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AMERICAN SUMMARY.

A party of Americans jiraireliing~fr|ai tj Paso Del Norfce to Chi^iahua, Mcsico,. discovered thirteen djSscf -bodies, ali Americans, and a portioa of the surveying expedition of the Mexican Central liailroad. They had been murdered by Apaches.

Mormon converts by thousands are landing in New York from Europe, en route for Salt Lake.

The British barque Beatrice, oil laden, was struck by lightning off Eeady Island, near Philadelphia, and burned to the water's edge. The electric fluid ran down the mast into the hold, and fired the cargo.

The reported Tichborne claimant's daughter, Jennie Ogden Ferris, writes to the New York Star that her father is playing a game of deception on Californian people, and that he had admitted to her in Brooklyn that he intended to personats the lost Sir Roger.

Indian outrages continue in New and Old Mexico. In the latter, the Apaches tortured and killed a great many mining prospectors, ex-Governor Pughe's son among the rest.

Griescoin, the imitator of Dr Tanner, has completed his 45 days' fast.

Chicago

News has been received of the missing whalers Mount Woollasbon and Vigilant: both were caught in the ice in the Arctic, and all aboard perished. The Esquimaux described to Captain Millard of the whaler Thomas Pope, who brought the news, the unhappy particulars very minutely. They said the bodies of the dead crew had swollen and then burst open, showing evidently that they were frozen to death during the winter of 1879 80, and had been acted on by the heat of the succeeding summer. Nothing has been heard of Bennett and his Arctic exploriug yacht Jeanette. A railroad train was recently boarded by some thirteen desperadoes at a point in Mexico and thoroughly sacked. The conductor was shot, also a stonemason, one of the passengers, who tried to defend him.

Edison is preparing to light a district in New York by el»ctricfty. Houses will probably be lighted on October Ist. The editor of the Times, at Little Rock, Arkansas, has been assassinated. The course of his paper did not please certain outlaws.

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Bibliographic details
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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3948, 24 August 1881, Page 2

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AMERICAN SUMMARY. Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3948, 24 August 1881, Page 2

AMERICAN SUMMARY. Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3948, 24 August 1881, Page 2

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