Frisco Mail Items

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 85, 8 January 1891, Page 4

Frisco Mail Items

■■■ ; • ;v ."\ /'■' •' """'♦•'." — - ■.■ ■■■■."..'■■■ . i :v-.«fR UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION..! > AcccLAND.;i)anuary 5. A despatch from New vYork, T>eceuiber: i2t.li, -Snys physicians who hay« lieeii' spending most of their time r at the bedsides uf patients in ■iiwpitats in towti 1 for the past week : watdhiug experiment's with Koch's 'lymph-"ar e bc-giuuing to reap their reward. : <)arsaian Teenier is now ai Sail ' T'i'aucisC'.', awaiting'- the.:, arrival of the. Austratnwi scullers. He rows Henry -rPetera6.il' next' month for three miles ■ for anything over 500 dollars. j '-■.*;-Trpin - . Vienna, it is learned that Kpssuth is not suffering from dev lpreasihg poverty, as has been re.:. 1 pbrtedj but is iv comfortable circuni- - Btaiices." . ' ■■■■;,- . ■ "". .." ( - '''■■':'■ ; ,v : - .-'::■ ■) . ■ '-'] AtvMoute; Oavlb-i a middle-aged Russian : vvus playing heavily when he Buddeuiy. felt dead at tho roulette table. The body was removed by tlie atteudan ts, an d i v a few mm u tea pU'y > was going on as usual. : i ; AuNew York success; seeuis^tb have crowned the remarkable surgicjil operation of transplanting \;- a boiie -from a dog to a boy's leg. The boy . '? and dog,, at thb plmrity i'Hospi'al are i//<me.>:Their flesh has grown together, rr-and. everything- indicates .that their - : :bbnes. have beguii to unite, ;■;.■ ; Joe.; Thompson, the well known : rspbrtsman of Melbourne, is building ; : ;-a'")."Big race track' at San'" Francisco. ..'v^iferfir^^o^ia^ will M 100,000 dolJ ■■"'■ lars. v At'its 'opening next' autumn he expects to see i'*l'si'ddo : spectators.-'.. \ /^lt is stated- that ; a chain of islands „'" ;^nthe,South^ Pacific" heis'beeh^soiz^d -'.'l^/tne-'Britiish^.jGoyerbaieat.ffpr'inter- ; .mediate ■' stations'-- .ibetweeri Houolulu i^and New 'Zealand, 1 so that no section :Vi^f "cable wUi have; greater length than ■ -^200 miles. The loiige3fc stretch will V wpossibly be -between Vancouver -i aud j-H'onolulu, -but this ?will be one of the • easiest sections to lay, as the bottom .V>^B;a= good one.; ■...'; :- : v- The Eeichstag- will be asked f|or marks for the army, partly i io "^..provide'/ new Enunitious of war, .;£ and :>pa^tly .to 'alter thej umfornis. i Henceforth no glitter of. headpiece ior arms will be .-; permitted. A sombre -; --.uniform is considered necessary since ■:..-» ihe; iuyeatiou of smokeless powder. | {[a] Advices frond: Capetown state that Excitement over the situation in Maaivdoiand is '.increasing. The Portu--guese are said to be meditating an ■• the :furces of: the British j v South Africa 'Dbe natives ! ~feyour:ithe^-Britisii; in preference to : -Portuguese. il^t France, a :TiWod.ding-:.; •procession was leaving a j -•••churphj^whon suddeniy ..-twq.sfiots were I -heard/ and the bride and bridegroom ; fell dead. The assassiu subsequeutly ; -committed sueide. He was a rejected !loyer. .*--;, r: - ; " ' • '> -A young man named Harry Alcoru, | .- $>f Hasbrock Seights, New .York, w^as i ... .^bitten by a mud bulidog on the hand. : :'. Tlia '"wound did übt Iwal, and six • j-fwe^ks afterwards -he fell ill, became macl^ and died a; terrible death ;of i "Hydrophobia, barking like a dog. . ;la ( a drin k>ng. riot at Farmington, "Virginia, two men "were iciTlad and i 7- twelve wounded. The participants J a "were lumbsfiiieiiV laahy; of ■'v 7h i >m i used . ;.. rer.ol^era with; deadly effect. - ■;;) paptain liyall- master >f ;t_he-Britiah * steel ship Buckingham, >bouad frimi 4; 'ltfaaf itius to New 'York, was niiir- . dersU at sea oh :'..Oiit<iber. liih by two .^Lascar sailors.. .His ; wife ' wjis- with j ;'hiu*.; :Hs was - I ' 'buried at sea. The 5- isailors 'are in '•gartl>at New York. beyeral, iQiaieri.se iiuancial failures ■T-oceui'ced' in Tennessee, Cbicagb, Denver. .New York, and Arkansas, about December 9ih. > The Fran klyu Bank -of Nashville failed for 200.000d015, and. the Am erica n Bank of Arkansas ' for nearly ■ 20Q,000d015. , . . ■■\': k 'A religious reyplutien on a -small i scala is reportied' from Konigsburg, Pruesia.^ A Lutheran pastor became a convert to - the : Roman Catholic whereupon fifty families renounced their /denomination ,■ rather ■ tnan separate _ from him,' and t3e--ciared their.; willingnes3 to follow his ylead; = ;■■'•:■' ; ; :;_ ; ■ ■"■ -.■ , v Barnum, the great showman, is \ ' f "belieye<i to be on his death- bed. He rrhas influenza. Albert Smith,, junior partner of a ■ .t'Neir;' York" brokers' firm, has been -' s -'Serit r to' prison^ for 10 years for 70 forgeries aggregating 350,000 dols. The . discovery^ was, made accidentally ,bj a clerk of the firm. . A wealthy banker in ■Guatemala was lately lured into a |Dotorioas thoroughfare by a women, v-^andv. murdered ; by three men, who - took "away great wealth, which ! lie vcarried ; with; Kirn. The body was in a trunk. peraohs were under-'-■•;goiug.;;i|;retttmbnc';by i . "Dr Koch's lymph ; at New ; Ybrk on the latest date, ..,- A ..semi-official communication from England to.Amarica says-the English .are not disposed to yield a single -item in tho present claim re the Alaska fisheries, as opposed- to America. The late financial crisis, iv London is said; by a returned New Year .financier to be as tight a squeeze as /London could, stand without going .-under.-. English capitalists have lost nearly "300)000,000 dollars iv South -/American speculations in the last five years. i_>_An ; - -analysis of Dr Koch's ly ui ph, ■which haa b«Bn made in Paris;, reveais the fact that the remedy is composed of ptomaines of tubercular bacilli '{which is a virulent poison) and cyanide oH gold and glycerine. ■ M: Lehon, a wine merchant of .NancT, st-Mt a barrel of rum to a friend af Mtnsalon on 25th November. . The frie ml took out tho head of the cash, and found- that the ca«k contained all that was mortal of Madame L^'ioii, wjho had diaafvpeared mysteriously 'tlire<j a'e<iks before. When the police arrived thoy fouud that Lebon had already killed himself. Four ■workmen find two relatives of the "women have been arrested on sit'sj'i.oir.n of being concerned id the '-crime.