TRISCO MAIL NEWS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 235, 15 December 1888, Page 3

TRISCO MAIL NEWS.

EUROPEAN. The Archbishop of Canterbury cited the Bishop of Canterbury (Dr King) on November 11, to answer the charges of Ritualistic practices. Dr King is a celibate, and advocates an unmarried clergy. Thirty men were killed in a coal mine explosion at Aul mania, Sicily, on November 9. China has ordered £75,000 worth of arms and munitions of war from the firm of Ludwig and Lowe, Berlin. The Vatican has authorised an expression of its satisfaction at the election of Ben jamin Harrison to the Presidency of the United States. The wages of the miners employed in the Lanarkshire Colliery have been advanced 5 p p r cent. The Trade Committee has advised the jute spinners of Dundee to make a similar advance in the wages of its employees. AMERICA. John D Spreckles, president and manage r of the Oceanic Steamship Company, has been mentioned as a possible member of General Harrison’s Cabinet, to fill the office of Secretary of the Navy. The Canard Steamer Umbria rm into the French steamer Iberia during a fog off Long Beach. The Iberia subsequently sank. It is reported that Chinese merchants will boycott all American products and manufactures —such as flour, petroleum, dry goods, and firearms. This action is intended as retaliation for the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act. The Alameda has been unable to secure a full white crew of firemen and coal passers, so has been compelled to take Chinese on the present trip. Ilnri di Murska has gone home to die, her friends subscribing" to send her away from New York.

The Southern Pacific Railroad Company, California, has mortgaged the whole of its property for 38,900,000 dollars. The Supreme Court is now about three or four years behind in its work. So much for mixing justice with politics. Dr Harris, of Now York, has invented a new system of machine telegraphy, by which messages are printed at the farther end, the sending instrument being similar to a typewriter. It is claimed that the machine can send 200 words a minute. A rival of the Whitechapel murderer exists near Los Angelos. He murdered a man, almost severed the head from the trunk, opened the abdomen, and threw the entrails round the place.

Inspector Bonfield, of the Chicago police, reports that the Anarchists are more strongly united than ever, both in Europe and America. He professes to be in possession of information showing that an uprising is fixed for the hundredth anniversary of the fall of the Bastille. He warns the people that the Anarchists are in earnest, and that the trouble " muse come—that is inevitable.”

Fifty persons were arrested in Moscow on November 5. including Professor Holzoff, editor of the PlansoUvlc paper Russki Mysol. Henry de Bamberger, the noted Austrian physician, died on November 9. El Mahdi’s followers captured Wadelai, on a second attack, November 9 and drove out the Sultan and his forces On a first attack they were repulsed with a loss of 3000 killed. Patriarchs of Constantinople and Athens have refused to set aside King Milan's divorce from Queen Natalie. The first through express train from Paris arrived at Constantinople on November 9.

Negotiations for a Turko German treaty were concluded on November 10th, and the draft submitted to the Sultan.

A powerful American syndicate is about to be formed for the purpose of building raiL roads in Siberia. An explosion occured on November 14th at the Fredrich pit, Dowe, Belgium, province of Hsinault. Thirty-two men were killed. A despatch from Stuttgart on November 14 mentions the official announcement that all of the King's American favourites bad been directed to depart, and left Wurtemburg at once.

A band of thirty armed Turks made a raid November 13, on the Servian town of Reski. The peasants rallied and offered a determined resistance. Many were killed on both sides. Russia is reported to be buying largely of hay, grain, and other army provisions in Podolia and the district of Kkff. The rumor that the pending Russian loan will be for £25,000,000 instead of £20,000,000 together with the movements of troops on the western frontier, has created a strong feeling of uneasiness at Vienna. The Wool Association, New York, has deelded to accept jd bids for wool until prices reach lOd, but when the price exceeds that figure, it will reoognise none but id bids.