AMERICAN SUMMARY. San Francisco, October 20,

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AMERICAN SUMMARY. San Francisco , October 20,

Ship San Joaquin, loading at. New Yoik, October 4, ior Australia, had for the larger part of her cargo machinery ot Aineiicun manufacture. liepoitsfiom Ramsey County, Minnesota, are to the effect that tlu, whole population areon the verge of starvation by the destruction of their wheac from frost. Unless assiatancc be immediately given it is feaied many people will die. A Chilian man-of-war has been sent to the Island of Pascua, or Easter Island, ; with a governor on board, who will hoist the Chilian Hag and take possession in the name of the Government. The island has j been purchased with the view ot an Australian line of steamers from Chili, to touch at the island poll, ifc being about half-way between the two points. James C. Flood, one of the California Bonanza princes, i& lying so seriously ill at Heidelbois, Germany, that his life is de&pahed of. Kidney and heart disease is the tiouble. The gi eat pig-lead trust of Nathan, Corwith, and Co., Chicago, collapsed on OcLobcr 19. Long John Wenlworth,oncof ihe pioneers of Chicago, and a notable man in Western aflairfc., died October 18. While Chief of Police Haye-, of (Jiookstown, Minnesota, was conversing With some friends on a street corner, Oct. 19, a tramp came up behind him and shot him six time*, killing him instantly. At the h'r&t annual celobratian of the incoiporation of Quincy, Illinois, October 10, an accident occurred in the fall of an immence amphitheatre, by which 5,000 people were indued, half of them seriously. A collision of trains took place at Mud Run, Pennsylvania, on October 10. The cais were crowded with people going to the annual convention and parade of the Father Matthew Society at Hazel ton. It is estimated that eighty persons were killed and one hundred wounded. The strike of the street car hands in Chicago led to serious rioting. On October 11, there was a series of conflicts between the police and the strikers and their friends, in which many were badly beaten by the officers, and blood (lowed freely. A fund has been started by the " Commuicial Advertiser," ot New York, (o main tarn the famous Theodore Thomas Orchetti.i, which threatened to disband for lack of patronage. It is reported that an exchange ot angry communications had taken place between London and Washington with toward to Presided' Cleveland's retaliation - proposal*.. Under the pics^uie exerted by th<- Canadian \ Gmernmenh, Sali&bury ins'rucU'd the I British Minister at Washington to protest against the retaliation mebsage as an act of hostility towards a friendly Government, also a breach of the modtn vireiufi agieemont made with Joseph Chamberlain, representing tne British Government, and by the Government at Washington. Coquelin Ainc and Jane Hading, actors honi the TheAtie JTranijais, Paris, made their debut at Palmer's Theatre (late Wallach's), on October Bth, in " Los Preciouses .Ridicules " and <l La Joie Toifc Peur." Both weic well received by a crowded audience. The State of Maine and the British Province of New Brunswick, sufferer! sevweiy from iloods during the early part of October. Traffic of all kinds was impeded, and the hay and other crops aro failures. Capt. G. Scadell, master of the White Star steamer Germani, was found dead, from appoplexy, in the chartroom of that steamer, Sept. 28. Deceased was a wellknown navigator, and assisted in laying the cable in the China Sea. . A company has been organised in New York to open up the River Amazon, in South Amorica, to the trade of the world. Kaby Fox Jcncken, one ot tho Fox Sisters who originated the " Rochester Knockings," arrived from England on Oct. 9 for the purpose of co-operating with her sister, Marguerita Fox Kane (relict of Dr. Kane, tho Arctic explorer), in tho proposed expose of tho fraudulent methods of socalled spiritualism. Mrs Jencken said she did not care a fig for this system, and I calls it ono of the greatest curses the world I ever knew. Tho late Horace Greeley will ! bo implicated in the expos 6. At the close of a primary election, held in San Francisco, Sept. 29, a 1 free fight took place at the Republican headquarters. Four mon were shot,' two of whom died. The trouble grew out of a local issue between the followers of those who are called the " bosses "in political manoeuving. ' Negroes aye being brought from North Carolina to colonise the country' about San Diego, California.'

A company has been organised in Washington, D.C., to naanufacbutc railway cars entirely of sheet steel, under patents held by a San Franciscan, C. W. M. Smith. The presence of frost in Morida has stayed the ravages of the yollow fevor at Jacksonville and obhor cities in that state. The Irish athlotes gave a performance in public at the Manhattan Athletic Club Grounds, N.Y., on Sept. 29. Their feats were pronounced good ; but, at Lho same lime, no rocoids were broken, or even equalled. British &Mp Rcspigadcra, Cipfc. Purcoll, ftom Newcastle, N.S.W., with about 2,500 bons of coal, bound to San Pedio, went ashore ao Point Ferahn, on the coabt ot Southern Calif oinia. on the afternoon of September 26, and ia a tob.il 10-s. The vessel had on ho.ml six South Sea Islanders, picked up in an open canoe ."i lontr way out at sea. They were taken to fc.Un I'edio Lo bo cared for until arrangements could bo made to send thorn home.

THE NEW CHINESE EXCLUSION LAW. By the President's si^natuie on October Ist, (..ho new Exclusion Bill hecamo a law ot tlio land, and the face, was hailed by a geroml jubilation from one end of Calitui'tiin to the othei. The enactment is a very stringent one, and it* as follow* : — An Act Supplemental to "An Act en t.fclcd an Act to Execute Certain Treaty Stipulations lMatin<* to the Chinese." Section 1 — Be it enacted, etc., that from and afcer the passage of this Act, it .'shall be unlawful ror nny Chinese labourers avlio shall ax any timo lioretofoio have boen, or nuiv now or hereafter be, resident within the United States, and who shall have departed or ehall depart therelroni, and shall not have returned bolorc the pas^a^o of thU Act, to return to or remain in the United States. Section 2.— That the certificate of identity provide I for in Sections 4 and 5 of the Act to »vhieh this is supplemental, -^hall net heieafter be issued, and every eettinoate hcietofoio issued in pursuance thereof is hereby declared vnid and of no eOect, and tho Chinese labourer claiming admission by virtu o thereoi' <?hill not be permitted to enter the Unite 1 States. Section 3.^ — -That all duties prescribed, I'abilities, penalties, and forfeitures imno.sed find powers conferred on Sections 2, 10, 11, and 12 of the Acb to which bhib is supplemental y, are hereby extended, and made applicable to the provisions of this Acb. .-Section 4. — All such part or parts of the Act (o which this is supplementary as aie inconsistent hoi e with are repealed. There had been some discussion as to whether Chinese immigrants in transit at the lime of the Mgninj; ot the Bill would come under the operation of the law, but blii« would seem to be set at rest by a teles4i\mi receive tiom Acting-Secretary Maynaid by Collector Hager, of San Francisco, October 2nd. directing him to enforce the law. An initial appropriation was made by Confess on October 9th, of .^50,000, b> prevent the in (lux ot Chinamen acioss the boundaiics of Jvlexico and Canada into i.he United Slates.