SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 18 November 1901, Page 4

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

(Per E.M.S. Sonoma at Auckland)

San Francisco, Oct 24. A despatch from London dated October 17th says that in Northampton to-day and on Wednesday turbulent scenes occurred, when hundreds of unemployed shoemakers, incited by socialists, stormed the workhouse, demanding relief from the distress caused by the paralysis of trade attributed to American competition. A despatch from Berehaven, Ireland, dated October 17th, says the gun sights and other fittings of the British first-class battleship Magnificent, flagship of liearAdmiral Sir William Ackland, second in command of the Channel Squadron, have been cast into the sea by members of the crew in order to bring about the righting of grievances the crow complained of. The Berlin correspondent of the London “Times’’ says that in view of the existing commercial and industrial depression, Germany is not in a position to face a tariff war with any important customer nation. Five months of such war would drive the German commercial world to desperation. A despatch from London, dated October 21st says the Stock Exchange last week was extremely dull and wholly professional. Various causes contributed to stagnation, among them being the industrial depression in Euasia, Germany and France, American uncertainty touch ng copper, and railway developement, and lastly and chiefly the South African situation. Experts do not look for any serious break in marl et because the speculative public, whose timidity usually precipitates a panic, is wholly eliminated at present, but they think ic will be a long while before theye is any decided favourable reaction.

German works are now securing orders for locomotives in India. This is explained by the possibility of more rapid delivery owing to the fact that British works have heavy orders ahead. The Prussian Railroad authorities will soon order four hundred locomotives. Kear-Adrairal Evans and other distinguished officers of the U. S. Navy have been despatched to Tutuila, in the Pacific to invesitgate complaints of the administration of Captain Tilley Commandant on that Station. It has been alleged that Tilley has been seen under the influence of liquor, and that his conduct has been unbecoming an officer. The charges were received at the Navy Department with surprise, since the record of the officer in question has been heretofore without blemish. It is stated that the complaints emanated largely from Samoan missionaries,

A remarkable robbery was perpetrated in Chicago on October 21st. The thieves tunnelled some distance, and then bored through a steel floor in order to reach the plunder, and succeeded in carrying off over seventy-four thousand dollars’ worth of United States postage stamps. If they had calculated the distance six feet to the west of the point whore they entered, they would undoubtedly have carried off nearly forty thousand dollars in cash and eight hundred thousand in stamps. The postmaster in charge is responsible for the loss until an Act of Congress frees him from it. A horse and waggon were in waiting to carry away the loot, and as yet no definite clues have been found as to the guilty parties. The robbery was discovered when the chief clerk of the Stamps Department opened the vault in the morning,