AMERICAN SUMMARY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1666, 19 September 1887, Page 2

AMERICAN SUMMARY.

Feverish excitement prevails In the principal coast counties of California at* the present time m regai d to real estate. Land has trebled and quadrupled m value. The movement ia caused by the extra* ordinary immigration of moneyed people from the Eastern States. At Oampden, New Jeraey, on Ist August, a man named William Wiltshire, whose wife sought a divoroe from him on account of cruelly and neglect, entered the. court-room where the woman was telling her story to the Justice of the Peaoe, shot her where she stood, marderedthe Jaitloe, and then blew his own brains oat. An August 28 ch, after a sharp earthshook,Ja farm m Triggs County, Kentuoky, sunk 4 or sft, and was converted, into ft lake. Professor Arson Squire Fowler, th« noted phrenologist, died at Connecticut on Angust 13th, aged seventy-eight yean. A despatch received m Minnesota on August sth reports a terrible oase of oanniballam. One old woman at Little R ad xliver admits having killed and eaten her whole family. Starvation and can • niba-i m art also reported from Maokenule River. Among resolutions passed at a meeting held at Syracuse, New York, on August 19 v h, m correction with a movement of which Henry George is the head, is one favoring the Australian system of seoret ballot. Two cannons prematurely exploded at • sham battle held at Enfbld, Illinois, on August 19th, and mutilated five men m a terrible manner. A woman known as Fanny Hevy, employed m some San Franoisco beer eelUrs as a waitress, having become intimate with a batkeeper named Miohael Kennedy, and fearing he would desert her, deliberately cat his throat on the morning of August 11th while he slept, and then severed her jugular vein. After she had cut her lover's throat she fired four pistol bulletl into hla body, reserving the fifth for herself. The completeness with which the' business was exeouted showed calculation and determination. The works of Bandmau and Nella&n, giant powder merchants, at Fleming Point, West Berkley, California, about six milea from San Francisoo, exploded with a tremendous detonation on the afternoon of August 13th. The lon sums up In explosives about 250,000d01. The structures destroyed being flimsy and constructed with a view to suoh con* tingencieß, were comparatively valueless. One Chinaman wao killed. The explosion was very {sensibly felt m the olty of San Franoisco. The " New Yotk Sun" of August 9th, argues that the Mormon offer to abandon their position that polygamy is a matter to bo ragulated by conscience and not by law is the strongest possible proof that the Church of the Latter Diy saints is dying a natural death. A Bult is about to be oommencei In New York that piomlßes to beooms cele* brated. It has been asserted that Mary Irvene Hoyte, daughter of a millionaire named Jesse Hoyte, who unsuccessfully contested her father's will, was a oonfirmed inebriate, verging on lnnaoy, and wholly unable to take care of herself. The case is to be re opened, when such a showing of facts m regard to a vllo conspiracy, to which the young lady ia alleged to have been subjected, is expected to be made na will eclipse the stories m Warren's "Dairy of a Late Physician." It is charged that Miss Hoyte has been systematically drugged to produce-hysteria and even mania. A prohibition amendment to the State Constitution was defeated m Texas on the 6th August by over 160,000 votes. The temperance people, however, do not feel discouraged, and will enter the question m the Presidential raca next election. The United States Consul Daspirro, writing from Salvador, Central America, says the United States products are entirely run out of the market up country by base and cheap imitations from England and Germany. Thomas Woolfolk, living near Mairon, Georgia, deliberately murdared bis father, step-mother) their six children, and Mrs Woolf oik's aunt on the night of August 6ih. Hii object was to get possession of the father's property for himself and his Bietars In the case of Brooks alias Maxwell under sentence of death for the St. Louis murder of Prel'er, a writ of error has been obtained from J ustice Miller of the United States Suprema Court and exeoation Mtayed. Brooks' father, who has arrived from England, deolafea he will move luaven and earth to save his son Hugh, whom he believed more unfortunate than orimiual. The people of St. Louis are incensed at what they call the leg.il trick m Brooks' qa letter he has been fairly tried aud convicted. The lawyer who defended Gniteau for the murder of President Garfield has become a castaway. Recent'y he was discovered pi ferlng from a New York reßtuaaut money drawer, subsequently he attempted suicide In the North River, and on August Ist he was committed to an aaylum at Biivere as insane. The United Labor party, that met In Convention at Syracuse, New- York, August 18th, protested againefc the movement of Socialism by unseating every delegate who professed Socialistic principles. Henry George is nominated for attorney General.

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