The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1885-06-03

VIRGINIA (Nev.,) May 1S.-This evening
at about 10 o'clock fire broke out at the
original Keystone mine, three miles north
of Virginia, ON the road to Reno, entirely
destroying the hosting works. extensive
buildings and machinery The large
boarding house and office of the company,
also the wagons and harness, were saved.
No work has been done ON the mine for
the last five years, and it was in charge of
a Waterman, who thinks the fire was the
work of an incendiary.
TOPEKA (Kan,) May 1S.-The wheat
prospect in the wheat counties of Iowa and
Missouri is 66 per cent lower than the
crop of last year; in Nebraska 60 per cent
and in Kansas IS per cent less. About
onethird of the corn crop of Kansas has
been planted and half of it will have to be
replanted. The farmers of this State look
for an Indifferent corn crop. William
Sims, Secretary of the State Board of
Agriculture, reports that the present year
at this time presents the worst wheat pro
spect known in ten years, not only in this
State but as far as his correspondence
reaches.
HAGERsTowN (AId.), May 1S-Rev. Mr..
Onderdonk of st. James College to-day re-
ceiyed telegram from the State Depart
ment at Washington, stating that Secre-
tary Bayard had been informed by the
Equadorian Minister that his Government
had released Julio r. Santos, the Ameri-
can citizen about whose imprisonment
there has been SO much correspondence.
LOUISVILLE, May 49, California came to
the front again today, and Lucky Bald
WINS namesake captured the Louisville
cup, one of the most important events of
the turf.
DENVER CColo.J, May 1S.-The shipments
strike on the Denver and Rio Grande road
assumed a very serious aspect to-day.
NV York. May 1S-A special to the
World from Montreal of May 18th says:
The announcement of Riels capture was
made by the Minister of Militia in the
House of Commons last night 1t was re
ceiyed in dead silence, owing, as some of
the members informed your correspon-
dent, to the dread of French Canadian
sympathy with him.
DETROIT, May IA Post special from
East Saginaw says: The forest fires in the
west and north are still raging with I'M
abated fury. Much destruction of pro
perty is feared. Specials from several
points along the line of the Flint and Pere
Marquette Railroad to-day said that the
fire in many places along the line has
reached close proximity to the depots and
wharves.
INDEPENDENCE Kan.), May 17.-One of
the most severe transforms that has ever
visited Southern Kansas occurred last
Friday, flooding the Elk and Yerdigras
rivers and drowning great number of
cattle. Six persons were drowned on Gard
creek, seven miles west of this place
Great damage was done to railroads and
bridges.
KERwN, (Kan.), May ia cyclone
passed through Rookie county on the 18th
inst, about p. IA, dealing death and de
struction throughout its entire course.
Nearly fifty persons were injured.
NV LONDON, Conn, May H. ommo-
dore Jonathan Young, commandant of
fever at the Croker House to-day, aged
IS years. He entered the navy as a mid
shipment from Illinois in 1871, went
around the world on the ship Columbus in
1915 46 and forced an entrance into Yeddo,
Japan, to deliver letter from the Presi
dent to the Emperor.
NEw York, May II. A Tribune Washing
ton special says: The announcement was
made the other day that Major Burke had
resigned his post as Director-General of
the New Orleans Exposition. 1t caused
little surprise among those in position to
know the circumstances under which
Burke was compelled to ask to be relieved
of the onerous duties devolving upon the
responsible head of such an undertaking
1t has been known here for some time that
the decision Of the Attorney General, which
declared that no part of the appropriation
of S365,000 made by Congress at the last
session could be used in payment of
Louisiana creditors, would involve Major
Burke in financial disaster, and this has
come to pass.
WASHINGTON, May l7.-Several days ago
a delegation from the Order Of Good Templars