AMERICAN SUMMARY.

Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 109, 4 July 1885, Page 3

AMERICAN SUMMARY.

San Fiuncisco, June 6. Hanl an states that notwithstanding his defeat in the colonies, ho made £6.000 as his share of (<ate money. He says that Beach is the mo»t wonderful oarsman he ever met. Htfnlannaf accepted Teemer's challenge. At the annual communication of the Grand Lodge of Freemasons at New York, every lod^e tn the States was represented. The Grand Muster's address insisted on the Masonic belief in God as the corner stone of Masonry. The " World V exposition at New Orleans closed on June 1, owing 62,318 dollars in excess of congressional appropriation of 335 000 dollar?. Beecher has thrown down the gauntlet; in favour of evolution. , _ _ „ The entire property of Mrs de Le Parnel', mother of the Land Leaguer, has been seized at court for debt. She has sacrificed a large formne by carelessness, and by mixing up with Irish politics. Her intellect bas lately been giving way. _ A mob, excited by Socialist harangue, set flea in several places to the city of San Jose, California. . _ , Jjr. Buck, a prominent medical man of Oakland, was shot dead in front of his own residence. The assassin accused him of wronging us wife. It is believed the accusation is falae.i rho revised edition of the Old Testament uects with a blow tale in America. At a lire at Sullivan's Printing House, Cincinnati, 16 Rirla, employes, were killed, and five uijurcd. A number of the Zealandia's passengers, bound for San Francisco, left the steamer at Honolulu, apprehensive that war had broken out between England and Russia, and they were m danger of being captured in an English botlotu. They preferred paying 7odols addilon il, and going on in. an American ship. The total exporss of domestic breadstuff! from American ports during tho four months ending Inril 30 was 45,078 690d015. Polyga mists in Idaho are forcibly resisting the 'minorities. The Knglish steel ship Karl Dalhou3ie, a fourai'istor of 1,700 tons, capsized in San Francisco harbour while in tow. She sank in seven fathoms of water. The accident was caused by v> an< of ballast. Cali f orniii is suffei u q from a plague of seven-teen-year locusts. They eat grass out by the roots.

A Terrible Jump. Odium, a swimming professor, encouraged by Paul Ko>nion. leaped fiom Brooklyn B.idge into ftast River, a distance of 135 feet. For a hundred feet he shot down straight, but when within 30 feet of the water hia body turned, ctruck the water with a mighty splash, and sank. When Odium rose to the surface, blood and froth were ooziDg from his moutb. He was seized by Boynton, and dragged on board a tug, where a number of sports were assembled, watching tho feat. After considerable rubbing he came to for a few seconds, but soon alter waids died. Examination of the body showed five ribs broken, and ihe heart injured. Tho atnhorities are making arrests in connection with the affair.

The Capture of Kiel. Advices from Winnipeg give details of a gallant attack oa Riel's rebels, who were driven from the rifle pita and ambush at the bayonet point by Mitldleton's Volunteers. Kiel sent a message stating that he did not like war, and that unless the troops retired, nia prisoners would be massacred. The troop 3, however, charged, scattered the rebois, and rcaoued the piisoners. Many of the rebi Is surrendered, and Itiel himself was captured by tho Dominion troops on the 15th May. r lhe Government are somewhat embarrassed as to what to do wi h him. ltffor;a will oe nvidu to get him off on a plea o£ insanity. When captured near the scene of last light he aaid ho was coming to viva himself up, and that he had been encouraged in his course by people in good etanding around Prince Albert He looKt-d careworn, haggard, and ragged. His c ipture ends the rebejlion. He will be tried for treason aud felony on June 22. On May i 9, Colonel Otter attacked the Pound Baker Indians at Winnipeg, and after a severe battle, captured the chief and 120 jjavaKes. 21 Canadians and 19 Englishmen fell. Four leadii q rebel chiefs surrendered with their followers and arms. The chiefd blamed Kiel lor niisleading them. They offered themselves to Middleton as a sacrifico to tavo their people, believing that all the tribes would be massacred. The chiefs concerned in tho murders are to be tried, and other Indians returned to reservations. The winter wheat crop of United States la reported the worst iii ten years. There will be shortage, twenty-six and a-hal£ million bushels for the Pacific Coast alone. Somerset Village, Quebec, was burned down, and a hundred houses wore destroyed. A small-pox epidemic prevails at Montreal, and an anti-Chinese agitation at Quebec. By troaty between Honduras, Salvador. Costa Rica, and Nicaragua, the territory of Guatemala will be dismembered, Salvador taking the largest slice. Zildivar, Jate President of Salvador, has been compelled to fly from the country.