Los Angeles herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1890-1893, 1891-10-06
CABLE FLASHES.

The British bark Santona has been
wrecked at Mantanzas. The captain
and fifteen of the crew were drowned.
The Austrian government has asked
the Reichsrath for $780, 900 forms for the
purpose of preparing the exhibit for the
worlds fair at Chicago.
News has been received of the death
OF Van Develd, the Belgian explorer.
He died on board a steamer returning
from the Congo free state.
The Pesther-Lloyd published a SEN
sational article, declaring that the Rus.
sian government is making an enormous
concentration of troops on the banks of
the Pruth.
The fire which broke out at an early
hour Monday morningo on Mark Browns
wharf, London, entirely Quilted an enor-
nous fve-story warehouse filled with
colonial products.
A letter received at Simla, September
10Th from Captain Younghusband, says
he has started to return to India. This
disposes of the report that Younghus-
band has been murdered.
At Buda-Pesth the factory of GULL.
brand & Gregersens, manufacturers of
parquetry, was destroyed by fire. Seven
firemen were badly injured. The dam
age is estimated at $25O,0O0.
Colonel Savage, of Pueblo, Colorado,
dropped insensibe in Liverpool while
walking through the Walker art gallery
in company with his sons. He died
before physician could reach the spot.
By order of the czarno court balls will
be given during the coming season of
winter festivities. The money usually
devoted to such entertainments will be
devoted to the relief OF the famine suf-
ferers.
The car. czarina, king and queen of
Greece, and other members Of the inn
perial family of Russia and the royal
family of Greece, started for Denmark
Sunday, from st. Petersburg, on board
the yacht Polar Star.
The Alpine club is building hut for
signal purposes on peak of Monte Rosa,
at an altitude of nearly Is 900 feet. The
hut has the highest site Of any building
in the world. The queen of Italy has
subscribed large sum towards its cree
ton.
The sixth convention OF the British,
Continental and General Public Moral
ity association began its session in Brus-
sells Monday. During the proceedings
Mr.. Wilson, of New York. described the
efforts made in America to resist state
regulation OF vice.
At Trieste, Austria, porter in the
Episcopal palace found large petard,
or bomb, in one of the Railways. At
tached to the petard was burning fuse.
The porter Immediately pulled the fuse
from the petard and extinguished it.
The matter is being thoroughly investi-
gated.
The famine in Poland is CROWN
worse. Workmen paraded the streets
of Zewerike and looted bakers shops
and other places in which eatables were
to be obtained. Troops were summoned
to the scene and fired on the mob, kill
ing one workman and wounding several
others.
Advices fromsMassowah say the forces
OF Generals Ras Afula and Deglac Mar
gascia successfully made a combined
attack on the forces of Debeb, the third
aspiraAt to the Abyssinian throne. A
battle was fought near Ambagarima.
Debeb was killed and his army totally
routed.
There is great excitement about Wap-
ping, one of the great shipping districts
of London, on account OF trouble among
! the laborers. The carmen, sailors, fire.
men and ballast heavens unions in that
locality have commenced to block the
Carron and Hermitage wharves, owing
to the employment of men at weekly
wages, when under the rules the work
in dispute must be done by piece work.
The consequence is that work on those
wharves is almost at standstill.
The refusal of the Russian govern
ment to join in the European demon
stration against China, is alleged to be
due to fear that such action on its part
would involve Russia in land war
with China, after the question had been
settled for the other powers concerned,
thus giving England a chance to adj
vance her interests in Central Asia, at
the expense of Russia's interests. 1t is
also said that Russia has no interest to
risk in an embroglio with China, for the
sake OF the Catholic and protesta Mt
churches in the latter country.