The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-06-23
SUFFERING IN WEST VIRGINIA.

SUFFERING IN WEST VIRGINIA.
Hundreds Of families in Jackson
county, West Virginia, are on the
verge of starvation. The owner of
mill said people were coming TO
him, at the rate of a dozen an hour,
bringing pint or peck of grain, or
a few ears of corn, TO DC ground. He
knew men who had gone without
food for five days, and he himself
would soon be sufferer.
FIRES.
The lunatic asylum at Williams
burg, Virginia, was burned on June
Sth. All except one of 200 female
patients were rescued. Loss about
100000.
One-half of the town of Suffolk,
Virginia, was burned on June 9TH.
Loss over 100000.
LIQUOR LAW DECISION.
The Supreme Court of Ohio de-
cided, two judges dissenting, that
the assessment paid under the Scott
liquor tax law, before declared UNI
constitutional, would not be returned
to saloon keepers. The amount in
VOWED is about $50, 100000.
THE MONUMENT DAMAGED.
The capstone of the Washington
monument proves to have been
shattered by lightning. The break
is on the northeast corner and four
fragments fell to the ground, where
they were found forty feet from the
base of the monument.
NEUROLOGY.
Commander Lewis Clark, of the
U. S. steamer Alliance, died, June
18th, at Key West, Florida.
Gen. Covier Grover, U. S. Army,
died suddenly at Atlantic City, New
Jersey, June 9th.
Panama is under martial law, but
everything is quiet. The people
are reported to be anxious that the
United States should take perma-
nent possession of the country.
THE WHEAT CROP.
A Chicago estimate places the
spring wheat crop at 100000
bushels, but even this full crop will
not make up the shortage in the
winter wheat belt.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Spreckels trial is still on.
M. De Lesseps has been appointed
President of the Paris exhibition of
1889.
Another British fishing smack has
been captured in the North Sea by
the German despatch boat Pomme-
rama.
Ex-President Arthur is in bad
health, said to be from Bright's
disease. He is preparing for sea
voyage.
Cholera has made its appearance
among the laborers on the Quettah
railway, and also at Rinde BUM,
the depot of the Commissariat camp.
A gas explosion in the coal bum
kers of the British iron turret ship
Iniexible, off Portsmouth, June 9Th,
severely injured fifteen of the crew,
three of them fatally.
Myriads of mosquitoes have ap-
pearcd along the Atlantic Coast,
several weeks earlier than usual.
Wiseacres are divided as to whether
this means an unhealthy summer Or
not.
The business men of South Caro-
lima have, with scarcely an excep-
ton, signed strong protest to the
Secretary of the Treasury against
the continued coinage of the present
silver dollar.
The Mahdi has issued procla-
nation, which has been extensively
circulated in countries bordering
upon the Persian Gulf, stating that
it is his intention to invade both
Egypt and Arabia.
The President of the Bank of
Montreal strongly recommends the
adoption of the American banking
system by Canada. That bank
shows clear profit of 81 300, 900 in
the past years operations.
The San Francisco Bridge Com
pany is suing the Chronicle for
libel, claiming $4,000 damages, for
an article charging the company
with an attempt to loot the State in