AMERICAN SUMMARY.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 276, 27 June 1888, Page 5

AMERICAN SUMMARY.

S\n Fkvmmsco, -lane 2. • la. no, ('.. BLiine has written a second lottei fioin P.uropc to Whitelaw iicicl, eiJitoi- of ll)o Kou- York " Tribune, "' jticmti\el\ and distinctly rehibing the llepublic.iii noimnuiion lor Pie-ident. On account ot ii, a >oi t ot panic: has i-ei/ed the members ot tint pait,\, and it is an open lace among 1 Hie leadu loi 1 i'Uinc' -. place. Tho letter ha- intense satisfaction lo the Deinopi ats. Blame was the only man they feared m opposition, ami hi-> withdiawal will, in the o,n\ioi! or paitisans on both .sides, tjive C'l'j\{.!. ,'i, -noukl he be ie-nominated, a -' ,iIU-u\v.i. A ticmendons eiloib is being ; „iude to induce Allen (!. Thurman, the ciioen oi the Demoeiatie party, to accept the m_ix>ikl j)]<iee on the ticket with Clexclmd, and thus en-are succor beyond <i pei.idxentuuc. Bhune'i uechiuitiou has an | in|utiou- e!Uvt upon Ihe Republican chances as his action indicates he had no hope tho \<d\t) v. ill succeed in electing its candidate, winner he may be. Tiemendou^ storms had \ibilcd Kansas lor the thiow d.vv^ ending May CSUi. The tall ot rain was the hea\ie^t c^e^• known, and it wa- io.losved by hail-tones of laipe si/e. which did a i^re.it deal of mischief, Tiie hail toimed a compact of ice, tluee feet deep in h-ome places. r \ he Aif-tudiaii system of xotin^ ha^ boon adopted by the jSlawichusotU Legi^latmc. The Bill, previously passed by the Senate, pvoxidmu: foi it, m-*ed the Lowei ]-{ou&o on Md) 29tii. Edwin Booth, acfcoi, has purchased ci - > lai _re building in (iiamcrcy Pailc, New Voik, for 576 000, and aftcv rcfuniishina it will turn ii o\c\- to fche i'layeib Club. locrJilly organised, as a fiec gift. l> The i ace ir^ue " lv\o led lo a tplit in the Kpi^copal Church in Charleston, tt C, — tlie colon led members seceding 1 and eslablisii ing a sepal ate bianch. J. JM. v handler, agent of the East Tennessee lu'iiboad at Jellicoe, Term., entered Ihe Con^TegaLional Chuich ot that city May 18th while leligious sci vices were in piogTcs-, nud deliberately shot Piofessor Lawrence, Principal of the Ihgh School. The Profe-fcor had pei.-onally called on Chandler to collect tuition fees tor two oi his child) en, and the plst 1 was Chandler's answer. .Su Tlionu'N Henry G'rafcfcan, M.P. , spoke at a meeting in tho New York Academy oi Music on May 25th. His principal theme was the giatitudc ot Ireland to Ameiica ior sympathy and matciial assistance. Argonia, Kan,«a&, Avas destroyed by a pyi-lono on May 23id. The gicat Hiversiu'e and O^wogs Mills, Pro\idenee I-J.1. , «hut down May 23rd, and will remain closed lor three months, awaiting congressional action on tho tarifl'question. Thousands of opciativos a\c thrown out of work. Mrs Lily Langtry, the English action, has had a disastrous season at the California Tlicatrc. She ha c 3c 3 purchaeed four or fi\e ranches in Lake County, and will summer on one of them. Joira M. I'alnam, Ut\ited States ConsulOcncinl at the Saiulwieh Islands, wains tho United States (lovcrnmcnb that a largo number of parsons afthctcd with leprosy emigrate from the islands to America yearly. It ha'- also been determined that tho disease can bo sptcad by vaccination. Tho expevimout was tried on a condemned criminal, whose sentence ot death was commuted for tho purpose. Judge Wallace, of New York, decided, May 24th, in several suits brought for infringement, that the Edison electric patents had expired. A great oxcitemenfc is tho result in electrical circles. >■ Finnk Mills, aged 18, a native of San Francisco and special student of Harvard College, bad an "opium contest" in his college rooms on the night of May 24th, in which he was joined by two young fresh men. They smoked so many pipes that vvhon found all were unconscious, and two wore with didieulty recovered. Mills died of the poison and exhaustion. On May 9th the United States Senate passed tho International copyright Bill by a voto of 35 to 10.