AMERICAN SUMMARY.

Otago Witness, Issue 2105, 28 June 1894, Page 35

AMERICAN SUMMARY.

Frank M'Ooppin, who represented tho United States at the World's Exhibition in Melbourne, is President Cleveland's choice for the postmastership of San Francisco, notwithstanding the protest of some of the Congressional delegation from California. The question of Ritualistic observances in the new Episcopal Church is growing in the Baltimore diocese. The bishop attacked the High Churchmen in a most positive speech at the Episcopal Convention on May 30, saying they were a scandalous offence to their brciLr.n, and had perjured themselves before God. It is understood he referred to Dr Payne and the clergy of Mount Calvary Church, where a confessioaal box and the use of incense before the altar have been introduced. The bishop refuses to enter the parish to perform the rite of confirmation.

Harvard College will join in the intercollegiate Arctic expedition to start from America in June. Three of the Harvard students have signed to accompany the expedition. The number of members is limited to 50. Yale, Harvard, and the University of Philadelphia are already represented.

M. H. de Young, proprietor of the San Francisco Chronicle, narrowly escaped assassination on May 7. An ex-criminal named Jake Rudolph visited the office with the avowed purpose of shooting him, but finding his intended victim absent he began a disturbance, and was put out by tho business manager, Mr Elliott. Rudolph shot at Elliott, a chance ball striking him in the groin, where, fortunately, penetration was intercepted by some silver change the manager had in his trousers pocket, and no damage beyond a severe shock was suffered.

It was settled on May 29 that a Yale College team of athletes, made up of George F. Sandford (the short distance runner), L. E. Morgan (the mile runner), William C. Hicklock (captain of the team, hammer-thrower, and shot-putter), E. H. Cady (hurdler), and Lewis P. Sheldon (broad jumper) would go to England and meet the Oxford champion English team on its own grounds. Yale took the initiative in arranging the meeting, and the team will go under a guarantee of its expenses.

A newspaper man, who hails from Australia, named George Frazer, is in a sort of matrimonial fix in San Francisco. He bad a secret marriage with a rich young widow named Mrs Jennie Dawson, and now finds that he is denied his wife's society by her relatives, who think her too rich a prize for a penniless journalist. Frazer will get his lawful wife, or know the reason why.

An official notice has been issued by the Italian Government warning Italians not to emigrate to the United States, as owing to the economic crisis Italians have to struggle for employment against American workmen. The States of Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania are named as those to be avoided particularly. T. R. Powderley (ex- General Master Workman of the Knights of Labour, and supposed to be all-powerful •with that party), F. P. Quinn (Master Workman of district 99), and A. W. Wright (ex-member of the executive board of the order) were unceremoniously expelled on May 11. A despatch from Rome says that the Pope has resolved to put an end to all R.C. Church trouble in the] United States by the appointment of cathedral chapters and a legate in America. C. F. M'Rae, a young Australian athlete, arrived from the colonies by the b.b. Alameda on Friday, May 11. He belongs to Sydney, and tbe New South Wales Amateur Athletic

Association 1 , to which he is amenable, has granted him* permission to compete on such field days as may fete arranged by the California Midwinter Fair now beiSrtsf held in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco.