'FRISCO MAIL NEWS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 485, 26 July 1890, Page 3

'FRISCO MAIL NEWS.

A SUMMARY OF INTERESTING ITEMS. Mrs Frances Hodgson Burnett (authoress of “ Little Lord Fauntleroy ”) is dying from consumption at Wayne, near Philadelphia. The Tablet, the London Catholic organ, printed on June 7th an interview with the Pope, in which the Pontiff said: “The persecution of me and the Church in Italy is increasing. Twelve years have I been confined within these walls, and within the last few years the offences charged against me have become intensified. While I live I must protest against and expose the blasphemous way in which Italy is treating the Holy See.” Hp expressed his determination to remain at the Vatican and defend the rights of the Papacy. Lord Salisbury’s agreement with Germany cn African matters, the transference of Heligoland, and other acts, have hastened the mobilisation of the French navy, which was not expected till August. Orders sent to the Naval Prefects at Coerbun, Rochefort, Brest and Dorient for the immediate prepafation of their fleets and contingents are, according to a despatch of June 21st, such las are seldom issued unless for serious reasons. The loss ©f property by recent floods in Cuba is very great, and more serious than was at first supposed. Nearly 75 persons perished, and it is estimated that 7,000,000 dollars’ worth of property was destroyed. The American sporting world is excited over the extraordinary time made by the Californian racehourse Salvator on the Sheepshead Bay track, New York, on June 25. The mile and a quarter was made in 2min ssec, beating Jenny and the previous record, which was 2min 6Asec. The winner, although hailing from California, was born in Kentucky. Several sensational suicides are reported, among them those of Hazel Lelliss, daughter of Police Commissioner Lelliss, of Kansas City, who had embraced a theatrical life and become disgusted with it, and Annie Turner, daughter of Judge John B. Turner, of Texas, whose father took the from the hands of his dying daughter and killed Professor Davis, whose perfidy is■aid to have been the cause of his girl’s death. After a tremendous fight the Louisiana Lsgislature, sitting at Baton Rouge on June 25th, parsed the Lottery Bill by a vote of 66 to 29, first adopting an amendment eliminating ihe monopoly features of the measure. This extends the franchise of the swindling concern now being drawn in New Orleans for many years. It draws thousands of dollars to its coffers monthly from every State in the Union.

At Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on June 18th, a party of men known as the “ Taylor gang,” fifteen in number, surrounded Citizen Hilliard Richardson, and literally shot him to pieces. At Jackson East, Felicina pariah, in the tame State, another crowd went to the residence of Dr A. R. Halcombe, Treasurer, of the State Insane Asylum, 4 and riddled his front door with bullets. The Germans of Milwaukee. Wisconsin, have organised an opposition to the movement by English speaking Americans discountenancing German customs and the use of the German language. Another phenomenon in the way of fasting has come to light at South Whitehall, Pennsylvania, where Mrs Adam Dncher has abstained from food for eight months and from water since April 4th. Her esse is puzzling the physicians. She is barely aim.

By the error of a telegraph operator at Montgomery, Missouri, who made the time read 45 minutes more than it should have read, two freight trains came into collision on June 9 h, 61 miles west from St. Louis, in that State. Seven men and 17 racehorses are reported as killed. A band of renegade Cheyenne Indians, to whom whisky had been sold by ranchmen, invaded the Uni'ed States surveying camp at Upper Green Biver, Wyoming Territory, on Bunday, June Ist, and demanded more fire water. Being refused and ordered to leave the camp, the redskins attacked the surveyors, and murdered them all, to the number of “ five. It has been ascertained that there is an organised band of smugglers making weekly trips between New York and European ports, who are oathbound never to reveal the names of the agents from whom they receive their goods. In a* year the value of these goods amounts to millions of dollars. Watches, diamonds, gold chains, and laces are the principal articles smuggled. Harvard having beaten Yale in a football contest on June Ist, some of the students of the former College, by way of rejoicing, proceeded to deface their own buildings with red paint, and used opprobrious epithets towards their rivals. No place escaped their brush, and thousands of dollars 1 damage is the result. The orderly students of Harvard have commenced a subscription to pay for repairs.

The reformed Presbyterian Synod session at New York on June sth pronounced very strongly against secret societies, particularly the Masonic body. The United Presbyterian Assembly at Buffalo on the same date set its face strongly against chewing-gum and tobacco, many favoring the members addicted to the weed. The decennial census for 1890 shows San Francisco to have 300.000 of a population. At a meeting of the World’s Fair stockholders in Chicago, on June 12tb, 126 persons were present, who held proxies of nearly! all the stock of the absent thousands. The number of the shares voted was 393,758. A proposition was made to double the capital stock, making a total of 10,000,000 dollars, inatead of 5,000,000, and it was unanimously adopted, as was also the change of name from the World’s Exposition of 1892 to the World’s Colombia Exposition. California - applied for a space of ten acres on the and will appropriate from 2.000,000 TO 10,000,000 dollars for the fair purposes, Reports from Coriente, Nicaragua, say that little work has been done on the canal, and affairs are in a deplorable condition. The country is overrun with Americans and Europeans who have no money and can get no work. At the town of America, which the canal people started, there is a hospital with about 100 patients, mostly Americans. Every white man is trying to get out of the country. The company had made contracts for 2000 negroes from Jamaica. For months the people of British Honduras and the neighboring republics have been •Offering from a disease so terrible in its character that everyone attacked dies. At Cayo it was reported on June 19th that the people are dying like rotten sheep. The nature of the disease is in doubt. The European doctors call it yellow fever, but their American colleague differ in their diagnosis. It invariably kills in from five to six days. A huge petition in favor of compensation for forfeited licenses was presented to the British House cf Commons on June 26th, It was got up by the publicans, and was presented in three immense rolls of paper, bearing 600,000 signatures. Sir Wilfrid Lawson created much amusement by moving that the Clerk of the House read the petition and verify the signatures. Plans are developing to take 70 of the " Passion Play ” actors from Oberammergau to the United States for the World’s Fair in 1892.

The Czarewitch will start on a tour around the world in August, returning home by way of the United States. Baron Kauer, the Minister of War for Austria, has asked for 100,000,000 florins to purchase war material, on the ground that the peace of Europe is not secure, Switzerland has voted 500,000 starling for ths purchase of war material, and has provided for the registration of all horses fit for military services. M. ds Lesseps presided at the Saez Canal meeting at Paris on June 4th. The annual reports announced that the profits for 1889 were 37,212,925 francs, equal to a net dividend cf 85 franca per share. M. Charles de Lesseps Stated that the dividend for 1890 would be 91 francs, without rebate, Senhor Garcia, the new Minister of Finance for Brazil, announced on June 17th that he would burn publicly one half of thirty millions of one dollar notes illegally circulated.

A report has been issued by the Special Panama Canal Commission on the prospective earnings of the enterprise. The annual cost of maintenance is placed at 6,500,000 francs, Md expenses of administration at 1,800,000 taaea annually, The inootni of the first four

years would be 51.500,000 francs (f?stiinated), calculated on an average for that period of 4,100,000 tons per annum, and supposing that the proposed rate of charge per ton would be 12i francs. *•’ The Commission estimates that after the first four years would be annual increase in the traffic of 150,000 tons, until the maximum of 6,000,000 would be reached.

On the night of June the 16’h, Mr Balfour, replying tn Mr Dillon, denied that the police had charged upon Mr Dillon and clubbed the people of New Tipperary for lighting bonfires to celebrate maniage of William O’Brien. The police put out the fires because they obstructed the street?. Several Nationalists wanted to know howj“ shadowing” in Ireland could prevent boycotting. Mr Balfour said that no one was “ shadowed ” unless he was known to be engaged in intimidation. The Government would abolish the system if the Parnellites promised to induce persons “ shadowed ” to abstain from intimidation. Mr Parnell asked Mr Balfour how he applied the English legal presumption that every person accused was considered innocent till proved guilty. Mr Balfour then asked Mr Parnell jf he would undertake to gua’ a r tee that the' people should not repeat their crime, and was met by a loud Parnellite shout of “ What crime ?*’ Amid tremendous applause Mr Dillon began an exciting speech denouncing Mr Balfour and demanding an apology for the use of the word “crime.” A stormy scene ensued, during which an I ish member accused Mr Balfour of lying, and Mr Gladstone challenged the Irish Secretary to prove the assertion that the Liberals, when in power, resorted to “ shadowing.” Kinally Mr Balfour substituted the words “ intimidation ” and “ boycotting ” for “ crime,” and the House quieted down. In regard to the transfer of Heligoland to Germany, Lord Salisbury said, in the House of Lords on June 19, that there was no ground for supposing that the inhabitants objected to the transfer, except as regards their conscription for Lhe army, and this was provided against in the agreement with Germany. The Germans place great importance on the strategic importance of JHcligoland, and General Caprivi recalled the fact, in a debate in the Bundesrath, on June 21, that during the war of 1870 it was necessary ’to detach a large force to guard against a possible landing at the mouths of the Wehr and Elbe rivers, and to lay mires to protect the water approaches io Hamburg and Bremen. The opinion of |pe le of the island as regards an enforced’change of nationality does not [count for much with either Germany’or Great Britain.

The White Star liner s.s. Dorio, tradirg between London and New Zealand, under charter to ths Shaw-Savill Company, claims the fastest voyage round the world—77 days 6 hours 50 minutes ; distance, 28,000 miles Misa Fawcett, daughter of the late Profepsor Fawcett, carried off the highest honors at the June examination of Cambridge. She is bracketted as the superior of the male Senior Wrangler in the mathematical tripos. Two other young women, Miss Field and Miss Lea, are also among the wranglers. A great labor demonstration was made on June 7th in Hyde Park. Forty thousand men in procession marched to the Park, where fully 200,000 more people had assembled to take part in the meeting. On leaving the Park Sir Henry Havelock Allen* incurred by some means the ill-will of the crowd, and a mob made a rush and nearly unhorsed him. The police formed a cordon around him, and kept back the infuriated workmen, who threw heavy clnds of earth at the officers, and tried |to break through the lines. Several arrests were made, and Sir Henry cantered eff, escorted by mounted policemen.