ADDITIONAL SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

Kumara Times, Issue 2739, 2 July 1885, Page 2

ADDITIONAL SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

[united press association.] San Francisco, June 8. Qanlan has accepted the challenge of Teenier, of Pittsburg, to row him on any course in the United States or Canada. Cholera news from Spain has led the New York Board of Health to take most rigorous quarantine measures. The dread is genera l that the United States will be visited by the scourge this summer. At the annual commemoration of the Grand Lodge of Freemasons at New York every Lodge in the States was represented. The Grand Masters insisted on the Masonic belief in God as the corner stone of the Masonic sys.tem. The Exposition of New Orleans closed on June Ist, owing 62,318d015. in excess of the congressional appropriations of 335,000d015. Beecher has thrown down the gauntlet in favor of evolution. A mob, excited by Socialist harangues, set fire in several places to the city of San Jose, California. Dr. Burt, a prominent medical man of Oakland, was shot dead in front of his town residence. The assassin accused him of marrying bis wife. It is believed the accusation is false. The revised edition of the Old Testament meets with a slow sale in America. At Sullivan’s printing house sixteen girls employes were killed and five injured, A number of the Zealandia’s passengers bound for San Francisco, left the steamer at Honolulu, under the apprehension that war had broken out between England and Russia, and they were in danger of being captured in an English bottom. They preferred paying 75 dollars additional, and going on in an American ship. The Polygamists in Idaho are forcibly resisting the authorities. The English steel ship Earl Dalhousie was capsized in San Francisco Harbour while in tow. She sunk in seven fathoms of water. The cause was want of ballast. California is suffering from a plague of locusts. They eat the grass out by the roots. Odium, swimming professor, encouraged by Paul Boynton, leaped from the Brooklyn bridge into the East River, a distance of 135 ft, For one hundred feet he shot down straight, but when within thirty feet of the water his body turned, and struck the water with a mighty splash, and sank. When Oldum came to the surface blood and froth were oozing from his mouth. He was seized by Boynton and dragged on board a tug, where a number were assembled watching the feat. After considerable rubbing he came to for a few seconds, but soon afterwards died. On examination of the body it was found that five ribs were broken and his heart injured. The authorities are making arrests in connection with the affair. News from Winnipeg give details of a gallant attack on Riel’s rebels. They were driven from the rifle pits and ambush at the bayonets’ point by Middleton’s Volunteers. Riel sent a messenger stating he did not like war, and unless the troops retired the prisoners' would be massacred. The troops, however, charged and scattered the rebels, and rescued the prisoners. Many of the rebels surrendered, and Riel himself was captured by the Dominion troops on the 15th May. The Government are somewhat embarrassed what to do with him. An effort will be made to get him off on a plea of insanity. When captured near the scene of the last fight he was coming to give himself up. He looked careworn. His capture ends the rebellion. June 22, Colonel Otter attacked Pound-maker Thomas Winnip, and after several battles captured the chief. 1120 savages and twenty-one Canadians and nineteen Englishmen fell. Four leading rebel chiefs surrendered with their followers and arms. The chiefs blamed Riel for misleading them. Other Indians returned to the reservation for the winter. The wheat crops in the United States are reported to be the worst in ten years. There will scarcely be 26,500,000 bushels for the Pacific Coast alone. Somerset village, Quebec, was burned down. A hundred houses were destroyed. A small-pox epidemic prevails at Montreal. By a treaty between Hnniimr, Salvador, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua, the territory of Guatemala will be dismembered, Salvador taking the largest slice.

THE SOUDAN. A special of May 24th says :—The withdrawal of the Brinish troops in the Soudan has had the effect of reviving and immensely strengthening the power of Osman Digna along the Red Sea littoral. Tribes which have been wavering in their choice between an allegiance to the Mahdi or Great Britain now declare for the former, and with them have gone thousands of Arabs who bad declared their friendship for England. Many hundreds had absconded from the British camp itself, and carried with them arms, with which they were vastly supplied. The Biitish evacuated Handoub on May 14th, under a galling fire, part of which came from their own rifles in the hands of a treacherous enemy. The armoured train at Suakiu surprised a body of rebels on the 24tb, tearing up the rails of the new railway, and opened fire on them killing several hundreds.^ Guards stopped at Alexandria, while en route from Suakiu to England, have gone into camp to await further orders. Cairo, June 12, Emissaries from El Mahdi come daily into Suakin. The sick soldiers in Snakin are increasing in numbers. Tlie Indian troops suffer terribly, and the rebel forces are beignning, to renew their attacks on Suakin. More tribes hitherto friendly to the English are wavering in their fealty. El Mahdi has sent ten guns and a supply of arms and ammunition to Osman Digna. London, June 3. The English troops will leave Assouan about the middle of June for Cairo, at the rate of 1500 a week. The rebels have occupied Korti, and it is expected they will advance upon Dongola when the English are gone. June 4. The intention to present the Berber railway plant to Cyprus is abandoned.