SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7079, 3 February 1891, Page 4

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

« ■ [Pbb Press Association.] (Per Mariposa, via Anckland.) AMERICAN SUMMARY. A Spanish vessel, the Angelica, wa3 captured off Florida by the United States reverae steamer M'Lane, without papers. A crew waß aent aboard the vessel to take her to port. The Spaniah captain showed fight, but was sent aboard the M'Lane. A dozen men were hurled four hundred feet down the shaft of the Uteriamine, Savandresß, through the breaking of the cable. Ten were killed, viz., Case, Dunn, Dennison, Tom Conovach, John Demarra, Daniel M'Cann, P. Trupich, O'Brien and Stang, four of whom are married and have families. The bodies presented a sickening sight, being fearfully mutilated. The sump contained about fourteen feet of water. The pump was put on, and four bodies have bo far been recovered. The remaining six •will be taken out within the next twentyfour hours. Three of tnoae recovered are recognised aa Joe Carter, William Case and Dan Denniston. William Caae ordered one man off before starting up, and took his place on the akip. It ia but little over a year ago that a cave occurred in this same mine, burying sixteen men ; and the slow work of recovering their bodies had just been accomplished when this Becond disaster took place. Tub businesß section of San Antonio, Texas, was burned on Christmas Day. The New York Herald feasted two thousand newsboys on Christmas Day. The Michigan law providing for cumulative voting was declared illegal by the Supreme Court. Mias Whitbeck, an actress, sues Blakeslee, of Chicago, for twenty thousand dollars for breach of promise. The New England Organ Company's factory has been burnt. The loss is two hundred thousand dollars. A fight in a negro church at Oamano, Alabama, on Christmas eve, resulted in one death, and many injuriea. Two medical students were drowned at Long Island, while shooting, on Christmas eve. Manuel Garcia still keeps Cuba in terror, though a reward of ten thousand dollars is offered for his capture. An English corporation, with a capital of twenty-five million dollars, will establish twenty agricultural settlements in Brazil. Four hundred Italians landed in New York recently, destitute. They will be returned. Isaac Sawtell has been condemned to death at Dover, N.H., for the murder of his brother, for money. The steamer Liscard, New York to Lisbon, put into Boston in distress, with her engines broken down, her boats gone, and leaking. Brazil has issued a decree, offering great inducements to immigrants. A submarine boat, to stay twenty-four hours under water, with men, is being built at Detroit.