'FRISCO MAIL NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 221, 21 August 1883, Page 2

'FRISCO MAIL NEWS.

GeNERAL SUMMARY, LATE AMERICAN ITEMS. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) San Francisco, July 28. Rose Massey, the English actress, diei at New York m retirement. •■ Miss Maggie Cramp, an eighteen-year-old daughter of the celebrate .l builder of iron and other ships, was drowned m Philadelphia by slipping from the gang planks of the new steamship Alameda, just launched from h"n lath -r's yard. Another Irish informer was shot at tfew York. James MclJermotfc, a Brooklyn newspaper man, and a Republican politician, was shot inthe head on July 22, by James Qaynor, who said, as he_raiao«l- i»i»-*<M_l"u.,- _«-MoUeroLofct, you traitor, I've followed you 3000 miles^to kill you, and I'll do it now." It is asserted McDormott was shot by crder of the Fenian Brotherhood. He had turned informer, and il was ou his evidence Fe&therston, Dalton Deasy, and others were . arrested foi conspiracy to.marder. Gayaor was one of two members of t&e brotherhood! whe had followed McDermott from Ireland to kill bim. Yellow fever has made its appearance at the quarantine lazarretto, below Philadelphia. Physicians are apprehensive that the ■Egyptian cholera will visit the United States, as it is travelling just m i the same track as m former years. The Catholic clerg/ m the United States will follow the Pope's instructions, and not follow the lead of Pardell. England has sent a protest to the United States against returning immigrants *o the foi mer country whose friends are m America, as they bad invited them to come with a promise of assistance. The health authorities at iNew York have taken extraordinary precautions against cholera, and will not allow the I importation of rags until they are rebaled. The steamship City of Sydney, leaving at date, carries to a colonial order 124 fine American merino sheep from Vermont. The animals are large and heavily fleeced. i The British ships Gildesbope and Euterpe bound to San Francisco, are now (July 28) ninety-two and ninetyonedays out irora Newcastle (New South Wales), and neither has been heard from since sailing. ;_