AMERICAN NEWS.

Otago Witness, Issue 1242, 18 September 1875, Page 10

AMERICAN NEWS.

Jacob Hascher, a German shoemaker at Louisville, committed suicide. He paid toll at Ohio Bridge, and when in the middle placed a pistol in his mouth, jumped over, and fired.

Arabella Goddard give two final concerts at 'Frisco on the 13th and 14th August. She was to leave for the Eastern States immediately.

Booker, the postmaster of Sloon, on the Sioux City and Pacific .Railway, was struck deid by lightning on the 15th August. The electric fluid tore every vestige of clothes off bis body, and drove a deep hole in the ground. The Sioux City Journal reports a mother and daughter struck dead from same cause.

At Pottsville on the 15fch August, on the first general pay day amoug the miners, &reat disturbances and several free fights occurred, Hve men being shot mortally ; a Justice of the Peace was shot and killed, while making out a warrant for the commital of the rioters.

A report is in circulation at Halifax, N.S., that a sailor named Greenwood has rtvea'vil a frightful crime at sea two years ago The schooner Mary Jones, from Clyde Kiver, Melbourne, coming to Boston, had two pisBengers (sisters) named Sutherland. During the voyage, both were outraged by the captain aud crew and brutally murdered — thrown overboard. The men landed, and reported that in a storm the vessel had been on her beam ends acd the women were washed overboard. The captain, named S«an, is n<nv bound to New Biunswlck, where he will bo arrested on arrive]. The informer sayu he had nothing to do with the crime, but had taken an oath not t« divulge.

There is great excit incut at Memphis. On tho 11th August She floods jn the Mississippi threaten great danger to the surrounding country. Garibaldi has sent a letter of acknowledge ment to the Garibaldi Guard, San Francisco, on receipt of the first instalment of an annual pension of 100,000 dollars which has been voted the general. Floods in the States have been more destructive than for years. Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, and WabasJi rivers and many others are all overflowed. The loss of property amounts to millions of djllais, and Rome lives were lost. The people were unprepared, as the floods have always occurred m spring, not midsummer. lileaßra Moody and Sankey arrived at New York, per steamer Spain, on, the 14th August, Their plaae a?§ not yet j>H>f>aye<J,

They go first to Torefield, and soon return to Chicago, which will probably be the centre of their labours. The same programme is to be carried through as in England Early in August, a breach was- made in the City Gaol at dinner time, and several prisoners escaped. All were captured, except four of the worst class of desperadoes. These were decoyed into a corral, where they expected to find horses provided for an escape. When there, they were shot at by 16 ranchemeu. One was severeley wounded, and escaped. The others were killed. A negro at Nashville outraged Mrs Landow, a white lady. Seventy-five men broke open the gaol and lynched him. From Tahiti, news has arrived at San Francisco that the savages on the island of Oheoahoa, or Donauila, are engaged in a fierce war, and practisa horrible cannibalism. The French authorities are "taking measures to restore tranquility, aud capture the cannibal leaders. When closely pursued, the contending tribes united against the French. Complaints are made that the American whaling vessel Helen Snow supplied the natives with 30001bs of powder and arms. It is likely to cause a complication. Queen Pomare went from Tahiti to Borabora, one of the Society Group, in a steamer belonging to the French Government, to see the new Queen, aged seven years, enthroned. Borabora claims allegiance to Pomare, and not to the French.