American.

Thames Star, Volume XIX, Issue 5823, 28 September 1887, Page 2

American.

T/he old Nttjre American, or ,Know Nothing political party it reviving, and will make, a figure in the Presidential campaign of 1889. The central idea is restrietioli of immigration. .Among ibe resolutions adopted by the United Labour Contention, held at Simeuro, IS.Y., on August 12th, and at, the head of which more men t is Henrj George, is one favoring the Australian system of secret ballot. Efforts are being nude for the release of Banker Fish and Jacob Sharp from Bing Sing prison. The first rained the Grant family, and the second, a' millionaire, bribed the Corporation of New "Xork. So far, the President steadily refuses all applications. The city of Pittsburg, Pa., was visited by a severe fire on Augast 12th, which laid waste the square bounded, by Fifth Avenue, Wood and Smithfield-streets, and Virginia Alley. The Masonic Temple is among the buildings destroyed. The fire was the work of an incendiary, and the loss is estimated at $1,000,000.

A suit is about to commence in New York that promises to be a cause cele'bre. It had been asserted that Mary Trene Hoyt, daughter. of the late millionaire, Jesse Hoyt, who unsuccessfully contested her father's will, was a confirmed inebriate Terming on lunacy, and wholly vnable to take care of herself* The case is to be reopened, when such a showing of fact? in regard to a rile conspiracy of which the youug lady has <fceen the subject, is expecfed to be made as will eclipse the stories in Warren's "Diary of the late Physician." It is charged that Miss Hoyt has been drugged to produco hysteria, and even mania. ■ :

Reed, the lawyer who defended Guiteau for the murder of President Garfield, has become a castaway. Recently hg was discovered pilfering from a tfew York restauraat money drawer ; subsequently he attempted suicide in the North Hirer, and oa August Ist was committed to the Asylum at Belraa as insane. At Camden, New Jersey, on the Ist August, a man named William Willshire, whose wife sought a divorce from him on account of oruelty and neglect, entered the Court room' where the woman was telling her story to the Justice of the Peace, shot her where she stood, murdered the.Justice, and then blew his own brains out.

A woman known as Fanny Henry, employed in San Francisco beer-cellars as a waitress, hating become infatuated with a barkeeper at one of thoae places, named Michael Kennedy, and fearing he would desert her, deliharately oat his throat on the morning of August 11th, while ho slept, and then severed her own jugular. After she had cat her lorer she Bred four pistol balls into his body, reserving a fifth for herself. The completeness with which the bloody business was executed showed calculation and determination.. The States of Illinois, Indiana, lowa, and southern portions of Michigan and Wisconsin, are suffering from an unprecedented drought. These territories nave been for fourteen months as dry as a powder house', and during the month of August this state of things has been intensified m the districts mentioned, and T^JSJT t0 KrowinK "ops has resulted. Where orops were planted late in. the season the farmers will not realize the cost of putting the seed in tha ground, and ar« therefore disposing of life stock at 35 per cent, of their ordinary value rather than hare them sUrve on their hands for want of feed. Tho effects for a year to come will be felt in all qimters— railroads, trade, and business. a< well as agriculture. Mr James G. BlaiaeMhe Aurericatt Presidential candidate on the E publican side, now travelling io Kunpe, had