Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1883-01-27
LATEST FoREIGN NE MS.

The following items Of foreign news are TAX.
en- from San Francisco exchanges to the 10Th
instant:
! The Newhall House, Milwaukee, capable of
accommodating 500 guests, was burned Janu-
airy 10th. There were comparatively few per
sons in the hotel at the time but il is thought
the loss Of life is in the neighborhood Of iso
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Com.
pany is expanding 100000 on a steamship
line, and before long will have steamships run.
ming between Newport and Rio Janeifo and
between Newport and Europe. IA communi.
cation from the Secretary of the Navy has
been laid before the Senate regarding the rec.
| concentrations for the construction of three
| steel cruisers of about 1000 tons displacement
to cost each, as estimated, SI,576,SS4; three
steel cruisers Of 2, 500 tons, to cost each, ST.
o5I, 275; one iron despatch boat, OF fast clip
per of about 5000 tons displacement, to cost
| $4,000 and one cruising torpedo boat to cost
$4,000. The vessels will be provided with
interior DETECTING armor, gun shields and tur
rets, il the Secretary Of the Navy and Advisory
Board should deem it bes, to have them con.
structed in this way. The amount appropriated
is intended to cover the entire cost OF construc.
| ton Of the vessels, with their armor and arma-
ment, ready for service A prominent West
ein lawyer is engaged in preparing draft OF
| an amendment to the Constitution which will
| be offered for Congressional action this session
| that will make it possible for citizens of any
| state to bring suit against any other state
| AT meeting of the Union Veteran League of
! ex-Union soldiers, in Chicago, preamble and
resolutions were passed stating that many of
them were personally cognizant of the causes
leading to General fitz John Porer's dismis-
| sal; that the sentence Of the court marshal was
just, and that the position taken by Senator
Logan on the bill for General Porters rein.
statement is right. -. The Secretary Of State
writes the Chinese Minister that the United
States Government will permit the transit
through the United States of Chinese laborers
The King of Siam has made contribu-
ton to the Washington monument fund =. An
Indian outbreak is threatened in Montana
Princess Louise and the Marquis of Lorne left
California by the Southern Pacific railroad and
at last accounts were at Charleston, 5. &. The
former will probably spend the winter in Der
muda. o.. "A Berlin despatch to the New York
Hf,aM says: In well-iniormed circles story
is now circulating to the effect that Emperor
Wilhelm, on the 22nd Of March, which is his
eighty -sixth birthday, will abdicate in favor OF
the Crown Prince. By the burning of
circus at Berditschiff, Russia, four hundred
persons were injured, nearly two hundred of
them fatally. A telegram from official sources
in Constantinople reports that some Circassians
attempted to assassinate the Sultan. A woman
divulged the plot and the Albanian body guard
met and defeated the Circassians in the vicinity
OF the Sutans apartments. Several men were
killed in the encounter. Gambetta, the
great French statesman, received an accidental
and fatal wound from pistol, January Ist.
An intimate personal friend of Gambetta S pub
fishes a detailed account OF his wound, intend
ed to dispel the various falsities ahoat. Gam
he he
when the breech stuck fast, owing to the car
fridge not setting properly. Holding the pistol
by the muzzle he endeavored to close the breech
forcbly, when the cartridge exploded. The
lady who has recently been prominently men
toned, so far from being the cause of the acct
dent, nursed him devotedly for "a days. He
was buried with great ceremony and his death
is regarded as national calamity. General
Chanzy, the well-known French General and
life senator died shortly after. He was also
voted n state funeral. -. Private rumors state
that Gladstone will certainly retire at an early
date. Private letters from ST. Petersburg |
state that the Car recently found in his bed. |
room a letter from the Revolutionary Commit |
tee, demanding commencement Of the prom. |
ised reforms, and adding that the Committee |
possesses power to forcibly obtain conces- |
sions -. "A Donegal priest accompanied the |
Chief Secretary for Ireland in an inspection Of |
the parish of Columbkill. They visited twenty |
families who had not morsel of food in their |
houses. .Merensky, German missionary,
who was stationed for twenty-five years in |
South Africa, declares that a South African |
confederacy under the British flag is the only |
safeguard against anarchy. The steamship |
City Of Brussels collided with the steamer h,--
BY Hall near Liverpool, January 9th, and sunk |
shortly after. A number OF people were |
drownded. The injuries to the Kirby Hall
were above the water line. The remains of |
John Howard Payne, author of "Home, Sweet |
Home" were shipped from Tunis to the Unit
ed States On the 9Th inst.