AMERICAN SUMMARY. San Francisco, April 17.

Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 154, 15 May 1886, Page 6

AMERICAN SUMMARY. San Francisco, April 17.

There has been no settlement of the differences between n the Tran.g-Atlantio railway lines, although negotiations continue. Low rates still prevail. ' 'Ten New York aldermen have been arrested, ohaTged with having accepted bribes lor votes on Broadway Railroad franchise question, i The Klug and Council ol Sandwich Islands have issued an order that after April Ist no Chinese can be admitted into the Hawaalan Kingdom. De Ueiamardo, formerly of Melbourne, has been oonvicted at Portland, Oregon, with criminal assault on a patient. Be confessed himself to be an impostor, and that he knew nothing of medical science. St. Uloude and Sante Rapido, towns in Minnesota, were swept by a terribly destructive clyclone on April 14. In St. Olouae 40 were killed and 71 wounded. Half the town was laid waste. The Ways and Means Committee of Congress unanimously adopted a report favouring the abrogation of the Hawaiaan treaty. The steamship State of California, trading with Oregon, collided outside Golden Gate with a lumber schooner. Tne steamer was cut to the water's edge.- No lives were lost. The great railway strike in the North West ie comparatively over, and employ ee3 have returned to work, but only under protection ol the military. After Powderly'a effoits failed with Jay Gould to secure arbitration between the railroad magnate and the Knight* of Labour, riots ensued at St. Louis. The rioters and the military came into collision, and several of the former were shot down. The trouble in the West assumed such a threatening aspect at one time that the War Department made secret preparation?, and could have rushed a large body of troopers to the scene in very quick time. Powderly holds a leading position in iho organisation of the Knights, who are said to number I from four to five miliione. He ia enthusiastic as a soaial reformer, combined with the positive shrewdnes3 of a successful capitalist. He wrote a remarkable letter to Gould (who had threatenod to prosecute every atiiker for damage to his property), in which he challenged Gould to take that course. He asked Gould to open to Hie public the means whereby he has piled up the wealth he controls, and da elates mat the system which reaches out on a 1 sides, gathering in millions ot dollars, and keeping them out of tae legitimate channels i<i commerce, must dip. These utterances have at1 tracted considerable attontion. Boisterous galea prevailed along the Atlantic for ie\eral dajs previous to April 1. The GoTman steamer Duropa maa driven eehore at Long Island, and tho Knghah Eteamohip Gulf ot Alaska foundered between I Virginia and New York. Her crow, numbering The steamships Zealandia and Australia have beon placed under tho Hawaiian flag. The former will ply between Honolulu and San Francisco, and tho latter will probably be put on the Australian routo when thoroughly overbaiiled. Heavy loeseo from floods and freshes have recurred in Sou'h Western States, l-simated damage, $20,000, 000. In Northern Geoigia and Albania they have been heaviest, and have s*eptaway the principal part of towi s. Key West was destroyed by flre.and the loss exceeds a million dollars. A band of Apache warriors, who have been committing fearful outraged &t Arizona, surrendered unconditionally to General Crooke, but the chief. Geronime, escaped next day to resume his bloody work. The people ot Arizona are terrorised. The Chaplain of the United States Congress, in opening the session on M&rch 27, offered up a prayer which caused a considerable Eensation. It opened as follows : " Give ear, O God of Jaco"D, and awaken us to see the danger which threatens the civilised world— a r -volution more tremendous than any which history tells of in which the Bcenes of the reißn of terror may b9 enacted in every capital of Eur. pn and Amerioa." The prayer went on to declare that the time had come for selfish grinding monopo'y to cease, and that rtoh men should learn that their present foriunt-s are not given to expend on their own pleasures-. I Captain W add ell, formerly commander of tho Confederate cruiser Shenandoah, and later Ie the Austral-American mail serviced ied at Baltimore. . President Artlmr's hfo is despaired of. Terr.ble destitution and riota atill prevail in New Orleans. A movement is on foot in Nova Scotia to secede from the Canadian Dominion, on the ground of unfair discrimination againßt that colony.