American News.
The Prohibitory Liquor Laws in Michigan hare been repealed. A balloon of P. T. Barnum lias made a successful trip. ' A large fire has taken- place in New York. The English swimming ch?mpion (J. B.: Johnson) has accepted C. Clarke's (American champion) challenge to swim ; from one to" twenty miles for £500. ,• Eighi steamships: with;-679 Saloon and 1180 steerage' passengers left New York to-day for Europe. \. Tweed is sued for 6,000,00.3 dollars. jJFrench; and English gun. boats are ordered to Newfoundland to prevent trouble between fishermen. • ■ A large fire has taken place at Vermont; loss, 150,9C0d015. - m I The suspension of the Philadelphian ..ironfqunder ~N. >G. Mpriis, liabilities '200,006d015. is announced; 600 men will be thrown out of work. >-. ', General Sheridan ia about to marry. The Darien Canal is|?eing surreyed. ' All the- leading distilleries in Chicago; have been seized by the Government for; fraud. An immense swindling ring has been discovered. .'; Chicago borrows 3,Coo,CGddolß. at 6 pet: cent. ' . :
: Some Pennyslva^ia copl miners have! been stoned and shot at by strikers. x Some Ghicago distillors have been arrested", ?nd charged with conspiracy to defraud. Tvrfeniy-fiveVbags.pf the New [Zealand, mail were recovered from the wreck of the Schiller. . j Mrs Abraham Lincoln is declared to be' ■insane. ■■ ■- > v ~■-*- , _ Chicago gauger,a are implicated m the I whisky frauds. : The Deutsc T c Brazil Branch Bi>vk has; failed for's,o(),oCo dollars. # ; Extensive forest fires have occurred in : Pennyslvania, l^ew Jersey .and New ': York; great destruction of property.; Huudreds of families jire homeless. V fLoss of the Osceola'valuea^at 2,000,000; dollars. ''.""'■'" i .An incendiary atiempt has been made! Co burn the tow a of Shenandoah, Va Mrs Lincoln has attempted svicide. '. - Tbe;Pennsylvania wood fires are'still "Whole towns are being ' dcsHvoyed by fire. Foi-v trains with one thousand people rushed through the burning •:■, •..•: .. -■■ : \f\ '\ i \'Y. '
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2015, 19 June 1875, Page 2
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