MAIL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9495, 26 April 1894, Page 5

MAIL NEWS.

< THE STORY Off A MURDER. London has for a comparatively long time been exempt from murder, but on March 18th a, sensation was caused by the discovery of a crime that, in its details, somewhat resembles the notorious Gouffe murder that occurred some time ago in Paris. The scene of this latest was in Graf tonstreet, in the Soho distriob, which is peopled by foreigners ofc the loweab class. Ib was in the immediate vicinity of the house in which the murder was committed that the police recently, raided the Anarchist Club. An Austrian woman named Maria Hermann, who is well-known to the police as a night prowler, rented a small room in Graf ton-street. On Thursday night, March 16th, she, in company with an elderly , man, was seen to enter the room. Subsequently, loud quarrelling was heard in Hermann's room by the other tenants of the house, but as wordy Avars were of frequent occurrence in the tenement generally no attention was paid bo this particular disturbance. A woman named Hutchins, who lodged with the Hermann woman, found on Friday, 17th, blood stains in a sink, and spoke to the Hermann woman about it. She latter passed the matter off lightly, but on Saturday she changed her lodgings, taking better . apartments in Marylebone-street. She took with her a heavy trunk, which she asked should be carefully handled. In the meantime the suspicions of the Hutchins woman were aroused, particularly as it became - noised aboub the house that the man who had gone into the woman's room had not been seen to leave it. Hutchins followed the Hermann woman to where she had moved, and after learning her number, informed the police that she suspected foul play. Officers went to the room in Marylebone-street, and made search. The Hermann woman's trunk was in the room. They forced ib open, and found the body of the missing man. The head had been battered evidently with some blunt instrument, and the body presented a frightful appearance; the clothing in which it was attired was drenched with blood. Hermann was taken into custody,, and a charge of wilful murder made. The body was recognised as that of a well-to-do exjob coster named Stevens. He was 76 years old. It is believed the Hermann woman had an accomplice as Stevens was a muscular man. It may be, however, that he was killed while asleep. The prisoner is 43 years of age, and ugly, almost to repulsiveness.

GLADSTONE WRITES TO HIS MIDLOTHIAN CONSTITUENCY. Mr. Gladstone recently received a letter from his constituents in Midlothian, in which he was requested to continue to represent that Parliamentary borough in the House of Commons. He wrote a letter in reply, declaring that his chief desire will be to follow the wishes of the constituents he represents. _" There will naturally be a change in my attendance in Parliament," writes. " I cannot yet judge how far my sight and hearing will disable me from performing Parliamentary duties. As to the merits or demerits of my career, and certainly I have been chargeable with many errors of judgment, I hope I have at least been foverned by uprightness of intention and a esire to learn." He then reviews his public life of sixty years, dating from Lord Derby's Reform Act, which he describes as the political birth of Scotland, and the beginning of a duty which he had solemnly recognised. Mr. Gladstone says his career has been a history of political, economical, social, moral, and intellectual emancipation. In all the numberless causes that) had been brought) forward in this time, Scotland has battled for the right. "I am deeply convinced!," he adds, " that until the just demands of Ireland are satisfied as the House of Commons tried to satisfy them, □either the legislative wants of any portion of the United Kingdom will be adequately met, nor Will the Empire attain its maximum power, nor its honour be effectively cleared of the deepest historic stain ever attaohed to it." The operation will be performed upon Mr. Gladstone's eyes in about three months from date. The Daily News, of March 23rd, says Dr. Netlleship believes the operation mil 100 ©nfeiro'y s>»ooo4aftil.. .. . - DEATH OF KOSSUTH.

The famous Hungarian revolutionist, Lagos, or Louis Kossuth, died at Turin, Italy, on March 20. Ho was 92 years of age, having been bom at Monok, County of Zemplen, Hungary, in April, 1802, as is generally conceded, though there is some doubt as to the exact date of his birth. His end was extremely painful, but he showed signs of consciousness till the lasb. He expired in the arms of his son, and died pressing the hand of Hungarian Deputy Karolye. A despatch from Buda-Pesth, dated on the day of Kossuth's death, says the Hungarian Government and the members of the National Party in the Diet, agreed at once in regard to the honours to be paid the deceased soldier and statesman, and by such an agreement the fall of the Ministry was averted. The Government so far yielded to the popular demand regarding tnerespoct to be shown to the dead revolutionist, that the national flag draped in crape was hoisted on the State buildings. On the night of March *2 crowds of students went about the streets of Buda-Posth, smashing the windows and street lamps in front of houses on which mourning was nob displayed. Performances were being given in the theatres as usual. The students invaded them, and drove from the stage with missiles of all sorts the actors taking part in the performances. They then turned their attention to the audience, and drove everybody out of the auditorium. Tho same course was pursued with the concort halls. The police made attempts to arrest the disturbers ; but the students resisted stubbornly, and a number of street conflicts took place. The remains of Kossuth were removed from Turin, the place of his exile, to BudaPesth, on March 2Sbh. THIS LABOUR RISING IN AMERICAOne of the developments due to hard times in the United States is the idea of forming into a solid body all the men out of work in the country, and marching on Washington, D.0., the national capital, where the leaders are to lay the case of their followers before the President and Congress, and demand immediate relief at the hands of the general Government. The movement . is said to be encouraged by the Populists, a third political party lately sprung into existence, and they have donated money and provisions to aid it. The army is expected to rendezvous in Washington, on or near the capitol steps, on May 1, and it is also calculated it will number 300,000, under the leadership of a man named J. B. Coxey, who is considered in Conservative quarters a sorb of. American Jack Cade. Tho movement is certainly a wild . and impracticable one. Coxey will demand on behalf of his followers the issue of 500,000,000 dollars of fiat money and the employment of the. idle by the Government in making roads, including a great national highway connecting the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. Nearly all the large cities are expected to contribute a quota of recruits to this army, and it is feared Washington will be overrun with hard characters, and also that much hardship and suffering will result. Forward movements have already been made from Ohio, Texas, and California, and measures have been taken in the different States through which the army passes. If it threatens the peace, the respective Governors will unite in arresting its progress. REVOLT IN SOUTH CAROLINA. Darlington, Florence, and other towns in the Palmetto State, are in a state of revolt against the dispensary laws, as they are called, which seek to control the whisky traffic, and empower constables as spies to invade private nouses. A terrible riot took place at Darlington on March 31, in which two constables and two citizens were killed and several people wounded, _ and ab Florence a mob entered the State Dispensary ab five minutes past two in the morning, and destroyed the entire stock of liquors in the building. The worst feature of the trouble is that the State Militia are in sympathy. with the people of Darlington and Florence, and, for the most part, refuse bo obey Governor Tillman's orders to march to the disturbed districts and maintain the laws. , When summoned for this duty many of the companies lay down their arms and disband. The constables who are required

to act as domioiliary spies, are flying in all directions. If caught they will be lynched. The Governor is determined in bia action. He has placed censors in the telegraph offices to prevent the sending of inflammatory dispatches, and has taken ; possession of the railway lines. : It is likely < Governor Tillman will be called to ; account by the Federal Government.* ' In the House of Representatives, April 3rd, Grosvenor of Ohio introduced a resolution calling for a special investigation of his action in seizing railroad property and telegraph lines engaged in interstate commerce, and with armed forces and violence establishing a censorship of the daily and weekly press of the country 'and prohibiting the transmission of news dispatches to the newspapers. The resolution was referred to the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. The embargo on newspapers in South Carolina continued in force on April sth.