NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2279, 12 November 1891, Page 4

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

" Rain-compelling" appears to be a success in every part of the United States. On Sept. 2 at Corpus Christi, Texas, M. Dreycifwith, who practised it, discharged several bombs in midday, arid after each volley a sharp shower, fell over a limited area. The rain was general over the entire city, and continued for half-an-hour. An entire family of five persons was roasted to death in a Chicago tenement house; which was burned to the ground on Sept. 18.'; '■ ' ■ On the evening of Sept. 27, an oil J car standing on the side track at Furgo, North Dakota, was set in motion by a witching train, and starting down the grade collided with the engine of an incoming stock train with terrible force. In an instant the oil was all ablaze. The engineer, fireman, and brakemen were soon enveloped in the flames and literally roasted to death. "A despatch dated Sept 20, from Guthrie, Oklahoma Territory, gives the following details of the opening, by the United States Government, of the town site of Chandler :—The site was opened for settlement at twelve o'clock, and the scene which followed the volley of musketry which announced the opening was awful. A mass of three thousand excited , people, intent upon securing lots, had gathered about the boundary of the town. At twelve o'clock sharp the signal was given, and with a mighty yell from the thousand throats, and the crackling of whips and volleys of oaths, shouts, and curses, a conglomerate mass of men and women on horses and on foot rushed like maniacs for the town lots. As the angles of the advancing lines met many riders were unhorsed, and hurled .pell-mell into the road. Many persons are reported to have been killed, and others as having received severe injuries. Miss Daisy, representative of the Guthrie News, was thrown from her horse at the beginning of the mad rush, jf.nd striking her head on a rock, was killed. The crazed and merciless crowd rode over the body till it was recognised by a friend, and drawn out of the surging mass. As there were three or four times as many people as there were lots, the result could be easily foretold. There are from three to six claimants for a great many of the lots, and it will take considerable time to adjust the differences. Augustine Daly, a leading American theatrical manager, has secured from .Lord Tennyson the exclusive right to produce in the United States and England tin entirely new work which the Poet Laureate has just completed. It is a three-act comedy, and is the first and only piece Tennyson has written specially v for the stage. ■ . < Word came from Emmons County, North Dakota, on Sept. 26. that the whole east end of that country had been swept by a terrible prairie fire, in which three men lost their lives. Many families were rendered homeless, and whole herds of cattle died in the flames. The loss will reach fully 170,000d01. All the mischief was done by a spark from a threshing machine.