ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXVII, Issue 4, 6 January 1891, Page 3

ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

c AMERICAN SUMMARY. CHIEF JUSTICE OF SAMOA. BARNUM DYING. MURDER OF A SPANISH BROKER. ENGLAND UNYIELDING AS TO ALASKAN FISHERIES. A LUCKY CLERK. [UNITED PEESS ASSOCIATION.] Ai Macauiay British Columbia, a discovery has been made m mounds of races of dwarfs, and also ancient war weapons. Albert Rappley, reporter of New York Mail, completed a journey of six thousand miles from the Atlantic to the Pacific by •water m a paper canoe. Cedercrantz the new Chief-Justice of Samoa is considered m San Francisco too young to fill such an important position. He said the Natives would have a King aa under the old order or things ; but the Chief- Justice would decide who is to be King, Tinplate mills are springing up every side m the United States. One plant alone costing half-a-million dollars is to be erected at Brooklyn. . Tracey's terracotta works San Francisco have been burnt, the loss is seventy thousand dollars. Barnnm the great showman is believed io be on his death bed. He has influenza. Albert Smith junior partner m a New York brokers firm has been sent to prison for ten years for seventy forgeries, aggregating three fifty thousand dollare. The discovery wa3 made accidentally by a clerk of the firm"! A wealthy Spanish broker m Guatemala was lured into a notorious thoroughfare by a woman and murdered by three men, who 'took away the great wealth carried with him. The body was packed away m a trunk. Twentynine persons were undergoing treatment by Koch's Lymph at New York on the latest date. A semi-official communication from England to America says the English are not disposed to yield a single item m the present claim re Alaskan fisheries, as opposed to America. The late financial crisis m London is said by a returned New York financier to be as tight a squeeze as London could stand without going under. English capitalists ' have lost nearly three hundred million dollars m South America speculations m the last five years. The Czarewitch of Russia and Grand Duke George Alexandrowitch, his brother, are expected m San Francisco shortly. The "Royal party at latest advices were travelling via India. King Kalakua, who is npw m the States is believed to be on a mission to get the States to annex Hawaii, and it is considered the Washington authorities are favorable. It is believed the sugar planters have prompted the mission, so that they can ; benefit by the advantages of the McKinley tariff. It is reported that no seals will be caught m Behring Sea next season owing to the great slaughter going on. The State is working hard "to provide measures to prevent the extermination of seals. English delegates on the Argentine Financial Committee have advised the BaDk of England recommending funding of the National external bonds of the Republic for three years, during which paper currency will be withdrawn. A young Scotchman, James Rogers, who worked for eight dollars a week as clerk at Omaha, has just succeeded to the title of Lord Dunvel and a fortune. He married an Omaha girl.