American Summary. San Francisco, Oct. 24.

Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 129, 21 November 1885, Page 4

American Summary. San Francisco, Oct. 24.

Owing to a short crop in England, large contracts have been made by dealers there for California hops. There is a great excitement in the petroleum market of New York, due to a struggle between Wall-street and the ■ Standard Oil Company. John McCullough, the tragedian, is now confined to bed at the Bloomdale Insane Asylum, and his death is daily expected. The widow of Junius Brutus Booth, the great English actor, died in New York on October 22nd. The New York "Times" of the 23rd thinks the Grant Memorial Fund will be a failure. There is little or no interest taken in it. Mapleson and his opera troupe arrived in New York on the 23rd. A Chinese Freemason died in New York on the 23rd October, and was buried with full Masonic honours. The Chinese cigar makers of San Francisco have struck against the employment of white labour in the same establishments with themselves. The Archbishop of Baltimore will shortly be named a Cardinal, and take the place in the American Catholic hierarchy vacated by the death of Cardinal McClosky. Irish-Americans of New York have sent 10,000 dols. to the Parnell Parliamentary Fund, and 5,000 dols. additional were subscribed on the 2 1 st at a mass meeting, over which Charles A. Dana of the "New York Sun" presided. The Hudson river, N.Y., where no salmon was supposed to run, is now reported swarming with them as the result of the Fish Commissioners' experiment. Miss R. B. Stuart, an actress, committed suicide in San Francisco, on Oct. 14th. Her real name was Kitty Bryant. H. W. Shaw (better known as "Josh Billings,") the humourist, died of apoplexy at the Hotel del Monte, Monte ray, Cal., on the 14th. He was nearly 70 years of age.

Important discoveries of fraud among officials in operating the Chinese Eestriction Act at San Francisco, have been discovered, and a number of the offenders dismissed. There was a sensational report in New York, on the 17 th, that the Prince of Wales had entered into oil speculation, and purchased half a million barrels of petroleum. The order was executed by the principal broker for the Standard Oil Company. If the report be true, the Prince made a tidy lot of money. •Dr. Theodore Canisius, of Illinois, for three years U.S. Consul at Samoa, has returned to Washington in broken health. He brings a letter from the present king, Malietoa, protesting against the German or any other nation attempting to annex his territory. The Apache hostiles, under the lead of the bloodthirsty Geronimo,are having it all their own way in Arizona. The papers are full of accounts of outrages committed by the savages, and the United States troops appear powerless to oppose them. A type-setting invention, which has been long perfecting, and which, it is said, will revolutionise type-setting, has been introduced in New York. It is claimed that anyone capable of using a type-writing machine will be able to set type and stereotype at the same time the type required for printing a newspaper. Ten thousand barrels of American apples were sold in Liverpool, Eng., on Oct. sth, at remunerative prices —16s, 145., and 12s. per barrel. Apples are a drug in the American markets this season. The racing yacht Genesta sailed from New York for England on October 3rd. The crew refused to return in her except she made the trip under juryrig. An offer of $20,000 for the craft was refused by the owner, Sir Eichard Sutton. Hon. Charles Clayton, a leading mercantile man of San Francisco, died suddenly in Oakland on October 4th. The impression is that he committed suicide on account of being financially involved. By an accident to John Eobinson's Circus train on the Fergus Branch of the Northern Pacific Eailroad, October 4th, five tent hands were killed, and many others wounded. The train broke in two going up an incline, and all the circus men wore in the rear cars. The town of Westwood, N.Y., was demolished be a tornado on the sth October. Some 10,000 Irish-Americans met in mass meeting at Chicago on October 3rd, and sent $10,000 to the Parliamentary campaign fund for Irish members, on the plan originated by Parnell. The establishment of H. S. Crocker and Co., the most extensive in the way of printing, engraving, and lithographing in San Francisco, was destroyed by fire on the morning of Oct. 8. It was known as the Cosmopolitan Block, Bush Street. Loss about $500,000. Two men lost their lives by falling walls. The great explosion by which Flood Eock, which interfered with navigation, at Hell Gate, East Eiver, New York, was reduced to fragments took place on the forenoon of Oct. 10. Tons of water, a wreckage of timber, and boulders were uplifted in air over 200 feet. The spectacle is said to have been grand beyond description. Navigation is now entirely free in this locality. Nearly 300,000 pounds of dynamite were used in the blast. Postmaster-General Vilas is besieged with psotests against the present arrangements for carrying the foreign mails, and petitions praying for an immediate return to the old system, Steps have been taken by Nellie Sartoris, daughter of the late President Grant, to procure a divorce from her English husband, Algernon Sartoris, on account of his cruelty and neglect.

Death of Cardinal McClosky. John McClosky, of New York, the first American Cardinal created, died at his residence, October 10th, and was buried with great pomp on the 13th. Nearly every Protestant minister in the city made fitting reference to this notable death. Beecher, preaching on the resurrection, concluded his sermon as follows : —" That dear old man, who has gone up from among those who loved him, leaves behind his cardinal's throne, the purple of his robes, and his tiara. It was well enough he should have them as the symbols of his authority, but the moment he emerged into that other life he stood in his spiritual entirety where his temple was his lord. When he lifts his venerable head he will be young —young in the presence of his God —and he will remain with those whom he has saved from destruction, for they will be there too. I rejoice in his translation, as I do in that of all the saints. This is the testimony of a Protestant. Eemember, you could not make a Catholic out of me any more than you could make an eagle,! chained in a barn-yard, lay eggs."