Arrival of 'Frisco Mail.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 43, 16 August 1894, Page 2

Arrival of 'Frisco Mail.

Q i BRUTAL OUTRAGE ON A BRITISH CONSUL. THE RECENT AMERICAN RAILWAY STRIKE. THIRTEEN PEOPLE KILLED BY LIGHTNING. A WOULD-BE ASSASSIN OF PRESIDENT CLEVELAND. PRESS ASSOCIATION! Auckland, This Day Arrived at 10.30, the Monowai, from Sail Francisco. The Monowai brings dates from Europe to July 25th. After a months' struggle on the part of members of the American Railway Union on all lines using Pullman's sleepers, the strike was declared off on July 24th. The movement snvolved all the train handlers with the exception of the conductors and engine drivers, and numbered many thousands of men. It was one of sympathy because the Pullman Sleeping Car patentee, multi-millionaire, had, it was claimed, dealt unfairly and penuriously with his employees. The union determined to boycott him and the members refused to handle any of the trains in the make up of which his sleej>ing cars were included. The business of the country was <mra. lised. The principal storm centres of the strike were Chicago, Sacramento (California), and Oaklands, where the most turbulent scenes took place and was ouly quieted by putting the disturbed districts under martial law. The local militia were called out in the first place, but the soldiers fraternised with the strikers, especially at Sacramento and Oaklands, and refused to charge the rioters or the train men, or to fire upon them. It was different when tho regular army troops, who had no sympathy in the matter, came upon the scene of action. They quickly cleared the depots, and those who hesitated to go, thinking the regulars could be bluffed as the militia were, soon found their mistake. They were shot down without mercy. In California the damago resulting from the branchers business will take a long time for affairs to re-adjust themselves. Thirteen men and women working in a field near Schwelzunt, Prussia, were killed by lightning on July 14th. Wm. Cantby, a Canadian by birth, was arrested in Chicago on July 14th, after a siavage fight with the policemen. The prisoner, by his own confession, was an emissary from the Hatters' Union, Chicago, to assassinate President Cleveland because he had brought upon the country hard times. Cantby had no funds to proceed to Washington, and was found robbing a woman in order to obtain the money, that he was arrested. A despatch from Shanghai gives additional details of the assault by Japanese soldiers on July 17th on the British Consul. The scene was in Coreft which resulted in the landing of 30 British blue jackets to guard the British legation. The Consul was dragged 50 ytfrds and beaten by the soldiers with their fiats. The Consul's wife was pushed into a ditch. The Consul was stopped and illtreated because he was seeking to pass the Japanese sentries and to enter the bivouac of the troops. Formal complaint was made to the Japanese Minister, who made cuirt reply and »p, ology. '