AMERICAN SUMMARY.

Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 145, 13 March 1886, Page 4

AMERICAN SUMMARY.

San Francisco, February 14. Hancock, who contested the Presidency with Garfleli.isdead. A large consignment of white fish eggs were forwarded per Alameda by U.S. Fivh Commissioners ag an experiment to New Zealand. Rioting has been of daily occurrence in the cokeri gionsof Pennsylvania, owing toresistance by miners of the importation of fo. eign labour. A suit for §100,000 OGO has been brought by heirs of Baron VP aldren against the city of New York for the value of certain lands on both sides of the Hailem River, originally granted to the Baron. The weather in New York was so cold on Februarys that people avg* g frost-bitten whilst crossing the Brooklyn bridge. Archbishop Gibbon, of Baltimore, received a circular letter from the Archbishop and Bishops of Australia, congratulating the episcopates of the United States on the occasion of the first Plenary Council held in Australia. A filibustering expedition agaiDst Honduras was stopDed at New York. An ugly political scandal is current to the effect that several senators were approached with bribes of stock by a gigantic telephone monopoly. Some yielded to the temptation. It la alleged that7so,ooodols have been used to subf idiso the Proas and influence politicians in the interest of this monopoly. The anti Chinese movement in California ia gaining strength, the Chinese being ousted from aU the principal towns in the state. Efforts are being made I o induce the Mormons to buy'one'of Hawaiian Islands to colonise. The objection is that the Hawaiian Jaws forbid polygamy. Archbishop Gibbon has been created a Cardinal. The hostile Apaches, who have been slaughtering ranchemen, and burnh<? dwellings in Arizona, have surrendered to a party of troops. Two days before this, Colonel Cra vford was killed by a party supposed to consist of friendly Mexicans. The afMr threatens trouble between the United States and Mexico. Two more boys, who were bitten by a rabid dog in Jersoy city, have been sent to Paris for treatment by Pasteur. A lad, aged 14, who was bitten by a mad dog. six years ago, has developed into hydrophobia. The phyßicians after administering the usual remedies, adA^lsed the boy to be smothered, which was done. Mr Spreckels, President of the Oceanic Company, has been instructed by the Company to have built an iron steamer for the Australian tradß about 4,000 tons gross register, with engine power to give a speed equal to that of the Manposa and Alamtda, and to cost between 500,000 and 600,000 dollars, the new steamship to bn named the Sonoma. A plot to upset the Government of Guatemala murder the President, and sack the city has been discovered, and 50 conspirators has been arrested, including several colonels of the army. ea"a ca" a volcano, which ban broken out near Guatemala, has c& us d the total destruction of the village of San Vincinte. The imme .ia c distribution of fishing bountios has been ordered by the Govern or- General of Canada to relieve distress among Pod a "Venture fishermen. Distress has been caused by the failure of Robin and Co. 10,000 people require assistance. Stephens, President of the Canadian Pacific Railway, announces the intention of the Government to subsidise a lino of steam between Vancouver and China. Ho thinks this line will direct a largo portion of the tea shipments now sent via San FranoiscoWallace Ross and Plaisted, oarsmen, intend next August to go through the Niagara whirlpool in a boat. They believe that Webb was drowned through an accident, but the boat they have contracted for in U.S. will carry them through safely. John Gibbs, a prominent merchant of St. John, has fled, leaving evidence of heavy forgeries.