The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1876-04-05

QuIScY, Illinois, March 1lth.-The Whig has re
ports Of the effects Of the storm in Missouri las
night. The hurricane came from the southeast aut
struck Elizabethtown, on the Missouri, Kansas 4
Texas Railroad about 4 O'Clock. Some seventeen
houses Frustrated, FIVE persons killed and sew
eral wounded, some of them fatally. At Hassou, OF
the road three dwellings and the railroad de.
pot were blown down and three persons killed. The
damage to timber and fences is very great and it
thought that further reports will show much great
er loss Of life in the neighborhOod not yet heard
from.
LoxDoS, March I1th.-A land slide last night in a
coal cut in q small town in northern Germany caused
by the recent heavy rains, buried eight houses and
tWenty-six persons.
The Times has leader on the exposure Of official
corruption in America. After review OF facts as
far ms known, it concludes ION the whole we can
but feel that though the investigation or
cutiun pending should prove futile, the n press
ion The public mind must be that nice sense of
honor and propriety does not prevail in the official
world of the United States.
Chicago journal says IF electricity is utilized
much farther in the office of the Insurance Patrol
house. it will be made jerk the boys out of bsd and
land them at the of FIRE the instant an alarm
box is struck, For time it has been made to
unasen the horses in their stalls open the huge doors
Of the house, and make other preparations for the
start, but, by recent improvements, Capt. Buwinkle
has induced it to jerk the covering of the hunks in
which the fremen repose, and as that operation is
generally conducive TO restessless especially in cold
weather, the fire patrol may be expected make bet
ter time hereafter than they have done heretofore
DEArH OF FRAYcIs DEAK.-Mr. Deak, who has
been prominent in Hungarian affairs for the last thirty
years, and has just died, born at Kehida in 1903
and first elected to the Die: the liberal ticket
in $50. He Immediately assumed the leadership of
the moderate party. and sought reform rather than
revolution bat not without threatening agitation if
sent Of the government, just before Kossuth gained
power in 1913. He chosen by the latter to nego-
tiate with Prince Windisgratch the next year, and
held his moderate position in subsequent disturbances
mot violently compromising himself with the empire
even while favoring concessions to the kingdom.
Five years ago. be, chief member of the Diet drew
up the answer Of that body to the Imperial rescript
and conducted the negotiations that followed He
ercised an influence Kossuth could not reach, owing
TO his good and patriotism and his loss will be
felt in Austria sensibly in Hungary, where he
was more loved and esteemed than any other man.
DR.. Samuel j. Howe, who died recently at Boston,
greatly beloved and honored. native Of Boston,
but graduate of Brown University, in Providence
aud qualified for a medical practitioner. At the
outbreak of the enthusiasm in behalf Of the Greeks
he espoused the Of the Phihellensts with aac
rity. and joined the Greek army n surgeon in 1924
He rendered important aid to the cause. and his
turn Boston, in S3l, he became connected with the
Asylum for the Blind; but again went abroad. to of
fer his services to the Poles in their struggle for free
dom. He always sbolitionist. He an
early member of the Republican party, friend of
John Brown and was never absent where there was
gathering of the advocates of any humanitarian
movement The last official appearance of DR.. Howe
before the public was as Of the commissioners sent
by President Grant to San Domingo. He was happy
in his domestic life, his renowned wife, Mrs. Julia
Ward Howe, sympathzing heartily in all his beuevo-
ent undertakings. He leaves a widow and FIVE chill
lren-four daughters, three of whom married. and
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