AMERICAN NEWS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2278, 12 November 1889, Page 2

AMERICAN NEWS

(via ' Frisco.) ' ° : ;- :i ' !itti . Yellow feref w«s reputed onOotober 16 ar existing at Key Wee,t, , Florida. A. foheme {■ la progress' to oolonise sever*] St^tei ,In Mexico with m gross from Toxbb »nd other partrdf the TJoited States. ...;,-..,';'..■■.. „ '..,..,.„?;-* An attempt w*B mtdd on Optober 0 to poison, the Bey VitixQi. 'PJefari a Bomin Oathollo clergyman of pjaieWa, %% r . by m'xlDg arsenic with the sacramental 'Wins ha used at mass. ' !',' y' ■'' Ol'arlea B. Bishop, the popolai Aine^' caa low oomedlaD, fell dead on the stage of the.lyoeum, Now York, on October.. 3 while pluylnc; his 1 put of &&%m ButtfiV*orth ia the first »er of "Lord Ghainleff" . ' A blook at Denver was probably bocoid on Oatobee 13 by «n eleotrlo light wire falltogoii a telephone wire. Thetelephonsi oxch»o{?e w«a damaged to the extent of 8000 i ol. The olty had to rßtoiit»;wlthout a telephone oecvlae for two weejit. A balloonist at Riobfieldr.Sprfngi made an aHociot on Ssptambee 24 and while descending by meins of a paraobute wai blown Into ' the lake 1 , and drowned/, mAt Bevel, a seaport town In Rniila, tne paraobuilst 'Ler6nx. ; detoandlog from his balloon oa the name day, fell Into the tea •ad w«b also drowned.

\ The mammoth Übeenaole .In Brooklyn, New York, oooapyln£ dearly 1 half a«qnire of which the ocoentrlo JRevj T. de Witt Talmage is the pastor, was destroyed by fire on the. morning of Ootober 13, together with several adjoining residences. Thefiie was starred by an eleotrlo bolt daring a thunderstorm. The totalloes is about I30,000dol; * Ibolailng the ;gr»nd organ. The former ttbainaole wam.buEn,ed 17 years ago. ■ • ' • ; WfiUp The machinery of the InAliQeaJDlpraa railway at Moont a.bwln, Oinoinn&tl, wbioh reaohns to a height of 260ffc to 300 ft m the space of 1000 ft, became ds|ii£ged on Ootober 15, and ' the cable snapped with a fall oar at the head. of ths jnollne. It rushed to the bottom with fearful veloolty, oarrj log Its human fielght with It. The oar was broken ln|;o,a.;mi)^on pleoes and nearly every ooeupant— there were nine— killed. The truck Itself and floor formed a shapeless wreolr.whiqh held the bleeding and mangled bodies q^>hs passengers* - - ' A telegraph lineman, named Feekei died a horrible deith at New York. While working at the top of a pole he oims In oontaot with an eleotrlo -light wire and perished la the gieatest agony, watched by thonsands of spectators. As the result of this, Mayor Grant ordered all overhead wires to be oat tho jatno afternoon. The Elect :lo Light Companies, obtained an lojanotlop, wblob the Uonrt* will be a*ked to d'saolye oa the Sab-waj i Commission hava . found ' hobdredn of places where the. .insulating material Is worn off the eleotrio lighting wires, and they are consequently dangerous. Bishop BoBSB sent word en Ootober 17 from the Labrador ooaafc, that the fisheries had failed altogethor, and over 100 f amUles w ere Bt»rvlng. Captain Saemon, the bishop's messenger, tells a story off iooredibie enfferlngs. One family lived on the oaroase of a dog for three days, when the youngest child, then the mother, and then the eldest daughter, saoonjenbea to their intense sufltarlngß leaving the starving busbaqd and eldest son wilthoafc Btpenfith aud meftns to eeowre 'a,, (Jeoent burial f op the dead until aaooqarad by nefghbonrß From Hopedale it Ib reported that a father and mathepaubalsted on tha oody of their aix months old infant foedays, only then to follow the, child by death from starvation.

The Canadian Govornment hta» beta R<3vluod tbat the British Mlottter »t Waiblnsjton rptnriio to the Uoitedptitet with authority to te-opißa negotlitfftnß fot the aMaogemaqt o( a DdK 'extradition treaty between that - ooantry and Great Britain j alao to arranpe prelimtnarf mttters for reopening the' fishery qaesttoa •q<i the ndjaatraent of the Bearing Straits dlffionlty. It 1b l^toed-froia th«rState Papurtment that ,' fdw '■ Bliln> h«» int|ai»i94 to 'LV^ 'B»|!Bbuty u Wff iJ MMIMn«--□en to dlßpiißaionttely tecpioa'tae buttet In dispute l«form«lly boforfrtti'sfotnully Uken up for finul «d jaatoient to lee if aa airicable settleapenit'cHknßbt m thfi'W»y bo secured wit^oat »rbltr»ilon or"tte »p---poln,^eQti Of » Oomniiiildn. 1 \ ?: '■'■■^•<