MAIL NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 4545, 18 November 1884, Page 4

MAIL NEWS.

AMERICAN SUMMARY.

San Francisco, Oct. 25.—The Government of Columbia has notifiedthePanamaßailroad Company that they will not allow that railroad to be cut, changed, or damaged for tho benefit of De Lesseps's canal.—A marriage has been arranged between President Arthur and the daughter of Mr Frelinghuysen, Secretary of "State. — Governor Cleveland," Democratic candidate for the Presidency, was furiously assaulted in the streets of Albany, first by a man named Boone, and afterwards at the Executive Mansion by Boone's wife, because ho refused to pardon Bryan Fairfield, his wife's brother, sentenced for man-slaughten-iLßoone belongs to a family of cranks.—Bowman, the noted San Francisco capitalist, has failed for half a million.— Vanderbill has donated 500,000 dollars to the College of Physicians, New York.— The President of the Republican Club at Lacrosse, Wisconsin, was shot dead while presiding at a political procession. The murderer was lynched. — The petroleum market became almost panic on. the 14th, owing to the Christie well in Butler County, Pennsylvania, suddenly commencing to produce 1,200 barrels daily. The present daily yield of 600 barrels is the largest over known, and thirty-one cotton mills at Fall River, Mass., representing a'million spindles, or 1,400,000 employed on print goods, shut down for a week ; 10,000 persons were thus thrown out of employment. Unless the market improves, the stoppage will continue indefinitely.— Tho paper trade of tho United States is reported in a ruinous condition owing to the Government embargo on the importation of ra tr g ._Lato South American advices report that regular Peruviun troops captured Truxjillo from Carceres, the Guerilla, after hard fighting.—Nearly 600 sugar estates in Cuba have been returned ns abandoned.