AMERICAN SUMMARY.

Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 147, 24 June 1887, Page 5

AMERICAN SUMMARY.

San Francisco, June 3.

An hour's hailstorm on May 31st nearly destroyed the towns of Coil'eeville, Payette, Wesson, and Benrigard, Mississippi. Hailstones as large as hens' eggs fell, and roofs of houses were battered in, crops flattened, and many farmers ruined. The New York Dairy Commissioners are killing cattle wholesale to suppress pleuropneumonia. The " Bulletin "--" Chronicle " libel suit, in which 5,000 dollars damages were claimed, resulted in a verdict for plaintiff for one dollar. The Pennsylvania Railway Company have resolved to tunnel the Hudson River to reach New York. American admirers sent Gladstone a testimonial costing over 5,000 dollars. Temperance people in Maine areenforcing the anti-liquor laws with extreme rigour, and prosecuting farmers for selling cider. Signing of the Russian-American extradition treaty by Secretary Bazard, whereby political refugees will bo rturrendered to the Czar by the American Government, created intense excitement among foreigners. Mass meetings of the Knights of Labour have also denounced the .treaty. Madam Janauschek, a famous actress, fell down a flight of steips at Newport, and it is doubbful if she wilL ever again appear on the stage. i Hewitt, Mayor of N/ew York, is enforcing Sunday liquor laws ■with great severity. Rev. Dr. McGlynn, recalcitrant priest, refuses to obey the Pope, • and intends to embrace Protestantism. Preparations have been made by English and Irish residents of San. Francisco to give Earl Aberdeen a complimentary reception. The Clan-Na.Gtf.el, for yeaics one of tho most powerful lir'ish societies;, numbering among its members two senators, governors of several States, mayors of a- dozen cities, and prominent congressmen,has become entirely disrupted by bitter internal feuds. Several members have been oparily charged with selling secrets to the British Government, which, it is alleged, were the means of supplying information to the London "Times." The camps ars divided into two equal factions, one talcing the original name, and another adopting a new name. The fact that the Imperial Government will probably refuse subsidy to Canadian steamship lines between Vancouver and Australia.created something like consternation in Parliamentary circles; at Otawa. Subsidy or no subsidy, the' Canadian Government will not recede from its position. Sir Charles Tupper has gone on a mission to Washington re the Canadian treaty relationship with the United States;. The Canadian Government is strengthening its coast defence. The British difficulty with Hayti has been settled by Hajrta paying the British Commissioner 250,000 dollars. Efforts are being made to concentrate the transit of AustrnJian mails across the continent, and thereby obviate delay in sailing of monthly steamer.

(Grapblo Accounts; of the Burning of the Opera Comique, tParis, the Collision between Atlantic Steamers, and Other Mall News, will be fonad in other pages).