AMERICAN NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 151, 27 June 1874, Page 2

AMERICAN NEWS.

San Fbancisco, May 27.

The details of tho partial dettruct : on of three village* in Massachussets by the bursting of reaervdra are of an appalling character. The were in the mountains, and were u. c ei for mi>l purpo es in the villages brlow. Tliey broke away the dams, [and the torrent rushed down on the villages sweeping everything in its course, and drowniDg 1 80 persons The damage to property is one million dollars, and 400 families are rendered homeless Adding to tha confusion and distress, as soon as the catastrophe became known a gang of robbers and roughs from the neighboring towns poured in eager for plunder.

The women's cruade against the liquor traffic is being' suppressed by the authorities. Forty women have teen arrested at Pittsburg for obstructing the road : , . They still express their determination to continue their work.

The steamer Sivatora, carrying scientists for the observation of the tracsit of Venus, is ready to . leave New York. !She will land pnrties at the Crosels Island and the Desolation Inland*.- Elaborate instruments and eighteen months provisions are on board.

The Mayor of New Orleans .telegraphs for further ail. towards the sufferers by the great Louisiana inundation, ond says that 45,000 rationa are distributed daily, and that contributions of a million dollars will be required to prevent the horrors of lamiac and great loss of life.

The fall of a building>t Buffalo killed eight persona. By a fire at Toronto 200,000 dollars worth of property has bfcen destroyed. lour ruffians fought their way out of the Indiana State prison with revolvers and bowie knives- killing the turnkey.

The American steamer Manchin, has been wrecked in a gale in the Japan seas, and forty-seven persons were drowned, chiefly Chinamen.

A man and his wife, and nn old woman and her son, have been burned in Mrxico for sorcery, by Senor Castello, the Alcade of Jacomimo. They were tested by compelling them to swallow holy water.

The strike of stage drivers iu New York has caused the disappearance of vehicles from the streets.

Over forty of the 1 acting buuness'premis^s in Independence, Ohio, have been burned. The loss is 500,000 dollars. A great ice gorge at Quebec damaged anil wrecked a large number of steamers and other vessels, causing dnmage to the amount of 1,600,000 dollars.

The New York police are making raids on gamblers. Seventy have been arrested.

The police of San Juan, Porto Rico, are arresting Freemasons, on the[ground that they favor the separation of the colonies Jrom Spain.

Intelligence from Japan states that the Chief of the rebels, and ten of their leaders, have been caught and executed.

There have been more brutal murders at San Francis: o.

One hundrei Catholic pilgrims bare left New York for Home.

Havanna.iatelligence etateß that a court martial, has- condemned a large number of people to death and imprisonment for treason. A Bill has been introduced into Congress empowering the purchase 10,000 acresatPango Pango, Samoa, as a naval station lor tlio United States without assuming the political control of the land, which are ti continue under native sovereignty, subject to conditions necessary to s f cure the right of tbe United States. The Bill is referred to the committee on foreign affairs which are now considering it. . Colonel Steinberger's report in favor of the annexation of Samoa.

Thousands of Mormons are joining Brigham Young's new order of Enoch which requires every member to give all his property to the church.