NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 70, 19 September 1877, Page 2

NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

AMERICA.. Fearful mots were caused by strikes all 1 through the States in the end. of July. At Chicago and St Louis thiee fourths of the manufacturers stopped.. The niilifcarj were called out, and fired ab the- mob at Ghica&a, killing fifteen aud wounding over fifty.. Biots- took j^lace at Haraaburg,

Columbus, Toledo, Detroit. Scanton, Pittsbui gb. Oinaba, Jockson, Indianopolis, and a score of other towns, At Baltimore, 8000 mines are on strike. Cabinet Councils were beld at Washington to devise measures for the public safety. Detachments of military are in all directions, and the destruction of pro. pertyis enormous. At Baltimore, St Louis, and other places the strikers signed a requisition for an eight hours* law. At Reading sis people were billed. A compromise was effected by the beggming of August, a»d work resumed in most districts, The PresideHt's message is expected to dwell principally upon the labour question. Several members of the Cabinet aye knowa to favour a law for providing for the organisation of a commission, having due regard for the interests of all classes. The crops in the Western States are splendid. The wheat average is higher than usual. At San Francisco a mob of Hoodlums arranged a plan for exterminating Clunes and burning tbe docks of the Pacific Mail Company, which brings Chinamen to th» country. The Vigilance Committee w"64 revived, and prevented the outrage. Detachments of soldiers are stationed along tbe central railway lines to secure the safe transit of mails and passengers. The insuranca loses at St John's 6re were 6.700,000 dols. A workhouse has been burned with 17 inmates. The village of Talen, W isconsin, wa» destroyed by a Sre, communicated from ForUstreet, which burned for five weeks, One family perished, and several are missing. Tbe Chinese question occupies the columns of American journals. The San Francisco Post of August 8, has a letter stating that hundreds of officers in the civil war are bow earning a bare sustenance at the wash'tub. August 8. 1 A dastardlj outrage has been com* mitted at New York. All tbe fish io the Aquarium were poisoned. The Idaho Indian war continues , General Gabbia attneked tbe Indian camp at Big Hole Basin. After a severe struggle he pouted them. The troops lost 70 of all ranks, aad the Indians 150. The hardest fought battle was that of Eayo. The Indians are retreating.