SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS

Dunstan Times, Issue 1101, 1 June 1883, Page 3

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS

*" Prince Balthyany, who fell dead on the Newmarket Racecourse recently, left the greater part of his property to hia mistress. His relatives will contest his will. Both London and Paris are waiting for the return of Mrs Langtry from America to engage her for a professional tonr. An explosion occurred at the Government magazine, Portsmouth Harbour, on May sth. It completely demolished the building, and six persons were killed. The town of Labrel, Persia, has been visited by an earthquake. Many homes Were destroyed and several people killed An explosion occurred in Peterborough, England, blowing up a sewer in the principal street. It caused great alarm, and v/as at first believed to have been the work of a dynamitist society. It has since been found that the cause was the ignition of gas in the sewer. In Carey’s examination during, the Phoenix Park murder trials Brady’s counsel elicited that Carey, while plotting the murders with the other men, was a member of a society which receive 1 * the Saeratoent' at stated periods. He had .for sixteen. Years been working Uv- wages qyeraging £2 per week ;and in 1882 had 91) tenants occupying his-vatious houses. Finally" he said he had been informed by Mallow, chief of the detectives, that if his evidence sho.njd be.. freely given to the State, and be confirmed by others, {p and his brother, weald-be. pardoned." " " ......, „ The Dublin Freeman's Journal says the. dynamite plot was betrayed to the .British Consulate at New York,land-the name of every conspirator who came to England, and the ship on which he. sailed, was cabled,to England directly - after the vessels left New York. The police watched the conspirators, from f he moment they lauded in England. The Journal' further adds that members of the Governing Council could alone have given such information. The Parnell testimonial fund realised to April 30th £I2OO. Lady Mouhtraorris and airs Blake have been awarded £3OOO each compensation for thc murler of ’lieir luisbihda Tne Irish Nationalist League in London is r.ii-ing fumis for the relief of the families of those who haye fled the.count-y or have been arr stted- " in-- 1 connection ~ with " theminders is April. Six hundred’ families' are said to be destitute; : The police have evidence that James. Carey was implicated in tlie murders of Talbot, the police informer, :iii'l C ark,' the F'.nian informer, pud in the iitt.qniptfe'l: murder of Murphy, of the Irish People. ~ Mr Sieraans, the telegraph engineer, has been knighted by the Queen.' A London syndicate ■ has bought 3,000,000 dpi. worth of tlie first moitgage bonds of the Oregon and Californian railroad, which will secure its completion. The Marquis of Lome will probably succeed the Marquis of Ripen as Viceroy of India. Mr Gladstone, in the House of Commons, said he did not think it accorded with the public interest to make a statement as to the negotiations with the American Government on the subject of Irish outrages. Sir Stafford Northcnle unveiled the statue of Lord Beaconsfield in Parliament square, Loudon. A great assemblage was present. The Gamhetta monument -fund has reached £4OOO. The French expedition to Tonquin has caused intense excitement in China. It has li en deemed prudent to retain several ironclads of too French squadron at Shanghai and Hong Kong. The sa ! e of 3 S G3 packages of adulterated tea has been stuped by injunction. Twentysix samples examined were stated to be prejndieal to health. A woman, named Flaherty, while ascending an elevator at the Nevada bank, had, through disarrangement of the machinery, her head nearly severed from her body. Tlie body was so mutilated as to defy idenfication The Connecticut Arms Company have received an order from China for 250,000 repeating rifles, in view of trouble with France over Tonquin. Mrs Lang cry is reported to have netted 230,000d015. during her 24 weeks' Ameiicau engagements. Adeline Patti Aid her life threatened in Philadelphia in a letter written by a member of the company named .Chains; a black - haired Italian, He was discharged, and had his passage paid back to Europe. The great suspension bridge over the East River, joining Brooklyn and New York, is finished, and. the opening was set for the 24th May. The Irish party threatened to Wow up the bridge if it w s opened on Dm Queen’s Birthday, ' The Brooklyn Board., of Aldermen has in consequence postn med the opening of the bridge to the 3rd June, A great number of Irish immigrants sent by tlie British Government are arriving, in New York. Mitchell has gone.into training at Saratoga for his fight with the New Zealander, Herbert Slade, on September 11th. A desperate attempt was made by the convicts in St. Paul’s Penitentiary to escape. The skull of the leader, Lebrace, was smashed with a padlock, and so the rest were secured. A monster meeting of Irishmen and their svmpalhisers was held in Chicago on May sth to rarity the proceedings at Philadelphia in connection with tlie formation of National Land League of; America. A despatch from London dated April 28 says the British Government has ssked-the' United States for the extradition of/twelve Irish conspirators now in America. In the Commons on April ,30 Mr M'Donnell, member for- Dungarvaii, accused Mr, Clifford LI iyd, the special magistrate, of altering, a deposition made on oath. He asked whether ; the Government would enable him to get him out of office. Mr Trevelyan and Mr Gladstone both refused to answer the question. Mr M‘Donnell laid on the table evidence wlrch be claimed would sustain his charge against Mr Lloyd. Two warehouses in Liverpool were destroyed by fire on the night of April 22nd, the loss being £250.000. The Marquis of Queensberry, brother of Lady Florence Dixie, in a totter to the London Telegraph on April 21st appeals to the Eton gentleman said to have been in the vicinity at the time of the alleged attemnt on his sister, to come forward and make a fall and direct statement. When the Queen left for Osborne on April 17 she was unable to walk, owing to her sprained knee, and had to be lifted into the carriage carefully.