AMERICA.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3637, 9 March 1883, Page 3

AMERICA.

Edith do Belleville, the wife of an actor fonncrly of Australia, has sued for divorce in the New York Supreme Coiu-t. She says she is likely to lose all her jewellery, worth 10,000 dollars, which Belleville pawned in July last for 210 dollars. Eleanor Carey is one of the affiants in support of Mrs Belleville's motion. The lady is a native of Melbourne. A mere boy named Cobb was hanged by a mob from the railway bridge on the outskirts of the town of Winficld, Kansas, on February Ist. It is said the boy had his head turned by reading about the exploits of Jesse James and other brigands, and was determined to signalise himself in the same way. He killed a constable in Jefferson county, and a few days after shot and mortally wounded Sheriff Shenneman. He was having a gay time generally till ho was roped in the manner stated. Great destruction was wrought in Ohio for the week ending February 3 by inundations. Pennsylvania also suffered. Cities and towns in parts of these States were submerged, bridges swept away, and railroads blockaded. The Rev. Mr Hicks, Guiteau's spiritual adviser, to whom he bequeathed his body, has sued for libel the New York Evening Star and Graphic for publishing that lie demanded 20,000 dollars from the Surgeon Gene before he would allow the bones of the murderer's skeleton to be articulated. The Inman dock in New York has been destroyedj by fire. The steamer Egypt, which was loading there, was badly damaged. Tho Princess Louise has gone to stay at Bermuda for her health. A snow slide near Denver, Colorado, has overwhelmed twenty-five men. On Sunday afternoon, Jnm.in.ry- 21st. the Giant Powder AVorks at Berkley, just across the bay from San Francisco, were demolished by an explosion. There were seven distinct shocks following hard one upon the other, the force of which was felt in the city. Forty Chinamen and one whiteman were killed. Work is usually suspended on Sunday, but in this instance, in consequence of a hurried order from the northwest for 25 tons of explosive, it was necessary to fill it with all possible speed. There was less care shown in the handling of the powder than on ordinary occasions, aud this was the cause of the disaster. Frightful details are to hand of the ravages of the cholera at Chrapas, in the State of Mexico. AA r bole families have died in a single night, and some plantations are completely denuded of residents. Persons with the disease are abandoned to be devoured by dogs. The Board of Trade of San Francisco, at its annual meeting held on February 6th, baring referred the matter of the Australian steamship service to the directors of the Board, the said directors appointed a committee at their meeting on the 9th to take up the question, and promote such action theron as may be deemed best for the purpose of securing a continuance of the mail service connecting the United States with New Zealand and New South AVales.

A terrible accident occurred at Cincinnati on the 14th of February. Owing to an inundation of the river the southern railroad depot gave Avay, throwing 100 people into thirty feet of Avater, the cars falling upon and covering them up. Two square miles of Cincinnati Avere reported under water on February 11, and business men say that the damage Avill reach millions of dollars. The gas Avorks were submerged and the city placed in partial darkness.

At tho recent farewell dinner to the German Counsul in New York over one hundred leading Germans refused to drink to the health of the Kaiser AVilhclm.

The anniversary of Thomas Pain's birthday on January 29th was celebrated iv all the largo American cities. Six hundred people met together in San Francisco to honor the occasion.