AMERICAN SUMMARY. San Francisco, June 29th, Midnight.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 388, 27 July 1889, Page 6

AMERICAN SUMMARY. San Francisco, June 29th, Midnight.

Maiia Mitchell, a well-known astronomer, and Professor of Astronomy ab the Vatsar College, died ab Lynn, Mass., June 2Sth. She was bhe daughter of General Mitchell, U.S.A. Two men and four women lost their lives by gas asphyxiation ab Patei&on, New Jersey, June 28th. The Yale College crew won tho race on the Thames liiver, .New London, Conn., June 28th, defeating the Harwud. Three miles were made by Yale in ldmin 37aec, and Harvard, in 15min 57eec. Fiederick D. Prentice, a New York millionaiie, was. awarded June 28th, by Judge Parrish of the Cncuit Court, poose^ion of halt of Dulutti. The property 'n valued at 5,000,000 dols. A telegram received at New York, June 28, announces the ariival at Havre of the 30 foot yacht Navesinte fiom Boston ; .-^hc made the run inside of foity days-. Thomas Ewing Sherman, bon of General YV. T. Sherman, was appointerl to be ordained a priesb in the Catholic faith, on Juno 30th. St. Paul, Minn., residents have been victimised to bhe extent of .^500,000 in the way of real estate saie3 by swindlers making false impersonation. The demand ior wool in the Boston market for the week ending June 27bh continued very large, with prices linn and stronger. During the earlier part large sales weie made at good prices The receipts of new wools are growing larger, the greater propoi tion being California, Texas and Territory. Some of the holdeis of Territory wools are making such prices as to make them cost almost as much as Australian. Foreign markets are .strong, and the wool situation at home and abrcad is such as to denote a firm market for some time to come. Four border banditf- entered a bank in \ Felluride, Colorado, on June 27th, and while one of them held the clerk and assistant cashier in a gariot-like giip, the three others despoiled the institution of o\er twenty thousand dollars. The robbers got safely off with their plunder. Lizzie Brennan was arrested at Holy eke. Mass., June 27th, for poisoning her husband and two children for the &ake of the insurance money. A monstrosity was born in Frankfort County, Indiana, on June 27th, with single continuous body, on each end of which is a well-formed head. It is provided wifch four arms and legs, all peitect and of normal me. The heads face the fame way, and while one is asleep, the other may bo awake. The pur&er of the R.M.S. S. Zealandia arrived ab San Francisco on June Bbh from Sydney, N.S. W., and reports the death en route of Mrs E. Pickering, a passenger. She died on May 28bh from inflammation of tho bowels. The ship Hagarstown, which had left Newcastle, New South Wales, 117 days previously, arrived at San Diego on Juno Bth, with all topmasts gone. The vessel had been given up as lost. Mormon proselytes are pouring into the United States through New York, from Europe. 350 landed at Castle Garden on June 20th. Portions of lowa and Missouri were devastated on June 20th by a wind and rainstorm of great violence. Many houses were blown down, churches were wrecked, and several persons killed. i The village of Lono Star, Mip&ouri, was completely destoyed by a cyclone, on June

22nd, three porsons killed, and many in ; jured. i Four Mormon missionaries were flogged ( noarly to death ab Hinesboro, Missouri, on ' June 24th for proselyting; Thp deod was committed by twenty masked men. Captain Murrell, who recently rescued over tive hundred passengers from a Danish , steamship on the point of foundering, was prosontod on June 24th atßaltimoie, Mo., with insignia of knighthood ot the order of Dannelroy, sont by the King of Denmark. Muviell is an Englishman, employed as captain on a steamship line plying between tho United States and England. _ ' Searle, the Australian scullor, was in training for his Thames match againsb O'Connor, on June 22nd. Ho says of his opponent : "I do not under-rabo his ability in the least. From all 1 can learn, he is a first-class sculler, but I have made up my mind to beathim,andlthinUlshallbe able to do it, barring accidents. I feel very strong now. and I think I shall row faster 0" the Thames than I ever have dono in Australia." O'Connor sailed from New York to England, June 26th. Two newspaper editors of Thibodeaux, Louisiana, had a street light on the 20th of June. Ono, Noguin, editor ot tho " Son tinel," was killed", and the other, Facquet, of the "Comet," was ?hoc through the head, andib expected to recover. By a decision of the Treasury Department, Washington, June 4th, the officers of the new Catholic University, now being erected there, who are foreigners engaged abroad, cannot be allowed to land under the law prohibiting tho importation of con tract labour — professors or teachers are not oxceptcd. A lively electric storm on June 15th clayed havoc in New Yoik and New Jersey. The Church of the Immaculate Conception in New York was struck by lightning ; also two churches in Newark, New Jersey. Damage in both cities amounts to In this is included the destruction of the Standard oil - tanks at Communipaw, and the National Storage Dock at the same place. A numbe.i of lives weio lost and great damage to property also caused in Maryland and Kansas. At tho State Election held in Pennsylvania, June 18th, over 76,000 majority was given againsb the amendment to the constitution prohibiting the general sale and use of intoxicating liquors. Great eflbrbs wore made by the temperance people to influence the vote in favour of the amendment. Brass bands and groups of children singing hymns could be seen and heard everywhere in the principal cities during polling hours, while numbers of women argued with and almost beseeched votors bo deposib amendrnenb ballobs. A tornado struck the cemetery of Middletown, Now 'York, on June 17bh, and cub a pathway through it 500 feet wide, tossing and whirling huge granite and marble monuments about in every direction, twisting sli rubbery and uprooting trees. The tornado spent its fury among tho grave monuments weighing as much as five tons, and some costing many thousands of dollars were ruined. Jacob Walter and Fiank Davy, young men living at Niagara, weie swept over the great fall on June 9bh, and drowned. A petition from the delogates to the convention of wool-growers, held in Washington, D.C., last January, has been transmitted to the President asking that an extra session of Coneres* bo called to consider the question of tariiF legislation with special referenco to woollen products. The petition also urges the Administration- to sustain the New ork appraisers in assessing the duty at 35 cents per pound on worsted goods imported.. Lord Dunraven's challenge to sail ior the America Cup was formally accepted by the New York Yacht Club on JuneAbli. The races Mill be sailed over the outsido course, and if won by the English yacht the Cup will be held subject to the new deed of gift. Captain Lloyd Phcenix i& suggested as the umpiie. Water broke through the i-aceway of Cabot-stieet Mill, Uolyoke, Mass., on July 11th, and damage ensued to the amount ot 9100,000. The accident will necessitate closing all the mills. 'A disaster as great as that which devastated Johnstown, Pa., was narrowly escaped, as .the supply canal contained one hunched times as much water as the reservoir at the latter place.

DESTROYED BY FIRE. The city of Seattle, on Puget Sound, one of the most important in Washington Tevlitory, and which gave promise of speedily distancing Portland, Oicgon, and becoming the metropolis of the north-west, was almost totally destioyed by fiieon June 6th. The city was burned from the watei'o eclgo to the hillside, tho area ravaged being 120 acres. II was started by a workman c\er - turning a glue - pot in a cabinet shop. Bcfoie the file had been burning an hour the water gave out, and the people weie utletly helpless to control or stay the flame". They stood idly by, and saw their city burn. There w as no fire department to speak of. The total loss is between £10,000,000 and $12,000,000 ; but re-building commenced almost before the ruins had ceased to smoke. Four lives were lost, one of these being a thief, who was shot by a policeman while in the acb. Seattle wad the county seat of King'? County, Washington Territory, 'and. located in a spacious and placid harbour in tho Middle Sound, a short distance south of Taiotna. Its population had increased fiom 6,000 in ISB3 to 30,000 in 1889. Five railroads centied in it. The city was the head-quarters of the Pugeb Sound business, all of the steamboat lines, with two exceptions, making it theii head-quarters.

ROSS A EXPOSED. The libel suibot O'Donovan Rossa against Editor Cassidy was dismissed in a, New York Court on June 13bh, aiter the most damaging evidence given against llossa.and which proved him a traitor to the Irish cause. It was proved that he had received $1,500 fiom Patrick Ford, of the New York "Irish World, ' for the families of prisoners in English gaols, of which he only distributed •S5OO. Cassidy, the defendant, caused agreat sensation in Court by submitting a letter from Henry Labouchcre, dated Twickenham, April Ist, 1889, .showing that Ro«sa was in receipt of secret service money from the British Ciovernmenb, and that ho bouchero)in his place in Parliament had objected to voting away the money of the taxpayers of England to go into Ros&a's pocket.

THE BEHRING SEA, It was reported in Canadian official circles, according to a dispatch from Ottawa, .June 17th, that l J ancefote, the British Minister at Washington, will be asked to learn whether the American Government' is willing to agree to the appointment of an international Commission to inquire into questions regarding the seal fisheries in Alaska and Bohring Sea troubles. Theio is no fear in Canada of any moro seizures of Canadian acalers in disputed waters this season, as the understanding is they can tish outside the nine-mile limit. Secretary Blame and Sir Julian Pancefote conferred on this subject at the State Department, Washington, on June 24th. Nothing of importance, howevor, was made public. The question as to the right of the United States to exclusive

jurisdiction in the sea will, for the present, bo held in abeyance. ,

Spanish America and the west indies. Small-pox and yellow fever were raging: in a virulent form in Rio Janeiro and within a radius of 200 mile<j of that city on Juno 14th. The death rate ior three days at Santos was 70 per cent. Tno people aro leaving in droves.

AFFAIRS AT PANAMA. Dispatches from the Isthmus. Juno 14tb, say tho cana>l collappe has, y created great suffering, ' which still continues, Panama has resumed its quiet appcaranco of twenty years ago. The sales by auction of household furniture in the city are unprecedented. All merchandise is disposed of at much below its value. The lino alone the canal in now a scene of complete- desolation. One of the canal dredges, which cost '200,000 francs recently, sank in a croelc in the neighbourhood of Tavernilla, on the-Chagres River, and noatcempt will be made to lni^c it till the noxt dry season.

DISASTEiiS TO SHIPPING. The schooner Isaac Houston, was wrecked August 29th, on Lako Michigan, six miles oil" Milwaukee, and sixteen people were drowned. There are fears t.hat the British steamer Danish Prince, which sailed irom Swansea May 28th for Montreal, hab ioundered. Coastguards at Skibbcrcon, Ireland, picked up the log-book on Juno 4th. The latesi entry waa made in JM ay. North Herman Lloyd s.s., Trave, irom Birmcn to New York, sank by collision on June 13, with schooner David in the North Sea. Tho steamship ic«eued the schooner's) crew and landed them at Southampton. British steamer Kansas, while proceeding up tho Mersey to Liverpool on tho morning of Juno 15th, to take on passongers tor Boston, collided with tho Dutch steamer Lestris, outward bound. Both vessels- badly damaged and had to be docked.

A TEXAS KriSODK | An incipient vaco war commenced between the blacks and whites in Baotiop County, 20 miles irom Auytin, June 14th. At the last election the negroes in Cedar Park precinct elected a justice of the peace and a constable, both ignorant, cornfield negrocss A few days ago Alf Litten, a white man, wont to a negro's cabin to expostulate with him for Bending insulting mostages to himself and wife. For this he was arrested by the negro constable and bi ought before the negio justice for trial. Litten wishing to stop outside the Court a minute, asked "permission. His lawyer paid "yes," the negro constable said "no." Disregarding the latter, .Litten started when the nc'gro tired, killing him instantly. On thio, a desperate fight commenced. Th 6, black fellows present deliveied a perfect volley ot bullet?, and when the smoke cleared away, and the lit ing ceased, it was found that three white men wcio killed, undthreo badly wounded ; a negro had also been killed by a .stray bullet. The negro justice and his constable mountod horses and lied. The negroes, it is said, had been waiting an opportunity tor this massacre a long time.

A CABLE TO HONOLULU. Jokn T. Watcrhoufce, an old resident of Hawaii, recently arrived at San Fiancisco in the intercut of an cntcipiiso to connect tho United States <with the Sandwich islands, audit isjsaid that the movement is backed by a largo syndicate of American and British capital. It is also stated that the Company represented by Mr Watcrhouse proposes to act at once so that it may head ofl a similar enterprise contemplated by the Canadian Government. It is e>aid the Waterhoufce scheme will bo aided to the extent of half a million of dollars, if the balance of one million, necessary to do the work, can be raised by American capitalists.

THE SAMOAN TREATY SIGNED. Tho Araeiican Commissioners at the Samoan Conference, .Berlin, lecoived instructions from 'Secretary Blame on Juno 13th in relation to' the protocol chawn up by the Confoiencc. He disagreed with several of its provisions. Geimany and England, in -hi.s opinion, had not gone far enough in making concessions to the United States. The Conference convened to receive Mr Blame's objections, and immediately afterward tho English and (Jernvm Commissioners) entoiod on their consideiation. A stoiy was ciiculatdd that the American Secretary of I State had ordered tlio United States Commi'rsionett? to withdraw from the Confeience unless the concessions he suggested were made, but it could not be traced lo an authentic source. The Confeienco re-as-sembled on tho 14th, when a cable was received fiom Wa^hititrton directing the Anieiican Cummi^iou to si<rn. It is. undei&tood the Ameiican delegates withdraw their objection? to certain provisions of the protocol, \s hile Uermany mob all ot America's, objection", and fche signatures were acooidingly appended. Delegate Thclps took the tieaty with him to Washington, as it will have to go to tlie United States Henato for latitication. He arrived at ISew Yoik. June 24th, and proceeded at once to Washington. He expressod himself as well satisfied with the outcome of the Conference, and believed the result would give general satisfaction. Furthei than this ho would not speak.

THE FISHERIES. The Dominion (Jovernmenb is not oncouiajjed by tho piospecb of a very early adjustment of the Fisheries Question with the Harrison AH ministration, and has instructed the commanders of (Jovernmenb cruisers to seize any vessels violating tho law. The instructions are \ery stringent.