American Summary.

Manawatu Standard, Volume VIII, Issue 135, 18 November 1884, Page 2

American Summary.

San Francisco, Oct. 25. Mayor Edson, of New York, issued a proclamation concerning the World's Fair, to be held m New Orleans, and commencing on December 1. It will be We largest and" most exhaustive exhibition ever held m the United States.; •; . : . ' '."':.' ! The Government of Columbia f United States) notified the Panama | Railroad Company on October 24 that it will nob allow that line of railroad to be cut, changed, or damaged for the benefit of De Lessep's canal.} :..;■■<'? ; '■ \ '..,■'.,:"■;/ j The indifference shown by the' manufacture and loading men of New York towards the New Orleans World IFair arid. Centennial Gotton^ Exhibition is sharply commented on. Otbjer states have either- appropriated or subscribed Jarge sums 'towards the' ■ object, but New. York has not gjven' a dollar. New Jersey appropriated 10,000 dollars, lowa 30,000,. dollars, and! o^bi^Btat^\fi^;^o;ooo^ '25,000 dollars. ' France, Great Britain, New Jersey, Spain, Italy, and Russia, have helped nobly, New Y ork has. done nothing., , , ■ ■■ - j Miss" Carrie Wilton, a young New York lady who wandered from her party of tourists m the Colorado recently). .and ; .'<was. fo.und frozen. =toj, ' death, left all her property/atuountingto 250,000 dollars, .to a society Prevention of Cruelty to 'Animals. _ . ; 'v ■. „.:■•-; ';W'. "- 'A marriage is arranged, .between, President Arthur and the daughter ;of Mr' Frelinghuysen, Secretary of State, to take place m January next. 4 n important failure occtihied ' iix San Francisco, when a well-known and for mauy years trusted capita* li'stj A. W. Bowman, collapsed for over half a million of dollars. His clients weje mostly wealthy people residing m Europe on their, means. . The first Chinaman admitted to the privilege of, voting m ; ?Ga)ifornia was registered at, San Francisco on 16th. HeiftiWlly'a China-AnieHcUtf, having been brrn m the county of Nevada. . - William H. Vanderbilt, the New York millionaire; donated- 500,000] dollars v to the College of Physicians and; surgeons, of that city. ■ ■> , 1 A Bill has been introduced m the Vevment ' jLe,gisl«it.u.re providing -for theldeath j punishment of malefactors by electricity. \ f . i i . • "',/j '■■',,• David 0. Anderaon, a veteran actor, wh<i fn"ißs4, l; wiin ISiiwin Booth and, Laijra Keene, visited Australia, died m New: Yrork, .aged. 75. . _■* , „ Western, farmers ai^e now pressing; . th ir wheat oh tlie market under the apprenheqsion that .prices .will go ■lower. " ".".'. .'..' ' ' '.'.., „ . 7 ...". ■ The first electric lighthouse m the United States went into operation at HeU jGfate, New. York, on. the night of the 15th, There are nine lamps of aik [hundred candle power each* , f I . Tji'e United S£atel3 are invited' to take parb m the Congo Conference. Thirty-one cotton, mills at Fall River, Massachusetts, representing 1,000,000 spindles or 1,400,000 em-ployed-on. print goods, shut down for a week on Saturday, October 18' th*.'* Ten th ousand . '■• were: th us thrpwn out of employment. The prospect is / that -unless the markec . improves the shut down Will continue : indefinitely. ;<-.>'.' .]<}.}'' / ; Charles , Darce, . editor of a news-. papier "at l* Mars/Ipwa,' arid said to be the son of the 'llitb "Sir Sydney : Darco, bacobetj arid admiral of the 'British navy, was arrested for incendiariamori Qctobftr 11th. .He' had a mania ;^>£h© subiect. Five "or six (ires air£ traced to him. • ' Fifteen thorough hred r< m £ re '* V? r ' chased hy. ex GpVerno ; r Stanford, m England 'arrived" m Caiifornia, on rOcjiober 19". „ ({ V The, passenger" a'iid freight i between New York and Panlnia ii^'s ipqreased so much of 1 laife> th'at'addi^ l tional steamei-s werq put on the route on[Octobpr:3.' ■-,■/■ .:.'■■:•■'■ : v;i:,i. ,:■.:..; Qtwio(i . distuvbauces weroreHyed at Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, on ;the 1 Oth October^ : • iTh© gates ■of a co4vettt>w_ere ; J;om jidosirn arid i flung); into the sea, and a -Riverhead man almost beaten to death. '■: .' : . . •A convention .for the federation of < Trades and Labor Unions w«8 held ,m ChicagO bnOofc. 9; s A' resolution was passed setting aside « the firsts^ Monday m each year as a working man's r noliiiay, and also 1 that the Gon-■'-gress be asked to take early 'action on a Bill prohibiting the importation of foreign labour. ----- - The paper trade m the United States is reported m ia ruinous condition, caused by a Government embar?;, go on the importation of foreign; .^ags. : ■..•■.'.■ : - :' ' 1f ". ■■:■ : v *■■■"■ '■■'.. .., jMi, 1 ? Langtry, the act l-ess, declines' to, return to the United States. It' fa known she will be "sued if she corniest and as f»he has attachable property m New York and Chicago ;he;r rup- : tute of the Australian contract has something. to do with, this : resolve: lienry--irvih» ■ has alsb given up hisintention of visiting San Ffrnci^c(). ; &jThe noted-, ©.biifederate spy; . Belle Bbyd, shot a man named Cotton at Dallas, Texas, pn October. 10, for ac? ducing her sixteen-y.eaii-oid daughter.