AMERICAN.

Clutha Leader, Volume IV, Issue 217, 6 September 1878, Page 7

AMERICAN.

A number of people are dying from sunstroke in the cities east. At St. Louis there were fifty cases in one day ; in another town from ninety to a hundred.

At St. Miguel, in Peru, the town was invaded by a band of twenty-five desperadoes bent on plunder, who were ali killed by the inhabitants.

A Chinese Embassy has arrived in San Francisco, en route for Washington, with the object of establishing Consulates in both countries.

A number of English residents in San Erancisco will present Earl Beaconsfield with a gold casket inlaid with precious stones.

A simultaneous strike is expected about the middle of August. The nucleus of the movement has been discovered in Pennsylvania.

George W. Burleigh, the actor, blew his brains out after delivering an infidel lecture.

Yellow Fever has appeared at Brooklyn Navy Yard. There are three deaths;

Yosemite Valley is attracting a large number of tourists. Twenty Australians (passengers per Zealandia) formed a party there. On July 19th yellow fever appeared at St. Louis.

A cyclone at Albany on June 21st caused 100,000 dollars' worth of damage. The gasworks were wrecked, and the city was left in darkness.

Atchison, the aeronaut, was killed by falling from a balloon at Elmwood, Illinois, on the 21st.

The Tappact Treasury Betting Company, Boston, have defaulted for over a million dollars.

Three miners were killed hy the excessive heat in a silver mine.

A number of people are dying from sunstroke in St. Louis. Fifty cases occurred in one day.