'Frisco Mail News.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 81, 12 March 1883, Page 2

'Frisco Mail News.

A MEXICAN DUKIu A CHINESE NEWSPAPER,'; IS NEW YORK. ' ! ;' . VISIT OF THE PRINX3|] 6f WAXES TO OANADi^ - r (UNITED PRES3 ASSOCIATION.) . San Francisco, Feb. 13. -A-terrifio-dnel- witlr axes "took'-placg" ab Socowo , New Mexico, on tha 28th January, between two Mexicans. It -appears the-combataafcs-b ad— been- both paying attention to the same girl, and,; m order to settle their. claims, locked themselves m a room, and wenc at each 1 other with their axes, ; The Burvivor: was brought a^prisbrieiT to Denver. He; had chopped his rival m a horrible man-! : er, severing his" head 1 ftdm -fiis "Body, while he himself was so horribly cut up: that he c»nnot live. ; Two pugilists, McTerrou and a Swede named GKbson.have been injured! so much m recent prize fights that they^ cannot recover. The fights tooic place one 1 at Pittsburgh and the other at Sharonpa. The participants, referees, and others have fled. ■ .. The Rev. Heber Newton, a prominent Episcopalian clergyman, of New York, has been suspended for heresy , chiefly m denying the divinity of Christ. A Chinaman has just started a newspaper m New-York, called the ChineseAmerican. There is quite a talk over the fact that a syn J icate of Methodist ministers m New York have been swindled by a mining « sharp/:. 1 . ; Many. . qf tb?e*i are beggared. .JTheyjre v[cjim§j)f ia Colonel Bixty, whcv m exchaTn^lbr tneir fidence^and money, loaded t 'them with shares m a.. worthless concern named the Isabella Silver Mining Company. | The latest case of official; defalcation is that of 0. F. Vincent^4tate c Treasurer of. Alabama. He has flitted witn SOOOOrfols of. .public money, most of which, however^ was lost m dealing" m i cotton "futures" with New. York stockbrokers. ' -:' ? :- M's John Limbuck, of Milwaukie, ; while m a state, of religious frenzj^ on 23rd January, 1 murdered her three children, disembowelling and cuffing them to pieces; I Teh thousand ironworkers m Juliet, 1 Illinois, are out of employment on. account of closing themills, and appeal tor ! aid. ; They are m a state of the utmost \ destitution. . " „ , „ - i ! A dead house m Montreal, was robbed on the 22nd January and- five ' corpses taken for medical collegesr ; | Mr S; : ; Me M aster, late'maiiaget p r f the j Glasgow and Canadian Land and Trust I Company, was arrested when about to i start from Montreal, Canada, for [ Australia oa the 26th January. He is i icharged with- enib'eiziing^' 15,000 j dollars. He was lately a candidate for J the Dominion Parliament* "^ ; :;.,The cost^of^he late tour of the Qbvernor^Genoral^the Princess Louise and suite, ia' British Columbia, Califordiaj and*the 'Southern Sfcdtes, is put down at 45000 to £6000. j It isjrejported that' ls9} bodies have been stolen from graveyards m the yioi««ty ; ofjMou.treal during the winter, of which a number were sent to medicalschools m the United States. I The Royal Opera House, Montreal; has been ; burned. iThe ldss is estimated at £15.000. I.i :. Bandits captured the town of Almacattan, Mexico, o?,thalpt February, j and held the Prefect of Justice and the 1 Municipal Judge for ransom. • ' Mr John G. Buchan Hepburn, son of Sir Thos. . Biichan Hepbucn, an Engli'sn ' baronet; was : inurde'red by : ' miners on Sunday, 2nd February, m Pino, Alta Ghitmahua, Mexico. Two of the murderers were shot next day after .trial. , „.-,,'. :