ADDITIONAL NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1139, 14 February 1884, Page 2

ADDITIONAL NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Redir-ond Brothers were announced to 1 speak on Irish affairs at Chicago on the 29th. 1 The Mormon leaders are becoming ao i bold that they openly defy the Govern- • ment and urge the necessity of plural ( marriages, A mass meeting has been held in New York under the auspices of an association known as the ‘ ‘ Army of the People. ” Ita objects are—the election of the President i by the direct vote of the people; free , postage, Government telegraphs; a , tax on all incomes over lOOOdols; unlimited coin;!'!- ; and protection against monopolies, and other radical changes. 1 The estimated redaction of the United States debt for December is twelve million dollars. New York has been almost completely inundated. In a terrific gale on January 9th nearly a million dollars worth of property was swept away. A railway accident occurred at Soronto by the collision of a passenger car with a freight train. Thirty persons were killed. The accident occurred on rounding a sharp curve. - The boiler of an engine exploded, the steam scalding (ho mangled and bleeding men, A fire then broke out, completing the sickening work of destruction. The Orangemen’s procession in Newfoundland, resulted in a not. Four men were killed and several wounded. The Convent of the Sisters of Notre Dame, NalleviMe, Illinois, was burned on the night of January 6th. Five nun« jumped from a fifth s’orey window and were killed. When the ruins had sufficiently cooled volunteers commenced to bring out the bodies, and a terrible sight was revealed at times The searchers found two or three charred masses huddled closely together, seemingly seeking protection against the flames. The deaths numbered twenty-seven, of which twentytwo were pupils and five Sisters. The Superior’s body seemed to ha the centre of the ghastly circle rf black remains. Bishop Reed, the St. Louis missionary, preached in Dublin on January 6th, and said in effect that religion and patriotism had been pitted against each other in Ireland, and the former had triumphed. A bailiff named Sims, returning from TullamoreLaw Court on January 9th, was fatally shot by some unknown person. Mrs Carey, the informer’s widow declines to leave England, and asks for safe employment at home. Henry George’s doctrine of land distribution has enlisted all the Irish press against him, and Davitt has made himself unpopular by his effusive welcome to this new agitator. A riot occurred at Enniskillen on Saturday, 19th January, during which the police charged the mob and were met by a shower of stones from the Nationalists. The Orangemen also stoned the police, and afterwards stoned the Catholic school house, A meeting of 4000 persons, including several women, took place in Paris on January 13th. Violent speeches were delivered favoring an armed revolution as the only mesns of ending the stagnation of trade. Delegates present from the Working Men’s Association, however, advised adopting a more moderate tone, and expressing the belief that an appeal to the Chambers would mitigate the crisis. The meeting separated

One hundred and fifty thousand hands are out of employment in Paris. “ Figaro,” of January 12th, puts the number of suicides in Paris for the year 1883 down at 4000 ; says this number is unexampled, and accounts for the increase by “ the pace at which we live.” Intelligence from Spain states that several Republican refugees have disappeared from their place of retreat, and soldiers and many garrisons have been kept under arms at night. Nobody seems to know why, but the impression is general that Alfonso will have to fight for his crown. The London Post’s correspondent in Italy telegraphs on January 3rd that the Pope’s Secretary, Monsignor Boccalie, has opened a letter from America addressed to Leo XIII., containing Fenian threats should the Pope continue supporting England against the national cause in Ireland. The letter states that the protection which the Italian Government gives the Pope will be of no avail. The Pope is warned that there are priests he is bound to receive who will obtain access to his presence to sustain the cause of Lho against the oppression. M. Tolosi, Minister of the Interior, .Russia, received a letter on January the Bth, stating that he has been sentenced to death by the Nihilists. The letter also intimated the speedy murder of the Chief Public Prosecutor, M. Dofreskausky. Mr J. E. Redmond, M.P., arrived at San Francisco by the Zealandia on December 13th, end delivered several lectures there on Irish-Ainericans. Mr Redmond is en route for Europe. The work of recovering £1,000,000, supposed to have been lost in the wreck of the British frigate Hussar, in the bottom of East River, New 'iork, iast below Fort Morris, has commenced. The vessel was wrecked in 1770, while on her way to Norwich, The coin and money was for the payment of British troops. The Hussar had also seventy American prisoners .chained to her gun decks. The company engaged in the work retain 90 per cant, of the finding, and the United States Government 10 per cent. Coney island, of late years the great pleasure resort of middle classes of New York was almost completely inundated by sea in-a terrific gale on January 9th. Brighton Beach Hotel was demolished, and all the bath houses washed into the sea.

At Bradford on January 15th a stream of waste oil flowing from a tank across Bradford, Bordell and Kingswell Railway line caught fire. The passenger train ran into it, and the train was immediately enveloped in flames. The track for a distance ot,. fully 100 yards was covered with oil. '“'The train was soon in a mass of flames. It is definitely known that three persons (women) were burned to de«th. . Thirteen other persons were severely burnt and numbers will die. A terrible calamity happened in the neighborhood of Toronto, Canada, on the Grand Trunk Railway line, on the morning of January 2nd, by the collision of a car, attached to a dummy engine and carrying employees to their daily labor, with a . freight train. Some twenty or thirty persons were killed. Lieut. Sudeikin was murdered at St. Petersburg!! on December 31st by Nihilists. He was decoyed into one of their secret meeting places, tortured for two hours to compel him to divulge some political secrets, and when he did at last give them up and they were verified as correct he was stabbed to death as a of safety to the conspicatcts. The murder is attributed to the instrumentality of Mm. Walkerstin, a sister of the lady who shared in all the attempts against the late Czar, and who was finally hanged. A second account says the lieutenant was a tall and powerful man, and that to judge from the broken furui ture and debris in the room, lie did not die without a struggle. Thirty-seven students were arrested on the 9th for complicity in the murder. Sudeikin’s nephew, who was with him at the time, was severely wounded, and died on the 17th without recovering consciousness. The assassination had a most depressing effect on the Czar, who was on the point of making constitutional concessions, but is now said to be firmly resolved on being more stringent than ever. He sent for Count Folosti, Minister of the Interior, and violently reproached him for his lack of energy and incapacity. Folosti thereupon resigned. Court circles in Berlin are excited by a scandal, the alleged culprit being no less a personage than Prince Frederick Charles Nicholas, nephew of the Emperor, and one of the most distinguished generals of the Franco-Prussian war. His wife, Princess Maria Ann, daughter of the Duke Leopold Frederick of Anhalt, recently discovered k. what she considered conclusive evidence of the Prince’s unfaithfulness. The female In the case is a lady who is prominent in the court of the Empress Augusta, but whose name has not been allowed to be mentioned publicly. It is almost certain that the Prince’s offence, if he has been an offender, is a thing of the past, and that the liason was ended several'years ago. The Princess confronted’him with proofs of his guilt, and a terrible scene resulted. The upshot of the row was that Frederick Charles refused to comply with the demand of the Princess that he should refuse to speak to the lady in question, and that the Princess threatened to prosecute him for a divorce in the public courts. The Princess has submitted the question to the Emperor, and agreed to abide by his decision as head of the Hohenzollern family. The Emperdf has issued an order in which he decides that a suit for divorce may be arranged after due provision has been made to protect the State rights of the Princess and her offspring. On December 31st, at the Johanins- . kirche, in, the working men’s quarter of Vienna, a terrible panic occutred, and such a scene has not been witnessed in Vienna since the burning of the Ring Theatre. A Jesuit priest, named Hauierle, was preaching a mission sermon to an enormous audience, the majority of whom were women and children. Suddenly crowds of excited working men broke violently into the church, shouting, ‘ Down with the Jesuits,’ smashing doors, windows and chairs, tearing (lie robes of a priest, named Gesu, throwing paving stones at Father Hamerle, and damaging the altar and images. After a severe handling the priests managed to escape, and concealed themselves in the sacrisfry. Meanwhile the wax tapers on the altar wppe falling about and caused a blaze, 'jl'hjs was soon extinguished, but a most frightful panic ensued, Women and

children were squeezed, crushed and trampled upon. Three dead bodies have been identified. Several persons were severely and probably fatally injured. For some time past general ill-feeling has existed between the working men and the Jesuits. The working men complain that Father Hamerle, who is very eloquent, preaches between seven and ten o’clock in the evening, and that all the women and children in the neighborhood flock to hear him instead of staying at home to cook their suppers. This was the immediate cause of the scandal. Father Hamerle’s theme that night was ‘ The Glory of Poor Christians in the midst of the Wilderness of Socialism.’ Simultaneously with the attack of the mob upon the church, thousands of Socialist proclamations were distributed throughout the city. The chancel was literally torn to pieces, and everything in the interior of the church was destroyed. The floor war here and there marked with blood stains, and is still covered witli Socialist proclamations, torn praver books, hats, bonnets, shoes and clothing. Durthe havoc two women gave birth to children. Archbishop Ganglorner ordered the profaned church to be again consecrated. A dozen arrests have been made, and great excitement prevails. At a Nationalist meeting held at Dromore on the Ist January, a serious disturbance occurred. Some 2000 Nationalists assembled outside one end of the town, and 20,000 Orangemen met at the other extreme, and a large force of military and police, nearly 2000 strong, occupied the town itself to keep the opposing factions asunder. In this they succeeded until late in the afternoon, when even the liberal use of bayonet and baton failed to stop the Orangemen from attacking the Nationalists as they marched home. Many of the latter were wounded with sticks and stones, while several Orangemen, were stabbed by the Hussars and Lancers One has already died, and two are reported to be fatally injured.