'Frisco Mail Summary.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 125, 3 May 1883, Page 2

'Frisco Mail Summary.

AMKRICAN SUMMARY. ,Sas FranolscSo, April 9. Thomas H. Blytb, an Englishman by birth, a pioneer on the Pacißc Coast, and probably the largest landholder m San Francisco and elsewhere, dropped dead m his roornSj.in the city named, <«n April 4. A terrible gas explosion occnrred m the basement of the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, on April 3. Seven of the Fire Brigade were seriously burned and otherwise injured ; one British engineer, John Ross, died the following day, and the lives of several are despaired of. No parti ulai 1 damage was done to the hotel. Ihe Langtrys are again before the public, by the fact that Miss Agnes L^ngtry. the sister of Mrs Lan^try's husband, and sent from England to chaperone her through the .Unite! states, when Mrs Labouchere g*ve up the task, eloped on March 31 with a Toronto young man named stone, and was married at the Church of All Saints, m Drummondville.. The happy coupl« are now living m Toronto. The "Lily," once more desolate, is very ang<y with her sister, and shocked at what she calls want of propriety, but the fact is, that Miss; Langtry was sensible m not passing iho opportunity toi get a good husband. ; . The crop reports for April Ist, say the present outlook is unfavourable throughout the United States, and the prosj ect h 20 per cent, below last year's crops, which we--e by 20 per cent, the largest ever grown. . ; John L. Sullivan has made (estimated) 45,000d01s w : thin t^e past year by pugilism. Sladeaiid Mace are a'so coining money on the Htrength of the former having come from New Zealand, for the alleged purpose of meeiinsr Sullivan, though his .subsequent proceed ings dp hot indicate that he is very anxious: to do so. > Competent sporting men th.^nk Sullivan could knock him out m five minutes. An Eng'ieh pucilist Charles Mitchell, who defeitfejtt "Tug" Wilsonj arrived m New York on March 25. He expresses a desire to meet either Sollivan or

The Mormons have been holding jubilee meetings all through Utah Territory because of the , . failure of Oongresß to pass Edmunds' polygamy Bill. Peter Cooper, a well-known philan--1 tKropist and millionnaire, died m New York, aeed nin"ty«two. i ;Delegatf> s of Irish SociotiPS at an uproarious meeting of New York, April Bth, declared " Dynamite to be the policy of the future." . Eude Hotel, m Greenville, Texas, fell on the morning of Apnl 7, burying the inmates beneath the ruins. A. fire ensued, &n\ many of the bodies were roasted m the flames. Some fifteen persons perished. Canada. Despatches from Montreal, March 16 epresent the commercial situation as most distressing, the leading houses m nearly every branch of business arp etnbarassed, and banks have shut their doors and refused to make advances, owing to a stringency m the money market. The crisis Ayas brought on by over-importation and undue competition m selling m all traces. Real estates belonging to many business men have been passed over to their wives, and there were well-founded reports of large amounts being obtained on bogus warehouse receipts, i•. "i ,'j White laborers are entering British Columbia m thousands to work on the Canadian railroads. w ord lias reached Winnipeg, I Manitoba, March 23rd, of the wrecking, m the latter end of August, while going across Great Slave Lakft from Fort Resolution to Fort Rae, of the British Circn m polar, Expedition, detailed to take polar observations lat>t year. Sixteen lives were lost and considerable hardship endured before the expedition arrived at Fort Rae, its destination. Nine photographs of an auroral display were taken on November 10th, 20th, and 30th respectively. The observations taken by Captain Dawson show Fort Rae to be, m reality, sixty miles nearer to the North Pole than was at first supposed. The geographical position and shape ot the Great Slave Lake were also incorrect. Fort Rae is not within the Arctic Circle, being m the 64th degree of north latitude. The oldest inhabitant of the Dominion died on March 13, at Lake Magnetic. She was an Knglieh woman named Mary Hughes Graves, and had reached 11 8 years of age. It is generally understood m Ottawa that the Marquis of Lome will bn succeeded by the Hon. W. E. Forster, as GovernorN.General ot Canada. Five cars of a freight train on the Canadian Pacific Railway were derailed on the 20th. They, fell 65fb into the river at Calumet station, break! n? through the ice, and going to the bottom. Strange to say, the train hands escaped. • ',