The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-05-19
LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.
United srArEs.


the following appointments: George
n. Lathrop, of Michigan, Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Pleni-
potentiary to Russia. Boyd Win
chester, of Kentucky, Minister Resi-
dent and Consul-Gcneral to Switzcr-
land. John +. W. Thompson, of
New York, Minister Resident and
Consul-Gcncral to llayt.
The President said to one Of his
newly appointed foreign Ministers:
~ want men who are willing to
work. Too often have American in
terests been neglected and suffered
on account of inefficient and worth
less representatives abroad. / want
workers. who will attend TO all that
is required of them"
The length of the tunnel of the
Northern Pacific Railroad at Cas-
cadc, Or, will be about $500 feet,
and the plant and machinery for
constructing it will cost in the neigh
borhood of 100000.
Mr.. Eugene Kelley, Jr., son of a
San Francisco banker, married the
daughter of Don Patricio NIilmo, Il
millionaire Irish Mexican citizen.
''Birds of feather will flock to-
gether."
Richard Parker, who murdered
his employer in a billiard room at
Great Bend, KS, was taken by Il
crowd and hanged at the scene of
the murder.
Jas. II. Osgood q Co., publishers,
of Boston, Mass, have failed. Liza
bilities about 100000.
The widow of the late Commodore
Vanderbilt died at New York on the
fourth inst.
A fve-story pile of building at 50
Atlantic avenue, New York, came
down with crash on the morning
of the 9TH. The building was occu-
pied by about 500 operatives in
different lines of manufacturing.
The whole mass was soon in flames.
Some twenty-five persons were be-
lievcd to be entombed in the ruins.
Numbers of fremen, too, are re-
ported injured, some fatally.
Charles A. Ashton was shot in the
back, in San Francisco, on the 9TH
inst, by j. l.. Eagan. The muir
derer Immediately attempted sui
eide by first taking strychninc and
afterwards by raising the pistol to
his own head as if to shoot. The
pistol was snatchcd away from him,
and the strychnine pumped out of
his stomach by the city surgeon.
The latest account is that Eagan's
chances for death were greater than
those of his victim.
The Supreme Court of Ohio has
declared that subscriber cannot
swear over telephone line without
the consent of the company. But
the subscriber can derive consola-
ton from the fact that he is still
permitted to swear at the company
without the consent of the telephone
line.
GENERAL GRANT.
When DR.. Barker left General
Grants house on May 9th, where he
had been on visit, he said the can
Ger lump on the tongue was not pro-
crossing so fast, because the Cen
erals system had become stronger.
He thought that the cancer might
run along for several months, but
there could be but one conclusion.
General Grant has made public a
pointed letter wherein he declares
that Adam Badeau is not the author
of the formers forthcoming book.
No person but himself had or will
have any hand in its composition.
DR.. George f. Shrady, in the
Medical Record of May 9th, said
of the condition of General Grant
During the past week General
Grants bodily health has much i'm.
proved. His appetite is better, and
he has relish for his food. Locally
his disease shows II slight tendency
to progress. The palatal curtain is
still considerably inliltrated, although
all signs of acute inflammatory
trouble have disappeared. The Ill
ceration at the base of the righ
anterior faucial pillar and alongside
the tongue presents wormcateI
surface, indicating an extension o.
the destructive process. Breathing
is free and his voice clear, but tho
movements of the tongue are some
what restricted, affecting articula
ton accordingly. Despite a favor
able condition, there have been M
changes in the local disease to war
rant any modification of the origina
diagnosis by members of the medica
staff
On May 9th General Grant wa
reported to have passed a good nigh
and during the day would do SOM
work upon his book. DR.. Dougla