AMERICAN SUMMARY.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 284, 25 July 1888, Page 6

A M ERICAN SUMMARY.

San Fi'.ancjscu, .July 1 Tiih lion. Frank McCoppin, Commissionoi to the Melbourne Exhibition, and As^islantCommi< t ioner Campbell will leave for their post at date, by the steamship Maiipo^a. ft im e\|)ectod that, atloi all, Cahioinia will nidlso a 01 editable display. The nuinbei of cvlubitoi 5*5 * from this State will be about forty, not including the exhibit lo be made by the Produce Exchange, or that of canned fruits, which will be s>enb early in September. The Maiipovi carrier the m cater pai t ot the articles intended for exhibition. The htcamci left on July 1, instead ot June 30, as oi igmally ad verti&cd. Gliaile-. S'ulli\an, a eaipenter, who foolishly attempted *o climb tho spire of St. Michael's (Catholic) Chinch, Buffalo, on June 25, was precipitated headlong, by its breaking, and tell nearly 100 feet. He was da&hed to pieces. A large number of passengers leave by the steamship Manposa at da'c lor Sydney, en route for tho Exposition at Melbourne. The Pitta burg (Pa.) iron mills shut down on Saturday, June 30, owing to tailuie of agreement between the Wage Committees of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel 'Works of the United States and tho iron manufacturers. Tho closure will be for an indefinite period, and the stiikc will throw neatly 100,000 men out of employment. Tho coke inteiesfc will, it ib likely, follow suit. (ieorge Charles Clnuchill Spencer, Duke of Marlbuiough, was married in the City Hall, New York, on June 29, by Mayor Hewitt, to Mrs Lilian W. Hammersle^. A small number ot noted society people Avoro present. Mrs 1-J am morsley has an annual income of $150,000. The couple left for England on June 30. The marriage was a top'C of conversation in London, and the announcement was posted in both Houses of Parliament. A 15-year-old boy, Uoan by name, poisoned h^ father and the whole family, except himself, to avoid punishment for pilfering from lii's neighbours. The affair occurred at Jacksonville, Fla., on June 2S.

HOT WEATHER IN NEW YORK. Up to Len o'clock on bho morning of June 25bh, the record o£ prostration was unprecedented for any June day in

the history of the Coroner's office. At noon the total list reached twenty, are more or loss fatal, and directly caused by this torrid atmosphere. Many victims expired without the slightest premonition of their fate. Some, in the prime of life, who the day before were in the best of spirits, and apparently the best of health, were corpses in their beds the next morning. Children, in the crowded, reeking, tenement dietrictp. rlied oft' like flowers that melt in thesun. Aged persons in many quarters, attempting to move about in ordinary pursuits, sat down only to gasp their last. Several persons died at the bieakfast table. The temperature was cooler in the evening, but tho death list on the 25th was very large. There is great suH'cring in and near New York. The tange of the thermometer wan from 91deg. to 99dcg.

THURIBLE FIRE. The town of Pubons, in the northern lumber region of Pennsylvania, was almost wiped out of existence by a conflagration on tho afternoon of June flth. Nearly 800 houses weic destroyed, and '1000 pet sons rendoied homele««. Tho loss is estimated from tf.")00,000 to ft 1,000,000. All the hotels but four were destroyed, and tho two newspaper olhce.s. There are rumours ot thii ty poisons having peiiahcd in the flames.

THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN. (!rover Cleveland, the present incumbent was nominated by acclamation for a second Presidential term by the Deinociatie National Convention, at St. Luuis, on .June Cth. The wildest enthusiasm pre wtilod. On the following day, Allen (!. Thurman, of Ohio,' called tho ""Nestor ot the Democratic Party." was named for the odice of Vice-President on the h'r&t ballot, and afterwards declared unanimously nominated. The National Convention of the Republican party, assembled in Chicago on Tuos day, June 18th. The declination ol James (!. Blame to be put in nomination for the Piesidoncy brought ioruaid a swarm of candidates fur that high oiliee, a Hst of whom is as follows:—Walter; (Jrcsham, of Illinois ; Benjamin Harrison, of Indiana ; William B. Allison, of Iowa; Russell A. Alger, of Michigan; Channely M. Detiew, of New York ; John Sherman, oi Ohio ; Jeiemiah M. Rusk, of Wisconsin ; Edwin 11. Filter, tho present Mayor of Philadelphia. The minor candidates weie William Mclvinley, jun , of Ohio : John J. Ingalls, of Kansas; Wm. Waltei I'helps, of New Jersey ; .1. R. Haw ley, ot Connecticut; War. Miller, ot New York ; Creed Raymond, ot California ; (Joveinor Foiaher, of Ohio; Ficd Grant, at large; and Ficd Douglas (colored) of \\ ashin^ton, D.C. James I!. Blame was voted for in the face of his positive disinclination. On Monday, June '25th. Benjamin Hrrrison, of Indiana, was nominated for President on tho eiuhth ballot, with Lc\i I. Moiton, late U.S. Minister to Fiance, Yice-Pie&idcnt. Tho result ol the balloting was not received with much euthu^iaom. The Republican nominee for President was born August '20, 1833, at Hamilton, Ohio. He graduated from the University of Oxford, England, aad afterwards lead law in Cincinnati. Nettled permanently in lndianopolis in 185-1. Went through the war of lSb'l - o7> and came out a Brigadiei - Uencial. Since that time has been m politics with varied success ; w;is United States Senator in 18S1, and in ISSt his name was piominenih mentioned for the Presidency had theic been any bieak in Blaines's forces. (Jeneral Hairison is credited with being an aristocrat in sentiment, a firm protectionist, pro-Chinese, and possessing a thorough contempt for the working classes. The English pre--, generally favours Cleveland's nomination. The Dublin " Freeman's Journal " commends Harrison.