AMERICAN SUMMARY.

Press, Volume L, Issue 8487, 19 May 1893, Page 6

AMERICAN SUMMARY.

SAN FRANCISCO, X_ay 18. Famme raged on April Ist in tho Cauca •Valley, where the price of provisions and Jk_tt necessaries of life have so increased that life has become almost Impossible to the poorer classes. The attention of the Government of the United jfcUtes of Columbia has been called to this ■ad state of affairs and to the necessity of adopting tome means of alleviating the pitiable condition of half a million people who inhabit the valley. A Mexican girl, Jesusa Lopez, daughter of ft prominent merchant doing business in the «ity of Mexico, left home recently for X—fayette, Louisiana, U.S., where she was to eater a convent as a nun. The laws of ypTico prohibit nunneries and taking the TsiL Miss Lopez was, therefore, arrested sqs rvats by the police, and brought back to Mexico.

* College pranks in the United States are taooming serious. Under the guise of **Hazing" the most terrible outrages are committed. Two cases have just been Jarougbt to notice. At Delaivre University, on. the night of April 19th, a party of Sophomores banded together and made an assault on a junior class, bound them hand •ad foot, and branded the letters "D. A. O." «a the face of each one of them with a itick of lunar caustic, besides makiug marks Imitating horns on their foreheads. The tthyucians say they are all branded for life. __• offenders, who have all been dismissed _rom the University in disgrace, have been •routed, and will now be sued by the sufferers civilly for heavy damages. Some young .Women at Monate Hall, belonging to the .University caught this "hazing" spirit the nine evening the boys suffered and laid iv .wait for six or seven of their school-fellows, whom they branded on their necks, breasts, _r__and hands with a strong solution of nitrate of silver, for the purpose, it is asserted, of so disfiguring them that they would be unable to wear evening dress at .the senior reception next evening. Thomas O'Gorman, of the Amnesty Association, received a letter from John Daly— WW i-a Portland Prison—on April Bth, in which he reiterates his statement that both _c and James Egan were the innocent victims of a police plot. Daly is au Irish dynamiter; he admits that he placed in £gan's garden the bottle of nitroglycerine, Which was the cause- of Egan's conviction. .Daly complains that he is ill, but a note ap,|>enaed by the Prison Surgeon states that he M in his usual health.

One of the largest irrigating enterprises ja the history of the world ia about to be vxdtrtaken within the confines of San Diego ooanty, California. It is no less than the ; of the entire eastern section of _Un Diego county, comprising thc Colorado .desert south of the San Bernardino range, . and to do this the waters of the Colorado river will be diverted on to the present •rid surface.

. At a meeting of New York Presbyterians .held recently in that city, Rev. J. P. Swain .■aid, daring a discussion, that he did not Wish to be known as a Calvin ist. " I do -not like the idea of Calvinism. Calvin .waa a murderer and a scoundrel. He said many good things, and those I will accept, ; b»t the church should be an exponent of the .gospel and not of Calvinism." It is now said that thousands of the most .mndesirable class of foreign immigrants are , trading the American regulations every . month by entering the United States via Cr-'lHldf

Wm. Inghram Kip, Episcopal Bishop of California, died in San Francisco on April .7th. .He was the first Bishop of the diocese in thepioneer times and was appointed from r New York, of which State he was a native.

Gilbert C. Wiltze, Commander of the . U.S. warship Boston during the trouble in Hawaii, ana who led the Marines when they hoisted the stars and stripes, esta- : t>liahing an American protectorate of the islands, died in New York on April 26th from congestion of the brain. Antoni Woods, an eleven year old boy, convicted of killing Joseph Smith for the purpose of obtaining his watch and gun, . near Denver, Colorado, in November last, was on April sth sentenced to twenty-five years' imprisonment, with hard labour] in a State prison. J. M. Campbell, a Texas farmer, and the • most extensive sheep raiser in the State, having lost 23 per cent, of his flock during s the twelve months up to April 16th by I*?**'** **** bit upon a novel plan to exter* ?» *° **** marauders. fie entrapped • .** Te °f them recently, and put them up : S^ 1 * d SP that WM -ffeot«<l with . mnge. The wolves caught the disease and •» now covered with the parasites that ■ |__*wee it. They will be turned loose on 2?*.1!!51* * v * CMD Pbell expects the disease w spread among the whole pack so rapidly

that there will not be a wolf left in Texas two years hence. Alarm is felt in the city of Mexico over a new disease that has broken out among the lower classes. It takes the form of inflammation of the tonsils and glands in the throat, spreads generally to the intestines, and is accompanied by a very high fever which it is difficult to control. Death follows rapidly after the first attack. The doctors call it enteritis.