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

Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 94, 24 April 1891, Page 2

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

AMERICAN NEWS.

San Francisco, April 3. Thk grip has taken a fearful hold upon Chicago, and the fury of the disease is nob ' abating in the least. If there had been as many deaths in Chicago during the past month from small-pox as there have been from pneumonia and kindred ailments, the city would be in a panic. The deaths reported for the week will be about 900. against 400 for the same time laso " year, probably the largest number ever recorded in this city. From the number of fatal cases the prevalence of the sickness can best be appreciated, for of those who are under the care of physicians only a small percentage die. A careful estimate justifies the statement! that nearly a quarter of a million people in this city are to-day under medical treatment. Every branch of business is crippled by the prevailing sickness, and on an average of once every twelve minutes during the week some one in the city has died. There were two hundred deaths reported at the Health Office in Chicago one day. Grip, pneumonia and kindred diseases were the principal causes. Hiram McConkey, of Heyngport, Jackcon county, has been fast asleep for eight months. Last July he lost the power of speech, was taken sick, went to bed, _ and has not spoken or opened his eyes since. Saturday night blood began to flow from his bead and his ears, and suddenly he came to his senses. The doctors are dumb- . founded by the phenomenon, and explain it by the supposition that come blood be-,, came clotted in his brain, which prevented it from being active. He remembers no- , thing since he went into the sound sleep, but can recall everything previous to that . time.

New York " Herald's " Washington cor- ■ respondent says: — I learn to-day thab several vessels will shortly be added to the Pacific squadron. The American fleet in the Pacific is reduced to three vessels, the Charleston at San Francisco and the Iroquois and Mohican at HonoluluThe next naval vessel to be launched will be the coaet defence vessel Monterey, now building by the Union Iron Works of San Francisco. '

The fight between the Australian, Smith, and Denny Kelliher, heavy-weights, tonight, resulted in favour of Smith in the eighth round. The fight was one-sided from the first,-Kelliher being overmatched. He was trying to stay ten rounds and geb half the gate receipts, instead of one-quar-ter, as be would if defeated. In the eighth round Kelliher was knocked down six times. While starting to get up again Smith struck at him, and Kelliher dropped as he was hit and ab once claimed a louL At that point both the police and the spectators tried to get on the stage, and a free fight ensued. In a little while the police cleared the hall. Jimmy Manning declared Smith the winner.

Washburton Vike, the English explorer, ; has returned to Winnipeg from the Arctic Circle, where he has been during the lasb two years in search of musk oxen and ■' buffalo. His parfcy underwent terrible suffering in their journey, being lost at one time for fourteen days without food. The weather was terribly cold. Hβ was fairly successful in his hunting, bringing the skins of over fifty musk oxen." Eva Brannock, a faith curisfc and incidentally a teacher of music in the Bethany Home, Pittsburg, has just finished a successful forty days' fast. This lady, who is . a religious enthusiast, was struck by the fact that whenever and wherever she. opened the Bible there was found a command to fast. She began a forty days'fast which differed from all others in that) ehe attended to her regular . duties, as teacher and keeper of rooms in the Home. Wheu her fast ended she,'with great joy, fully consumed a dinner, which did nob harm her in the least. There is no doubti ac to her having lived forty days on. nothing but water, as the story is substantiated by reliable people. Sir John Thompson, Minister of Justice of Canada, who participated in the fishery negotiations at Washington in 1888, in nn interview to-uight regarding the Behring Sea question, said : *' The only difficulty between Lord Salisbury and Secretary Biaine seems to be the form of submission for arbitration, and the only point that. Lord Salisbury stands upon is that the form of submission should not be suuh as to give the auvan toga at the outset to either party. Under th?s« circumstances I think that every friend ot good relations between the British Empire and the United States will hope and believe that a difference of mere words will not be allowed to stand in the way of a settlement by arbitration." Montreal city and vicinity were visited for twenty-four hours on March 16th by a terrific hurricane and blizzard, and great damage was done by the wind. Pillow and Gersey's rolling mil's were almost; totally destroyed. The spire of St. Patrick's Church and the magnificent new dep6t of the Grand Trunk Railway were damaged. Many private buildings, barns, and houses in course of construction were demolished, and early in the morning the streets were filled with flying signs, slates, branches of trees, etc. The storm has done tremendous damage in the country districts