AMERICAN SUMMARY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 4163, 24 August 1881, Page 3

AMERICAN SUMMARY.

July.

A party of Americans travelling from Paso d.»l Nork 1.0 Clu'lui .iiua, in Mexico, discovered twclvodeudbodio-.H-l Americans, and a portion of the . urvejing expedition of the Mexican Central Failrond. They had been murdered hy tho Apache Indians. ' Mormon converts in thousands are arriving in New York fro;u Kurope en route for Bait l.iuc

The Brit Mi barqio Beatrico, oil laden, was struck by lightning off Beady Island, near Philndelphin, ond Bhe wbb burned to tho water's edge. The electrio fluid ran down tho mast into the hold, and fired tho cargo. It is reported that the Tichborne claimant's daughter, Jcnnio Ogden Jervis, writes to the New York Star that her father is playing a game of deception on Californian people, and that be had admitted to her in Brooklyn that he intended to personate tho lost Bir Roger.

Indian outrages continuo in New and Old Moxico. In tho latter the Apaches havo tortured and killed a great many mining prospectors und otherß, ox-Governor Pugh's son among tho rest.

Griscomo, in imitation of Dr Tanner, has completed ti 45 dayB 1 fast. In Chicago nows bas beon received of tho

missing whalers Mounfc Wallaston and Vigilant ; both were lost in the ico off the Arctic, and all on board perished. The Esquimaux, describod aB Captain Millar .l, a whaler, and Thomas Pope, who brought tlio news, gave tho unhappy particulars very minutely. They said the bodies of the dead crew had swollen aud then burst opon. They had evidently beon frozen to death during the winter of 1879-80, and been acted on by the heafc of the succeeding summer. Nothing has been heard of the Bennett Arctic exploring yacht Jeannette.

A railway train was recently boarded by some thirteen desperadoes at a point in New Moxico, and thoroughly sacked. Ihe conductor was shot, as also was a stonemason, one of the passengers, who tried to defend him.

Edisou is preparing to light a district in New York by electricity. She houses wi'l probably be lighted by October. The editor of the Times at Little Rock, Arkansas, was assassinated because his paper did not please certain authors.