SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3037, 13 October 1890, Page 2

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

(PorlUU, Alameda at Aiioldand, .'GENERAL SUMMARY. Dates from Europe up to September 19.

A careless employee sot firo to some uaptha stored in the Farrington station, and started a disastrous conflagration on September 15, which did much damage, and seriously impeded traffic for hours. On September JO, twenty mounted officers and Guards dashed into the

Thanios to solve tho problem ol swimming horses across a river,

Several crossed in safety; but three riders fell off, and were rescued by boats,

The national encampment at Bisley for rifle shooting has been marked by a series of disgraceful outrages eoramitted by the soldiors on the country people in tho vicinity on September 14. The farmers were obliged io'Btand togethor lor mutual protection, and since that tune a cqr,stant fond has been maintained, Government interference is asked.

Despatches to the London Daily News, nf September 11, from Odessa, say tlia .{a veritable panio prevails among tho South Russian grain exporters, owing to the unprecedently rapid rise in the value of the rouble. Tho whole Russian tvade was demoralised, though the harvest was good, No doubt the season will close with a general 'crash. Twc southern exposters havo already failed. The Government policy in raising the tariff-is pronounced suicidal. '

_ Th i grGqent i bufi)ingofablg ; ln'ewei'y in Frankfort in whioh serious loss of life occurredi was the work of a dig- ■ charged operative. He set firo to the ! building, and then opened the vats and allowed 3000 barrels of beer to run to, wsiste, 4ftov dojng tho all • daniago'possible hecommitted suicide, i Richard O'Brien', of Montreal, who is chargsd with sending out a report that Princo George had been mixedup i in a street fight, appeareclhefore Judge Desmpjers on the 10th, ant] pleaded not guilty. f|o was released! on bail, giving hands in Bp"o,tlqjlars, lijmsislfJ with two sureties ohOOjuollars each. Ho has retained the services of two leading criminal lawyers in Montreal, and will contest the case. O'Brien, who is a newspaper reporter, says ho got his information from \ybdt lie opnsjjjered' a reljablo sourpe. .Tlis feeling against; him is very strong. The Queen sent a cable out to Lord Stanley on 17th, to have full particulars forwarded regarding the prosecution, The "fake" waV widely published in England, and caused the , Queen and all the members of the Royal Family muoli pain arid anxiety. | The Queen has been personally in conimunicatjpn with the Fringe i 'tjoyerooi'-fieneral on the subject. ••' \ 'An attempt'was made by (j young ( Anmenian on September 10 to kiil Bishop Tadgad Osoarisen as he was , leaving a church in Constantinople. \ The Bishop escaped with a wound, jn ' tjieafm. ~;,:'■,-' V i 'ft' prtfered. a oftlie & %}? ; cemetery for the remains-of fjoiini i Mirabeau, the people in the vicinity are protesting against it, saying that ■ the exhalation arising, from the ', disturbed ground .would breed an epiclomio. Th.is.has broken'out as feared..

Count Schlomitz, wiio ruined by gambling, committed snioido at Berlin on tlio, lijth Scptomber, ) ;•-. ' i,; " "-"

The firo tit Salonica- by which the city was destroyed broke out almost HmuUaneously in four dillirent

places, and it is said to be the of incendiaries. When, the Industrial Exhibition was opened at Toronto on September 9th by the Earl of Aberdeen, a very handsome United States '. flag, fluttering from one end of the grandstand, was ordered to be removed by a Militia Colonel named Gray; because it was,'.' The,flag of an alien people.'"' This was done amidst - . a good deal-of .hissing and some cheering,- The* manager, Mr Hill, when he "heard of the occurrence, ordered the flag to bo replaced, ? and Gray, r 'boiling v r yitb,, rage, demanded; (from the staff.'''Hill'calmly, lnsisled'tliat'it remain, ,a§vtho :erisignSw|B only a graceful compliment to the American people'%lio i visited >' ; the exhibition;in large -numbers; Hill I ** better judgment.:proypiled. (:i ! Sarah Bernhardt proposes to bring an invoice of snakes taken irom the Forest of jFontMnbleauvj to San Francisco, Whei'o' she comes to play 'fCleopatra" in. January /next- Tho snake in color which tlie Egyptian Queeii died, ;One hundred negroes werbpoisonea\> " at a' political 'outdoor meeting' in ~ Birmingham, September 10th, by eating a barrel of,,cured porlj that ljad been treated previously ; with, arsenic Bight" have already diod. • Henry Possell, a Lutheran resident of Now Yorkj ; • finding his son resolved to marry a. -Roman Catholic. girl against liis.wishes, attempted to' shoot him at tlie altar on the day of the wedding.. Being prevented, he went to the river and drowned himself.