AMERICAN SUMMARY.

Otago Witness, Issue 1874, 21 October 1887, Page 14

AMERICAN SUMMARY.

Washington Bartlett, Governor of California, died on September 23. Dsceased was a journalist by profession. He was a Democrat, and the Lieutenant-governor who succeeds him is a Republican, and a grossly ignorant man. The stringency of the New York market was so great that a fiuancial panic was threatened. The Secretary of the Treasury has decided to enlarge a portion of the surplus in the National Treasury House at Washington to the extent of 14,000,000d01, and this will be followed, if necej* sary, by further concessions. This action has caused a material advance in the price of stocks. C. H. Wheeler, the Newhaven millionaire, who failed recently for 2,000,000d01, with actual assets of 1,500,000d01, was arrested on September 22 on charges of fraud, preferred by Hart* ford banks. The Central American State of Guatemala is endeavouring to secure the support of the United States against Mexico, and the move* ment is regarded hi political circles as a particu» larly awkward one at this juncture. A robbery of 32,000d0l has been discovered in the Treasury at Cuba. By a collision on the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul railway on September 8, five persons were killed outright and many injured. There have also been serious accidents on the Pennsylvania, as well as Pifctsburg, Fort Payne, and Chicago railways, involving loss of life and destruction of property, especially in the articles of oil and dynamite. The city of Maryville, California, suffered by fire on the morning of September 19 to the extent of 200,000d01. The centennial celebration on September 15 is described as a magnificent affair, particularly the civic, and industrial parade, illustrating the advancement of arts and sciences during the last century. The president and leading officials of the country were present. The editor of the American Flag, the New York organ of the American party, received two letters on September 12 signed " Local Irish Avenging Committee," threatening to blow up the building where the office is located if the publication wa? not stopped. The New York World, of September 11, prints three columns concerning the mission of a man named Moses, a discharged Scotland Yard detective, sent over by The Times to procure letters from the Invincibles Tynan and Shenden, now in New York, and from Rossa, which would implicate Parnell and Dillon in the Phcenii Park murders and dynamite outrages perpetrated in England. Moses had fallen out with his American confederates over the division of the spoils arising from charging "The 'Jimes double and treble prices for letters.