ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1944, 17 September 1889, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Awkianb, Sept. l>.- : Arrived—Maripoßa, from San Francisco. The following is a summary of the intelligence brought by her : • i GENERAL SUMMARY. (Dates from Europe to August 25th).

Great destruction of property is reported from County Clare, Ireland. Floods covered hundreds of acres of farming lands, and nearly all the growing crops were swept away to sea. The loss will reach an enormous sum. The Queen is suffering from sciatica, which causes great pain and prevents sleep. The Prince of Wales is also suffering with his leg since he left Cowesi The veins, which have never resumed their normal size since he had the typhoid fever, swells and causes great pain. From time to time lately the swelling has been yery bad, and the leg has reached an enormous size.

An anonymous writer enclosed ten £loo® notes in a letter to the Prince of * Wales, denouncing the proposition of the Royal Grants Bill. It is also mentioned that the Queen has appointed a private commission to examine her household and civil lißt expenditure, and prepare a scheme of retrenchment. Blondin has accepted a wager of £4OOO to walk on a cable stretched from the Eiffel Tower to the dome of the main exhibition buildingß in less than five minutes.

Cardinal Lavigeri will shortly appeal in the name of the tloly Father Loo XII. to the nations of Europe to purchase from the infidel defilers the holy city of Jerusalem and as much of its surroundings as will be necessary to form a small province, to be for ever independent, and guaranteed iD its integrity by the -Western Powers.

Two thousand estates of' noblemen mortgaged to the Credit Bank of St. Petersburg, established by Government to advaoce loans to the nobility, have been foreclosed, and on the 20th were sold by auction. Mr Balfour's Prison Bill paseed. the House of Commons on August 23rd, after a heated debate by a vote of 113 to 69. Fierce attacks were made on the Secetary for Ireland by Mr Sexton, Mr Parnell and Mr Blair,

Slavin, the Australian beavy-weight boxer deposited on August 12th £IOO with the Sporting Life, London, with a challenge to John L. Sullivan. Slavin means to fight for £IOOO and the world's championship under London prize ring rules.

. Edison the electrician is being honoured in Europe, On the 13th AugUßt the Queen despatched Colonel Geurand to Paris to present th 6 inventor's phonograph into which she had Bpoken, warmly congratulating him. King Humbert of Italy has appointed the distinguished American a grand officer of the Order of the Crown of Italy. Herr Lachim, editor of a London journal, a weekly newspaper printed in Germany ehot his wife and child on August 19th, and then cemmitted suicide. The exhibition of the co-operative societies has been opened at the Crystnl Palace, Sydenham. The display is highly interesting, and sho.vs a marked progress in the products of the co-operative industry. A festival was given at the Pa'ace on August 17th in connection with the exhibition. The attendance was enormous, the turnstile recording over 40,000. A disastrous tornado visited Southern Hungary on July 28tb. Twenty-one miles along the Danube many house? and churches, and ferry boats at Pesth, and A circus and at Nzigid, all crowded with human beings, were swept away. Hundreds wore drowned, and bodies lay atcewn in every direction. The path of the tornado presented an awful scene of desolation, it was nearly half a mile wide. The dead and dying people_were embedded in wreckage. Many bodies of jtnen, women, and children, and of cattle, were recovered from the Danube and other fivers. Several fine churche3 were ruined. .... A. Hchuetes, an actress unhappily in love] committed suicide on August 14th on the stage of the First Theatre immediately on°the fall of the curtain. During a public concert and ball at Kome, or? August 19th, a bomb was exploded near the Austrian Embassy, and eight persons were injured.

THE WORLD'S BREADSTUFF SUPPLY.

The situation of the world's breadstuff supply is mom serious than was expected a fortnight ago. Russian official reports admits that the wheat crop is the worst for many years. A tornado in Hungary and North Roumania not only destroyed the grain still standing, but swept away many granaries. The Austrian Minister of Agriculture officially announced the day before the storm that the crops of Galicia and Silesia were a total failure, and those of Bohemia and Moravia very bad. Reports from Bombay grow worse as the season advances. Official estimates show a shortage of 15,000,000 bushels. The recent bad weather has caused much anxiety to the farmers of England, and the same climatic conditions worked havoc with . the French crops. Freights from Baltic and Black Sea ports have advanced. A London despatch of August 17th says that the failure of the most important European wheat crops and the continuanoe of unfavorable harvest waatber in England have led to steps for formation of a gigantic bread trust in London. Pour of, the largest Metropolitan Bread Companies, controlling nearly 300 retail bakeries, with a yearly profit of nearly £IOO,OOO, ure already in combination, and others are expeoted to follow. The consolidation will be known as "The Londoa Bread Union." It is announced that by a reduction of administrative expenses and lessened competition this new monopoly will be able to lower the price of bread. The price of wheat had risen in all English provincial ports.

THE MAYBRIOK MURDER.

In the trial of this case tho witnesses examined for the defence vera Professor Libby, who thought the symptoms did not denote arsenical poisoning, aud Buteson, who had lived with Msybrick in America. Mariner Thompson and a negro servant named Stanton testified that Maybrick habitually used arsenic. On August sth Professors Macnamara and Paul testified that Maybrick died from gastro-enteritis. Professor Paul is toxioological examiner in the Victoria University, Liverpool, and he declared it would take months to eliminate arsenic from the system if it wore taken once or twice. A chemist testified that 'ladies often purchased fly papers for use as cosmetics. A hairdresser said that arsenic was. frequently used by ladies to improve their complexions. Mr Poole ex-Mayor of Liverpool, testified that in March last Mr Maybrick had tola him that he took poisonous medicines habitually. \k the request of Sir Charles Russell, counsel for the prisoner, the Judge allowed her tho unusual privilege of making a statement. With many emotional interruptions on her part she proceeded to do so in the following terms :- I bought fly papers for use as cosmetics for raanv years and used cosmetics containing arsenic, which Dr Griggs, of Brooklyn, New York, prescribed. I lost the prescription, and wishing to make a substitute for the formula, soaked fly paper and elder flowers in lavender water and covered it with a plate and towel to exclude tho air On the night of May sth, after the nurse had given the deceased the meat idee, I sat by the bed. Mr Maybrick complained of being very sick and he was much depressed. He implored me to give him a powder which I, earlier in the day declined *o administer. I was terribly anxious and verj unhappy. His distress unnerved rae, aDd as he said the powder was harmeless and that 1 could put it in his feod I consented, and put it in the meat -juice. Mr Maybrick then fell asleep, and appeared better when he awoke. I was not anxious to administer any more, and placed the meat juice on the wasbstand, where it remained till Michael Maybrick took possession of it. Tke day before my husband's death I fnlly confessed and received his forgiveness for the fearful wrong [ had done him." The concluding part of Mrs Maybrick'a statement caused a profound sensation. Her statement ended the evidence for the defence. The Judge in his charge said that there was strong and distressful evidence to show that the prisoner had a motive for ridding herself of her husband. This could be found in her infidelity, which had rendered it necessary for her to enter irjto inextricable mazes of lying. He called particular attention to a phrase " He is sick unto death " in her letter to Brierly, in view of the fact that on the day the letter was written the dector fully expected Mrs Maybrick to recover. This save reason for believiog the prisoner was desirous of being rid of her husband, so that she might live with her paramour. The Judge also put a question to the jury as to whether it was reasonable to belieya that a loving wife would yield to her buebaod's suggestion and put an unknown powder in his food. A verdict of guilty was returned, and sentence of death was pronounced. After the Judge had delivered sentence, the prisoner arose, and said that evidence bad been withheld which wonld caused a different verdict. She declared herself not guilty. Thousands of people assembled at the entrance of the Court, and when Mr Justice Stephen came out he was greeted with howls and incsssant cries of " Shame !" The interference of the police only prevented an attack or the Judge's carriage. The witnesses in the case were also mobbed, and had to fight their way to cabs. The flentence was afterwards commuted to penal servitude for life. This actien was the result of a conference at the Home Secretary's office, at whicli Mr Justice Stephen, Lord Salisbury, and several eminent physicians were present, The facts concerning the correspondent sent to the Home Secretary, Mr Matthews, in the case are coming out. There an many' curious missives. -Some of th< writers declared that they had pledgee themselves not to allow Mr Matthews t< live a single day after Mrs Maybrick wai hanged if he should permit the Judge'i sentence to ba carried out. Women h apparently respectable positions volun teered to be hangad instead of Mrs May brick, if that would satisfy the Homi Secretary. Great numbers of letters wen addressed direct to the Queen, appealinj to her to interfere.

AMERICAN SUMMARY. San Francisco, August 25. The British Bteamer Theodosia, owned by Turnbull and Whitney, of England, while loading crude petroleum at Gibson's point, Baltimore, on July 27th, caught fire from a light in the engine room, and the vessel and cargo were consumed. The oil was being shipped to France. It was valued at 150,000 dollars, and the vessel at 100,000 dollars.

Captain Charles Towers, 39 years old, a jeweller by trade, but who had been a sailor, conceived the idea of sailing across the Atlantic from Boston to Paris in a din*y 14 feet lone;, 5 feet wide, and drawing 22 inches. He wanted to see the exhibition, and sailed away alone from Boston on July 3rd. He was brought back on the 23rd by the schooner Martha A. Bradley from the grand banks of Newfoundland in a most deplorable condition, blind and nearly insane. A railroad excursion train was wrecked on the Knoxville, Cumberland gap, and Louisville railroad, 25 miles from Knoxville, Tennessee, on August 22nd, by which three leading citizens of Knoxville were killed, and fourteen badly injured. The excursionists embraced the chief business and professional raea of the city. A formidable rivalry has been started to the Standard Oil Company in Pittsburgh. Large capitalists have built immense refineries at San Diego, Colorado, where oil transports from Pittsburgh will be refined and shipped thence to Australia, China, Japan, India, the Islands, and other points in the Pacific Ocean. By the burning of a portion of a flat on ■ Seventh Avenue, Eighteenth street, New York on August 19th, some ten or twelve people lost their lives. The place was a regular death trap, and a restaurant keeper named Sanger was arrested for Betting it »n fire to get the lasurance A posse started over from Ashland, Wisconsin, on August 19th, in pursuit of a ruffian who had laid an intoxicated comnanion across the railroad track, and in this position he was cut to puoan by a passing train. Lynching was the purpose of the pursuit. The engagement is announced of Miss Huntington, daughter of Collas P Huntingfcon, one of the big four railroad magnates of California, to Prince Hatzfeldt, cousin of the German Ambassador to Loudon It is estimated the prince's debts amount to 4,000,000 fr. Kiog K>.lskaua declined to receive the Hon W H Severance as United Slates Consul on his arrival' at Honolulu. Ho considered the United States Government had insulted Hawaii in making tueappointmsnt, inasmuch as Mr Severance was formerly Hawaiian Consul id ban Jrancisco and was removed for that cans,; Five hundred newsboys struck in New York on August 21st against the increased rates by the Evening Sun and Evening World. They woo their fight finally, and the papers acceded to their terms. The Rio Grande western train, known as the "Modoc," was bailed up on the Bth August by train robbers. They got lOQdol from the passengeas and about twenty watches, but were unable to open the express car, where the messenger lay w.th a magazine shot-gun and two revolvers. William Bowen, from Australia, and mora recently from Tictoria, 8.C., committed suicide by drowning in San h«Cisco on August 10th. He lost all his money on his trip to British Columbia, and, finding himself short on his return to S»n Francisco, took his own life in the manner mentioned. A letter from a committee representing an EBglieh syndicate has been addressed to the presidents of every cotton mill in Fall River, Mass. It proposes to form a Cotton M>'H Trust, and states that foreigners have subscribed more than enough capital to buy the entire cotton manufacturing plant of the couatry, 20 000 000 dollars, and the investment will probably be 30,©00,000 dollars or more - ' j • n ia A fearful hailstorm occurred m Ua'flix County, New Mexico recently, Stones of immense size fell, killing 2000 out of a herd of 3000 sheep,

A FRIGHTFUL EABTHQUAKE.

Despatches from Yokohama of July 30th report a frightful earthquakes the western part of the Island of Kinsine. The town of Kumamote was entirely destroyed. Large numbers of people perished, and an enormous amount of property was destroyed. Almost in the centre of the town a deep ravine opened and swallowed the Governor's palace and the principal Imperial offices. Hardly a house was left standing. The Governor's wife and six children are missing, and it is believed ihey were killed. It is impossible to say how many people lost their lives, but the latest despatches from Nagasaki put the number at 3000. Almost the whole town, which formerly contained 38,000 inhabitants, was destroyed. Many villages in the neighborhood, with their inhabitants, haye entirely disappeared.

A JUDGE'S ASSAILANT SHOT.

David Smith Terry, ex-Supreme Judge of the Btate of California, was shot at Lathrope Station on the Central Paoifio Bailway by Marshal Noagle on the morning of August 14th. The circumstances attending the tragedy appear to be that Justice Field, of the Snpreme Court, whom Terry hated bitterly became ho imprisoned him and his wife for contempt of Court in a recent phase of the Sharon oase, was in the same train with Terry and hii wife (nee Sarah Althea Hill), and all the parties got off at Lathrope to take breakfast. Mrs Terry, on seeing Field, hurriedly left the breakfait-ioom and went towards the cms. While she was away Terry approached Field and slapped his faoe. He was about to repeat the insult, when Marshal Neagle, who had been detailed as a body guard for Judge Field, drew a pistol and shot him through the heart. He. fell dead just as Mrs Terry returned to the room with a satohel in her hand, and which, being subsequently searohed, was found to contain « pistol. Her lamentations were heartrending, and she was loud in her exeorations of Mirshal Neagle and Judge Field. Public opinion is divided 1 on the eubjeot. The general feeling is that Terry ought to have been arrested by the offioer-nofc killed. Neagle, who did the shooting, was promptly arrested, but was subiequently released on a writ of habeas corpus by a Judge of the U.S. Circuit Court, and brought to 'Frisco, The Federal authorities have taken the case out of the hands of the State altogether, which is regarded as presumptive evidenoe that Neagle's punishment will be only a mere matter of form. Feeling runs so high against the dead man in certain quarters that the Supreme Court of California, of which he was a member at one time, and considered one of the most upright men that had ever cat on the Bench, refused to adjourn in respect to his memory, and denied the privilege of inscribing memorial resolutions on the archives of the Conrt.

GBEAT KERB AT SPOKANE FALLS. The full details of the great fire which swept clean the business disfcriot of Spokane Falls on Sunday night, August 4th, show that the first reports recdved wero not exaggerated. The number of blocks burned were thirty, and it ia ontimated that the loss ii fourteen million dollars, The insurance is not more than a quarter of that sum. The fire originated at 6,15 o'olock in the evening

in the root of a lodging home on Bailroad Avenue, the third door West of Post street. A dead oalm prevailed at the time and spectators supposed that the firemen would speedily bring the flames under control. This would have boen done if precautions had been taken, but the of the waterworks was out of the oity, and for some reason the men in charge failed to respond to the oall for more pressure. The heat created a current of air, and in less than half an hour an ontire block of frame shops was enveloped in flames, and burning shingles or other debris filled the air, igniting several adjacent blocks at the same time. Opposite the block in whioh the fire originated stood the Pacific Hotel; it was soon in a blaze. By this time a high wind prevailed from the south-west, and it was evident that the business portion of the oity was in danger. Mayor Furth ordered that the buildings be blown up to oheok the spread of the fire. This order was speedily obeyed, and the explosions added to the reign of terror. A strong wind sprang up from the northeast, fanning the flames furiously, while an upper current continued to carry the burning fragments in the opposite direotion. The Grand Hotel, the Windsor Hotel, the Washington blook, the Eagle blook, the Tull block, the Gushing Buildings, the Falls Oity Opera House, the Hyde blook, all the Banks, and j.u faot every house on Bailroad Avenue North to the river, and from Lincoln Street East to Washington Street, with the exception of a few buildings in the north-east corner, were totally destroyed. Meantime a sudden change in the direotion of the wind carried the fire southward across Railroad Avenue and destroyed the Paoific Passenger and Freight Depot, a mammoth struoture filled with valuable merchandise, very little of whioh was saved. About 10 o'clook the Howard Street Bridge over the river fell with a great crash, and the boom of the logs took fire, and burned for hours on the surface of the riveri Many times flying pillan of fire oroised the river, igniting the mills that line its banks, but by groat efforts the career of the fire was checked on the south side of the stream, The burned distriot embraces tuirty blooks, besides depots. The, only brick buiinese houses left standing are the' Oresoehb blook and the Amerioa Theatre. The schools, churches, college, and hospital were beyond the lines of the burned distriot, and none were lost. Only one death has been heard of. the viotim bung Ju. Da?is, a civil engineer, from Billingh, M.T., who leaped from the second storey window of the Arlington building, {and was shookingly mangled. He j died next morning in great agony. Several others were severely injured. The seoond day after'the great fire opened bright and dear, and the greatest activity prevailed among tradesmen. Nobody waited any time bewailing their lots, but all set about repairing their shattered fortunes with the greatest courage and determination, and already every branoh of business is represented » tenta scattered over the burned distriot.