SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 30 October 1901, Page 4

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

Inter-University Contests.

San Francisco, Oct. 3.

Atheletes of Yale and Harvard met representatives of the Oxford and Cambridge Universities at Berkeley Oval, on September the 20th, in track and field events’ and as was expected, the Americans proved too much for their visitors. The Yale and Harvard men defeated their English opponents by the score of six to three points. The weather was perfect. The Oxford representatives failed to gain a point for the visiting team, the light blue of Cambridge being in front in all the three events won by the Englishmen. A Spanish Trust.

The “ Westminister Gazette,” of September 24th said :—“ It is understood that throe great iron producing companies of Bilbao, Spain, have agreed to amalgamate on the lines of the United States Steel corporation, with a capital of 75,000,000 pesetas, or fifteen million dollars. The works have an annual output of half a million ton?. This trust will be by far the greatest of its kind in Spain. Big ’Frisco Strike Settled.

The strike of the Teamster and affiliated Unions in San Francisco was reported settled on the evening of October 2nd, through the good offices of Governor Gage, of Ca'ifornia, Both employers and strikers have express’d themselves as satisfied with the turn affairs have taken, and great relief will bo felt by ail inhabitants of the city and State. Scenes of violence were entirely too frequent for comfort, as the strikers attacked nonunion workmen again and again, and cruelly beat and injured them, while the loading of ships progressed so slowly that the grain-growers of the State were facing ruin. Venezuela and Colombia. A sharp battle has been fought on the Colombian frontier against the rebels and the Venezuelan invaders, in which the Federal troops had all the best cf it. It is reported, however, that another revolution against President Casco is brewing, and this time the leaders are men of Casco’s own party. The leadership of this movement is credited to General Ramon Guerra, Minister of War in Casco’s Cabinet. It is said he was only appointed to office because of Casco’s fear of him. The Colombian authorises are fully awake to the fact that Venezuela, Ecuador, and Nicaragua, are openly aiding the Liberal, or insurgent cause, and are making a strenuous effort to maintain the sovereignty, by large importations of arms and ammunition. They have also purchased in Europe two additional war vessels.

A recent decree of the Mayor of Panama, enforcing military conscription, has met with little success. Three hundred persons of the prescribed age, but known to have insurgent sympathies, have disappeared, presumably to join the Liberal force.