AMERICAN SUMMARY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 4671, 15 June 1893, Page 1

AMERICAN SUMMARY.

against the Tammany machine Resolution? were adopted calling on the citizens to " overthrow this iniquitous boss system as represented in our city by Tammany Hall." ! The Weatbourne-Missouri Pacific train ' (passenger) was stuck up and robbed on May 25, thirty miles weßfc of St Loui?, by ! cis men. Over five thousand bsx hundred •' dollars were secured. A short distance the other side of the Pacific Station a man climbed over the tender, and, holding a revolver to the engineer's head, said —" It will bo healthy for you to atop right here now." The engineer stopped. Five confederates then appeared, and without any preliminaries, the door of tli9 express car was blown open. After the robbers had secured the money, tbe engineer was told to" Go ahead like , and make up for lost time." None of the passenger cars were entered. A forest fire destroyed Louis Sand's Lumber Camp, near Lake City, Michigan, on May 21. Out of tht total of sixty men, forty-nine escaped uninjured; the rest were cremated. Eight jumped into a well to escape the flames, but burning material falling on them, they were first suffocated by the smoke, and then their bodies were burned. Eight teams of horses were also burned to death. Joseph Jefferson, tbe well-known American comedian, who made a successful tour of Australia many years ago, was lying very ill at his home, Buzzards B»y, Mass. on May 23, and was supposed to be dying. He ia suffering from an abscess in the neck, and on accouut of his gceat age but little hope is entertained of his recovery. James Gordon Bennett announced in the Herald, on May 24, that, in order to perpetuate the paper as a monument to the memory of his father, the founder, he proposes to make it a co-operative concern, in which every employee of tho paper, from the highest to the lowest, shall share.

SAN PBANCISCO, Mat 2q. A new political organisation was launched in New York on May 24, called the • " Now York Citizen Democracy," j which will hereafter wage relentless war