AMERICAN ITEMS.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 194, 12 March 1887, Page 8 (Supplement)

AMERICAN ITEMS.

Sa> t Francisco, February ,15. ClausSpreckels, of the Oceanic Steamship Company, interviewed President Cleveland, February 14th, on the subject of extra pay for carrying Australian mails. Ediaon, iuventor, is dying of consumption. An ice gorge has desolated a large portion of country in the State of Michigan. Great destitution ia reported fro or New fouudland. Several business houses at St. John's are much embarrassed. U S. Congress passed, on February 11th, a bill (147,000dols.) to indemnify the Chinese sufferers by the late Rock Island (Wyoming) >iot. British born residents of Portland, Oregon, propose marking the Queen's Jubi'ee by endowing a bed in a public hospital. Anarchist Hodges attempted to injure J. G. Flood, millionaire, San Francisco, by exploding a bomb at a concert given by Patti at the Grand Opera, Hou?e on Feb. 9th. Only one injured, Hodges himself. The Interstate Commerce Bill, giving the United States Government greater control over the railroad system of the country, has become a law. The attempt to raise a fund for a monument to General Grant has proved abortive. Diptheria prevailed in San Francisco to such an extent that there was talk at one time to close the public schools. Charles Ogden Ferris, claiming to be Sir Roger Tich borne, has been sent to gaol in New York for fraudulent practices. The great strike of coalhandlera and longshoremen in New York hag come to nothing. Strikers are petitioning to be allowed to go to work at the old rate 3,

Supplementary. San Fkancisco, Wedneeday, 16th, 7 pm. Heavy snowstorms in the Sierra? have ?till further delayod the overland trains carrying portions of the English mail 3. The steamship Maripo?a has been waitiDg for the last 24 hours with passengsis on bo^rd, and will probabley get to aoa on tho 2'Jth., if not earlier.