ARRIVAL OF THE ALAMADA WITH THE THE ENGLISH MAIL (VIA SAN FRANCISCO.)

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 218, 15 September 1888, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE ALAMADA WITH THE THE ENGLISH MAIL (VIA SAN FRANCISCO.)

: AMERICAN SUMMARY.

! \ San Francisco, August 25,1888. i- Tn? Giant Powder Mills, situated at West EBeirkelcy, across the bay from San Francisco, 1 bleWupjOu Aug. 24, and five men who were I forking therein were burned to cindersIr^lireQ.SvereiChinese. .■'■' ■■ , .■•';....'< ,■;."•. ',-.<•{., I Peter Jackson (coloured), giving himself I' but as the Champion of Australia, whipped I George Godfrey (also coloured), Champion lot the California Athletic Club,, and lately k from Boston, in nineteen rounds, on August | 2i, in San Francisco. . Godfrey made a gamo fight, and was terribly punished. \ Annie Sogu in, a well-known opera singer, |, and who sang at the coronation of Queen 1: Victoria, died in New Yoi-k August 24. |j During a fire in apapor mill at Neenah, 1 .Wiuconsin, on August 23, a large rotary ■ F bleacher exploded, lulling eighteen persons L and wounding sevon fatally. The explosion 'fc.-tras caused by the firemen turning the hose I on the bleacher while it was red.'hofci; : i '-Sullivan, the pugilist, complying with a j request by fcho proprietor of.an hotel at NanI: tucket Beach to hold a silver coin between t his finger and thumb while the proprietor r sHcrb at it with a/pisfcol, had his digits torn j. to pieces by the bullet. . ~•.,. ■ : A man named C. H. Gardner, of San ! - Francisco, .was arrested in Chicago on Aug.' 22, on the supposition Uiat ha was a smugr 1 ! gler of .opium _on !■'•■■ large scale. ' "It out that he was a swindler insteadj arid, had trunks, containing ■itin boxes, sol tiered ■': -like opium cans, but which held only little blocks of wood , cut to lit snugly in the boxes. Gardner pro* i ? posed dwindling the Chicago Chinese. :;.,.; The British, ship Falls of Halladale, 161 days from Calcutta, arrived'at New York lOa, August 22. Sh©:bad been given upias losb.' Her long voyage is explained by the x fact1 that it fcookSnine' weeks to double-the .Cape of,Good.Hope, owing to a series of : gales and'hUrricanes. r \-. r iTom Meadows^ a pugilist fresh from Australia, fought a hard and scientific battle '.- '\ntha local bruiser named Bill Matran'in j ;, 'San Francisco on August 31st, and knocked J - him? out in eight rounds. Bofeh men were; :'; " severely-punished.- The fighting -was rapid j ,-', ,;'from;start, to finish, with the odda;at;allj times in favour of the Australian. . i;:;.i j D. J. McCarthy, a prominent;turfman, ! arid owner of several fast horses, will sendi jirV. agent Ho Australia by the steamship , A.l'a.naedai- leading; Sao Francisco, .August! 25, to purchase a number.of highly-bred ■■■ "facing ! mares: for use on Mir stock farm ilin j California. , : ~■ . ,-■ •: •" :.:, ■.■■ .. •;' :,. j Ths, mortality among infants in Washing-: : too, D.0., where 800 have <\ied. since April 'last, and the death rate, at present (August 23) is; ton per day., is ~ charged to. - impure milk. J. Not (fifty; gallons .ofa, pure -milk are' daily sold in all this largo city. . ■'„ ; • MraL'atigtryY the English actress, denies emphatically., reports of her intended " marriage with the, American capitalist, . Gebhardt. She is not yet divorced from ~l}eV English -husband.," The arioir has been trailed through the cdlufnna of every newspaper in/the country, ;. • ■..,. : .-..y.. ■:■,'<>■:'■.'■ The troubles over mixegenation. practised in Louisiana led to a terrible fight at.Freetown, in that ntate, on.l August,, J7.;-Thir-teen negroes were killed. No white men, so far aa is known, loat their lives. , ' ■ The sailors who.displaced the Chinese ! hands last trip'on board the R.M.s. Ala? mada at Sydney, and manned the steam-, ship on her return to S<m Francisco, were I 'given a reception and banquet-by the Sea- || men's .Association of tho latter city on I- 'August 19. It was a'very earnest and sucji; cessful affair. ■ ■ A gentleman named iWelch; for man years I connected vtifch tho colonial press* and who \ propose^ to deliver a course of lectures iri 1 San Francisco-on Australia, en his way to I Europe, hiis abandoned the intention be-! ■ ■cause ho found no interest on the subject jP edited among the general public. . . . i Philip li. Sheridan, General of tho. Army 1: of the United States, died... tit his summer i home at Nonquitt, Now Bedford, Mass., on | August 5, at a low minutes ~ past ten p.m. Altjsthjfeb. he bad been ailing for some, time, :! ■- his difflti.-e was quite sudden1; the proximate cause being kidney trouble. The rank of general being a special ono created by Congress aa an honour to Sheridan j drops ■with hia death, lib will be succeeded by ; f'Major-General Jphn M. Schofield,liif head ■ :-:'vi^he&vmy.::i , :.,•,■ ■>...'■;..-. ,-; 'i:, ■•■ Professor Brooka, of Geneva, New York, 1 t;disc'6vetted.a hew eonioton August Bth, in j Ursa Major, It was moving easterly,-about :[: one degreej.iiailjir.'' The, comet has a large • '.'>'ho'4d'' and:i(i- : short tail," i which, 'Strangely enough^points to the 3un. - .::■..■■. ~ \ AW 'Matthew' Byrnes,. Convicted' of jumping I tLoff^Brdoklyn, ;Bridg<3, : ;New York, .was .sen-. ; ; tenced :io lour months in the penitentiary } :■■'! OJl::Augnst'9bh.; ;.-. ■""■^■■- '<■. /."■' ''""-'■ .;;,': I r~" Giving' testimony before the .Immigration. .Investigation. Committee, New York, Aug. j 9, .Herr Moat, a leading Anarchist, said there were half a million Socialists, German i 1 'and other,' iri l the United Sfcate3 at the ~:|)resest-time. :-':,-,■■.■«-■;.-.■'-.■,.. ■ - ■•■„■. .::■■•--:, -:. •- " : r The Chinese Restriction Bill was passed Ijy the t/nitod States Senate on AugUat Bfch. 'it'ipi'oyidea that fr«jm.ari<A ; , afteir.the : ; date, of ■ the exchange of ratifications of-tb-e ponding ■ -treaty .-tho'" i United: Sfcatess-.and .China, signed : on the 12th March, 1888, it ■''shall bet unlawful for. any Chinese person,s' j -^Cvhetheiv a subject of China:., or, any I other ■ power, to enter .;the United ■'■/■States', except as in tho Bill provided: ':'. •'. ccj&plions are Chineso ofiicials, i "V> t , Indents, merchants, , and I travellers ■ for ; 'pleasure ov curiosity,: ,\^ho I shall first obtain the permission to travel of |'"tho Cbiqoso' Government or any othor got J vernttj^ttt oi i l.v i they, may at the time be | cif.izi.ngi)] i:i/jjflfcs. Thiy Bill also passed j i the Kitatotogilt 20, without si'dissenting I Ftl ' "', vi n Ober Kampf and Thomas i J. Maclglfeue before the' Federal Grand Jury iiil:: ".'ftt. Louis,. Mo;, oh ■ August 14, :charged with'xholfcsalo robbery' of letter ■ boxes, expending over>a periodot'two years, and involving the theft of' thousands of /letters^ ■■: and drafts: afrgre^at,i ing §1,00p,000.in value, .Ober Kampf "Claims to; .be of a noble 'Gorman family, and '.wag empjpyed, asa,. translator and writer by • 1 4ae St.'liouia .<'Daily Staats Zeitung,''" : ijviHi •.^■serious', a|nd-afc the same time singular -'•';aidont happened. to Mrs Cornelius Vander- - '-% wife of the New Yorkmulti-millionaire, j M Newport, August 14. While out driving, ■';].. ». runaway 'horse landed squarely in her •; carriage; knowing l»er out of tlio vehicle lav ,% c^inS her face with its hoofs that \ the lady.is di&ngured for life.'