AMERICAN NEWS.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 364, 1 May 1889, Page 5

AMERICAN NEWS.

San Francisco, April 7. A loiter bo the New York "World' from Beimuda, under date February 2'lbh, gives this curious item :--"Two days ago the gariifcon ot Fort Cunningham deserted. It is thought they sailed on the ship Gebonder, Captain Smib. The forb is on a small island, and when a detachment from Fort George, Bermuda, went to lelieve the ganison, not a man was found. The fort was tenantless, and the oiricers and men gone. Their disappearance is a mystery. ! At the Coloni ed Methodist Conterence of ! the Lexington (Ky. ) district, held in Paris, Ky., the iiisb day's session was maikcd by a murder, on account of a negro named Page | occupying a pew rented by another named i Kellis. The latter ordered Pago out, and he not being in a hurry to go, was sei/.ed by the pew-lessee and thrown out. Then Page drew a revolver and &hot Kellis, narrowly missing the bishop at the .-ame time. A pistol fight took place in a church at Uniontowr., Pa., on Sunday, March 24th, between the Lystar and Dietrich families All the audience, except the combatants, left. The Dietrich fcido of the house was badly uteri up. A sensation was created in Ottawa on March 24th by Ptcsident Harrisons proclamation declaring Behring Sea closed. It was a complete surprise to members of the Canadian Government, as negotiations are pending in regard to the claim for compensation lor the seizure of three British scaling vessels in Behring Sea. The population of Canada, exclusive of Montreal, has decreased 239,340 in five yeaiX caused by French Canadians leaAing ior the United States. Up to March 28th President Harrison had nominated, and the United State? Senate confirmed, the following gentlemen to fill leading foreign missions : Robert J. Lincoln (son 'of the former President, Abraham Lincoln), Minister to England ; Whitelow Reid, editor and parb proprietor of the " New York Tribune," Minister to Franco ; Allan Thomdyke Rice, editor of the " North American lteview," Mini&ter bo Russia ; George B. Loring, of Massachusetts, a "plutocrat" as the " New York "World '" calls him, Minister to Portugal ; Thomas Ryan, of Kansas, who has served twelve years in Congress Minister to Mexico ; Patrick Esan, Presi dent of the Irish National League of America, and formerly a leading baker in Dublin, who has only been nationalised two years, Minister to Chili ; John Hicks, of Wisconsin, Minister to Peru ; Colonel Fred Granb, Minister to Austria ; and John C. New, formerly Secretary of the Treasury, Consul-General at London. The New York press is nob united on the wisdom of Mr Lincoln's appointment as Minister to England. The "World" says he is not fit, neither in point of ability nor public service. The "Star": "Asa representative of the American people, his ! ability, in contrast with ex-Ministers Lowell and Phelps, will be pitiable." The " Sun," " Times," and " Herald" endorse Sir George Stephen, President of the Canadian-Pacific R.Rj, will be accompanied to Canada by one the Prince of Wales' sons next! »ff Prince will

make an extended torn 1 of fcho Dominion anrl the United Slate*. A Santiago de Chili correspondent of the v alpai aiso ' ' Morcurio " writes ' under dato February 20th : "In less than a week the bodies of seven murdered people have been found in different streets of this city. Of this number, five, at least, bear marks proving murder." ; J. H. Blackburne and J. Gunsbergr, of ! London, the strongest chess nlayers in England, wore in Now York on March 18. Mr Blackburne is en route to Australia via Ban Francisco. He will return to England in one of tho P. and 0. boats. A London despatch of March 29th sayn that in view of the impending prosecution of the Comptoir d'Escompte by the Government, the directors of the Bank are reported to be realising on their private ptopeiby so as to be safe in the event of contingencies. It i& believed a prosecution oi the Socictc dos Metaux would prove abortive. The whole ot the Paris copper stock — 150,000 tons — is hold by the Bank of France, the llothschilds, the Bank of Paris and Baron Hirsch. After-effects of tho Paris panic aie reported from different quarters. Conqueard, the banker of Oene\ a, committed suicide. At Lemons, tho centic of a great fanning 1 dis- j trict, n latge number of persons have been thrown out of employment tlnough the biinki nptcy of their employers. In one day 900 bills oE-exchango were returned unpaid.