Daily Honolulu press. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1886, 1886-04-30
CONDENSED NEWS.

The New Jersey Legislature asks for
Congressional inquiry into the ex-
pedency Of setting aside portion of
Alaska for penal colony. The Senate
Committee ratified the treaty with Mex
ico on the aIst inst, by vote of 80
to 81, setting aside the former awards
in the famous We'll and La Abra cases
and reopening the adjudication of these
claims "A New York dispatch of the
21st says the Tammany people arc
talking of General d. E. Sickles as
their next cadidate for Mayor of New
York city.-The proposition Of Mr..
Eads for his ship railway has been
brought forward in modified FORM -
In the Pension investigations charges
have been brought against the Repub
lican Commissioner .-Endeavers are
being made to reorganize the Texas
Pacific railroad. "A large sale of Cal
ifornia bred trotters will take place in
New York. The Navajoe Indians
have all submitted, and it is said the
trouble with them is ver-Commis-
sioner Sparks has asked the ST Joseph
and Denver railroad to disgorge stolen
lands The Senate bill for the admis-
sion of Dakota territory as a State is
still hanging fire in the House. Trim
idad, Colorado, has been damaged by a
food. One of the three tenements
comprising Libby prison, collapsed on
the evening of the 2Ist inst.-The
House Committee on Foreign Affairs
have changed the Morrow Chinese
bill to conform with the Senate bill pro-
yiding for the treaty to run ten instead
of twenty years. s.-The charges of
financial irregularities in the Signal
Service Bureau are not sustained.
The Overland rate war is abating and
the different roads are advancing fares.
"A Constantinople dispatch of the
aIst inst, says, seven men ofwar have
been ordered to hold themselves in
readiness to sail at an hours notice
An order has been published prohibit
ing the circulation of Greek news
papers in Turkey.-A London dispatch
states that a conflict on the Greek
frontier is hourly expected. The
Greeks have assumed a very provoking
attitude, which has had the effect of
making the Turks furious. Turkey
has intrusted her cause to Lord Rose
berry, British Minister of Foreign AT
fairs, who is freely in accord with Bis
marck respecting the difficulties in the
East; an ultimatum of the Powers to
Greece is momentarily expected to be
issued The tide of public opinion is
decidedly in Gladstones favor at pres
ent, notwithstanding the disafection of
the Scotch members. Canada is hav-
ing an investigation into railway
scandal. "A Vienna dispatch describes
the wretched condition of the sufferers
by the Suy FIRE Most of the victims
are without food and means and are
rendered desperate by the thought Of
starvation Large Nationalist and
Loyalist meetings were held in Cork on
the 2Ist inst. There was no disorder.
Six thousand employees of the Brook
lyn and New York, sugar rcfneries
have struck for higher wages The
cholera is reported to be becoming ep-
idemic in the Adriatic. Monsignor
Narcissus Martinez Esquiero, Bishop
of Madrid was fatally shot in that city
at the door OF the Cathedral by Caye-
tano Galeste on the 18th inst, and
died next day.-Rumors of a syndicate
being formed to handle the Hawaiian
Lottery scheme are in circulation in
San Francisco. ~ San Luis Obispo,
California, had $2a5,ooo fire on the
Ioht nst-AValparaiso book-keeperhas
absconded with $50, 1000. Zach. Mont
gomery has been confirmed by the
Senate for Assistant Attorney General
Of the Interior Department. The
Dixie scandal case has been reopened
The labor troubles still continue in
the United States; the railroads are
still being crippled; grand cooper
atiye scheme has been organized.