AMERICAN.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3095, 30 May 1881, Page 3

AMERICAN.

An expedition has sailed in search of the Polar yacht Janet.

Sitting Bull has fiaally refused to surrender.

Trouble is beginning to arise between the Americans and Mexicans. A brief battle was held at Paso, and several killed.

By a fire in a box factory at Green Point several panic-stricken workmen were killed.

Tbe Victoria, steamship, has arrived at San Francisco from London' with 1 several cases of small-pox. The health authorities gave the hundred passengers aboard the alternative of getting vaccinated or of going into quarantine.

The Duke of Sutherland, the Marquis of Stafford, and other English railroad directors, visit the United States to study the American railway system. Extensive frauds have been discovered in connection with letting the Government mail routes. The conspirators haye been arrested. Widespread loss has been caused from freshets in the Mississippi Valley. A Chicago man has Commenced fi forty-five days fast under medical supervision. Cholera has appeared in New York, and there are great fears of its spreading ovving td the iincleanliness of the city. The improvement in the prosperity of San Francisco has caused a satisfactory demand lor labor. A horse disease in Chicago interrupts traffic. Father Maloney, a Catholic priest, of Pennsylvania claims to have performed miracles, including the restoration of a girl to life. A fasting woman in lowa has died after forty-seven days without food. It is intended to import 10,000 French laborers to extend the Rio Grande railway. foster, a student of theology, has been shot while attempting burglary. The crops reports of California exceed the previous year. There has been a destructive storm in Nova Scotia. Buonaventura, in New Grenada, has been destroyed by fire. Tbe loss amoants to one million dollars, and fifteen thousand people are homeless. New elements of confusion have arisen in Peru, and it is thought the Chilians will settle matters by annexing the country.