AMERICAN SUMMARY.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 183, 18 December 1886, Page 9

AMERICAN SUMMA RY.

Sajst Fk WN'J^m, '". „( b or22. The steamship Mmposo wiuch ,i t :ivefi in San Francisco on too iwniir; t>' *\ >'_ *'-,<«• 30th made one of tho bosh pa^sarre;? . r , n colonies on I'ccordi Her runn'tnir tinu v *u ;p "!yj>->oy was 22 days 6 hour*,; fiom ILui' ii;ia ' j Jhis raorfc G days 9 hours and 22 tnhu >>:-, T.'r 'vteame^ camo to her clock i ;■}{) imu.s h„, i. 1 »n r >rnsaoi timo, and so hours loast7ia?i ihv v?<' n»z , steamer passage from Syclnov. ' , Honvy Irving lias wnplo'.^i montsfo^ an extondod Amcrn\w tour 10 isio7

Lord Lonsdale, whoso name has boon connected with the uotro^, Violet Cameron, and for whom he was acting as manager in New York, left for London hurriedly on" October 99 called thither by business troubles and strikes at his coal mine. At a tire in Chicago, on October 31st. many firemen were injured. Mine fatally. The flames broke out in a six-storey building, where there •were some do/en gambling dens, the inmates of ■which narrow! < escaped with their lives. Charles Curtis, tho Brooklyn Tichborne claimant, has been arrested in New York and imprisoned for false personation in San Francisco, and thereby fraudulently obtaining a Government pcn&ion. 11H ieal name is Charles Ogden Jferns. Mrs A. T. Stewart, relict of (ho New York dry goods millionaire, died Oct. '26th. Sho leaves a fortune ot thirtj-lho million dollars. The will dhides the money among the testator's relatives and ehanmble trusts. Mrs Moreland, a weal. by Chu'uero lady, while en route from Australia to S.m Francisco, became acquainted null C. \V 80-iseley, introduced him m the host envies ot' Chicago, was victimised bv him to the extent of several hundred dollars, and procured his arrest as he "Was about lo.u ing that city. . Herr ilost, the Vna-chist. h\s wiitten a letter m opposition to lleni\\ George and the George movement He denounces tho a vthor of "Progress and Poverty ' a^ a mere mercenary, who has boomed himseh bv his book. Anxiety is f It in Ohica o that the Anarchists may take measures to damage the city. There are dark hints ot blow mur down the water tower vrith dyna.nitt. <uul linn.* the city in several places at the same time. Henry G -ururc the tU fcated candidate for the New York ma\oralt>. on the social reform ticket, hnt> beta se\ t_iely cuticised 111 a pastoial letter by Arc hbnhop Corrura.ll. llc is preparing a reply, but eome-ses hunsolf somewhat stagsjered by being so lu\i\ ily bat unon by the Church. A Convention of Catholic priests belonging the arch-dioie-e of New Yoik. a^emb'ed in this city on tho J7tn. Tho p'ineipal bunnies was to cont-ider the growing tendency ot married people to di\oive, and to take measures to counteract ii. The gram laden steamer Beaconslield bound to Aberdeen \\tbbunkiiiNe« York harbour on November is) o\ collision with the steamship Britannia, bound 111 lioni tiie Mediterranean. Tremendous &toi lib ha\ c been experienced on the great nonhein lake-., invoUing many shipwrecks and much io— of hie. It was cuiventiy reported in Detroit on Nov. 20th that tkuc «<is a «_oiii|Hia<-> on foot to murder Michael l>a\ -tt be.aiiae of hio opposition to the extreme iium-h" es pA>i>u-,ed b> thoO'DonoVan Rossa Irish ta. tion. Another Big Jump. Laurence I)v>no\.in. of Nl\v York, who recently , ' '17 1 ""> 1 T ic Brooklyn budge into the East lti\"ei. lumped irom the suspension bridge at Xiaga'a, r i'ls on No\eiHber 7th. Springing from iv.v the t nitre, a di-.ta.nce of 190 teet. lie emerged irom the water somewhat dd/:ed. and with <i biOncn lib <md biuisedhip: but bib ii\iui es are not &jrious. Ovoi wnehned oy an Ava/anchc. On the l.)th NoxuMbei an a\alanche o\ er- \% helmed the Lead* re and Abpere stage, containing nine person-, on the top of a mountain 15 miles iaa ot the latter phi' e, and the ent re outtit wascaiiiLil o\ 1 1 a\, n ipue 2oo high. Five Ot the pa-^.ns-reiN weie billed. An Atrocious Murder. An atrocious murtier \..i^ committed in San JFl'tincl-fOon the 10ih f l<>d of S, n uned (soldenson, killing a -» 'mo' -i-! Minnie Kelly, aijed IS because as he -aid. she nothcied bun with Ik >• attentions. riH'\ we c "\ oung loveis, and, meeting hi»-> oi tie •,*!.. \ -be leuroaehed him for diicctmg ii s att litio 1 <o ...ioihcr ch'ld, w !un ht drew a pistol ami nlew tiro attic Xi 11} "s brains out. A nuuenuiu was -u 011 toor toijrn. 1 ) the jnurderer, mir was chected by the pp omp of the p.iiu .'. The contlenined \nau hist? of Chicago are respited till March ne\t <n a writ of supersedeaa. 'I he \ew Yn k working men have taken action in their ia\ our. There is a scheme atoot among some restless spiwts in l'c\->- "ii v i/Diia to in\ ado three north-western staKa 01 Mexico and lower California and es ab'.ish what thej call a Socialistic Republic. The movement Ljrows out Of the recent Cutting trouble at El t'a^-o. Dead on his Wife s Grave. Jesse 11. Loid. editor of the '•Scientific AmevicAU." was tound dead, extended on his wife's grave, in the Old Noith Cemetery, Hartford, Conn., on Nov. 10. He had shot himself with a ie% oh er Consul C-ecnebaum. Mr Gre n tvn 11 ' l.>r,v. ('->isul at Samoa, arri\cri in >.m Pr.mb^Mi tro.n Apia, on Oct. 30, by the steamship Manposa. He states his resignation a-> American Con^nl was <i\tn in conbpf|uem c o.' an turcenuMit between England, the Unite 1 -statJ- and '-ermuiy to withdiaw their Cotii d-Gcni ■ il tiom these islands li is now said Gieenco'iin 'ill icprc&ont Hawaii at Samoa Mr Justice Gillies. Mr Justice Gillica. of New Zealand, accompanied b> his daug tcr, lert San Francisco for Eurojie, % ia Chicago and New York, on Nov. 5. Henry Ward Beecher. Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, the popular American preacher, returned on October 31fet, in better health than in temper with the English people. The Plymouth Church divine was not wanted in the oln < ountrr, where his orthodoxy was chalienged on all hands. The Revolvei- in New York. Surveyor B attic was shot on November Ist in his office, «it ihe Ko -v York Customs House, by a man named Bioral. an inspector whom he had dismissed for compelling immigrants to paytwo dollars on sew ing machines. Beattie was injured by uvo -hots, but will probably lecover. His assailant is 72 j car- of age, and he skot the surveyor " For taking," to use his own words, " the bread and butter out of my family's mouth." On the same day. a waiter named Ott, shot the chef o' the Astor House, and then blew trat his own brains. Frightful Railway Accident. On the 2Sth Oct. a limited express train was ■ditched at East Rio siding, on the main line of "the Chicago, Jlilwauwkie, and St. Paul railroad. The cars caught fire and some horrible scenes ensued. In one of the day coaches thirteen persons were pinned in and literally burned to cleath. It was a most horrible and sickening spectacle, the burmn-j people nmkine the nicht hideous with their screams, while thebj -"tandeis were unable to rentier assistance. The conductor. Hunkey, before considered a careful and efficient; man was demoralised by the accident, that he took to the woods in a demented condition. Assaulting a Priest. While Rev. Father Klowler was celebrating mass in St, Philomela's Church, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, on Nov. 9, astrang-ercame up the aisle and struck him a terrific blow on the back of the head, knocking him down, and then proceeded to belabour him. A panic ensued, during which, with some difficulty, the assailant was arrested and handed over to the police. Bartnoldc's Great Statue. Barthold 's great statue of "Liberty Enlightening the World," on Bedloo Tsland, New York Harbour, was unveiled on October 28th, in the midst of a rain-storm, Business was wholly suspended, and New York City was in holiday attire. Speeches were made by President Cleveland, M. Lefe\ re, Count de Lesseps, AVm. 11. Evarls and others. De Lesseps, it is said, will soize thi* incident as a lever to raise fresh enthusiasm in the United Statc3 tor his Panama Canal project. The torch that the statue hold-, aloft A\as lighted on November 2nd, but the effect was a failure. It was supposed the figure ■would bo seen at a ejreat distance sharply defined ; but it was mostly in shadow. Tho glory of Ihe pedestal eclipsed Bartholde's work. The engineer who had the illumination in charge confesses it to be only an experiment. La^er despatches .say the torch had not been relighted since the first experiment, and th.it the American Committee has no funds for tho purpose of illumination. If no funds can he had from Washington, the Goddess will have to wait until a bill establishing a lighthouse ir> Fo']'cc' r ' I< 'and, and an appropriation for maintaining 11, passes at the next session of Congress, before, her torch can bo lighted again. Later dispatches say preparations; for immediate illumination have been completed Accident on tlio Canadian-Pacific Railway. An ,-iccidcnl occurred on the Canadian-Pacific railroud on Saturday. November Gth. in the Selkirk range or the Uockies. While the train ■%vas> climbing u .steep grade near the Rogers Pass it broke loose and parted, and the cars running bac2c collided with auotlier work train behind it. Mclfae, McDcrmid and Itoss. foremen, "\\ ere killed ; Jjevi Cade died of hib injuries. Several were severely hurt. Direct Steam Communication with. Scotland. Through their accnt , K. D. Connoll, the Dukes of Devonshire and Buccleuch have purchased valuable water front and interior property at Staten Island. The property acquired is three plots covering n quarter of a mile of water front just below Vandorbilt's Landing, and also 300 acres of laud in the interior. The purchasers are large owners of stock in the Anchor line of dteamers, and ov/n nearly all of Barrow-in-TTurness, the point in Hcotland to which shipjjients are destined to bo made. Tho newlyacquired water i rout is large enough to admit of the extra docks and piers that Avill accotnodate the largest ocean .steamers afloat. Direct communication will thus be established between tho Great North-west aud ticollamL

The November Elections. Elections took place in thirty-seven States on N ov. 2nd, and the results in a gonoral way aro not favourable to tho Democratic party. Morrison, Carlisle, and Hurd, leadoi-8 ot the low tariff party in tho House, arc defeated. In Virginia, tho Democrats lost five Congress men. The "Tribune" estimates that the next United States Sonato will contain 12 Republicans and 31 Democrats, a Republican gam of ono, and that the House will consist of 133 Republicans and 170 Democrats, a Republican gain o f thirty. The interest of the country was centred On the contest for tho ma> orally in Xcw York, where tho Itopublicinis put, forward Theodore Roosevelt, tho democrats Abrani S. Hewitt, and the- social rel orm or labor party, Henry George, author of "Progress, and Poverty."' Hewitt wae elected; but the fact that gtvos professional politicians pause is that George was second in the race polling nearly 7000 votes more than Roosovolt. The probabilities are that George would have been elected if the Conservative element had not becomo alaiined and Republicans voted for the democratic candidate in order to prevent | this. The vote for Ma>or stood: -Roosevelt lK),3t>2; Hewitt, UO.2IKJ ; George, G7,(> ( J9. Notes of alarm are sounded m all the Conservate papers of America on this showing; and tho "London Tunes" read its American cousins ascrious lesson on the menaco of such a vote to the liberties of their country. The state election m California was the closest contest for jeais. Washington Rartlett (Dem.) vwis elected Governor over Swift (Rep.) by only a tew bundled majority. Se\oraiot the minor oiltccs run equally close. and many of tho defeated candidates will dunand a i mount •