AMERICAN SUMMARY.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 332, 9 January 1889, Page 4

AMERICAN SUMMARY.

I Mrs Alexander Cameron, a resident of ' Windsor, in Canada, opposite Detroit, Michigan, has announced her intention bo distribute in charities before she dios her estate, valued at ir,4,000,000. Her plans> include a handsome gift to the city laet named. , The llock Hill Company's mines at llobcrtsdale, Pa.,wero Hooded on December 2nd, soon after the miners got to work. 150 men, driven to the further end of the mine by the rush of water, were compelled to stand in it up to their chins for ten hours,, till thu ma&& could be drawn off. A New York despatch, December 2, says: "Joseph Bvanf., the millionaire, who tepresents a syndicate of Australian capitalists that are building a new railroad in that country, is returning x,o the Pacific slope, alter having inspected tho car factories ot the Kastcin States. He gives out that several capitalists ni New York city had expressed a desire to invest in his road, and that ho had arranged for a meeting between them and some of his colleagues in San Francisco." Dr. McGlynn, R.C., lor some time Harry Geoige'f- colleague in the labour and antiland monopoly movement, has answeied Cardinal Simeoni (svho offered him the pastorate of JMiddletown, Conn., if lie would retract), in the following terms: "t will not. condemn the doctrines utteied by mo ; T will not go to Rome ; I have now no case \\hato\er butoie your tribunal. '" Tho members of tho Hompslead (N.Y.) Combing Club wore ai rested on Novembei 30th, for cruelty to rabbits. After nn investigation, the jury leturned a verdict ot not guilty. Col. Fred Grant will be Ministei to China under Harrison'.-) administration. A Cuilalo (New Yoik) man claims to ha\e solved the problem of harnessing the Niagara River. lie employs a submerged belt composed of two strands of two-inch cable, to which steel-plates are attached. The full force of the current pressing on these plates forces the belt around at a great rate of speed, producing a high rate of horse power. The system can be duplicated indefinitely. Phineas T. Barnnm, the world-famed showman, has announced his retirement from business on account of feebleness and advancing years. Sunde, cashier of the New York " Daily New?/' emptied all the safes of that oihec on November 23rd, and disappeared with $10,000 in cash and negotiable securities. No new cases nor deaths from yellow fever were reported from the Southern States on November 27th. The epidemic in Jacksonville, the point of its greatest ravage, has completely died out. It wa& reported from Bism.iik, Dakato Territory, November 28th, that a diiver and a tourist had been engulfed in a gcy&er the preceding week, in the National Vark. ! One thou&und eight hundred Chinamen j resident in Philadelphia, who, it is said, leceived ordeisfrom the Imperial Government to return home, refused to obey, being too well off where they weic. Com. Ciceio Price, U.S.A. (retired), father of the Duchess of Marlboiough, died in Troy, N. V., November 24. .Mitchell, the English pugilist, who lecently ai lived in the United State-, being challenged by John L. Sullivau, the Boston boxer, to stand up for eight rounds in frout of him in a public glove contest foi returned a sneering leply to the eilect that he did not want to take advantage of a sick man, and advised Sullivan to lay off five years instead ot live months if he wished to legain his old form. However, he agieed to meet him if he wished it. O'Connor, the Canadian oarsman, who defeated Teenier on November 24th, was in San Francisco eaily in December, ot ioi' f e to the colonies to meat the crack tovveif of the country. Probably he may ioiv Gaudaur in San Franci&co before he sailc. Teemer's backers and others interested say he sold the race to O Conner. Typhoid fever has become epidemic in Brooklyn, New York, the peculiarity being that the disease mostly ravages t.he wealthy classes. Among the iccent victims are Isaac Bell, ex -U.S. Minister to Holland, and several young society belles. Sir Charles Tupper, Canadian Minister to England, received a Murchison letter, similar to that addressed to SackvilleYVest, but was too waiy to fall into the trap. He returned an evasive reply. The second session of the fiftieth U.S. Congress opened at noon, December 3rd, when tho last message to be delivered by (J rover Cleveland was laid before it ( and rend. It is a voluminous document, pronounced .statesmanlike by journals favourable to the President, and by those opposed to him " the snarl of a beaten candidate. ' Speaking of the Sack ville- Wet t afiair. he says the dismissal of tho Biitifeh Minister wus, on his part, " a painful but imperative duty." Beyond reasserting the trade doc--trines which cost the President re-election, his message is a dry detail of commonplace matters. Shipping disasters are reported along the Atlantic coast, Novembor 25th and 26th. A fleet of 15 barges sank in the lower bay of New Yoik. but fortunately no lives were lost. S?e\eial Final! vessels were diiven ashore on the New England coast, and many hands perished. Snowstorms prevailed throughout New England. The barque IVJoro Castle, from Philadelphia ior San Kranoisco, went to pieces on the Delaware breakwater. Spalding's^ball teams, recently arrived in Australia, netted, since leaving Chicago e>? route, i? 20,000. The expense of the round trip is estimated at §30,000. An enterprise is projected to supply the interior towns and cities ot Ohio with water fioin Lake Erie. John Tecmcr, tho oarsman, received woul at Pittsbiug, Pa., on December 10th, that Edward Hanlan had arranged a lace between himself and Searle, the Australian champion of the world : money posted. Teenier was prepaiing to sail for the colonies on tho 15Lh December, but the chances are that he will not be ablo to leave till tho January boat. It is said that Hanlan proposes tbat Teemer and himself challenge any other double crew in the world. Albert Ha mm will probably accompany Teemer to California and endeavour to secure a race with Henry Peterson, a rowing celebrity local to San Francisco.

CANADA. The statement that Harrison, who will succeed Cleveland in. the Presidency of the United States, will urge the annexation of Canada vigorously, has causod considerable excitement in the New Dominion, and given the Liberal politicians of the country, most of whom arc- annexationisos, renewed hope of carrying their favourite measure. In the opinion of those who aie well acquainted with the temper of the people ot Ganada.SJannexation will never be seriously entertained. Plans for the proposed railway across the isthmus connecting Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, have been approved by the "Minister of Railways at Ottawa. Contracts have already been awarded two English capitalists aggregating <jj>s,ouO,ooo, exclusive of terminals at either end, which promise to prpve most expensive. Vessels bound for Europe- from Boston and New Yo v k, will save five hundred miles by utilising thi« railway. They may sail up the Bay of Fundy after being hoisted by hydruuUo' lifts, a,nd be transported to bhV

Gulf of St. Lawrence. The railway will be about 40 miles long. The contracts ealJ for the completion of the work in 1892. George Reed, an Englishman, who was related to General Sir Frederick "Roberts, shot and killed himself at the Richelieu Hotel, Montreal, on November 24th. He loved an actress in Lydia Thompson's troupe of burlesquers, who refused to reciprocate his passion. Lord Lonsdale and two companions have been met by Hudson Bay factors, who reported the fact at Winnipeg, November 26. They were in good health, and making their way northward on foot Lord Lonsdale is travelling in the interests of the Scotch Naturalist Society, and expresses contidence in reaching a point farther north than has yet been attained. The Dominion Government received an offer from the London manager of tho Orient steamship line, on November 28th, to build thiee steamships, each 7,500 tons, to steam not le-=s than twenty knots, to carry the Canadian mails, from Halifax to Plymouth, England, in five days. Archibald Sellers, a millionaire merchant of St. John's, Newfoundland, was found dead on December 2nd, with two bullethole-> in his head. His partner is suspected of having murdered him A despatch from Ottawa December 9th f-ays Newfoundland had a narrow escape horn being iorced into the Confederation. It has just been revealed that fche province was about u> be sold out, Sir William While being; promised the Lieutenant(iovemctahip, and Mr Bond, one of the prime mo\crs, the Chief Justiceship. Sir John Winter and his co-workers were to got the "boodle," Mr Morin to go into the Cabinet. A telegram in regard I o the tund to be raised in Canada leaked out, giving the Newfoundlanders an inkling of the plot. The matter will be investigated in the Dominion Parliament. A fatal disease, known as anthrax, is making serious havoc among herds of cattle near Calgary, in the North-west Territory. The Canadians dread lest the* British Government order the slaughter ot their cattle immediately upon landing in England. Such a course would greatly aficcb the Dominion cattle trade. The wardens' quarters of the Dorchester Penitentiary, Nova Scotia, weic destroyed by fire, December 11th. Deputy O'Keefe was suffocated. Several houses were wrecked in Quebec on December 11th, by gas from a street main exploding. The damage is and there were many injuries to individuals-. The most f-evere gale in a quarter of a century prevailed at Cape Boston for the three days ending December 13. The v ind blew at the rate of 70 miles an hor n, accompanied by snow. Tales of shipw reck aud suffering from all point?. Stenhouf-e, ex member of the Biicish Columbia Parliament, who recently resigned his seat to become a Mormon, is seeking special legislation in favour ol polygamy. Late reports show a deplorable condition of a flairs at Hayti, including impending famine at Port-au-Prince. | I'orfirio Diaz was inaugurated Pieeident j of the Mexican Republic on December Ist. The Government had impiisoned more ■journalist. 0 . The United State- war vessel-. Galena, Richmond, Vantieand O»s>ipeeweic ordered to Port-au-Prince, Hayti. on Dec. 7th, to enforce the demand of tho Government on the Haj'fcians, to release the vessel Haytian Republic, seized for carrying article* contraband of war. The latest news from Hayti was that U.S. Consul Basaett had been dismissed by General Legitime's ordeis and Vice-Consul Singleton put in his stead. The German steamer Clementine had been fiied into and sunk by the Haytian man- o-w ar Poussaint, l'Ouveitme. She was said to be carrying ammunition for General Hypolite's aimy. ( A \olcauo bioke out in the distant State j of Tobasco, Mexico, early in Decembei". Monte I'elado i? the. eruptive point, from | w Inch va^t quantities of reddish -tinged water have been ejected, dying the Piio Grijota red for many miles. An English syndicate completed the purchase of all the leading cigar factories in Havana on December 12th ; the last bought was Juan Zance's establishment for 80,000 dol. in scold. A monopoly of all the fine cigars for the European market is thus formed, and the United States shut out completely.