Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1881-07-09
SATURDAY PRESS.
Latest Foreign News.
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The following items of foreign news we
have CLEANED from San francisco papers
received since our last issue:
New York, June 16th.-The Panama
Star and Heyoid of June 9th says of De
Lesseps' course 1: Frankly we would like
to see little more accomplished on the
lsthmus and less blowing in Paris about
this business. Enthusiasm in Paris does
not 90 long way in Panama, in our de-
pressing rainy weather, and the thousand
disconragements common to new enter.
prises on SO vast scale. Let De Lesseps
aud his managers over the way pay their
engineers and other employees here better
salaries, give them more ample powers and
better opportunity and more encourage.
ment to show the stuff they are made of,
and we probably will have a canal made in
eight years at the original estimate. The
world will be quite satisfied with that nc.
complishment, and De Lesseps can well
afford this exercise of his gifts of prophecy.
and get down to that real work of full.
filling his real promises "
ST. PAUL, June l6th.--A brief special
from Winnipeg to the Pioneer Press says:
War has broken ont between the Sioux
and Crees, and n battle has been fought
near Woody mountain, in which eighteen
Of the former were killed. The Crees OBJ
jected to the Sioux coming farther west,
hence the trouble.
WASHINGTON, June 16th.-The following
named enlisted men of the Signal Corps
are members of the Lady Franklin Bay
expedition, which starts from St. Johns
H. II ~ II
and II. S. Gardner.
NORFOLK, June l6th.-The United States
steamer AHjonce sailed to-day for a four
months cruise between Norway and Spitz.
bergen, in search of the missing steamer
Je0nnette.
FoRT SMITH (Ark.), June 17th.-The
Choctaws are excited because the whites
living in the Choctaw Nation refuse to pay
the tax levied by the permit law. Over
1000 men are armed aud organized to ex-
pei the whites who refuse to pay the tax,
burn their houses and make it generally
unpleasant.
VICTORIA, June l7th.-The iron steam.
ship Quinto, 1889 tons register with
general cargo and about 400 Chinese, has
left Hongkong for this port and will be
due at the end of this month.
MoNTEvmEo, May 29th.-A great sensa-
ton has been caused here by the issue of
decree forbidding newspapers, on the pain
OF a fine 5000 pesos, to discuss politics or
create obstacles for the Government. Sew.
eral Deputies and Senators have resigned.
The Legations are crowded with journalists,
hiding from the authorities. Two papers
suspended publication, and the rest avoid
politics. The printing offices of three OPP
position papers have been attacked, and one
conspirator killed and three injured
LONDON, June l3th.-It is understood
that Col. Lionel Sackeville West, British
Minister mt Madrid, will succeed Sir Edward
Thornton as Minister to the United States.
LONDON, June 16th.-There is reason to
believe that a dispatch has been sent from
the Foreign Office to the American Gov
eminent, calling attention to the operations
OF the Fenians in New York.
LONDON, June lSth.-A M.-The Stand
ard newspaper having commenced cable
service from America, two other large
London dailies have followed suit, and lust
now there is plethora of news from the
United States. The cable dispatches fur.
nish some startling information from that
section, as for instance, that most of the
manufacturers in the United States have
shut up in consequence of English com.
petition that there are labor strikes in
every direction the Fenians are openly
preparing to commit all kinds of outrages
against England, and that the whole
country got drunk over the victory of Iro-
quos in the Derby.
MARsEILLEs, June 20th.-Last evening
there were series of furious encounters
between the French and Italians. 1t is
stated that three persons were killed, in.
GLIDING one soldier, and many wounded.
The Project closed all the cafes, and the
police and soldiers patroIed the streets.
LONDON, June lGth.-Two Greek Com.
mssioners for the delimitatiou of the
frontier, have started for Constantinople,
All the light artillery has been ordered to
the frontier.
BERLIN, June l6th.-News from st.
Petersburg states that the officers and crew
of the guardship lying Off Peterhotf, where
the Russian Imperial family will shortly
take up residence, have been changed in
consequence of the discovery that n number
of revolutionary proclamations were on
board. There have been many arrested in
connection with the affair.
ALolERs. June 10th. - The native
Algerian forces annhilated the insurgent
tribes. The ms urgeuts left sixty-six dead
aud carried away many wounded. One
thousand five hundred camels were cap
tured.