MAIL NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1251, 31 May 1886, Page 2

MAIL NEWS.

General Kummary.

London’ May .6

The Nihilists attempteito burn the Imperial Park at Livad a on May 1» firing the neighboring fores' but fails The Czar and his family wore at Liv.rdir

The cholera epidemic is spreading a Venice. Vic-nzi, and Buri.

Mo’iuon missionaries were severely beaten in Switzerland on Mry Ist by friends of Swiss girls who have been badly created in Utah, Tho Km[ oror of Germany has sent the Pope a large gold cross, jewelled, for the latter’s sot vices in arbitrating on the Caro--1 110 Islands dispute.

News from Austria states that the town of Frie-dlaud, in Moravia, anl the towns i f Dotrow, Laney, B zanoe, Chigron, and Lanok, wore destroyed by fires. One man was arrested in the act of incendiarism. Mr Gla 'stone came out on the 30tb april witha denial of the report that he hat decided to join tho Homan Catholic Church. The Prince ot Wales has been re-elected (x-and-Mi>sler of the Freemasons of Engaud.

HOME RULE. The National Liberal Federation of Scotland adopted a resolution on April 19 h favouring Mr Gladstone’s Bill. Th) Dublin National organ, owned by the Lad Mayor of that city, denies that Irish-American dynumit-rs will continue to worry England unless an absolute separation of Ireland and Great Britain is attained, Mr Gladstone’s measure, says the “Nation,” means peace to the Iri=h through at the world. The Earl of Derby published a letter on May sth denying the moral right of the present Parliament to decide the Irish question. The Duke of Norfolk presided at the Conservative mass meeting on the evening of the sth May, at St, James’ Had, to protest against the Home Rule policy of Mr Gladstone. Tho attendance was large , Baron Bramwell was introduced as a prominent socoder from the Liberal party on this question, and Sir Michael Hicks Beach and Viscount Cranbrook were appointed a committee to present to Parliament a petition against the granting of Home Rule.

Tha meeting on the sth, of the National Lioeral Federation of Great Britain en dorse! Mr Gladstone's policy amid the wildcat excitement.

Mr Herbert Spencer, Professor Huxley, and Professor Tyndall have joined the Anti Disunion Committee, the funds of which now amount to £50,000.

Numerous instances are reported of country constituencies passing votes of want of confidence in their representatives in Parliament.

F -ur hundred Catholic priests attended a meeting at Dungannon, county Tyrone, on May (sth, called to give expression t > their views on Gladstone’s Home Rale policy, in compliance with tho Premier’s invitation to all bodies in Ireland to take atlion in the matter. The Most kev. Daniel McGettigaa, D.D., Archbishop of Armagh, presided. Resolutions were adopted endorsing Mr Gladstone’s policy. Simultaneously with the production of his ode at the Colonial Exhibition, Lord Tennyson joined the lush Patriotic Union.

American Summary

San Fkan isco, May 8

Nova Scotia ii moving to dissolve her connection with the Dominion of Canada and seeks with New Brunswick anr Prince Edward Island to f >rm a maritime confederation. A resolution to this effect was introduced in the Legislature at Halifax on May 6th.

Chinese companies have contracted to build railroads in Mexico. The Nova Beotia Legislature passed a resolution on May 7‘h, endorsing Mr Gladstone’s Irish policy. Cardinal Tacherevn. of Canada, issued a pastoral on April 28th, condemning the Knights of Labor as inimical to the interests of religion and good morals.

a groat many Mormsn families, mostly English, are emigrating into Mexico from Utah to avoid persecution under tho U.S. anti polygamy law. Two alliums, each containing all the Homo Ku'.e editorials of ihs American press are in course of preparation in New York Ono will bo forwarded to Mr Gladstone tho other Mr Parnell. It is stated tho Canadian Pacific Tranacontinertal Kail way will Da opened for tratlic in June next.

•;r Mids, Managing Director of the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand, was interviewed on his arrival in San Francisco at route to Europe. He spoke hopefully of the cable project to connect California with New Zealand. SUPERSTITION IN GALICIA.

A special from Cracow, dated April 28th, is to the following effect ; -Galician residents, panic-stricken by news from the west of the province, are abandoning the i-tales and pouring into tin* city of Leinburg by hundreds. Peasants are rising in all directions, and it is feared that unless I the agitation which began so strongly last | week is promptly and utterly supressed, j there will bo a repetition of the awful I scenes of 1878, when the peasantry, led by | a local Jack Cade, and armed with scythes I and picks, burned, slew, and ravaged like [ savages. The disturbances now tilling Galicia with terror have so far occurred in the districts laid waste forty years ago. The natives are grossly ignorant, superstitious, miserable, and easily led away by Agitators, and are ready to believe the wildest nonsense. Emissaries, many of whom are suspected, despite ofiicial denials, to be Russian agents, are tramping about preaching rebellion. The disturbance seems to have swept over the districts of Gubay, Turmolo, and Rrezocko, where 1 j frenzied men, women, and boys go about | exhorting the peasants to rise against the i landlords, who are endeavoring to re- : establish the old Fedora 1 bonds Jn many' j villages knots of peasants may be seen i c'ustering open-mouthed around some Ic.azy visioi o y f who is i r >phesymg t’ a j the end of the world is at hand, and bid | ding them slay and rob their oppressors jAt night the vast Galician parks ar j studded with flickering torches, and excited j groopa are gatherined the woods eagerly commenting on the predictions. Superion is being used to fan the flame of riisoontent long smouldering in West Galicia, where the peasantry are wretch; dly poor, and have many realgrievances. The Socialists also are taking advantage of the agitation to spread their doctrines here. There has been a col idon between the gendarmes and insurgents, several hundreds of whom were arrested. On ■unday, priests in the disturbed districts preached sermons against the rebellion, to reassure the peasantry as to the intentions of the Government, This had eema effect for a time, but to-day a fresh uprising is reported. Troops of regulars and gendarmes are scouring the country, and Imperial banners are unfurled where most apprehension is felt, as a sign that the Kaiser, for whom the Galician peasant has a blind adoration, h hostile to the movement.

SOCIALIST PLOT IN CHICAGO. A terrible fight took place In Chicago on May *1 h in a quarter of the city known as the Haymarket, between the police and crowds of Anarchist?, principally Germans. They had assembled in a mass meeting, where they were being addressed by Persons and Fielding, two notorious Socialists, who uttered such inflammatory sentiments —calling on their hearers to arm themselves and assert their rights—that Inspector Oodfield, at the head of 12$ policemen, marched to the place tqput

i stop to the proceed ngs. He called upoi ho crowd to and Fleldi- p .nswered him by a s out “To rms

a armi.” The officer demanded ■co. d lime the dispersion of tha crowd rhon suddenly, from behind a waggo? fhich wis not 15fc from the front ; ank of pel ci. two bombs were thrown ( etween the second and third ranks >f the men, and a 1/ arose. “Kdl the A!mo.t as soon the worde were altered the b mbs exploded, and six policemen fell dead. Others were wounded, *nd many Socialists ware also hurt. The explosion of the bombs was followed by » fu'ilade of revolver shots from the police ant the rioters answered in the same way. They were well provided with pistols The mob appeared crazed wi h a desire for blood. It held its gron -d and poured voilev after voll y into ths midst of th» police. The h ttar fought gailanily, and at last dispersed the Socialists and cleared the Market Place. It is impossible to get at the number of lives lost. Ataons the mob many fell, and a■■ they dropped were at once carried to the rear into many dark alleys and ways by their friends. The police think fifty were wounded The Drug stores in the vicinity were crowde t with parsons who were hart, and sur -eons ware telephoned for in all direc

tions. At eleven o’clock in the evening twenty poliesmen lay on the floor of the Derplains street station, all disabled, while others .voro report 'd lying in the miare dead or wounded. Oue was found in a doorway, to which he had dragged himself, riddled with pistol baTs. The station-house, where the dead and wounded lay, presented a shocking sight. There were some twenty Socialists in the cells in the basement, nearly all wounded. The names of some of those arrested tell their nationality. Jos [£ ; cber, tEmil Both, John Millund, Peter Lay, Joiin Fraser, August Laka, John Lachman, Robert fcchuhz, and others. For the greater part they are Herr Most’s countrymen and pupils. The particular Socialist Missionary in Chicago is a German named August Brier, editor of a

German paper. Rioting was resumed in Ch'cago on the »th by a mob of six to eight thousand, who assembled on Eighteenth street and CentrejAvenue.] They raided liquor and dru» stores, being assisted by women and children. The throwing or bottles from the drug stores at the police was the signal for tha° officers to commence shooting, when the moo scattered in every direction. A hand to hand fight ocoured between policeman Madden and an anarchist, John Wolefolhardt, which resulted in Madden’s being mortally wounded. A second plot has been discovered among the Bohemian Chartists to tiro the lumber district of the city. The Anarchist leaders, with the ex option of Parson, who it appears has a .Negro wife, have all been arrested. August Speers, Sam Fielding, and Schwab are the principals. Large quantities of dynamite have been found, especially in the office of the “Arboiler Zeituug,” the Anarchist organ. From this office twenty-five printers have been arraigned before Judge Meech for murder. 'J wenty-four wounded police < liiters are lying in the couniy hospital, many of whom will die. A g ea f er fueling of c mfidenca prevailed In Chicago tn 6 h and 7th, consequent on the fact that the authorities haa proved themselves able to preserve peace. The police had raided a number of Anarchist dens, and found arms, ammunition, b mbs and dynamite, together with quantitea of I inflammatory literature. Quite had been restored in Milwaukee after some six or seven Poles had been killed. THE PANAMA CANAL. The latest information about this huge undertaking is from Dr. Wolford Newaon, formerly under the Board of Health at Panama, who arrived in New York from the Isthmus on May Ist. He says if De Leeseps is reported correctly in the statement that one-half the work on the canal is completed he misleads. A fearful crisis has arisen in the causl affairs. The Company’s Indebtedness now amounts to IGI.OOO.OOOdoIs, on which they are paying an annual interest of 600,000d015. For months past work hsa bean dragging. M. Bogger, chief Director, told the contractors not to push it, presumably to cut down expenditure Millions of dollars have been spent in useless machinery ; 5,000,000 dollars to build a magnificent village on the former site of a mangrove swamp. snperior-Agent Dingler's house cost 100,000 dollars. Wilful and reckless antravagance marked every step of the enterprise. A splendid house was put up for DeLesaepa on his late visit, and furnished in princely style with furniture brought direct from Paris. The Company have not settled on a plan for damming the unruly Chagres River ; and the huge out at Culabk, if ever com. pleted will have a side 397 ft high. The whole p oject bristles with difficulties that many consider practically insurmountable. It has been reported recently that M. Berger, chief of the works, believes a sea level canal scheme impracticable, and that it will have to be built as a lock canal, as originally sugges’ed by Captain Bedford Pino, R.N , and Commander Quid, Although the Company has spent a fabulous sum, it is reported that it has nob yet acquired a full right of way across the Isthmus.