'Frisco Mail Items

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 346, 22 June 1894, Page 2

'Frisco Mail Items

■ ■■ - — ♦ (Per Press Association.) ..' 4BCKtAND. June 21. The Alameda (Captain Morse) arrived this evening from San Francisco. GENERAL SUM MAEY. The stagnation in the demand for Irish linens, owing to the delaj ra disposition r»f the Tar ff Bill in the United States is about to compel the failure of one of the oldest and brst known firms in Bel* Fast. According to the Nort 1 em Whi« of Maj 29th, all creditors will be paid in full. - ..--vfTV It is positively denied in London official circles that there is any truth in the story published in Berlin on May 28th that Germany had protested to the Government of Independent Congo State against the recent convention with Great Britain. The Rev. James Sketrett, a young Presbyterian minister of Glaggow, was suspended from the ministry and deprived of his church and harried from the priyi leges of full commission for the henious offence of meeting a female member bf his congregation three times m the open street and conversing with her A charge of impropriety was made against either the minister or the lady. The severe action of the Sjnodical Commisnbn before which the case was brought raised a rumpus in the town. ' General John Hewston, a well-known San Franciscan, was arraigned on May 30th in the Clerkenwell Police Court; London, on a charge of killing a street m usician named Barton. General Hew* ston states he wan passing through Graf's Road and when near Action-street some street musicians assaulted him. The general raised his cane to ward ofl the blow, and the ferule by accident penetrated Barton's eye and caused his death at the Boyal Free Hospital. General Hewston insists that the affair was entirely accidental, but bail was refused in his case. The National Liberal Confederation of Great Britain issued on May 14th a cable for a conference, at which the Liberal Federations throughout the kingdom were expected to be present, to express opinion on the question abolition, The conference was to be held at Leeds on June 20th.