AMERICAN NEWS. San Francisco, November 19th.

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AMERICAN NEWS. San Francisco, November 19th.

A London despatch of Novembci Ist says /1/ 1 chibald Forbes the war ecu respondent., is .sciou-<lyill,andv. ill probably winter with his fal!)er-in-l;iv/,Ger.cvalMeigs,at Washington, D.C., and will then go on a holiday tour to Lie Bahamas and Bermuda. The Pennsylvania petroleum wells have nh'it down to reduce stock, of which there v ere 39,000,000 barrels in August last. 1.3,200 bales of cotton were burned at Memphis on Nov. 17lh. 10 was valued at CO 000 dollars. The late Henry Ward Beccher's etching.-? and engiavings have been sold at auction foi 35,000 dollars. The Royal Clyde Yacht Club will withdidW its challenge to compete for the America.; Cup. The Scotchmen claim that the conditions, a<3 framed by the New York Yacht Club, are unjust and unsportsman'ike. The Hancock Chemical Company's PacVmg-house for dynamite was blown up on Nov. 16th. Six men were annihilated wioh the buildings. The cars of Robinson's circus were derailed at St. Louis on Nov. 3, and many of the animals' cages shattered. Lions and tigers escaped in every direction, and for a time there was a fearful panic. With much trouble and risk they were all finally recovered, the only damage being done by a | leopard, who chewed up a man badly. J Secretary Baj'ard is not inclined to accept j tho cession of Pearl Fiver Harbour, in the Hawaiian Islands, as a coaling station for the navy. He thinks the U.S. Government would not consent to fortify arid defend any point in the Pacific Ocean that can be preferred by the Hawaiian Government ; bub would e^tabii&h a coaling station, if needed, on the Midway Islands that belong to the U.S. Rev. Mr Parker, of London, having declined a call to fill Beecher*s pulpife in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, N.Y., the Rev. Charles A. Berry, of Wolverhampton, England, has been invited to take the place. Berry is said to be not ,only an* active religious worker, but a anan ofatfairs politically. The invitation was accepted. General Master Workman Powderly, head of the Knights of Labour in the

United States, has made a personal appeal to the Order, and charitable people in genera', to aid the striking anthracite miners in Pennsylvania. He says the evictions in Ireland cannot compare in suffering with the scenes in the coalfields of that State. A double murder is reported from Springfield, Missouri, where a woman dashed out the brains of two girls, her step-daughters, to be free from the trouble of their support, and afterwards fired the house in fihe expectation of getting the insurance. An Indian outbreak had occurred in Montana, where the "Crows'' left the reservation, and were killing white settlers and cattle. The English Peace Delegation had arrived in the United States, and were looked after by Andrew Carnegie, the Scotch-American millionaire. President Cleveland has replied to their memorial, and without absolutely committing the United States to the establishment of a permanent inter national arbitration tribunal, shows eveiy disposition to entertain the scheme. The London ''Standarl" calls the reply laconic, and perhaps a trifle oracular ; and adds that the deputation itself can scarcely have failed to I discern that the President's language contained a covert rebuke to their too sanguine hope'!. A locomotive, pulling an Ea'-t bound i freight train on (he Southern Pacific Road, exploded at Ash Folk. Arizona, on Nov. Ist, killing the engineer tnerami, andbrakeman. Tho bodies were found 300 j ards from the explosion, and there was not left a piece of the engine as big as a man's hand. The propeller Vernon foundered, on October' 28th, off Two Rivers Point, Lake Michigan, and iifty peisons woro drowned. Tho storm in which the vessel went down is described by old lakemen as the woist ever experienced in that region. An aeronaut, nomed Antonio Infante 3 , made an ascension by a hot-air balloon in St. Louis on Oct. 30th ; but when some five hundred feet in the air tho affair collapsed, sending Infantes headlong to tho earth. He was> impaled upon an iron rocket rod, and killed instantly. An excitement was caused in We&t Chester, Pa. ; on October 31st, by the l\ov, Father Spalding, a Catholic piiesl-, ostracising from the duties ami privileges of the Chinch two leading citi/.ens who sent their children to other than Catholic parochial schools. Admiral ITeneage, formerly in command of the Channel Squadron, will hoist his flag on tho Swittsure a^ the new Admiral in the Pacific, vice Seymour. A force of 40 engineers and 110 labourers left Kew Yoik tor Grey town, Nicaragua, on Xov. Ist to complete tho location of the Inter-Oceanic Canal, and prepare for tho work of construction. At a meeting of the Fiench Academy of Sciences, held at Frankfort, on jN"ov. 1, De Lesseps stated that the Panama Canal would be completed by February, 1890.