Daily Honolulu press. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1886, 1886-04-23
CONDENSED FOREIGN NEWS.

A large and disastrous fire has oc
cured at Key West, Florida. -Th,
anti-C Chinese memorial 10 Congress.
from the Pacific Coast, is reported tc
have been lost sin the mass of insig
ni6cant documents that are presented
to Congress every day"-Two join
Resolutions have been introduced into
Congress; one provides that Chinese
immigration be checked by the mod
ification of the treaties and the other
provides for an appropriation of over
$t47,ooo to pay Cinnamon who were
damaged by the Rock Springs outrages.
MIR. ]. Cook, the former banker, ex-
presses himself opposed to the Amer
ican financial policy-Ten thousand
Of the Pacific Coast Cinnamon are to
be.scattered along the lines of railway
between San Francisco and New York.
Miss Cleveland has taken to writing
letters on fashion. The fall Of an
image almost caused panic in St.
Joseph's Catholic Church in New York
city lately.-A Winnipeg dispatch says
the Manitoba people are indignant
over the action of the Dominion
Government in regard to their local
railways. u. s. Minister Winston at
the Court of Persia is to marry thegrand-
daughter of John c. Calehoun.-De
Lesseps is still sanguine in his views
Of the Panama Canal. dreadful
disease has broken out in Johnstown,
New York, which shows the symptoms
Of chronic diphtheria, but the victim
dies within a few hours. Prince Bis
marck has expressed an opinion on
the Socialistic troubles Of Europe,
which has caused decided sensation.
Terrorism has ruled in Belgium
during the strikes -Parnell has fatty
denied some of the statements Of the
London Daily ZslegyapA "A heavy
snow and wind storm has prevailed in
the Northwestern States.-A destruc-
tive lumber fire has occurred at La
Crosse, Wisconsin. The Republicans
of Cincinnati have gained political
victory.--H Hanlan has accepted Beach's
challenge, and will sail for England by
the middle Of July.-Anoth ship has
been saved in mid-ocean by pouring
oil on the troubled waters - The
United States authorities are investi-
eating the case of the Honduras fill
busterers. Jennie Woods, handsome
woman of twenty, was taken from an
opium den in Chicago, and died soon
afterwards; she had smoked ten pipes
of the deadly opiate. "A meeting has
been held in Steinway Hall, New York
city, demonstrating against the unfriend-
ly treatment of the Chinese. Con
gress has passed the Labor Arbitration
bill through the House, and it has
been reported to the Senate. The
treasurer of Barnum's circus has alb
seconded with $7,ooo.-The Socialists
express great sympathy for the Bel
GUM strikers. "A Brittany paper states
that twenty-five cases of cholera have
appeared in Finistere.-The Leicester
races opened on the first of April. -
Right Hon. William E. Forster, who
was Chief Secretary for Ireland under
the previous Gladstone ministry, is
dead. -Four British torpedo boats will
proceed to the Mediterranean. The
Indian trouble still continues, and the
Navajos are now on the war-path.-
Washington Territory is to have a
Welsh colony of 100 families. The
anti-Chinese movement has reached
Mexico, and rioting is reported in
Guaymas on the fifth instant. The
Canadian Government has projected
another survey of Hudson Bay.-Fif-
teen thousand dollars are still needed
to complete the Bartholdi statue.
Thousands of workingmen are out of
employment in Vienna. An unusual
quantity of snow has fallen in the
Swiss Alps this year. - An English
firm is forming company for the
export of Dutch milk to London. -
NJ de .Lesseps is confined to his bed
in Paris from the effects of fall on
board steamship while returning from
Panama The Oxford boat crew were
defeated by the Cambridge crew after
a splendid contest on the third of
April The English steamer Brink
6n,n, laden with iron, was wrecked at
Fenwick's Island on April 6th--A
monument will be erected to John
Mccullough, the actor - Another
massacre has taken place at the Cath
olic Missions in the Province Of
Quang Bang, Anam; the number OF
victims is said to reach 422.-The
Government troops have been de
feated in Uruguay by the revolutionists
with loss of 400 men, The Bach
rach Silk Company has failed in
Vienna for $3.50, 900 "A Berlin dis
patch states that several villages have
been inundated in the Dantzic district.
1t is announced that Miss Emma
Houston of San Francisco will marry
Baron Brochetti, a captain in the
Italian Navy The President has
nominated Caleb w. West of Ken
lucky for the governorship or Utah
Large land frauds have beer
discovered in New Mexlco.-Tht
telephone scandal still attracts
attention in the United States. =
President Cleveland sent another Chi
nese message to the Senate on tht
sixth of April. Senator Sherman ha
submitted an amendment to the House
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