AMERICAN SUMMARY. San Francisco, August 26.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 403, 18 September 1889, Page 4

AMERICAN SUMMARY. San Francisco, August 26.

The Boston wool market, on August '22nd, was feattueless, summing up the situation. There was almost no maiket at piesent quotations, there being few sales, and the manufacturers seeming determined to tire out the sellers. It was suggested in Congiess, on August 22nd, that to avoid impending raco tioubles in the Southern States, Cuba be purchased for £50,000,000, and the coloured people moved theie. A railroad excursion train was wrecked on die Knoxvillc, Cum bei land Gap, and Louisville Railroad, 23 miles from Knoxvillo, Tennessee, August 22, by which three leading citizens of Knoxville were killed and fourteen badly injured. The excursionists embraced the chief business and professional men of the city. A formidable rivali y has been started to the Standard Oil Company in Pittsburg, Pa. Large capitalists have built immense refineries at San Diego, Cal., where oil transported from Pittsburg will be refined, and shipped thence to Australia, China, Japan, India, the Islands, and other points in the Pacific Ocean. Captain Charles T. Rogers, 39 years old, a jeweller by ciade, but who had been a sailor, conceived the idea of sailing across the Atlantic from Boston to Paris in a dory 14ft. long, sft. wide and drawing 22 inches. He wanted to see the Exposition, and sailed away alone from Boston July 3rd. ITe was brought back on the 23rd by the schooner JNlaitha A. Bradley, fiom the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, in a most deplorable condition — blind and nearly insane. By the burning of a portion of a ilat on Seventh Avenue, 28th Street, Now York, August 19th, some 10 or 12 people lost their lives. The place was a regular death-trap, and a restaurant-keeper named Snyder was aneated for setting it on fire te got the insurance. Robert Marvel, aeed 85, after fasting 67 days, died on August 20th, at Indianapolis. Michael Jordan, a native of London, England, and remembered by many as a pioneer builder of Melbourne, Australia, and also of San Francisco, died in the latter city on Thursday, 15th instant. He was nearly 75 yearß old. A posse staited out from Ashland, Wisconsin, August 19th, in pursuit of a ruffian who had laid an intoxicated companion across a railroad track, and in this position he was cut in pieces by a passing train. Lynching was the purpose of the pursuit. At the convention of the Ancient Order of Foresters, held at Minneapolis during the week ending August 17th, it was z-esolved to declare independence of the parent order in England. Martin* Burke, accused of being the actual murderer of the Chicago doctor, Cronin, and who fled to Winnipeg, in the New Dominion, was extradited thence and returned to Chicago on August 9th. His identification is beyond question. Mr and Mr 3 Carlson, owners of the Carlson cottaee where Dr. Cionin was killed, were taken into Buike's presence at the gaol, when he arrived, and pronounced by them to bo ono of the " William's '' brothers who rented the cottage previous to the murder. The Young Ireland Parliamentary Club of San Francisco aie preparing to receive John Dillon, Sir Henry Grattan Esmondo and John Deasy, whoare expected to anive fiom Australia by the September stoamship. A huge practical joke was recently played by sending a proclamation as coming fiom the Mayor of Tacoma, of the new State of Washington, to the Mayor of Boston, to send out a cargo of maidens, as wives were scarce in the new State. The bogus document kicked up a great fuss among the widow.-, and unmarried women of Massachusetts, whose name is " legion." The Brown-Sequard " Elixir of Life," recently made known to the world, is creating a profound sensation among the medical men of the United States and the public generally. Some of the faculty favour, and others oppose it. Ex-surgeon General Hammond, of New York, published the result of the treatment of three subjects, 62, 63, and one 33 years ot age, in which the happiest results were obtained by the injection of the " Elixir," made from a macerated gland in the cellular tissues. The first was cured ot muscular rheumatism, the second of heart trouble, the third of impotency and insomnia. In all these ca«es, the more marked features of old age disappeared from the personal appearance. A gieat many other experiments have been made by doctors all over the country, in some instances wilh disastrous results to the patient. The Rio Grande Western train known a* the " Modoc" was held up on the Bth of August by train robbers. They got $900 fiotn the passengers, and about 20 watches ; but were unable to open the express car, where the messenger lay with a magazine, shotgun and two revolvers.

TRAGIC DEATH. David Smith Terry, ex-Supreme Judge of the State of California, was shot and killed at Lathrop, a station on the Central Pacific railroad, by U.S. Marshal Neagle, on the morning of August 14th. The circumstances attending the traged3 7 appear to be that.Justice Field, of the U.S. Supreme Court, whom Terry hated bitterly because he imprisoned Terry and his wife for contempt of court in a recent phase of the Sharon case, was in- the same train with Terry and his wife {nee Sarah Althea Hill), and all the parties got off at Lathrop to take a 7.14 breakfast. Mrs Terry, on seoing Field, hurriedly left the breakfast-room, and went toward the cars. While she was gone, Terry approached Field, and slapped hia face ; he was about to repeat the insult, when Marshal Neagle, who had been detailed as a body-guard for J udge Field, drew a pistol, and shot him through the heart. He iell dead, ju3b a? Mrs Terry returned to the room with a satchel in her hand, and. which being subsequently searched was found

to contain a pistol. Her lamentations were heart-rending, her execration of the Martial and Judge Field fearful. Public opinion is divided on the subjoct. The general feeling is that Torry ought to havo boen arrested by the officer, not killed, beagle, who did the shooting, was promptly arrested and conveyed to gaol in Stockton, whore Judge Torry had resided tor several years, but was subsequently reloa&od on a writ of Habeas Uorpus granted by the Judges of tho N. S. Circuit Court, and brought to San Francisco. The Fedoral authorities have taken tho case out of the hands of tho Stato altogether, which is regarded as presumptive evidence that Neagle's trial will be only a mere matter of form. The feeling runs so high against the dead man in cortain quarters that tho Supremo Court of Caliiornia, of which he was a member at one time, and considered one of tho most upright men that had ever sat on tho Bench, refused to adjourn in respect to his memory, and denied the privilege of spreading memorial resolutions on tho archives oi tho court.

A SCENE ON THE SCAFFOLD. Four woman murderers, Patrick Packenhani, James Nolan, John Lewis, and Ferdinand Carolin, wero executed in New York on August 23id, and the scene of the execution is thusdescribed by telegraph : — All four slept roundly last night. Packcnham awakened rirst ,it 4 o'clock ; the others had to be awakened halt an hour later. Packenham seomedunmoved, Le»vislaughcd and joked, saying to Nolan : " Don't be down hearted ; wo aro all in the same boat." Carolin was norvous from tho time he opened his eyes. The men were taken from their cages at 5 o'clock. A few minutes later they were | joined by priests and a procession was ! formed to tho chapel in the prison, where mass v> as celebrated, occupying foity-livo minutes. The men then hail breakfast in their cell?. Tho breakfast consisted of eggs, bread and coffee. Then the linal preparations were made for the execution. Neither Packenham nor Nolan, who weie iir^t led out, flinched, though their faces indicated a realisation of the situation. The drop fell two minutes after they emerged from their cells. Lewis and Carolin began their march to tho other scaffold on the o| posite side of the Tombs yard at 7 o'clock. Carolin was very whito. He affected coolness ou tho way, however, vigorously putting a cigar. The priest took the cigai from Carolin 's hand as he was being pinioned on the scaflold. Lewis had throughout been entirely cool, but Carolin was now thoioughly frightened, and began to jabber so rapidly fhat his words could hardly bo distinguished. Tho words distinguished wore : "I die an innocent man. By , I did not do this thing." Lewi-, looked contemptuously at him and said, with the accent ot the t^ pical Bowery tough, " Ah, wats do matter wid yer '! ' at the same time spitting over his left shoul der. " I will die like a man," said Caiolin, " but I die an innocent man. ' lie was mumbling and inutbciing when the drop fell. Packenham died in &e\cn minutes and Nolan in eight. Neither struggled much. Nolans faco wore an expression of abject terror when taken down. Lowis and Carolin sustained fractures of the cerebral vertebr.e, and their deaths were painless. The bodies of the executed men wet c allowed to hang half an hour before being cut down. Immense crowds were gathered around the Tomb.s dming the execution, and there was much excitement. Special detachments of police preset ved order.

COMMERCIAL. San Frvnci.sco, August 26. Wheat. — Trado dull. Shippers doing nothing in the city, and ceasing also to buy in the country. Foreign market continues to decline No. ], Si. 3o to 51.31} ;No 2, 51. 25 to Si. 27 A : extra choice, for milling, $1.35 to $1.40 per cental. Barley. — Dull and unchanged. Standatd Che\ ilier, 51.42U1 to si. 45 per cental ; No. 1, old feed, 671 cents per cental ; bright do , 70 cents ; lower grades, 6.") cents ; fair blowing, 77\ to S2\ cents ; good to choice old, 90 centf- to sl per cental. Hops — Nominal : Nothing doing. Quotable at li to 16 cents per pound. Salmon — Columbia River, San Francisco delivery, £1. 80 to $1.85; Sacramento, 51.50; Alaska, si. 40. Coal — Imports thus far this month have averaged 4,000 tons per day. Feeling steady. Sydney, 57.50 per ton. (Quicksilver — Scaicc and tinner at s4B per flask, and refused, and s5O ttsked. Fi eights — Wheat to Cork, ve&sol chaiteted prior to arrival, 35b.