American News. Monster Distillery Frauds. Immense Forest Fires. Great Destruction of Property. Loss—20,000,000 dols. Trains Rushing through Burning Forests.

Waikato Times, Volume VIII, Issue 482, 22 June 1875, Page 2

American News. Monster Distillery Frauds. Immense Forest Fires. Great Destruction of Property. Loss— 2o,ooo,ooo dols. Trains Rushing through Burning Forests.

The Prohibitory Liquor Law has been repealed at Nuchat. j% French and English gunboats have been ordered to Newfoundland to prevent trouble between th» fishermen. , The suspension is announced of the American ironmonger, Morris, liabilities, 200,000 dols. Six hundred men have been thrown out of work. AH the leading distilleries in Chicago were seized by the Government for fraud. Immense swindling has been discovered. ha|*feeen;Vflreatened with assasTnk iPpbksylvanrafcn cDa&tmiJtas were stoned and shot aLby sinkers. \ M^b Abraham Lincoln has attempted suicide. She is declared to be insane. There have been extensive forest conflagrations, in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York, with great destruction of property. Hundreds of families were rendered houseless. The loss is over 20,000,000 dols. An incendiary attempted to burn the town of Shenatranjp, Vai. The Pennsylvanian wood fires are still raging. The whole of the towns are being destroyed by fire. Four trains with one thousand people, rushed through the burning woods, with the flames enveloping and scorching the carriages. Many of the passenger^wem^severelv burnt.