San Francisco Mail Items

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 61, 4 November 1886, Page 3

San Francisco Mail Items

(Per s.s: Australia at Sydney.) AA r ckla nd, N ovem ber 2. In . a distraining for rent case on the 30th of September,- at Milltown, Malbray, County Clare, the married " women of the neighborhood attacked, overpowered, aud imprisoned all the ( officers engaged, while their husbands seized the cattle, and removed them from the locality. Bismarok's organ, the North Ger-. man Gazette, takes the Austrian sharply to the task for its attitude in commenting on the Bulgarian situation. It thinks that an extraordinary desire is shown to destroy the peace between Germany and Austria. Soon after .midnight on the 26th a crowd-assembled and stoned the police, who. fired upon the rioters, and a young man named Donald Moore was shot through the lungs, and was conveyed to the hospital in a dying condition. Twelve constables were seriously wounded with stones. M my arrests were made. . China has applied to the Parisian financiers for a loan of 50,000,000 taels to construct railroads in the . Empire. Several persons, including a Glasgow magistrate, were suffocated to death while viewing the monster blast at Loch Fyne quarries. Seven tons of gunpowder were used. It appears that the crowd paid no attention to the warning to keep at a distance, but rushed the persons giving the- advice. An indiseribable scene followed. The people looked as if intoxicated, uudergoing convulsive contortions, accompanied by laughing, crying, and screams as they came to consciousness. Medical men saw that (pAfter the explosion, which loosened about 500,000 tons of granite, a cloud of vitrious oxide gas ascend, and in the absence of any wind, fell to the earth and enveloped the spectators. A' number of persons escaped unaffected- while others, probably 150, detected a „ pungent taste and odour, accompanied by a difficulty in breathing: This was followed by convulsions and vomiting. . At the London wool sales on September 30 there was fair competition, and prices were firm. Among the lots offered for sale was a parcel from America, which was withdrawn because none of the bids covered the expenses. It was rumored in Berlin on the 29th September that a plot to blow up a tram on which the Czar was travelling had been discovered at St. Petersburg.