AMERICAN SUMMARY

Press, Volume XLV, Issue 7125, 23 July 1888, Page 6

AMERICAN SUMMARY

SAN FRANCISCO, July 1. The Hon. Frank McCoppin, Commissioner to the Melbourne Exhibition, and the Assistant Commissioner. Mr Campbell, will leave for their post by the steamship Mariposa. It is expected that alt-er all California will make a creditable dis§lay. The number of exhibitors from this tate will be about forty, not including exhibits to be made by the Produce Exchange, or that of canned fruits, which will t>e sent early in September. The Mariposa carries the greater part of the articles intended for the Exhibition. The steamer left on July Bth instead of June 30th, as originally advertised. Charles Sullivan, a carpenter, who foolishly attempted to climb the spire of St. Michael's Catholic Church, Buffalo, on June 25th, was precipitated headlong by its breaking, and fell nearly 100 ft. He was dashed to pieces. The Duke of Marlborough was married in the City Hall, New York, on June 29th, by Mayor Hewitt, to Mrs Lilian W. Haramersley. A small number of noted society people were present. Mrs Hammersley has an annual income of 150,000 dollars. The couple left for Englaad on June 30th. The marriage was the topic of conversation in London, and the announcement was posted in both Houses of Parliament. Pittsburg (Pa.) iron mills shut down on June 30th, owing to the failure of an agreement between the Wage Committees of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workere of the United States and the iron manufacturers. The closure will be for an indefinite period, and the strike will throw nearly 100,000 men out of employment. The coke interest is likely to follow suit. Up to ten o'clock ou the morning of June 25th the record of prostration in New York was unprecedented lor a June day. In the register of the coroner's office at noon, the total list reached twenty, all more or less fatal, and directly caused by the torrid atmosphere. Many of the victims expired without the slightest premonition of their fate. Some in the prime of liie, who the day before were in the best of spirits and apparently best of health, were corpses in their beds next morning. Childreu in crowded reeky tenement districts died oIT like fiowers that wither in the sun. Aged persons in many quarters attempting to move about in ordinary pursuits 3at down only to gasp their last. Several person* died at the breakfast table. The temperature was cooler in the eveninir, but the death list of the 4th June was very There is great suffering in and near -New York. The range of the thermometer was from 91 to 99 dee. The statement that Fred Gebhardt and Mrs Langta-y are to be married in September made b* the New York press is denounced by the English actress as " a pack of Ittis?' T,he now loan of the Panama Canal Company (authorised by the French Government without its guarantee) for 720,000,000 francs has been advertised in New York, San Francisco, and other American cities where subscriptions arc solicited. Julia F. Cargill. a handsome and wellconnected Southern girl, committed suicide in New York on June 17th, by jumping from the fourth-storey window of a lodfuiig-house. The cause was melanchoiy induced by indigence. A challenge to Carlisle D. Graham to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel for 10,000 dollars has been accepted and forfeited. Graham is the pioneer barrel navigator of the whirlpool below the Falls. According to the Panama. Star ttad Herald of June 6th, the locks are now being constructed for De Lesseps' canal, but are not designed to be a permanent feature. They are adopted through the necessity of completing the work and opening up the canal within the required time. The building of these locks requires an outlay of prodigious sums of money. They number ten, and are located ;sflve on the Pacific and five on the Atlantic i side of the Isthmus. The general width of the canal proper is a very small fraction over 61ft. In the work of canal building there are now employed 5000 laborers, and on the locks about 1000 skilled laborers, besides a small army of clerks. The first Mongolian newspaper in the United States made its appearance in New I York on June 9th. The editor, Pong Ching Foo, in his leading article, advises his countrymen to stay at home, as there are too many Chinamen in America already. The defences of Esquimanlt, 8.C., will be Eroceeded with immediately, Canada aving agreed to England's proposal for garrisoning the forts. Six eighty-ton guns will be shipped to Victoria, 8.C., from Woolwich next month.