'Frisco Mail News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 68, 17 September 1896, Page 3

'Frisco Mail News.

Serious noting occurred in Belfast on the morning of August. 19 in connection with the Na ionalist manifestations in favor of granting an amnesty to Irish political prisoners. Several processions of Nationalists finally merged into one large one, beaded by a band of men armed with spears The procession soon attracted immense crowds, and stone-throwing commenced. This served to enrage the Nationalists, and their spearmen attacked the crowds, wounding many people with their weapons. The police charged the rioters and used their batons freely. Several persons were ; arrested before order was restored. The greatest excitement prevailed throughout the city, and further disturbances were feared. The enormously wealthy London music halls, which have been depleted of their best actors and singers by the J recklessly extravagant bids of American managers, have determined to enter upon a retaliatory war and invade New York, there to establish themselves on Broadway. The Empire and the Albambra are in this scheme. It is being debated in London (August 28) " How to celebrate the Queen's reign as being the longest in English history." A wealthy manufacturer set the ball rolling by propos ing thab ,£5,000,000 should ba raised to found a model settlement, to be j called Victoria Town. A shocking series of child murders is reported to have taken place at the village of Peraleda, in Spain, where a single woman named Rulo enticed over a dozen young children into her house and then threw eight of them down a well in her garden. Four of the children, when they saw what was happening, jumping screaming from a •window of the house into the street, and three of these were seriously injured. When the murderess saw this she turned to the garden and threw herself into the well after her victims It is supposed the woman was attacked ■with a sudden fit of insanity. In the yacht race at Southsea, on August 15, an accident occurred, resnlting in the dismasting of Baron von Zedtintizi's American - built yacht, Isvede, and the death of her owner. The Atlaß, Britannia, Satanita, and the Emperor William's Meteor |were in the race. The latter did the mischief. She fouled the levede almost bows on and swept her from stem to stern with her bowsprit. The baron was carried overboard with the rest. He was taken from the water, but his injuries were so great that he died before reaching the shore. The result of the inquest on the 19th was that nobody was to blame.