The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1883-03-14
LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.


as q prior mail had been dispatched per ". G. H.
gin, and which have not arrived. by the dates re-
ceiyud we are enabled to present herewith items OF
the latest foreign news:
The first through train of freight has been sent
from Montreal to Winnipeg over the Canada Pa
cic Railroad.
Father Baptista, Superintendent of the Catholic
Orphan Asylum at Brooklyn, \. Y. is dead.
The Civil Service Bill has been defeated in the
Pennsylvania House.
By the Encouragement of the Gas Trustees IN
four years and a half, Philadelphia lost SlsI,6S6.
4 member of the Salvation Army was. arrested
in Pittston, Pa, for obstructing the streets.
Pire inmates of the Western Lunatic Asylum
at Stanton, Va, were found dead, having tam
pered with the medicine
The steamship GlGpWojyaa, from Liverpool for
New York, has been wrecked and many lives lost.
The Catholic Church and parsonage at Riviere
du Uoup, Quebec, has been destroyed by lire.
The old Malley cotton mills at North Adams
mss, were destroyed by fire Feb ..
A daughter was born TO the Duchess OF Albany
at Windsor Castle Feb. %.
II is proposed to erect colossal monument in
Washington TO the memory of Martin Luther.
The widow of Ex-Governor Marshall Jewell died
suddenly in New York, of heart disease.
The Beers have defeated Chief Wapoch and cap
tured Chief Mampoer.
.azetted knight of the Grand Cross, Order Of
Bath.
Charges are TO be preferred against the Public
Printer at Washington of extravaganza and cor
ruption.
Five of the murderers of Professor Palmer aud
party are to be hanged at Tautah, Egypt.
The Senate has decided to postpone action On the
Mexican treaty until December
1t is denied that Spain is negotiating for the
ale of the island of Fernando Pc TO Germany
A number Of cane fields have been destroyed by
tire in Cuba.
Snow is three feet deep ON 4 level III Wisconsin.
and all kinds of business is at a standstil
Hank Monk. the veteran stage driver who brought
Horace Greedy into California. died Feb % at Car
+on. New.
4 severe earthquake shock was experienced IN
Rhode Island Feb. %.
The silver wedding festivities of the Crown
Prince and Princess took place in Berlin Feb 9th.
The supplemental extradition treaty between the
United States and Spain has been ratified by the
Senate.
In San Francisco Mexican dollars are quoted at
So "a IS cents.
Light sales characterize the business at the San
Francisco Stock Board. ComstOck values do not
advance worth cent.
Pariee declines to be n candidate again for May
or Of Oakland.
The nomination OF John Niswin, OF Iowa, foE
Governor Of Idaho has been confirmed by the
Senate.
Another great flood in tho lower Mississippi nv
er is predicted.
The cable system Tor street cars is TO be intro
duced in New York.
The S. +. CaR Of the 2lst ut contains good ac-
count Of the Coronation ceremonies of King kala-
kauB-
It is not decided yet who shall succeed Phelps
IN command nj Mare Island Navy Yard. but Ii Is
more than likely that Shufeldt will.
The Allan line steamer Baeaos 1y,ts, in coils
sion, sunk tho steamer In Maseofte and eleven of
the crew of the latter steamer were drowned.
A society of socialists has been discovered at
Here's and severel members arrested; number
Of documents were seized, clearly proving the
connection OF the prisoners with secret societies
abroad.
fire under the stairs on the second floor Of the
the schoolhouse attached 10 The German Roman
Catholic Church of the Most Holy kedeemer on
Fourth street, between Avenue 4 and Fir;t Avenue.
NY at o quarter past three P. II. Feb. -. was the
scene of terrible calamity. No less than four,
teen children lost their lives. Over seven hundred
scholars mostly children of the poorer classes,
ranging from six to eleven years OF age, attended
the school and we're in their classrooms when the
alarm of fire was raised. Atearful panic followed.
A Chicago dispatch dated March LIST, states that
between and O'Clock tonight James Elliot, the
pugilist, and Jerry Dunn, well known sporting
man about town, met in the saloon and restaurant
Of William Langdon; alias Appleton, alias :, Appe-
t:te Bill :" an e1-bunko confidence man, and began
shooting the result being that Elliot was KILLED
and Dunn wounded in two places.
Sin Lum, whom il was intended TO hang III Tie
ward of the County Jail, San Francisco March ID.
for the murder of Alb Cheong on the Nth OF May,
1880, succeeded in cheating the legal gallows by
strangling himself ON one of his own lInproVlSi-
ton and nearly twelve hours later John Hess, the
guard through whose carelessness the criminal
succeeded in making away with himself. dropped
dead while on duty at the jail, presumably from
some organic affection brought on by the morning
excitement.
There is much suffering for want Of food IN
County Donegal, Ireland
Mary Irene Hoyt, sane girl, has been released
from a lunatic asylum near Philadelphia.
The Government carried the general election in
Ontario February 9th
Frank Byrne, IN alleged accOmplice of the Pho
nix Park assassins, has been arrested in Paris.
The Princes Victor and Louis Napoleon will en-
ter the Italian army.
The Senate has postponed consideration Of the
new treaty with Mexico until December.
The Senate Tariff bill has been referred TO con-
ference committee.
secret sociaIistic society called the Black Hand
is committing outrages in Spain.
David Davis has given notice that he Will resign
the Presidency of the Senate ut noon on March
3rd.
The address in reply to the Queens speech has
been agreed to by the Commons in Committee of
the Whole.
Ills possible that Parnell may soon come to
America
The French radical journals protest against the
extradition of Byme, the Irish suspect.
The French Minister of War declared that the
presence of the Princes in the army was unconsti-
tutionnl-
Salvini Morse has been arrested in New York for
giving dress rehearsal of the "Passion Play.
The Society of the Black Hand Is said to have
$3.50 members.
shawneetovn, H., is completely submerged
4 sneak thief stole $4,000 in bonds from the Of
ice of the Treasurer of the Guarantee Fund and
safe Deposit Company of Philadelphia
The Chicago authorities have cnt all the Mutual
Union Telegraph wires leading into that city.