AMERICAN NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1565, 15 March 1887, Page 4

AMERICAN NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Charles Ogden Jerris, who claims he is Sir Roger Tichborne, was convicted on January Slat, in the United States Court, ‘ for fraudulently obtaining a pension from the United States, and remanded for sen- ; tence. The possibility of war with Great Britain on the fisheries qnestion has led ' to an investigation of the condition of the !forts and other defences on the New York frontier facing Canada. The forts tare found to bo in a most dilapidated condition, and what war vessels there are on the Great Lake are rotten old tubs llhat a single well directed shot would sink.

: An ocean race has 'been arranged between the keel schooners Dauntless and Coronet, for 10,000dols a side. The yachts will start from Sandy Hook ou March 15th for Queenstown. A call was made of Feb, 12, at a Catholic mass meeting, held in New York, by 60,000 votes for- Henry George, to raise a fund of 25,000d01s for the Rev. Dr. M. Glynn, the prominent Catholic clerical, who endorses George’s land and social reform views, and for which;be was suspended from his priestly functions by Archbishop Corrigan. Edison, the inventor, is dying of pulmonary disease.

Considerable excitement has been caused among Navy pensioners now reeidiog in Canada, both seaman and marines, by the receipt of a circular from the British Admiralty calling upon all under 50 years to bold themselves in readiness for active service.

Three Princes of the house of Kalakna, King of Hawaii, arrived in San Francisco on Jan. 220 d. They are sent to attend the Military Academy, in order to be schooled in the army tactics. The Supreme Court of Missouri granted on Jan. 21st, to H. M. Brooks, aliat Maxwell, a reprieve until April Ist next, Brooks is in prison at St. Louis, and was ordered to bo executed on Feb. 3rd. Michael Davitt has undertaken to champion l)r M. Glynn as against the Pope and Cardinal Simeons. At a meeting of 10,000 people, held in New York on Jan. 23rd, be made a ferocious attack on the latter, the Pope’s SecretaryGeneral.

During the parformance of the last public concert at the Grand Opera House at San Rica, on February 9th, a panic was created by a socialistic crank, named Hedges, discharging a dynamite bomb in the audience. The awowed purpose was to injure J. C. Flood, the millionaire, who sat with his daughter in one of the boxes.

The United States Congress passed, on February 12th, a Chinese Indemnity Bill, appropriating 147,080d01a to pay losses alleged to have been suffered by Chinese subjects at Rock Island, Wyoming, from an anticoolie outbreak about two years ago. The Chinese of San Francisco gave a feast on the reception of the news.