The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-01-12
FOREIGN NEWS.
(San Francisco, Jan. End, per
s. $. 50. Pdul.)

Different informants agree that
only fifty or sixty Chiricahuas, di-
vided up into small bands, are on
the war path in Arizona. 1t is
believed General Crook will use the
troops sent to him from the Preside,
aided by the troops already in the
field, to destroy the murderous
Indians.
De Freycinet was reluctant to
undertake forming new Cabinet in
France, on Dec. 31st asking Presi-
dent Grevy for time to consider the
situation and consult friends.
There are symptoms of an effort
being made in Ohio to prevent the
reelection of Senator Sherman.
A proclamation was to have been
issued in India and England on Jan.
lst, formally annexing Burmah to
the British Empire.
A London special of Dec. 3lst
says New Years prospects for
peace are not bright. Krupp has
supplied more guns in the last
month than in almost the whole
year previously. Turkey is still
massing troops on the Macedonian
frontier, and Greece is still in
warlike attitude. Large contracts
for cartridges are reported to have
been placed in the United States.
A fire in Detroit, Mich, Jan LIST,
beginning in ID. NJ. Ferry & Co.'s
mammoth building, about 8 O'Clock
in the morning, burned all day,
causing destruction of several blocks,
the estimated loss being 81, 800, 900,
of which the largest share is borne
by ID. NJ. Ferry & Co.
Lord Churchill's scheme of home
rule for Ireland does not include a
parliament, but popularity elected
administrative officers to replace
Castle government.
A collision was expected on New
Years Day between Federal and
State troops, the former trying to
prevent and the latter to enforce
the installation of municipal officers
in the city of Matamoras, State of
Tamaulipas, Mexico.
A majority of speakers at Re-
publican banquet to Senior Gorilla in
Madrid urged revolution against
the Government. The minority,
headed by Senior Salmeron, pro-
tested against violence and coun-
selled seeking help from the Moder-
ates.
The British steamer Sidonian,
from Leghorn for New York, has
been sunk off Syracuse, Sicily, by
collision with the Italian steamer
Malta; passengers. crew and valu-
ables saved.
New Years the Pope conferred
upon Prince Bismarck the Decora-
ton of the Order of Christ. Baron
Schiller, the Prussian Minister of
the Vatican, has been similarly
decorated. Emperor William has
conferred upon Cardinal Jacobini
the decoration of the Black Eagle,
and upon Monsignors Galimbert
and Moceni of the Pope's official
household the decoration of the Red
Eagle, in recognition of their valu-
able services in connection with the
settlement of the Carolines dispute.
A Montreal despatch of December
2Gth says: Yesterday, for the first
time since smallpox became cpl
demc, there were no new cases OF
the disease reported. 1t is re-
warkable fact that although there
have been over 800 persons en-
ploycd by the Health Department
rs sanitary police, isolated police,
hospital nurses and in other capaci,
ties, not one of them contracted the
disease. As a matter of course.
they were all vaccinated.
Frederick Harrison, in his annua
address before the Positivist Society
said that the British constitution
since the extension of the franchise
had been more democratic than thu
constitution of France and America
with less real reserve power. Th'
Government had become the com
mittee of a huge democratic clul
called the Commons. There was M
urgent need to form public opinion
Independent of politics and Parlia
ment. The Positivists favored
national government for Ireland
with legislative and executive power
but he trusted that the latter woult
not be purely democratic.