LATEST AMERICAN.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3609, 5 February 1883, Page 3

LATEST AMERICAN.

The death of John CocW-, of Michigan, i.s reported, after a.fast of 105 days. Another self-confessed Cavendish and Burke murderettnamed O'Reilly turned up at Rochester,'-New York, on January 0. He is believed to be a humbug seeking a free passage to Ireland. Mark Twain has been nonsuited in" "an action to restrain Alessrs Belfard Clark and Co. from republishing his works. Twain had .ailed to . copyright Ids works, but claimfed the pseudoymii as a trade mark. The Court denied the claim, and said his books Avere open to publication by anybody who chose to do so. ' Recent advices from Panama report the death of the Colombian President Tulana, and the succession of Jose E. Stalava. The Avreck of the troopship BoliA-ia on the Barbadoes is reported, with the loss of only one sailor. A liA-ely riot betAveen the police and a mob of Jamaicans at Aspiuivall has occurred, in AA-hich several fives Avere lost. It is mooted that General Grant Avill be a candidate for the Presidency in 1884." Fifty thousand dollars have been stolen from the Raihvay Company's vaults at Panama. The railway betAveen 'Frisco and Ncav Orleans Avas completed on Janaary 12. Neivhall house, a six-storey brick .mildiug at Alil.vaiikee, aa.is burned on the 11th .January. There Averc 110 guests, and 65 employees in the hotel. Of these "only G7 Avere saved, the rest either being burned with the building, or being killed by leaping from the v_in<_oAvs. The fire is believed to haA-e been the work of an incendiary. Tom Thumb and hi_....*-ife had a close shave in getting away from the flames.