, during the election for a member of the Sobranje. Twenty-four persor.s were killed and thirty wounded. Mrs Annie Lacks, who threw a pancake into the lap of Mrs President Cleveland while the latter Wes on the fair grounds of St. Louis with the Presidential party, was fined 50dol for the offence. She protested she only throw the cake in fun, but the Court could not see the joke where the President’s wife was concerned. The British sliip Monmouth, Captain Corbett, from Manilla (August 30) for New York, has been lost on Miudord Island, ono of the Philippic es. The captain and three of the crew, named Erews, Bedford, and Crapp were drowned, Tho remainder arrived at Manilla. The Shakespeare memorial fountain presented by G \V. Childs, of Philadelphia, to the town of Stratford-on-Avon, was dedicated with imposing ceremonies on October 17. Mr Henry Irving read the dedicatory poem by Dr Oliver Wendell Holmes. THE LONDON UNEMPLOYED. On October 14 the unemployed persons who frequent Trafalgar Square formed in a body and marched to the Mansion House, where they demanded an interview with the Lord Mayor. He declined to hold any conversation with the mob or its representatives. The crowd insisted upon an interview, but were again refused, when they openly denounced the Lord Mayor, after which they started back to Trafalgar Square. They stopped at the office of the ‘Standard’ newspaper, hooting and jeering. Tho police attempted to move the crowd, but were resisted and driven back. Returning to the charge they seized their black banner and a number of black flags. The mob then scattered, but shortly after rallied. The leaders shouted: “ Men, assert your rights,” and the mob rushed upon the police and suceeded in forcing them back, and in recapturing the black banners. The police charged again, when the turbulent* broke and ran in every direction. On the 17th the workmen attacked the police in the Strand. They were dispersed, but massed again in Trafalgar Square, when the leaders made speeches. The police again charged, and a general fight ensued. Several policemen were hurt, and twenty arrests were made. One of the speakers at Trafalgar Square advocated the killing of the American minister Phelps in order to “give heart to their Chicago brethren ” in endeavoring to save tho lives of the Condemned Anarchists there, and also suggested the assassination of President Cleveland. The fighting was renewed on the 18th. A number of the unemployed met at Hyde Park to make a demonstration. The police, fearing that the mob would pillage the shops in the vicinity, closed the gates, and a sharp conflict ensued ; many of the crowd were thrown down and trampled on. On October 20 a number of Socialists, and of the unemployed, gathered in Hyde Park. Ono of the speakers unrolled and waved a red flag, crying “The glorious Commune.” A section of the mob thereupon stamped, and scores of persons in the crowd were thrown down and trampled on. A deputation from the crowd made a visit to the Home Office, where the police charged the mob, and were met with resistance, but dispersed them after a short and sharp conflict. Many persons were injured, and a number of arrests made, THE CHINESB-AMERICAN BANKING SYNDICATE. Despatches from London, October 6, say that Viceroy Li Hung Chang has withdrawn on the part of the Chinese Government from the arrangement with AVharton Barker’s American syndicate, organised by Count Mitkiewicz, owing to English and German opposi ion to the enterprise. The contracts made with the syndicate granted a perpetual charter to form a OhincscAmerican bank with a capital of 25,000,(ICO taels, with power to increase to 50,000,000. The bank had a right to coin and issue gold and silver money, and to undertake the building of railroads, to issue paper money to the extent of its capital. Barker and his associates expect and will demand the support of tho United States in securing their rights. A despatch to the London ‘Times’of October 12, from Tientsin, says the Chinese Government have definitely withdrawn. The London ‘ Standard’s’ Shanghai correspondent gives further particulars regarding the syndicate. Mitkiewicz, while trying to get the concession, used the name of Vanderbilt, which was mentioned in the agreement signed by Li Hung Chang. Vanderbilt was warned, but not in time to prevent his name being used. Then Mitkiewicz mentioned the names of Messrs Gould and Maokay. On Gould’s son denying his father’s connection with tho syndicate, Mitkiewicz engaged Barker Brothers, of London, who, after consulting a large banking firm there, pronounced the scheme untenable. It transpires that whatever railways or other works should be undertaken with the moneys raised in America were to be mortgaged to the syndicate.