AMERICA.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 88, 22 May 1877, Page 3

AMERICA.

In a fight between Indians and hunters on the Buffalo range, fifteen of the latter were killed.

In Mexico a battle took place near Manezath, in the State of Couca, between General Tongillos and the enemy, which lasted seven hours. Tongillos was victorious. The losses on both sides were

heavy. The brig Roanoke has been wrecked, and eleven persons drowned. A terrible explosion took place at a •powder mill near Santa Cruz. Several persons were injured. Sixty thousand miners are idle in tlie coal regions at Pennsylvania. Laura D. Fair is bankrupt. Spotted Tail and many Indians have surrendered.

The steamship Leo was burned at sea. The captain and thirteen of the crew escaped in lifeboats, but three passengers and eighteen of the crew are missing, Paul Murphy, the chess player, is in the New Orleans Lunatic Asylum. A terrible tornado at Rutherford, Tennesse, blew down fifteen houses, killed three persons, and wounded eight. The Grand Dukes Alexis and Constantine, and the Admirals of the Russian fleet, visited New York.

The smallpox in San Francisco originated on Board Hie Alaska from China.

The labour market in California is terribly depressed. Mexico outraged the American flag by the seizure of the schooner Montana, and the arrest of the Uuited States Consul at Acapulco. Two American war vessels have been sent to inquire into the matter.

St. Louis, April 11

The Southern Hotel, the finest of the kind in the city, was destroyed by fire between one and two o'clock in the morning. Before the engines arrived the upper stories were in flames. At two o'clock the scenes in the vicinity of the hotel were indescribable, and the excitement intense. A large nnmber of the inmates was killed in the flames and otbers were dashed to pieces by jumping from the windows. Two hundred female servants were asleep on the sixth iloor at the outbreak, and the mortality among them was enormous. Many wonderful escapes occurred, and many deeds of heroic valour were performed. The hotel was completely destroyed. The loss of property is estimated at a million dollars, the insurance amounting to about one-fourth that sum. The number of killed is 125.