AMERICAN NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 254, 23 September 1884, Page 2

AMERICAN NEWS.

The English Government hits >eontracfea with a Chicago firm for tKe^supply of 500,000H>s of CQiflpres^ed^beef for the Gordon relief ej'pedjtfaiv; ~ The steamer Australia on h.or last'trip from. Sydney brought np a package marked "Dangerous explogives,' 1 and, as no owner can be. found, for it, the dock people aje nervous about it. Surgeon Woodward, one , of the late President Garfield's physiciai?^ committed suicide in Philadelphia. • Now Hanlan has 4 been defeated in Australia, ho is no Jonger called "the great American oarsman" by the United States Press, but only "the Canadian rower." •,,,... A terrible, tragedy occurred in I^ewi^ qoqnty, Tenne^ee, on A.ugust }Q, <r wh«n; a b,iind of masked men set upon anq murdered four Mqrmop EW^ra whilfi fhey were Qonduotiiig a m,e«iingi hendfi gevepal others^ who , attempted to defend them. .- .„ :. ' -. ... ■ 1 [... .... . , >; . The Canadian Government, replying on the 29th August to a reference from the British Privy Council to a mem,pri*l frcjm the jianchp holders; ip Western Dnited^ States asking for the pri?ilpge pf exporting cattle through Canada to England, ref uses to grant the request, on the ground there . will be a rf.sk of introducing cattle diseases both into Caqa,da and Great Britain. .