The San Francisco Mail

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XIII, Issue 2536, 7 December 1891, Page 2

The San Francisco Mail

ADDITIONAL AMERICAN NEWS.

A telegram from the Japanese Government was received .at Washiugton, P. 0., on November 6, giving ah account of the earthquake which occurred in Japan on October 28. The report says that 600 persons ivore killed', 9000 injured, 75,000 houses totally destroyed, and 12,000 badly damaged. The earthquake was confined almost entirely to the protectories of Aicki and Giffe. Statistical returns for November 10 to the Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., make the maize crop thi> year one cf the largest in volume* ever recorded. The rate of the "yield is slightly above an average of twenty-six bushels to the acre, - ; ■ , An undertaker, Mr F. Rogers, was arrested in Chicago.on November 10 for crooked practice in disposing of bodies. He'is accused of systematically making one coffin do double duty,> and also of holding a contract, to inter the deceased 1 inmates of the public institution for dependent children. He saved himself expense by hiding the little bodies one at a time in the CQstly linings of massive caskets provided for wealthy customers. All the naval dockyard in the United States are filled with men, busy furbishing up old men of war. Work is going on day and night and Sundays. The prevalent idea is that Government intend to make a naval demonstration in the roadstead at Valparaiso, Chili. The Chinese Societies in San Francisco are engaged at present in a bloody conflict, and killing is the crder of the day. The " high binders," a,s - their braves are called, aiekept busy, and are getting high prices for heads. In spite of drizzling rain, fully 2000 people participated in the demonstration at Chicago on November 8, in honor of Parsdns, Spies, Eagle, Fisher and Ling, the Anarchists who suffered death four years ago in that city. One floral offering had the legend in German, "Though dead, they still live, Anarchy." J* disease called " black diphtheria " has broken out in a Norwegian settlement,, Harrison county, lowa. The victims were dying in every direction. The place was surrounded by a cordon sanitaire, and a terrible .state of affairs existed. An international boat race between Hy. Petersen of San Francisco and C. Dutch, of Australia* took place at San Francisco on Sunday, October 18, in the presence of some 15,000 people. Petersen won in twenty-one minutes, beating Dutch by five lengths, but for all this the general opinion among sportsmen is that Dutch can smother Petetsen if he chooses to do so. In the Hanlan-Stephenson boat race at Victoria, 8.C., on October 81, Hanlaii came in six lengths ahead in 19m in 30sec. This reduced the world's record by Ssecs. Stephenson being used to a turn lost his course and rowed wild, Both riien rowed well. The Italian Mafia bravos are operating in New Haven County. Italians are insulted and maimed (both men and women) by their compatriots, but dare not complain. Ou the afternoon of November 8, a terrible explosion of gas occurred in No 1 shaft of the Susquehanna coal mine, Wanticoke, Pa. There were but fourteen men at work in the mines, the day being Sunday. .Ofthis number six were instantly killed, and several injured, four of nvhom have since died, The' accident was causad by the explosion of a safety 1 lamp. There has been an immense destruction of farming property hy forest fu'cs in soutli Dakota, aided by a tremendous windstorm. In some pieces on November 2 tha farmers were literally fighting for their homes. At a.place-cajled Jhltiron the riverside cemetery was burnt oijt, the fire having cot among the wooden ,jtotnbs and monuments. The fiict of German beet sugar. being admitted free into the United "States is regarded by the Hawaiian^ as a great' blow at the sugar interests in the islands, where, in consequence, coffee raising will take the place of cane cultivation. The charter of the Pan-American Railway Company was filed on October 28 at Austin, Texas. The line is to run 240 miles, from Victoria to Brownsville, on the Rio Grande. The proposed capital is 3,000,000d015. This is the supposed inception of a big enterprise to extend the road eventually through Mexico to South America. The United States steamship Albatross sailed from San Finncisco on Wednesday, November 3, to continue her work of laying out a route between that port and the Hawaiian Islands for the proposed telegraph cable. Arrangements have been made to build a railway bet ween Los Angelos, California, and Salt Lake City, Utah. There is a gap of 340 milea to bridge, at a cost of 5,000,000 dollars, but the money has been raised, and the road will be completed in time to take people from Los Angelos to the World's Fair. A decision was given in the New York Court of Appeal on October 27 by which the will of the late Governor Samuel F. Tilden was set aside, the trust made void, and the immense estate is to be divided amongst the heirs. There will be some twelve million of dollars to be distributed. Great surprise is expressed in legal and other circles at this result, Tiklen was considered one of the soundest and most careful lawyers in New York State, and the wonder is that he could not draw so simple a document as a will that would carry out his wishes after death. The decision deprives New York of a free library and reading room. About seven miles from the town of Austin, Minnesota, there is a section of timbered land, of which a pack of wolves have taken possession and become ravenous enough to attack passers-by. On October 28 they fell upon a four-year-old boy and a six-year-old girl, belonging to Jerrard Jensen, and the little victims were quickly torn to pieces and devoured. Then the neighbors thought it was time to get rid of such ferocious neighbors, which they did by hunting them in a baMue, destroying the whole pack.