’FRISCO MAIL NEWS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 67, 15 November 1887, Page 2

’FRISCO MAIL NEWS.

AMERICAN SUMMARY.

Davison Dalziel, formerly of Sydney, and now publishing Truth, a theatrical paper, in New York, h issued the Duke of Marlborogh for 25,000d01s danagee. The Duke charged Dalziel with publishing a memorandum purporting to be signed by him, but which was a forgery. Mrs Annie Lacks, who threw a pancake into the lap of Mrs President Cleveland while the latter was on the fair grounds of St. Louis with the presidential party, was fined SOdols for the offence. She protested that she only threw the cake in fun, but the Court could not see the jo'_e, particularly where the President’s wife was concerned. Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore is engaged in making a round of visits to the principal ci tie i and towns of California. The New York Tribune of October 18th criticises Secretary Bayard’s Samoan policy unmercifully and especially his treatment of ex-Cdh'ul Greenbaum. The paper says that the action of the repudiated official when he was Consul at Apia in affect a protest against the flagrant breach of treaty by the Germans, and because this was the case the disallowance of Greenbaum’s proceedings by Secretary Bayard was tantamount to acquiescence in German intrigue and aggression. Extraordinary precautions have been taken in Chicago to guard the county gaol where the condemned Anarchists are confined; The police guard has been trebled, and 18 additional deputy sheriffs appointed. The St. Louis Globe Democrat of October Blh, speaking of the depressed condition of the wool market in the United States, says that it so mistified the factories in that city that a secret investigation was recently set on foot, and disclosed one of the biggest rings among the Eastern manufactures and New York and the Boston Custom-house officials ever organised in America. It has been found out that the New York and Boston Customs officials have been systematically undervaluing imported wool, and have loaded the market with it. The Bostonians deny the St. Louis iinpeaohmeat.ll