'Frisco Mail News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 67, 16 September 1896, Page 2

'Frisco Mail News.

o Queen Victoria has issued a message to the nation thanking them for their expressions of loyalty and affection as tbe period approaches at which the length of her reign will have exceeded that of any other English monarch. The new hoat Fox, containing two Swedish sailors, Frank Harbor and Geo. S&muelson, who started frem New York on Jane 6 with the intention of rowing to Havre, France, arrived at the Scilly Islands on August 1. Both men were in good health. .. A despatch of tbe 15th says the popular heart has been much touched by Sir John Millais's sufferings and death. His surgeon says of the new treatment of ozone as an antiseptic that no man ever passed through such a grave illness with such comfort as Sir John Millais. Dnring the three months since the operation of tracheotomy was performed he had practically no narcotics whatever. Ozone was used in his case for the first time. Not for a long time (says a .London despatch of August 9) has the Queen been go moved by an act of kindness to her family as she was by a letter from the Pope accompaning the present of a massive gold antique bracelet sent by His Holiness to Princess Maud upon the oc« casion of her wedding. The letter is filled with the kindest sentiments of affection* such as a parent might have used, and the missive is considered another good proof that the Vatican desires to be on friendly terms with the Anglicans. In the National Artillery Association competition at Shoeburyneas, England, on the 4tb, the visiting Canadian Artillery defeated a picked British team in the contest for the London Fry Challenge Cup, which trophy has been held by the Canadians since the last contest in 1866. The contest was an exciting one, and the Canadians are elated over their snccesß. Sergeant-Major Bradgeford, who waß the No 1 man of the Canadian team in their visit to London 10 years ago, held the same position on the sth. A society of associated Anarchists in London have begun the publication of a weekly paper called An Alarm— a name copied from a similar publication by S. K. Parsons in Chicago. Parsons waa banged for his connection with the Chicago riots in 1886. ________