AMERICAN SUMMARY.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3168, 24 August 1881, Page 3

AMERICAN SUMMARY.

July 31. A party of Americans travelling from Paso del Norte to Chilmahau, in Mexico, discovered thirteen dead bodios, all Americans, and a portion of the surveying expedition of the Mexican central railway. They had been murdered by the Apaches. Mormon converts by thousands are landing in New York from Europe, en route for Salt Lake. A British barque, oil laden, was struck with lightning off Ready Island, near Philadelphia, and was burned to the water's edge. Tho electric fluid ran down the masfc into the hold and fired the cargo. The reported Tichborne claimant's daughter, Jennie Ogden FeiTis, writes to the New York Star that her father is planning a game of deception on the Californian people, and that he admitted to her in Brooklyn tbat he intended to personate the lost Sir Roger. Indian outrages continue in New and Old Mexico. In the latter the Apaches tortured and killed a great many mining prospectors and others, ex-Governor Pugh's son among the rest. Griscom, the imitator of Dr. Tanner, has completed a 45 days' fast in Chicago. News received of the missing whalers Mount Wjllaston and Vigilant, state that both were lost in th ice of the arctic, and all aboard perished. The Esquimaux described to Captain Millar, and the whaler Thomas Pope, who brought news of the unhappy particulars, very minutely. They said the bodies of the dead crew had swollen, and then burst open, showing evidently they were frozen to death during the winter of 1879-80, and had been acted on by the heat of the succeeding summer. Nothing was heard of the Bennett arctic exploring yacht Jeannette. A railroad train was recently boarded by some thirteen desperadoes at a point in New Mexico and thoroughly sacked. The conductor was shot, and also a stonemason, one of the passengers who tried to defend him. Edison is preparing to light a district in New York by electricity, and housos will probably be lighted on October Ist. The editor of the Times, Little Rock, Arkansas, has been assassinated. The course of his paper did not please certain outlaws.