ARRIVAL OF THE ALAMEDA WITH THE THE ENGLISH MAIL (VIA SAN FRANCISCO.) AMERICAN SUMMARY.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 300, 19 September 1888, Page 4

ARRIVAL OF THE A L A M EDA WITH THE THE ENGLISH MAIL (VIA SAN FRANCISCO.) AMERICAN SUMMARY.

San Francisco, August 25, 188 S. Tiif Giant Powder Mills, situated at Wes t Beikeley, across the bay from San Francisco, blew up on Aug. 24, and fi\e men who were \ ■working therein were burned to cinders. Three were Chinese. Peter Jackson (coloured), gi\ ing himself out as the Champion of Australia, whipped George Godfrey (also coloured), Champion of the California Athletic Club, and lately from Boston, in nineteen rounds, on August 24, in San Francisco. Godfrey made a game fight, and was teriibly punished. Annie Sequin, a well-known opera singer, and who sang at the coionation of Queen Victoria, died in New York August 24. During a tire in a paper mill at Necnah, Wisconsin, on August 23, a largo rotary bleacher exploded, killing; eighteen peisons and wounding seven fatally. The explosion was caused by the iiremen turning the hose on the bleacher while it \\tV red hot. Sullhan, the pugilist, complying with a request by the proprietor of an hotel at Nantucket Beach to hold a silver coin between his finger and thumb while the pioprktor shot at it with a pistol, had his digits torn to pieces by the bullet. A man named C. If. Gardner, of San Francisco, was arrested in Chicago on Aug. 22, on the supposition that he was a smuggler of opium on a laige scale. It turned out that he was a swindler instead, and had trunks containing tin boxes soldered like opium cans, but which held only little blocks of wood cut to fit snugly in the boxes. Gardner pioposed swindling the Chicago Chinese. The British ship Falls of Hal'ada'c, 161 days from Calcutta, arrived at NewYoik oh August 22. She had been ghen up a* lost. Her long voyage is explained by the fact that it took nine weeks to double the Cape of Good Hope, owing to a seiies of gales and hurricanes. Tom Meadows, a pugilist fresh fiom Aus trdlia, fought a hard and scientific battle with a local brui-er named Bill Matran in San Francisco on August 21st, and knocked him out in eight rounds. Both men weio severely punished. The fighting was rapid from start to finish, with the odds at all times in favour of the Australian. D. J. McCarthy, a prominent turfman, and owner of se\ eral fast hordes, w ill send an agent to Australia by the steamship Alameda, leaving San Fianciseo August 25, to purchase a number of highly-bred racing mares for use on his stock fll m in California. The mortality among infants in Washington, D.C., where 800 ha\e died since April • last, and the death late at present (August 23) is ten per day. is charged to impute milk. Not fifty gallon- oi pine milk aie daily sold in all this large citj . Mrs Langtry, the English aches', denies emphatically reports of her intended marriage with the Ameiican capitalist, Gebhardt. She is not yet divorced fiom her English husband. The affair has been trailed through the columns cf e\eiy newspaper in the country. The troubles over mivegenation practised in Louisiana led to a terrible fight at Fieotown, in that otate, on Augns' 17. Thirteen negroes were killed. No w lute men, so far as is known, lo»t their li\eThe sailors who displaced the Chine.^e hands last tiip on board the R.Ms. Alameda at Sydney, and manned the steamship on her return to San Francisco, were given a reception and banquet by the Seamen's Association of the lattei city on August 19. It was a very eai neot and successful affair. A gentleman named Welch, for man yeai* connected with the colonial press, and who proposed to deliver a course ot lectures in San Francisco on Australia, en hi- w y to Europe, has abandoned the intention because he found no inteiest on the subject existed among the general public. Philip H. Sheridan, Geneial of the Aim> of the United States, died at his summer home at Nonquitt, New Bedford, Ma«j., en August 5, at a lew minutes past ten p m. Although he had been ailing for some time, his demise was quite sudden : the pioximate cause being kidney trouble. The tank of general being a special on? created by Oongre=s as an honour to Sheudan, drops with his death. He will be succeeded by Major-General John M. Schoiidd, a* head of the arm}'. Professor Brooks, of Gene's a, New Voik, discovered a new comet on August Bth. in Uisa Major. It was moving ea-teily, about one degiee daily. The comet has a laige head and a shoit tail, winch, stiangely enough, points to the sun. Matthew Byrnes, convicted of jumping off Brooklyn Bridge, New York, was sentenced to four months in the penitential y on August 9th. Giving testimony before the Immigration Investigation Committee, New York, Aug. 9, Herr Most, a leading Anaicln>t, .said there were half a million Socialist-, German and other, in the United States at the present time. The Chinese Restriction Bill was passed by the United States Senate on Augiu-t Bth. It provides that ircm and after the date of the exchange of ratifications of the pending treaty between the United States and China, signed on the 12th March, 1888, it shall be unlawful for any Chinese person, whether a subject of China or any other power, to enter the United States, except as in the Bill provided. The exceptions are Chinese officials, teachers, students, merchant?, and travellers for pleasure or curiosity, who shall first obtain the permission to travel of the Chinese Government or any other government of which they may at the time be citizens or subjects. This Bill also passed the House, August 20, without a dissenting vote. Frederick yon Ober Kampf and Thomas 3. Mach were before the Federal Giand Jury in St. Louis, Mo., on August 14, ' charged with whole-ale robbery of letter boxes, extending over a peiiod of two years, and involving the theft of thousands of letters, cheques, and drafts aggiegating $1,000,000 in value. Yon Ober Kimpf claims to be of a noble German family, and was employed as a translator and wiiter by the St. Loiiis "Daily Staats Zeitung." A serious and at the same time .singulai accident happened to Mrs Cornelius Yanderbilt, wife of the New York multi-millionaire, at Newport, August 14. While out drhing, a runaway horse landed squarely in her carriage, knocking her out of the vehicle and so cutting her face with its hoofs that the lady is disfigured for life.