AMERICAN NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1899, 23 July 1888, Page 2

AMERICAN NEWS.

The Ron Frank McCbppin, Oommts flloner to the Melbourne Exhibition, and the aoalstant Commissioner, Mr Campbell, will leave for their poet by the steamship'flTarlpoaa.' It la expeoted after all California will mike writable display. Oharlea Salllvau, a ' carpenter, who foolishly attempted to ollrab the spire of St Mlohael'i Oathollo Church, Baft «10, on Jane 25th w»b precipitated headlong by Its breaking, and fell nearly 100 ft. He v*q 0 -shod' to pleoea, 1 le Pake of Murlboroagh wbb married In the City Hall, New Yoik, on June29ch, ftp fifryor gew|U, to Mn X^tl.f^n W,

Haramersley. A small number of noted soolety people were preset. Mrs Hammarshy has an imnoal inoome of 160,000 dollars. The couple left for England on June 30 h. The marriage was the topio of conversation In London, and the an nounoement wao posted m both Houses of Parliament. Pitts* urg (P.*.) Iron mills shut down oa June 30 h, owing to the failure of an agreement between tho Wage Committees of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Worker of the United States and the Iron manufacturers. The closure will be for an indefinite period, and the strike will throw nearly 100,000 men oat of employment, The ooke interest li llkoly to follow salt. - - Up to ten o'olook on the morning of Jane 25 h the record of prostration In New York was unprecedented for a Jane day. Iv the register of the ooroner's effico at noon, the total list reaohei twenty, all more or less fatal, and direotly oaused by the torrid atmosphere. Many of the victims expired without the slightest premonition of their fate. Some In the prime of life, who the day before were In ths beat of spirits and apparently best of health, were corpses m their bed* next morning. Children m crowded reeky tenement districts died off like flowers that wither m the son. Aged persons In many quarters attempting to move abbot In ordinary pursuits sat down only togaap their last. Several persons died at the breakfast table. The temperature: was cooler m the evening, bat the death list of the 4th June was very large. There is great Bufbrlng la aDd near New York. The range of the thermometer was from 01 to 99 deg.

1 he statement that Fred Oebhardt and MraLangtry are to be' married la Septeat* ber made by the New York preis is denonooed by the English aotress m "a paok of lie*." . ' The new loan of the Panama Oanal Company (authorised by the Frenoh Government without Its guarantee) for 720,000,000 francs, has been ad ror Hud la New York, San Franoisco, and other American cities, where subscriptions are solicited. Julia F. Onrgill, a handsome and welloonnsoted Southern girl, committed snlolde m New York on June 17tb, by jumping from the fourth-storey window of a lodging house. The cause was melancholy, ioduoed by indigence. -, A challenge to Carlisle D. Graham to go over Niagara Falls la a barrel foi 10,000 dollars has bei n aooepted And for* felted. Graham is the pioneer barrel navigator of the whirlpool below the falls.

Acoarding to the " Panama Star and Herald" of June 6th, the looks are now being constructed for De Lesseps' oanal, bat are not designed to be a permanent feature. They are adopted through the necessity of completing the work and opening up the work within the required time, The building of these looks requireß an outlay of prodigious Bams of money. They number ten, and are located five on the Paolfio and five on the Atlantio side of the Isthmus The general width of the oanal proper is a very small fraotlon 07er 61ft. la the work of canal building there are now employed 5000 laborers, and on the locka about 1000 skilled laborers, besides a small army of clerks.

The firafc Mongolian newspaper In the United States made its appearance m New V- rk on Jane 9th. The editor, Pong Ohlng Foo, la bla leading article, advises his oountrymen to stay at home, ai then are too many Chinamen m America already. Governor Cleveland, the President In* cumbent, wsb nominated by aoclaraatlon for a aeoond Presidential term by the Demooratto National Convention at St. Lonl', on Jane 6th. The wildest enthusiasm prevailed. On the following day Alien G. Thnrman, of Ohio, called the '• Nestor of 'the Democratic party," was named fur the office of Vloc-Preiidont on a fist ballot and afterwards declared unanimously nominated. At the National Convention of the Republican- prrty,a«aembled In Ohioago on T aenday, Jane 18, the declination of James Q. Blalne to b« put m nomination for the Prestdenoy brought forward a swarm of oandldatos for that high office,. I The English press generally favors Mr Cleveland,* nomination. The Dublin " Freeman's Journal " oommends Harrison. A 1 Committee of the French Chamber of Depntles passed a resolution on Jane 10th to entertain a perpetual treaty with the United States for the settlement, by arbitration, of disputes that may arise batweuo that country and Franoe. At a banquet m honor of the President of Ecuador, held m Paris on Jane 19th, Da Lesseps affirmed that the Panama Canal would be aompleted In two years.

Four gunboats for the protection of Frenph fishermen on the Newfoundland Coast were lannohed On June 26th. They will be immediately oommiaslon^i.