NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2316, 9 February 1892, Page 4

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

AMERICAN SUMMARY.

San Fkancitco, Jan. 11

It i.-i niinounced that the American Bell TYL'i'l'.'MC Company has so far forwarded experiments in the telephone field that it hns now in its possession a perfect telephone, by which whispers can be transmitted 500 miles distinctly. A war has been commenced against Sunday newspapers in Philadelphia by the Liw and Order Society. Thirty-five •employees were arrested on January 6 ou oa the charge of being engaged in worldly employment on the Sabbath. The information was made under a law enacted one hundred years ago. Just as the marriage of William Wright add Miss Phillips had been solemnised at Meridian, Mass., on December 25, a disappointed rival for the lady's hand, named Johnson, killed the bridegroom, shooting him through the window with a double-barrelled shotgun. He told the woman that he would do this, and he kept his word.

Two homicidal cranks were sent to an asylum ou December 27, one from New York who wanted to kill the millionaire Vanderbilt in order to examine his brain and learn the secret of acquiring wealth ; the other from Philadelphia, named J. Bonapart, who endeavored to force his way into the sanctum of G. W. Childs, publisher and proprietor of The Ledger, to kill him, as he candidly admitted. An examination recently made into the practices of the secret societies of Harvard College which, with Yule, is the leading College in the United States, has led to some strange revelations, among others, that Society D K E brands its initials as in cattle, or like the firing of the flesh by savage tribes, in order to test the quality of endurance. _ _ An elder sister of Christine Nilsson, the Swedish prima donna was discovered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Dec. 26, living in great poverty. She is married to a Swedish teacher named Hvale. An accident on the New York Central railway on Christmas Eve, at a place called Hastings, resulted in eleven persons being killed and five badly injured. The collision was due to gross neglect of duty by a biakesman named Herrick, who afterwards changed his uniform for citizens clothes and fled. Lieutenant Perry, his wife and party havin" been despatched a year or two ago to find the Nortk Pole, the usual second step in such case 3 is to be taken in the sprW by the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences. An expedition is to be sent out to discover the would, be dis-

covevers. , „ . , Edward M. Field, whose financial operations have ruined and dishonoured both himself and his father, Cyrus W. Field, has been transferred from the Mount Venror Insane Asylum to Ludlow G-iol New York, on indictments found against him for theft and other felonious acts It is generally believed that the insane business was a dodge to escape

It is now conclusively ascertained that the man who dropped the deadly bomb in Bu*--3l Sage's office, New York, and of whom only his head and some fragments of his clothing were found, was Henry L.. Norciods, a well-known broker doing business in Boston, and living in Surgent Avenue, Sommerville, Mass. The identity ■wiw fixed by the buttons and other fragment* of the clothes. Norcross was naturally of a dissatisfied with an absorbing desire for wealth, and iJie dynamite prank was quite in his way

SHIPWRECK ON THE ENGLISH COAST. Daring a terrific gale which raged round the British coast on the night of Saturday, December 12, the steel sading j»hin Enterkin, bound from Hull to .Brisbane, with a cargo of iron dram pipes ran Ground on the Galloper Sands and became a total wreck She had a crew of 30 mi" u on board, and of these only three wen/rescued. At first it was believed that an apprentice- named Lewis, who was rescued from the rigging by some fishermen, was the only survivor, but it transpired afterwards that another apprentice and an able seaman had been nicked tip by a passing steamer and lauded at Antwerp. From the account of the diijaster given by Lewis, it ..ppears that as soon as the ship struck the captain ordered the boats to be lowered. Two lifeboats were launched, but both were eap-iized directly they got clear of the ship. 'Lewia with the mate and two or three men, climbed into the rigging, but a wave almost immediately washed them all away. Being furnished with a life-belt, Lewis managed to swim to the mizzen rigging, a-id there he remained till early morning, when the fishing smack Briton's Pride ca.ne alongside and took him off. This rescue was only accomplished with great difiiculty, as the smack could not get ihshv the rigging. Two of the crew, however, bravely launched the boat, and going \ as near the wreck as they cowl 4, called to \ Lewis to jump into the sea and swim to \ the boat. Although fearfully numbed with the cold, he managed to do this, and wa* taken on board the smack, which . laii'ducUiim safely at Ramsgate on the ■ morning of the 14th. \ The two me.l who were picked up by \ the steamer AshtoJ and taken to Antwerp say that the first of the Enterkin's lifeboats which capsized contained the captain and 12 of the crew, and they did not know what ultimately became of those men. They themselves were in the second lifeboat, which was immediately pulled to ilia assistance of the captain and his struggling companions. Theseawashowever, terribly rough, waves almost continually washing over them, and nearly swamping their boat. When almost within reach of the unfortnnate men their own boat was struck by a wave and capsized. When the two survivors rose to the surface they saw the boat keel upwards a few yards away, and at the same moment were washed against her. They instinctively grasped the keel, and were carried out of sight of their hapeless shipmates. In this desperate position they were tossed about for two hours, and they abandoned hope when the Ashton, which appeared to have sighted them previously, suddenly bore down on them and took them on board. The Enterkin was owned by Mr T. C. Guthrie, of Glasgow, aud her hull was iusaiei for £17,000.