American.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3662, 21 September 1880, Page 2

American.

MASONIC. An immense triennial conclave ojf Knight Templars was held in Chicago. Including the wives and children of the Knights, there were 2CD.OCO visitors on the occasion, and delegations from every city in the States and territories. . GENBBAL. Dr Tanner, the forty days' faster, completed bis task at 12 o'clock, noon, on August 7th. Just before that time, his ! temperature was 92, pulse 92, respiration 17. His first diet was a glass of milk and a piece cf water-melon. He weighed at the end 121^ pounds, and had lost 36 pounds in .40 days. He seems, so far, none the worse, and is rapidly gaining flesh. His divorced wife, now in Paris, charges Tanner as a fraud, and says he takes nourishment in liquid form. The French papers laugh at the Americana for their credulity. A burning vessel, the Nictaux, drifted against a lumber pier at Hunter's Point, New York, and immediately. oommunU cated the fire.. Some ten acres in area were soon burned over, and the loss in valuable Canada pine timber is tremendous. The pistol has been busy in San Fran* cisco of late, and several have been killed for real or fancied insults, and two or three suicides have taken place. The most remarkable is that of Mr John Cahill, a married man, with a family, and in good social position. He called at the hov^se of a Mrs Sheeline, with whom, he and his wife had been on visiting terms, deliberately drew, a pistol and shot at her, and then blew his owu brains out. la the woman's case her life was saved by a steel corset bone.