GENERAL SUMMARY.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 95, 3 February 1891, Page 2

GENERAL SUMMARY.

London, December 10. The Java coffee crop is almost a total failure. Charles Keen, the London Punch caricaturist, is dead. Baron Von Issing, of Bavaria, is- the last suicide at Monte Carlo. The French Grand Orient has declined the proposals for co-operation of the German Freemasons. Medical circles are much irritated air the free traffic in privileges in connection with Dr Koch's lymph. Forty miners have' been killed by an accident at Trinity Mine, Ostrau, Poland* General Booth is called an egotist and a purloiner of Herbert Mills' thunder. Work on the Russian railway through .Siberia to the Pacific begins in the spring. A memorial fountain was unveiled at Hawarden in commemoration of the golden \vedding< of Mr Gladstone. • The main boiler of Irven Ward's factory, Liverpool, exploded on the 29th. December, through the inattention of theengineer, and caused three deaths. ' German soldiers at Berlin are interdicted from visiting 97 restaurants because they are conducted, by Socialists. Mrs John W. Mackay, of San Francisco, has paid £70,000 for Sandford House, London. A serious outbreak of small pox haaoccurred in the German seaport of Hadresden.

The Powers advise PortugaFto avoid collision with England. - Padlewsky, the murderer of General Scleiniskoff, in Paris, is- believed to have gone to New York. The Russian Government has ordered the repulsion of 11,000 Germans and Austrians (the latter mainly Galicians) and Poles. - • The Spanish Minister of Finance has decreed that Spuin must follow the protection, movement of America and Europe. Suspicions are rife regarding the fund* of General Booth's scheme. '~ The Pope has finished the draft of an encyclical on the social question at which he has been working for a 'year. He says a restoration of justice is needed to prevent misery of sweating and the tyranny of riches. He is convinced that the Papal Church should lead the present Social-Democratic movement. ■ There was a great fire in the heart of London ou December 30th, near Blackfriar's Bridge. The- total losses aggregate over £400,000. A large number of warehouses and valuable buildings were .burnt. Mr Parnell's friends turned out is force at Limerick on January 11, twenty thousand assembling to hear Mr Parnell's speech. He- blamed S\ r Gladstone for causing the split .in the Nationalist parly. As soon as the Irish question was secured he would cheerfully retirefrom the Irish leadership, and the future would vindicate him fully. ■ ■ Dr Pasteur says that Dr Koch may not cure only, bat his treatment will prevent consumption. Tea deaths have occurred through the Koch lymph. ._• ' ' J Dove Cottage, Grasmere, is to be fitted as a permanent memorial to Wordsworth, the poet. The Chinese Government is making a newaccurate survey of all their provinces* The Empress Eugenic was a heavy loser by the recent depreciation of the South American securities. -. The cold was so intense at Montor, France, that hungry wolves appeared in nocks in the suburbs. ~ ; The faction quarrels in Ireland have caused much distress in- evicted families because of the uncertain authority over funds. , ■ . r' ; It is reported that Gladstone says he fears his end has come in .public life and politics. San Fbanais-co, January 19. - A Spanish vessel, the Angilua, 'was captured off Florida by the United States reyenue steamer McLane, without papers, and character suspicious. \A prize' crew was sent aboard the vessel to take her toport, when the Spaniard captain showed fight, but he was sent aboard the Me* Lane. A dozen men were hurled 400ffc down s shaft at the Utica- mine, Savandress r through the breaking of the cable. Tea were killed. - • ,' Miss Whitbeck, an actress, sues Mr Bl >keslee, of Chicago, for 20,000 dollars for breach of promise. A fight in a ne«;Fo church at Oamoro r Alabama on Christmas Eve resulted itt one death and many injuries. - Manuel Garcia still keeps Cuba in terror, though a reward of 10,000 dollars is pfferei for his captnre. An English corporation, with a capital of 25,000,000 dollars, will establish 20 agricultural settlements in Brazil.

Isaac >awtell has been condemmed todeath at Dpver, N.H., for the murder of his brother for money. Brazil has issued a decree offering great inducements to immigrants. A submarine boat, to stay 24 hours under water with men, is being built at Detroit. ' ' '