AMERICAN SUMMARY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1804, 2 April 1888, Page 3

AMERICAN SUMMARY.

Olaus Spreckles, owner of the Ooeanl o eteamahip line, proposes to' build an enormous sugar refinery m some city on the Atlantic seaboard, probably Philadelphia, to compete with the reoently formed sugar trust. Hugh Cecil Lowther, Earl of Lonsdalf , arrived In Now York on Maroh 3rd, en route to the North Pole. He proposes to penetrate British Amerloa from the frontier of tho United States to the Arotio Ooßan, thence proceeding by water to the Polo, if ouch be not impossible. Ho starts from Winnipeg, Manitoba, taking for companion* only his valet and his dog. The Statement of the dofit of the United Stateß, issued on March lit, 1888, showed a rednction for the month of February of 7,756. 366d015. The total amount of cash m the National Treasury was 572,390,989:1018. During a concert at Wilkesborne, Pennsylvania, on February 29th, Madame I!ma de Murak* fainted away, and her condition is precarious. Smallpox has dleappeared from Sau Francisco. Vast tin deposits have been diacovered In a mining section called the Black Hill. English^ capitalists are attempting to "oorner " all the mines m tho hllis. The Bishop of London, and Chairman of the Committee for the Prevention of the Demoralisation of the Native raoes by tho Liquor Traffic, have written to Blahop Potter, of the Dloceae of New York, requesting that atopa be taken to seouca the prohibition of the sule of liquor to the natives of tho Pacific Islands. The "Daily Union "office, Springfield, Masß., was burnod on March 7th Several employes lost their lives, and many are missing. Mrs Farley, the Society editor, was instantly killed by jumping from the window, and iivo compositors eharod her fate from the same cause. Rich deposits havo been discovered m a black sand bank which is situated on the coast near the mouth of the Trapper, river, about 700 miles above Juneon, Alaska Tiie business porlion of tho town of Polton Creek, California, was burnod .on March let. A desperado named Gimbell, m broad daylight, entered Bradford, Pa., National Bank, and after grabbing a lot of greenbacks and Bhooting the cashier through the body escaped to the street. Being followed he shot another man dead and then blew out his own brains. The Union square Theatre, New York, with all tho contents, waa destroyed by fire on February 23th. The damage amounts to one-third of a million dollars. Sir .Richard Cartwright has given notice m the Canadian Parliament of a resolution that it is expedient for the Government to take atepa to at once ascertain upon what terinß full and free reciprocity can be had with the United States. The Government propose to build and operate postal telegraph lines, and on a favorable report of Congress Mr Reynold's Bill to that end has been made law. The Bill appropriates 800,000dol for the purpose, and places the general eifpervision of the system under a fourth assistant Post-master-General . Tho work of establishing the lines ia to be doge under the direction of the Secretary of War.