AMERICAN SUMMARY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 8862, 21 July 1890, Page 4

AMERICAN SUMMARY.

Th" American sporting world ia excifel over the ext:..or..linary time made by a California running liors? name I Salvßtor on the Shephard Bay track (Ni»- York) on June 25. The mile and a quarterw.is rra-i ■' . 2minosec,belting Jenny and prevnm reoov.:;. T/hlch was 2min 6Jaco. The winner, although h:ii:'i.f! from California, wai bjrn in Kentucky.

Several sensational suicides are reported, among them ilazal Lellia. daughter of Police-commissioner Lellis, Kansas city, who had embraced theatrical life and b3camo disgusted with it, and Annie Turner, ilnughter of Judge Johu Turner, of Groverstonr, Texas. The fntber took the pißtol from the h?.nds of his dying daughter and killed Professor x)avis, whose perfidy is eaid to have been the cause of the girl's death.

After a tremendous fight, the touieiana Legislature, sitting at Baton Bouge, on June 25 pissed a Lottery Bill by votes of 66 to £9. first adopting an jimeudrnenr, eliminating tho monopoly features. This extends the franchise of Bwinrlling to the concern now being drawn in New Orleans for many years, and which draws thousands of dollars to its coffers monthly from every State In the Union.

In tha college boat race between Yale and Harvard on June 27 over the Thames course at New London. Conn., Tile won bythreeanrt a-half lengths In2lmin 293ee. Harvard's time waa 23min Msec.

In Baton Rouge, Louisiam, on Juno 14. a p.irty of men known as the "Taylor gang," 15 in numbFr, surrounded citizen Hilliard Richardson and literally shot him to pieces. At a faction fight in East Feliciana parish in the name State another crowd went to the residence of Dr Arhalcombe, treasurer of the State Insane Asylum, and riddled the front door with bullets.

Another pnenonomon in the way of fasting has come to light at South Whitehall. Pa., where Mrs Ad.im Wnelier has abstained from food for eight months and from water since April 4. Her case is puzzling physicians. Sho is tarely alive. The Tinplate Jlecord, of Pittsburgh, asserts editorially on Jure 19:— "Everytinned plate importer into tho country has b»en assessed £10,000, and the English syndicate which controls manufacturers and mines iv Monmouthshire and Cornwall has raißcd the sum to nearly 1.0U0.00M0l to defeat the tinpla'e clause in the Maekinlay Bill."

By tho error of a telegraph operator at Montgomery, Missouri, who rund9 the time re.id 45 minutes more than it should have read, two freight trains collide:! on June 9, 61 miles west from St. Louis, in <.h*t State. Seven men and 17 dray horses were reported as killed. Bands of Cheyenne Indians, to whom whisky had been sold by ranchmen, invaded tha United States aurveyiug camp at Upper Gree river, Wyoming territory, on Sunday, Juno 1, and demanded more lira water. Being refused and ordered to leave the c.imp, the reriakiiis attacked the surveyors and murdered them all to the numbar of five.

There is an organised band of arnnfjglers making weekly trips between Mew York and European ports, who are oath-bound never to reveal the nnmes of the amenta from whom they receive tluir goods. In a year the value of these goods amount to 1,000,000d01. Watches, diamonds, gold chains, and lace are the principal articles smuggled. Harvard having beaten Yale in a football contest on June 1, some of the students of the former college, by way of rf jofcing, proceeded to deface their own buildings with red paint, using opprobrious epithets towards their rivals. No pl?.ce escaped ths brush, and thousands of dollars worth of damage is tho result. The orderly students of Harvard have commenced a subscription to pay for repiira.

San Francisco papers of June 4 devoted an entire page to a description of the weddingof the New York millionaire. Herrman Ostreich. with Mies Theresa fair, riauniiterof Jas. G-. Fair, one of tha two left from the quartette of Bouanza prince 3.

THE BAST AFRICAN SETTLEMENT. The St. James' Gazette of June 11 says, in regard to the negotiations now being carried on by England and Germany relative to territory in Africa, that it ia probable a settlement will be reached by the terms of which Germans will evacuate and abandon their claims. The Gazette further says a line will be drawn across Victoria Nyanza, one degree aoutli of the equator, to tho boundary of tho Congo State. All disputed territory north of this line will be British, all south German. The action of Dr Peters and the treaties he has made with native chiefs will be expressedly disavowed at Berlin. The Government has also instructed German offlc'als in Eajt Africa to prevent Emm Pasha from entering Ugaud* while negotiations are pending between Germany and England. The London Chroniole.'commenting on the statement in the Gazette article, calls it an "ignominious surrender of British interest," and adds, " little is left for surrender but Egypt. The reatoraation of Alsace Lorraine to France, which would have given Europe some hope of pence, would have been a cheap priea to demand from Germany for auch a concession." Per contra Mr Stanley in his public speeches and private utterances ha* no words bnt those of praise for L;rd Salisbury's wlidom in making the settlement. He U confident that if he could muster all the chiefs of ths regions that England had acquired they wouldacquleace in the opinion that the date of the agreement would be a red letter day in the African calendar. It is now possible, ho saya, to realise the great dream of those concerned in exploration and olvi'lsutlon of Africa from Cairo to the Cape of Good Hope.