AMERICAN SUMMARY.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3994, 17 October 1881, Page 3

AMERICAN SUMMARY.

A large part of the Slate of Michigan was visited by forest fires ofjmch extent that the destruction was terrible. In tae northern and north-eastern part ot the State the ruin is especially widespread. The Tillages Anderson, Ricbmondville, md Charleston,'in bantillac County, have been wiped out, and Port Hope, Tyre, and Verona Mills, and Badas, m Huron County, wholly or partially shared the same fate. Many lives were lost, aud much stock. Kehet is asked for by the destitute communities. They are made up principally of recently arrived Canadians. The country from Saßinaw to St. Clair is a desert. It is believed nearly IO.OQO persons perished in the flames. On the Bth inst., the. fires were checked by welcome raius. _ An American paper says Dr lanner is not dead. He has not been to Amsterdam where he is circumstantially reported to have met his death under curiously dramatic circumstances. Ihe^doctor has never been out of the United States, and is said to be in training for another starvation feat which he promises shall last over ninety days. _ The Presbyterians of San Francisco have found Mrs Cooper, sister of Colonel Robert Ingersoll, Ruilty of heresy. The trial and- termination created great excitement in religious circles, but contempt among unorthodox. A bush fire in Marin County, California, burned over 25 square miles. William Pixley, who started it to burn out a poison oat thicket, lost his life.. A Mexican boy was scourged to death in Hnachuca on the complaint of a white eirl to her father that he had insulted her. Afterwards the girl confessed she had only told the story " for fun," and now the white men justly fear a Mexican retalia--1 Atraeedy occurred at Arizona in tbe White Mountains on the Ist September, which caused much excitement. It appears General Eugene Carr, in command of fort Apache left that place with seven officers and 110 men to punish the savages for depredations committed in that region. When the command arrived at Obion creek the Apache scouts treacherously turned on the command with well directed Tolleys, and other Indians lurking in the Tioraity ioined with them, massacred Capt. Henting and ten of his soldiers, and Teneral c*rr; and remainder of the &cc retreated to fort Apache " Medicine," who it is said, was the cause of this melancholy affair, was arrested by Lieutenant GicuseV when the Indian remarked' "¥ou shall not arreat my brother," and immediately shot the officer This was the signal for slaughter. Another account says " medicine man had promised the Apaches that at the gathering of the corn harvest he would Resurrect all their dead, chiefs, and by their aid the white men should be driven from the country, and the Apaches were afraid he could not carry out his purpose if he were arrested. There is great dread of a general war, and all the troops in ihe forts aud garrisons around San Francisco are being hurried to the scene of hostilities. It is estimated that the Indians can muster 7,000 fighting men.