AMERICAN NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 149, 21 June 1875, Page 2

AMERICAN NEWS.

Eight st< amshirs with 679 steerage pas- I sengers left New York to-day for Europe. French and English gun boats are ordered to Newfoundland to prevent trouble between the fishermen. A large flre has occurred in Vermont, lo»9 150,000 dollars. ' V '.' " The Buspemion is reported of the Philadelphia Iron Foundry, N. G. Norris, liabilities 200.000 dollars, by which 600 men are thrown out of ereu'loyment;. General Sherdian is about to marry. The Darien canal jb being surveyed. All the leading distilleries have been seized by the Government for fraud. An immense swindling ring hoa been discovered. Chicago has borrowed 3,000,000 dollars at 6 per cent. President Grant ha 9 been threatened with ass«seiuntion. The Pennsylvania coal miners have been stoned and shot by the strikers Twenty-fire bags of New Zealand mails have bean recovered from the wreck of the Schiller. Mrs Abraham Lincoln is declared to be ins me. The Chicago gangers are implicated in the whisky frauds. The Deutsche Brazil Bank has failed for 5,000,000 dollars. Extensivo forest flrcß in Pennsylvania, New Jersty, ar.d New York are causing great destruction of property, and hundreds of families are rendered homeless. An incendiary lias attempted to burn down the town of Shenandoah. Mra Lincoln attempted suiciie The Pennsylvania wood fires are atill burning and whole town < are being destroye 1 by fie. JH'our trains wich 1000 peraonß rushed through the burning woo is.