The Hawaiian gazette., 1888-01-17
ATEST FOREIGN NEWS.
Francisco. january Sd. per B. 3
Australia.
UNITED STATES.

rhe gross debt of the city of Boston
34nder Mayor O'Brien has increased
#6.T43, ,727 81.
rhe fund as a testimonial to Edward
rgess, designer of the yacht Volun-
II, has increased to more than
900.
The brig Tropic Bird, abandoned at
"a in a gale, was picked up by the
<<eamer City of Topeka and taken to
nsenada.
Oklahoma boomers deny that they
7fatend to invade the disputed terri
4bry, but will look to Congress for
nrompt action.
In Philadelphia the liquor license
lee is $500, and the tax is driving out
a business large number of those en-
Eaged in the traffic.
Hugh NJ. Brooks, alias Maxwell,
hinder sentence of death for the MUIR
der of Preller, has embraced the Ro-
man Catholic faith.
The University of Pennsylvania in
fends to send an exploring expedition
ancient Babylon under the direction
~ DR.. John p. Peters.
Heikes killed 76 out of 100 pigeons,
6efeating Bandle, who brought down
3, at a match at Dayton, Ohio, Capt.
Bogardus being referee.
Disgruntled Republicans joined the
democrats in the Ohio Senate at Or
Gnnization, and defeated six of the
Hepublican nominees for officers.
The quarantine provisions of New
York harbor are described as disgrace
fully inefficient, although infected
sI1ips are not infrequent arrivals.
The body of John Galvagni of Gin
cinnati was cremated in that city
1ately. 1t was the tenth cremation
Which had occurred in Cincinnati
THE Port Townsend Board of Health
6As decided to institute a vigorous eX-
arnination of vessels from Sound and
Cbast ports on account of smallpox.
a gang of Lane county kuklux has
BEEN broken up in Kansas by the ar
resi- of all but one member. They had
BEEN committing outrages, including
4Tson.
The report of the Controller of Chi
r1fPo for November shows that the re-
#Ripts of the city during the month
mere 81, l40,3 36l, and the expenditures
&1 1,O52, 733.
The O. & o. steamer Oceanic arrived
Id San Francisco from Hongkong and
Yokohama on the 2Sth, with two
cases of smallpox Oh board and was
qnarantlned.
The international bridge at Sault
6te. Marie is opened, the first train
lhving crossed on December 3lst.
Ihis connects the Great West with the
Atlantic seaboard.
a Chicago firm is about to apply to
wire fence around a vast Texas range
% arrangement to pass a current of
cattle away from it.
There is excitement among the ne
Eroes in Colbert county, Alabama,
Mel the lynching of Oscar Coger, col
0red, caught in a second attempt to
burn a widows house.
The Anarchists have $50, 900 for their
mOnument to the Haymarket murder
efs, while the fund for a monument to
tie brave policemen who were killed
only amounts to $4,000.
Colonel Jameson, owner of the Irex,
has communicated to the New York
Yacht Club a challenge for the America
Cup. The new yacht is to be cutter,
eighty-five or ninety feet long on the
Reel.
The Trustees of the East River
Brooklyn, n. " Bridge have been
Uttered $4,000 a year by business
man for the privilege of making the
Bridge bill board for his advertising
placards.
Owing 10 the frequency of incen-
iary fires in Nashua, n. H., it is said
he insurance companies are contem-
plating withdrawal of protection.
There have been twenty such fires in
bur months.
4 There is movement in North Car
q ina for the repeal of the present law
ensiOning Confederate soldiers, the
+ Eensions granted by which are too
4 nall to be of anuch service, and de-
Il Fptlng the money SO appropriated to
ne building of Soldiers Home.
Daniel Manning, ex-Secretary of the
Feasury in Cleveland's Cabinet, died
IEcember oath, aged Sc. He was
u9ted more for strong common sense
IN brilliancy, and he it was who
zLenght Cleveland out to be Governor
Jew York and subsequently Presi-
General Washington Seawell was
lying at the point of death in San
Emncisco at last advices. He was
boFn in 1862, and is the second oldest
neral on the retired list of the
united States army. He made bril-
mi record in the border service long
Philadelphia capitalist, Hamilton
Disston, has expended over $1,000, 900
"a reclaiming swamp lands in Florida.
Al number of thriving towns have
BrDwn up in the reclaimed territory,
&Eld the work of dredging and cutting
4anals is being energetically prose-
led.
The Liberty League of Boston has
4aeided to take up the case of Rev. Mr..
Aris, who was sent to Jail for speak
IuE on the Boston Common without a
init from the city authorities. The
gue's members claim that this is a
iation of the spirit and letter of the
l4Astitution.
M order to decide as to the owner
6nip OF hog that was claimed by two
sons, Kentucky Justice released