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Otago Daily Times, Issue 10034, 27 April 1894, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

(Peb United Peess Association.). Auckland, April 26, GENERAL SUMMARY.

The election of the American multi-millionaire Astor to a membership of the London Carlton Club, the recognised headquarters of the extreme members of the Tory party, was Dot by general ballot, but by the Political Committee of the club, which i 3 permitted under a special rule to elect every year a certain number 'of persons who have rendered especially distinguished service to the Tory party. The nature of Mr Aster's, services to the party is not officially announced, bat it must be either the support of the Pall Mall Gazette or a very heavy subscription to the party funds. Before he became elsgible to membership he mnst have signed a declaration attested by two membeiu i of the club speaking from their personal kriow« ledge of his opinion and his acceptance of Tory principles; Tho subject naturally aroused the conjecture that Me Astor really means to apply fpr naturalisation ns a British snbject, but an inquiry by a World's correspondent at the proper office show 3he hag as yet taken no step to that end. •

Nothing but the vigilance of an engineer prevented a fatal accident tp the f rince of \f^}eo at the station of Marseilles, France, on April i. The Prince stopped too long at the buffet, and as tha train started clung to the railing of a saloon carriage. The stationmaster saw £ha danger and signalled the engineer, who stopped the train. ~ . ' •:•_ ( > ..... ; A London despatch of March 31 says Corbett will fight uuder the auspices of the National Sporting Club, before September or October, provided Jackson is willing and the purse is satisfactory.: ■.*..■■■ .. , . ■;>

At a dinner given at Nice on March 31, according to a special published iq the London Standard by Baron Rothschild, James Gordon Bennett, of the New York Herald, announced that he would.give three prizes to-be competed for in next year's yachting regatta; Each prize will be worth £100.; Baron do Rothschild;then promised that he would give three prizes of £300 each for the same events. ■.: ■'-.■ v ■...■■.■•■■■■■ ■■■'.■

The London Globe reports that a startling meeting took place between Sir Willianr Vernon Harcourt and Lord Rosebery on March U. It says that if the distinguished statesmen did not quarrel they at least told each other some hard tacts. It ia stated that the Labouchere amend-, ment episode in the House of Commons on the preceding evening was intended to be a demonstration against Lord Rosebery, and the latter is said to be fully aware of the fact. .

The new M'Cartbyite committee controlling that section of the Irish party in the House of Commons consists of Justin M'C&rthy, Edward Blake, Michael Davitt, John Dillon, Timothy Healy, William ' O'Brien, T. P. O'Connor, Thomas Sexton, and T. D. Sullivan. Mr Abraham was elected to replace Mr Arthur O'Connor as secretary. Viscount Deerhurst, the eldest son of tho Earl of Coventry, was married to Miss Virginia Bonyrig, stepdaughter of Charles William Bonyrig, of California, on March 10, at AU Saints' Church, London, in the presence of a large number of the nubility and gentry. Bonyrig, stepfather of the bride, U a munimillionaire. He worked as a market gardener in San Francisco, California, and his enormous fortune came by a series of lucky coups in the mining stock market in that city in the eariy seventies. He is an Englishman, and was credited with being a trooper in Lord Cardigan's brigade when he made the famous charge at Balaclava, but some doubted this. Bonyrig never denied the statement.

At a meeting of shareholders of the freeman's Journal, Mr Thomas Sexton, M.P., severely criticised the action of the directors, complaining that in spite of the loss of money there was no spirit of economy shown. Mr John Dillon said it was his last day on the Board of Dirtctors. He denounced Mr He»ly's scheme to guarantee dividends as a bogus plan. Throughout Mr Dillon's speech there were frequent interruptions and a number of exciting scenes. Mr Healy, who followed, bitterly attacked Mr Dillon, declaring he had not a. penny invested in the paper. Mr Healy was also frequently interrupted, but a majority of the directors sided with him.

"The.Times, on March 29, said that in the best-informed Radical circles it was taken for (ranted that Parliament will dissolve ia July.

It is not improbable that Mr Timothy Healy will join the JParnellites, as he is dissatisfied with the so-called assurance iv Lord Rosebsry's speech.

The Times printed on the 20th a manifesto issued by tho Irish National League, violently denouncing the attitude of Lord Rosebery and the auti-Parnellites. .

A close watch is being kept on all foreigners and Englishmen in Loedon and Birmingham who are suspected of having Anarchistic tendencies. .

Early on March 11 tho police made a raid on a foreigners club in Graftoa street, Soho, a suburb of Birmingham. Thirty-eight men were arrested and taken to the police station where they were examined, with the result that all but five were discharged from custody. It is reported that-the police searched the premises; and seizad a quantity o! Anarchist literature.

- Mr Joseph Chamberlain addressed a crowd of Unionists at Edinburgh on March 22. In tha course of his remarks he said Mr Gladstone bad left his successors a heritage of woo.

The police of Oxford have been investigating the mysterious disappearance of the Hon. Mrs Feilding, who had been missing since Monday, March 20. When last seen Mrs Feilding was strolling in the direction of University Park. She was much depressed at the recent loss of her husband, Rev. Charles Feilding, uncle of Earl Denbigh. The River Cher well was dragged on March 24, and the body of the unfortunate lady found. There is little doubt she committed snicide.

The money article of the London Times of March 24 announced tho death of Solomon Sassoon, of the firm of Davis, Sassoorj, and Co., of Bombay. Deceased was known as the opium millionaire.

The international glove fight between Barge, of Australia (kuown as the " iron man "), and Arthur Valentine,' the light-weight champion, was fought in London os March 19. The men fought at catch weights for £100. There wers 20 desperate rounds, when Valentine was declared the winner. Burge had three ribs broken, and was otherwise frightfully punished.

James Francis Hogan, M.P., and secretary of the Colonial party in Parliament, made public a letter from an English resident of Samoa, received on March 31, declaring that the joint control is a failure. Tho writer nrges England to join the Samoan and Tongan groups to New 'Zealand, and that the other Powers withdraw.

In the House of Commons, on Match 31, replying to a question on the subject of derelicts, Mr Mundella said it had been decided to appoint a. special committee to consider tho petition of shipowners in regard to the removal of these obstructions to ocean navigation. The committee will also consider all correspondence which has passed between tho Government of the United States and Great Britain on the matter.

Tho London "Peerage" of March 30 announces the marriage of Lord Francis. Hope and May Yohe, an American burlesque actress. Lord F. Hope is heir presumptive to the Duke of Newcastle. Miss Yohe appears nightly ab tke London Lyric Theatre. THE PARNELLITES. The convention of this wing of the Irish party was held in Dublin on April 3. Among those present were the Lord Mayors of Dublin and Cork, Mr John J. Clancy, M.P., and others. A despatch from the Irish Independents of New York was received from Edward O'Flaherty, the; president, requesting the homo party to draw on the treasurer (John Brennan) at the Bank of Ireland, Dublin, for £1000. A message of sympathy was also sent from Chicago. Mr John Redmond made a remarkably significant speech. He said the convention was imperative. The political situation was so changed that the leaders felt they could not continue to bear alone the responsibility for the future policy of the Irish Independent party. Fifteen years of labour, sacrifice! and suffering were endangered. The cause of Ireland was confronted almost by rain, because of the selfish jealousies of men who under the name of anti-Parnellitea were slavishly subservient to the English, and injured the cause of the people they represented by petty disputes. The speaker stated that it would be the policy of Lord Rosebery to make concessions to the Unionists to the detriment of Ireland and Home Rule. Mr Redmond said be believed in constitutional agitation when it was conducted by fearless men, but if this class of agitation was allowed to sink into a farce and a sham, as it. had in the hands of the anti-Parnellites, then it was better that it be abolished and that men of stern methods and resolutions come to the front as soon as possible. The speaker concluded his remarks by saying that the electorate of Claro demanded that he should not support the. Government, as the latter had refused to release their Irish political prisoners, and when he returned to the House of Commons he would tell Sir William Vernon Harcourt that the latter intended to kill John Dally in gaol. If the Registration Bill preceded the Evicted Tenants Bill he would advise evicted tenants to return to their homes.and stop there. Resolutions were offered by the mayor of Cork declaring that the Government had forfeited all claims to the confidence of Irishmen, and calling upon Irish M.P's. to strive for an early dissolution of Parliament. These resolutions were carried with loud cheers, DEATH OF LE CARON THE SPY. Major Henri Le Caron, tho British Government epy, died in London on April 2 from an internal tumour. He had been living at Kansington under the name of Dr Howard, guarded night and day by detectives. It is understood that one of the interests instrumental in the I'arncH prosecution was paying to Le Caron an annuity of £5000, and his life was insured for a large sum under an agreement by which he gave evidence before the Parnell Commission. His real name was

Beach. He lived in the United States fo number of years, and bad had unobstruct opportunities to know the secret business the Clan-na-G&el. He claimed to have h an interview with Parnell in London, wb that parliamentary leader in 1881 impressed hinT tho necessity for a good understaudi between Irishmen who advocated the use physical force against England and tbc who worked to promote national objects assisting the party led by Parnell. Le Can was a graduate in the class of 1872 of t Detroit Medical College, and kept drug stor in various places. He at one time traded al for a drag house, and practised medicine in tl State of Illinois. The other parts played his remarkable career were those of an acti' member of the Grand Army of the Republ when the Fenians proposed to invac Canada in 1865, " organiser" of tl Nationalists, &c. Daring the inquest on tl body of Dr Cronin, J. D. Hagerty, a railwa clerk, who gave evidence regarding Sullivan bitter declaration against the deceased When I was tried and expelled from the Clan-na-Gae said Le Caron was a member of the committf that tried the doctor, and that Le Caron we introduced to witness by Alexander Sullivan i a man of respectable character and worthy ( r.U confidence. THE BEHRING SEA AWARD; There is perfect accord between Grea Britain and the United States in regard to th Jilans and methods of enforcing the award. N aificulty, according to .Ambassador. Bayarc need.be feared on the subject/ IntheHons of Commons on March 29, on the motion of Si Charles Eußsell, leave was given to introduc ft bill for the enforcement of .the award It provides that any violation of the term Kf the award is punishable, and authorise British warships to seize British vessels engagei in their violation. Tho bill empowers th Qaeen-ih-Council to authorise certain name< officers of the United States navy eqnally ti seize British ships for violations. In the Ame rican bill a similar provision will-be include! empowering British, officers to seize Amerioai vessels. The bill fixes a time for closing thi fisheries, and specific protection is prescribed as also the' authorised mode of capture and it gives . a rula by which th< system of licenses may .be ; worked The real mission of . Admiral John G Walker, who sailed, from San Francisco or April 5 as a passenger on board the Oceanic steamship Mariposa for Honolulu, is to secure Pearl Harbour in Hawaii as one,of the stations and bases of supplies for war vessels policing the ocean for the protectioa of seals, San Francisco and Xokohama being the others. ; LORD ROSEBERY AT EDINBURGH. i Lord Rosebery arrived at Edinburgh on ■March 16 to make his expected address to the delegates from the Liberal Association from all parts of Scotland. The Premier was received at the station by the Liberal Committee and driven to the Corn Exchange, being given an ovation from the crowds gathered along the route. The Corn Exchange, which holds 5000 people was packed an hour before his arrival. Members of the aristocracy and a large numbjr of members of Parliament and others were upon the platform when Lord Rosebery entered the Exchange. The vast audience rose and stood waiving their hats and cheering for several minutes. 'Upon rising to speak he was greeted with resumed ovations, and by the siDging of " He's a jolly good fellow." Daring the course of his remarks, the Premier said his thoughts went to the past rather than to the present, to the immortal days of Gladstone's first Midlothian campaign. The memory of that campaign quickened hia pulse. If Mr Gladstone was absent that night his inspiration was with them, and it waß by that inspiration that the Government intended to succeed. "We don't propose," continubd,the Premieri " to sit on the banks of the stream of, Time and watch the waters flow by until it rung dry for an English majority in the cause we espouse. We shall try as wo have been trying since 1886 to bring conviction to the minds of the patriotic. Though }t was not necessary to demand an English majority, it was important to convince the heart, and mind and conscience of England," JThe Premier argued that the reason Peers were in opposition to Home Rule was due entirely to the knowledge that English opinion upheld them, otherwise the country would have risen as one man against the rejection of the bill. Therefore, be was determined to reduce the Eoglish majority against the bill. After the meeting a resolution of confidence in the Government was passed, and the audience dispersed with cheery. ' PROTEST AGAINST THE LORDS. An impressive demonstration", to protest fegainst the action of the House of Lords in rejecting the Employers' Liability Bill, was held in Hyde Park on Sunday, March 18. It is estitaated that 8000 persons were present. There were 12 platforms in the Park, from which speakers addressed the assembled throng. Shortly before 3 o'clock an enormous profession from all parts of the city Legan to arrive. Among those who took part in the procession Were representatives, from every,trade union.in London. The chief speakers were He6srg Bums, Woods, Arch, and Cremer—all of whom are labour members of the House of Commons. Resolutions wero read from all the iilatforms calling upon the Government to agiin introduce the Employers' Liability Bill immediately upon the reassembling of the House of Commons; and also demanding that the Government take ateps to bring about the entire abolition of the House of Lords. At the sound of the bugle the resolutions were adopted simultaneously on all the platforms, the crowd signifying their approval with a mighty shout. There was no trouble of anj kind reported, and after tho adoption of the resolutions the people qoicsly dispersed. MR GLADSTONE. ■ Mr Gladstone recently received a letter from his constituents in Midlothian in which he was requested to represent the borough in the House of Commons. He wrote in reply declaring that his chief desire will be to follow the wishes of the constituents he!represents. "There will naturally bo a change in my attendance in Parliament. ■ I cannot yet judge how far my sight and hearing will disable my performing parliamentary duties. As to the merits er demerits of my career, certainly I have been chargeable with mauy errors of jndgment, batl; hope I have at Jeast been governed by uprightness of intention and a desire to.learn." He then reviews his public life of 60 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 jnst demands of Ireland are satisfied, as the House of C>mmona tried to satisfy them, neither the legislative wants of any portion of the United Kingdom will be adequately met, nor will the Empire attain its maximum power, nor its facnour be effectively cleared of the deepest historic stain ever attached to it." A RASH ELOPEMENT. Banker Endorf, of Vienna, was in New York on March 22 looking for an American swindler earned Ker. It appears he had met Ker in Vienna, and was fascinated by his smooth plausibility, when the American confided to him that he was in reality Edward Vanderbilt » nephew of William H. Vanderbilt, and that he was travelling incognito to avoid attention. Endorf was charmed, and invited the young Croesus to his home, where he speedily fell in love with Freda Endorf, the banker's daDghter, much to the delight of Freda's papa, a delight which, was changed subsequently to profound sorrow when' Freda, yielding to Ker*B solicitations, fled with him from the parental roof taking with her the equivalent of £30,000 in hard cash. The Btep was made, too, without the parheß going through the marriage form. Km had previously been engaged in swindling operations in Europe on a large scale, and with uniform success. A LONDON SENSATION. In London on March 18 a sensation was caused by the discovery of a crime that somewhat resembles the notorious Gouffs murder id Pans. The scene was in Grafton Btreet, in the Boho district, and in the vicinity where the police recently raided the Anarchists' club. An Austrian woman earned Marie Hermann, well known as a night prowler, rented a small room in Grafton. On the night of March 16 she, in company with an elderly man, was seen to enter the room. Subsequently loud quarrelling was heard in Hermanns room. A man named Hutchins, who lodged with the woman Hermann, found on the 17th blood stains in the sink, and spoke to the woman about it. She passed the matter of lightly, _bub on Saturday changed her lodgings, taking betttr apartments in Marjleh iA he ? ok with her a heav?trunk. which she asked should be carefully handled In the meantime the suspicions of the officers were aroused They forced an entrance, and found that the body of the missing man had been battered, evidently with some blunt installment. The body presented a frightful appearance, the clothing being drenched with blood. Hermann was taken into custody and charged with wilful murder. The body has been recognised as that of a well-to-do ex-job-master nam C .l Steve™, 56 years of age. It is believed that the woman had an accomplice, as Steveus was muecular. He may, however, have been killed while BBleep. Prisoner is M years of age, and ugly almost to repulsiveness.

BRITISH OCCUPATION OF BLUEFIELDS.

Captain A. T. Rider, an American now residing at Blueflelds, Nicaragua, Central America, sends a letter, under date March 22, reviewing tho situation there previous to the amval of H.M.S. Cleopatra, and says that if it had not been for her coming all the American and foreign residents of the place would have been killed. The captain writes:—" After the formation of the Provisional Government, the commander of the Cleopatra compelled the Spanish troops to retire to Greytown. They

>r a pailed for that place in tho Cleopatra on March ted 5. Lieutenant- colonel Mann, of tho ship, and 75 of matines wero left to prevent further trouble, nd A'ter the vessel sailed it was foUud that somo sen of the Spanish soldiers were still in town. on Tfcat night a frigh'ful riot comnisuced between ing tbo Spanish soldiers ai;d the natives; The of streets were filled with armed men, and the ofb greatest excitement prevailed. Two soldiers and by one uative were hilled and several wsuuded. ■on The foreign residents sent for Colonel ManD, ;he encamped a Bhort distance down the river; He re 3 came to oar relief, and has since remained in Iso charge of the towm The Cleopatra returned he on the 6th, and increased the number of men on in shore to 125." On March 9 quantities of ive ammunition were found in the bush near the lie town. It is believed the Spanish soldiers itide tended to return and sack the town. When the he warship Went away the Americans asked the he commander of the Cleopatra to remain and ay protect them, which he promised to do until i's relieved by another ship. If it had not been he for our British cousins, God only knows what ;1, would have been the fate of us Americans.*' as A NEW TREATY WITH CHINA: as The Foreign Relations Committee of the of United States Senate has. had under consideration an important treaty with China, negotiated by the new Chinese Minister and Secretary of State, Mr Gresham. As negotiated the treaty a (. praotically sets aside and supersedes tho State c Exclusion Act and the recently enacted Geary j- 0 law. It is an immigration treaty and provides i for the admission of Chinese emigrants not jjjj labourers under restrictions. It also has for its ; r object: the protection of the Chinese already in , c the States. While it does not repeal the ' j Geary law, it is said to render it nugatory ' in many particulars. If piseed, as it ia likely >s to be, it will run for 20 years, and if neither "j Government give notice at the end of that time : . it will remain in force for another 20 years. It j is said the new treaty will require American ' 0 residents in China to b3 registered • and photo- ,_ graphed in the same manner as the Chinese are : j in the States. That Secretary Gresham would : offer such an insult to sAmerican missionaries is ■ 0 almost incredible. It is considered that Chinese 1 diplomacy has had the best of it in forming the ■ ' treaty. ..--. ] ® . . AMERICAN SUMMARY. ;■ ■, ] •. James A, Mulligan has been confirmed United ( n States Consul General at Apia, Samoa. c c The General Post Office contract with the c Pacific Mail Steamship Company for the trans- j s portation of mails between New York and y % Colon and San Francisco and Hongkong was v • cancelled on March 31, for non-compliance tfith a the provisions of the recent subsidy law. The strike at Connellsville, in the coke region j of Pennsylvania, grows in importance, and new \ acts of violence are developed daily. At least ( nino lives were sacrificed within the 12 hours I ending April 4-. j I The first regular sermon ever given in j i Harvard by a Roman Catholic priest was t preached there on April Iby the Rev. Peter J. q • O'Callaghan. His subject was "Rationalism j i in the Faith." Father O'Callaghan graduated £ from Harvard College at the close of 1888, , and is now a member of the Faulists, a Roman q Catholic order. T j | The big chip Somali, one of the largest British merchantmen afloat, and a tea. packet, q arrived from Hongkong with a monster cargo of ai Chinese and Japanese tsas at Sin Francisco on jy March 30. She was 147 days out, and much a | anxiety was felt on her account. The south" a | east trades carried the unlucky craft into a m calm expanse of ocean, where for 40 days she c ] rolled slightly over 600 miles of smooth water; e3 The provisions gave out, and during the latter jj part of the voyage the crew subsisted on rice B - and tea. The diet was monotonous, but the 0 , sailors and officers grew fat on it. The carrying j capacity of the Somali is 5408 ton?, which is re exceeded only by that of the French vessel La jj France. • . V( The result o! the court-martial in the case of i,i Commander Hegerman, late of the Kearsagei jj United States man-of-war, wrecked on the Vf Rocodor reef, of! the coast of Central Africa, £ v was that the captain was found guilty of ec negligence in suffering tho vessel to ran upon re the rest and inefficiency in the performance of £i his duty. He was sentenced to be suspended re ' from duty for two years on waiting for orders, f 0 but to retain his present number in the list of commanders for long and faithful eeivice. All .the members of the court recommended him to mercy. The Navy department is making an effort to recover the plate of the Eearsage, which was carried to Jamaica, West Indies, by native wreckers as an historical relic of the old ship. The Californian Midwinter Fair is still draw- 00 ing crowds of visitors, and will probably remain ; m op^n till July 4. Some of the concessionaries have not done as well as expected, but gene- R ; rally the enterprise is regarded as a success. " yj The census statistics of the Unihd States, 0D publiihed on March 30, showed that there are Tv 28,440 whits convicts in psnitentiaries who DU know where they were born. Of these 1415 are tio natives and 14,275 born abroad. Similar Mi statistics show that 51 per cent, of the inmates j m of the almshouses of the country are foreign bora, and 24 per cent, of the inmates of beno- (j u volent institutions—suoh as insane, deaf and ne . dumb, and idiot asylums. Jheee statistics are BQ j used to justify and sustain the rigorous inspec- B h ( tion that is now being made of all immigrants. wa Three thounaud repteientative negroes from every part of Alabama assembled at Binning- f C j ham, in that State, on Much 22, in convention aa to consider the question of emigration to A f rica. pa It waa the sense of the assemblage that Africa j is the natural home of tha negro, and that those ■ in tho United" States should return to that pjj country as coon as passible, a«id establish on w [| the Dark Continent a greit nation such as the mc whites had established in America. It was Hs agreed, however, that ag whits meu had brought pi 6 the negro to America tho? ought to pay his tare f.v back to his native land* Resolutions were the adopted to that effect. hir Dr J. O. Houser, of the Indian police, thf announces that he is about to close negotiations w j| with ex- Queen Liliuokalani for a lecturing tour a( j] of the United States, to begin at ban Francitcc. B t a The Queen will wear a crown on the stage and a I will present precisely tho same appearance Ha that she did during her regal experience at thf Honolulu. ree President Cleveland transmitted to Congress p t ( on March 19 ft new declaration made by the ln British Government, to the effect that nothing the like a protsctorata over Blueflelds, Nicaragua, pei was intended, and that the landing of troops da from H.M.S. Cleopatra was solely for the pro- b« tection of British subjects in Blueflelds. Ro A letter has teen received at Tacoma, Wash- ,j a] ington, by James T. Bslcher, Hawaiian consul, o f from President Dale, of the islands, asking the wa consul to use his effoits to dissuade people pt{ for the present from coming to Honolulu, either tfo( in the capacity of volunteers lor military ser- y^ vice or for the purpose of obtaining employ- tj o ment. The very low prices of sugar has de- jj x j pressed every branch of trade, and there are g e( many on the islands unable to obtain any kind hil of employment. ' wo REVOLT IN SOUTH CAROLINA. Darlington, Florence, and other towns in the dai Palmetto State are in a state of revolt against 1 the dispensary laws, as they are called, lici whioh seem to control the whisky traffic cdi and empower constables as spies to invade su) private houses. A terrible riot took place at liq Darlington on March 31, in which two consta- In bles and two citizens were killed and several Wi people wounded. At Florence a mob entered n the State dispensary at 2.5 in tho morning and Ho destroyed the entire stock of liquors in the bet building. The constables, who are required to yea act as domiciliary spies, are flying in all direc- sal tions. If caught they will be lynched. It is tw' likely Governor Tillman will be called to account by the Federal Government. In the »™ House of Representatives on April 3, Mr ye' Grosvenor, of Ohio, introduced a resolution to* calling for a special investigation of his action tit in seizing railroad property and the telegraph a E' lines engaged in the interests of commerce, and ??' with armed force and violence establishing a p^ censorship of the daily and weekly press of the old country and prohibiting the transmission of As news despatches to newspapers. The resolu- in tion was referred to the House Committee on ths Inter-State ana Foreign Commerce. The f ra embargo on newspapers in South Carolina !? c continued in force on April 5. £b A RELIGIOUS FIGHT. W The American Protective Association (Pro- a£* testant) and Roman Catholic element came into armed conflict at the polls for the. municipal elections at Kansas on April 3. More than 200 an Bhots were exchanged between the combatants '^ in less than that many seconds. When the '*' firing ceased six men were lying dead or injured. **' While the riot was in progress members of the Pl Protective Association telephoned to Armour- ta! dale and Argentine, strongholds of the Order, a for reinforcements of 1000 armed men, and an assurance was given that they would shortly be " on the way. The American Protective Asso- tn ciation evidently mean busiuess in Kansas and cri Nebraska. Women took a hand at the polls in nc many places, and their votes told in favour of pr good government. At Lagunta (Colorado), W( wherethe issue was "law and order versus the a *= gamblers," the latter were "snowed under" by Wl the ballots of the women. The Republicans 9 c have made a clean sweep of Kansas, Nebraska, *a Colorado, and Ohio. '* ar A DESPERADO. el A desperate-looking man named William rr Fredericks entered the branch office of the San Francisco Savings Union and walked up to tt William Herrick, the cashier, to whom he' g handed the following note:—"Mr Cashier. Sir, —After considering my deplorable condition, I am convinced that this life is not worth living without liberal meanß, and therefore lam resolved to make one more effort in the High 0 { road of Help to sustain my miserable exist- q ence. Should you not comply with my demand, t j I am compelled to employ my last remedy—a BC bottle of nitro-glycerine, and blow myself a j under the ruins of the building, blasted to everlasting nothingness.—Yours respectfully, A Despehate MaN." A skull and * crossbones were drawn in red ink. Tho r( man, after sajing his name was Boune- ai iimnt, drew a large revolver and ordered the cashier to comply with his request. The ii

latter, acting quickly, reached for a revolver close by, but before he could fire Bounemant, £3 ho called himself, discharged h\a wtapou at him.

JUNO PLUG TOBACCO.

The first Bhot missed, and then Herrick fired and missed also. Bounomaut made a second shot, which struck Herrick in the heart, killing him instantly.- The book-keeper, named Melvin, fired two Bhots at Herrick'fl murderer, but this did not prevent him from getting away temporarily. He was oiily captured after a. long chase. Subsequently his name was found to ba William Fredericks; who two months before had killed a brakesman of the Central Paciflo railroad, and afterwards shot and killed Sherifi Pascoe, of Nevada county. It is also believed that the prisoner was a companion of Chris Pivans, the Californian bandit, now serving a life term in the branch State prison at Falsom.