ARRIVAL OF THE SRANCISCO MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2194, 28 April 1891, Page 4

ARRIVAL OF THE SRANCISCO MAIL.

Attcklanb, Apri. 24 Arrived—Mariposa from San Francisco. Passengers for New Zealand, Mrs Thomas Gamble, Mrs Ton Tempsky, Mr Carl Levi, and three steerage passengers. For Sydney, the Hon: Julian Solomon.

GENERAL SUMMARY. (Dates to April Ist.) Ihe grippe has taken a fearful hold upon Chicago, and the fury of the dißeaße is not abating in the least. If there had been as many deaths in Chicago during the past moath from imallpox as there have been from pneumonia and kindred ailments, the city would be ia a panic; The deaths reported for the week will be about 900, against 400 for the same time last year, which was probably the larges. number recorded in the city. The carpenters of Chicago will not strike for at least two years to eome from April 13th 1891, to April 13th 1893. Journejmen carpenters will receive 85 cents an hour as a minimum rate of wages, and eight hours will Constitute a day's work. Hiram McConkey of Heyngport. Jackson County, has been fast asleep for 8 months. Last July he lost the power of speech, was taken sick and has not spoken or opened his eyes since. On Saturday night blood began to flow from his head and his ears, and suddenly he came to his ionses. The doctors are dumbfounded at the phenomenon. Timothy D. Healey, who was assaulted yesterday by Mr O'Brien Dalton, when interviewed by the .Associated Press representatives today, said, " I was offering my hand in friendly greeting to Mr Dalton, when he rushed in upon me and hit me a terriffic blow in the face smashing my spectacles, and forcing the broken glass into my face. The iDJary to the right eye caused me intense pain," " No, I shall not prosecute. I freely forgive him, for he has done good work for his country ; besides he is going to be tried by the Government." The injury done to Mr Healey's eye by the blow which he received from Mr Dalton last evening is of a more serious nature than was at first supposed. Mr Eealey is confined to his bed. The physicians say that there is a prospect that he will remain in his room for a month to come.

A German princely marriage is now mooted for the seeond daughter of the Prince of Wales, the Princess Victoria, for whom it was previously understood a marriage was about to be arranged with the Hon John Baring, the clever and popular eldest son of Lord Kevelstone. The plan then contemplated was that a dukedom should *be conferred on the head of the house of Baring, and that his heir being a Marquis should become brother-in-law of the Duke of Fife. Circumstances having made an end of this arrangement, the hand of the young princess has been sought by her coasin. Her Bister, the Princess Maud, who is now 22 years of age, the youngest daughter of the Prince of Wales, has been asked iu marriage by Prince William for bis eldest son and heir his royal highness the Grand Duke of Saxon burg. Prince "William is now in his 40th year, and arrangements are beiug made, it is said, to restore to his father and eventually to himself the greater part of the enormous fortune of the Duke, his son, which was confiscated by Prussia after the events of 1886.

A huge icicle fell from the eayes of the Chamber of Comoaerce building at St Paul, Mann, the other day, and fractured in five places the skull of Mrs Harris Herbert, fche died ten minutes later.

In Covington the parents of the cigarette boys have combined and retained counsel for the prosecution of persons who sell cigarettes to children.

An attempt was made to burn down the little town of Main Prairie, about 13 miles from Dixon, on Wednesday morning. The town is composed of immense warehouses. One of the three-storey warehouses was fired, and there was a desperate struggle for two hours before the bhize was extinguished. The town is greatly excited and offers rewards for the arrest of the incendiary.

A double murder and suicide occurred at Casino Theatre at 2 30 o'clock on March 27th. Charles Elliott, a faro dealer, had been occupying a box nearest the stage, on the right side, for about an hour, when he wa« seen to lean foiward from the box and fire three shots at the performers on the. stage. He then placed the muzzle of the revolver in his month and fired, the bullet going through the top of his head. One of the shots entered the left breast of Mabel Delabean, a variety actress; another bullet enterad the back of Carrie Smith, just above the left hip, inflicting a dangerous wound. About half an hour after the shooting Mabel Delabean expired. She was about 23 or 2-1 years of age and was a general favorite with her pockets of the dead man were found a number of cartridges and the following note addressed to Lulu Durand :—" I have wanted to carry out my purpose, but I have not had h favorable chance yet. I trust to luck and a good shot to accomplish my purpose.—Charles Elliott." The fact that Lulu Durand was on the stage at the time of the shooting makes it clear that she was the one whom he was shooting at. Carrie Smith, who was shot in the back fvas taken to the

Sacred Heart Hospital and by last accounts was somewhat improved. The , doctors believe that she stands a good chance of recovery. The ball entered her back and struck a rib, making a wound which is not necessarily fatal. Lulu Durand has stated that she believed Elliot intended the shot for her, but being somewhat behind the other girls she escaped, A Rochester physician has sent £SOO in small sums to about fifty citizens ef Springfield to pay for property he took and destroyed in his boyhood's days, such as melous, chickens, &c. 01 course the recipients will go and do likewise. Montreal city and unity were visited for twenty-four hours on March 6th by a terrific hurricane and blizzard, and great damage was done by wind. Pillow and Girrey's roller mill was almost totally destroyed. The spire of St. Patrick's Church and the magnificent depot of the Grand Trunk Railway were damaged. Many private buildings, barnes, and houses in course of construction were demolished, and early in the morning the streets were filled with flyi&g signs, slates, branches of trees, &c The storm has done tremendous damage to the country districts.

THE jS ,;, AV OBLKaNS LYNCHING. J The New OrJeaua Ivnching occurred at midday od March 14th, the day following the trial of the Hennessy murderers. An announcement in the papers convened the assemblage at ten o'clock. Having come prepared for action thousands assembled, and guns, revolvers, and ammunition were handed out from an arsenal. As the crowd marched to the prison it grew into a vast multitude. A meeting was held in the open air. Mr Parkersen, the leader, is a prominent lawyer, and President of the Southern Athletic ' Club, and a man who led a vigorous reform movement three years ago. Waltec Dinger, arother speaker, is one of the leaders of the New Orleans Bar. Other speakers were John Wickliffe, also a prominent attorney, I and Jas. Boueten, one of the foremost men in the State. The prison doors were heavily barred in anticipation, but were smashed down with axeß and battering rams. Patrol waggons drawn up wifeh police reinforcement, but were driven away with stones. Seven or eight of the leaders ascended the staircase, and as they reached the landing the assassins fled down the other end and half-a-dozen followed them. Scarcely a word was spoken. When pursued and pursuers reached the stone ceurtyard the assassins darted towards the Orleans side of the gallery and crouched down beside their cells. Their faces were blanched, and being uncovered were absolutely defenceless. In fear and trembling they screamed for mercy, but the avengers were merciless. Bang! bang! raug out the reports of the murderous weapons, and the deadly rain of bullets poured into the crouchiDg figures. G-eractu, the nearest man, was struck in the back of the head, and his body pitched forward. Romero fell to his knees with his face in his hands, and in that position was shot, Monatero and James Carusa fell together under the fire, half-a-dozen rifle bullets entering their bodies and heads. Cometex and Trahinia, two of the men who had not been tried, but were charged jointly with the other accused, fell together. Their bodies were literally riddled with bullets. When the group of assassins were discovered on the gallery, Macheca > s caffedi, and an old man, Marehesi, separated from the other aix and ran up stairs ; half-a-dozen followed them, and as terrorstricken they ran into their cells, they were shun. Machesi, who was charged j with being an arch-conspirator, had his back turned when a shot struct him immediately behind the ear, and death was instantaneous. Scaffedi, the most villainous of the assassins, dropped like a dog, when a bullet hit him in the eye. The old man Marcheai was the only man who was not killed outright. He was struck on the top of the head while he stood beside Macheca, and, though mortally wounded, lingered all the evening. Pollitz, a crazy man, was locked up in a cell upstairs ; the doors were flung open, and one of the avengers shot him through the body. He was not killed outright, and in order to satisfy the people on the outside, who were made to know what was going on i within, he was dragged down stairs and through the doorway by which a crowd had entered Half-carried, half-dragged, he was taken to a corner, a rope provided and tied round his neck, and the people pulled him to the cross bars. Not satisfied that he was dead a score of men took a,im and poured a volley of shot into his body, and for several hours the body was left dangling in the air. Bagnetto was caught in the first rush upstairs, and the first volley of bullets pierced his braiD. He was pulled out by a number of Btalwart men through the main entrance to the prison, and tied to the limb of a tree on which his body was suspended on, although life was already gone. The assemblage then dispersed quietly. Further particulars regarding the lynching state that immense crowds rushed from all directions to the neighborhood of the tragedy. The whole of the streets in front of the newspaper offices were blocked with people anxious to see the latest bulletins. There was intense suppressed excitement from one end of the city to the other. The action of the citizens w<ta applauded, ■

O'Malley, the detective, who would have shared the fate of the assassins if he had been caught, has disappeared, and is not expected to return, and the members of the jury are in hiding. A telegram from New Tork of March 14th. says:—Le Codi Italia, one of the Italian newspapers in this , city, issued an extra edition on the New Orleans affair. The: story was followed with an editorial, which said: —" Without words we want satisiaction, full and complete. If our Minister at Washington has not at this hour made his wofd good 1,000,000 Italians residing in the United States will know how to do it. If the massacre that we have witnessed in this free Republic is allowed to go unpunished we will denounce it as an assassination." The newspaper invited all Italians to a mass meeting, and closed with the warning, '' Death to the assassins, death te those that allow such butchery." Late at night a number of prominent Italians forwarded telegrams to the Italian Ambassador at Washington, calling his attention to the murders at New Orleans, and demanding that he take the proper steps in the matter and give to it the recognition itsimportance deserves.

The Mafia, the secret Society of the I Sicilians, whose crime, the killing of the Chief of Police, led to the lynching, is a Sicilian secret Society, primarily organised by a convict of that name several hundred years > ago, who, escaped from prison. It extracts a terrible oath from its members, and dooms to death all those who fail to obey its orders. Inspector Byrnes, of New York, says, " The Society is distinctly a Sicilian Society, and I wish to state here that there is a great deal of difference between the Italians and Sicilians who make America their home. The latter, as a rule, come from the dangerous class of their country ; they are outlaws, they cannot return to the land of their birth, because in many cases prices are fixed upon the beads of more than one-half of them. They were criminals in their own country,- and they continue their career of crime in the home of their adoption. Before 1860 the Mafia was a powerful political opposition ; it was secret, and hal rites, symbols, passwords, and the other features of such societies, and degenerated into a criminal league, in which bandits, robbers, counterfeiters, murderers, and others of the criminal classes were united. Expelled from their country these men have come to the United States. They form an organisation similar to that of the Anarchists. There are silent understandings between them. The greatest criminal in their number is their leader."

BOMBARDMENT OF PISAGUA. San" Fbancisco, April 1. Letters from Pisagua, Chili, tell of the bombardment of that city by the revolutionary fleet, which has also bombarded the ports of Cabeta, Buena and Jonil. -he bombardment of Pisagua was begun at 10 a.m. by the Esmeralda and Blanco. The two cruisers kept up an almost incessant fire for six hours, The Blanco's fire was mostly grape, and did terrible harm. An officer was sent on shore, and called upon the commander of the port for its surrender, stating that if in half-an-hour it did not receive an answer he would bombard the town. The commander of the port refused to surrender, and dared the commander of the revolting fleet to do his worst. When the half-hour was up the Esmeralda and Blanco came close to the town, and in ten minutes the first shell was fired. On every side could be seen men and women running around as though wild, and men trampling over women and children in their endeavor to gain the upper part of the tcwn, where they would be safe. No one who saw the terrible spectacle will ever forget it. In three hours the lower part of the town was all in ruins. The land batteries, towards which the fire of the Blanco bad been mainly directed, were completely dismantled, and not a shot could be fired. The batteries on the hills kept up a constant, but not very effective fire. About 2 p.m. the cruisers moved in more towards the town, and began shelling the heights. There was a rush for the mountains, and women struggled with men and fought like tigers. Children and babes were smothered to death in the mad rush,

and all the time the pitiless guns were sending in their showers of grape fire, which added to the destruction of the bombardment, and when the cannonading from the cruisers ceased about 8 p.m. two-thirds of the town buildings were destroyed, and 72 bodies were taken out. The number of dead is believed to be about 20,000. Surgeons and medicine from the two cruisers were landed as soon as the bombardment was over. About 2000 persons, who took refuge on the English steamer Eamies, escaped unhurt, but nearly every person in town has a sear to show or has lost a relative.