The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1888-04-04
THE
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1888.
Late Foreign News.
AMERICA.

Mrs. Garfield has announced the
engagement of her daughter Mollie
to j. Stanley Brown.
There were landed 2,262 emigrants
in Castle Garden Sunday, most of
whom are bound west.
There was q disastrous railroad
accident on the night of the 18th
inst. on the main line of the South
ern Pacific between Cotton and Indio,
near small station called White
Water. 1t resulted in the death of
two men and the destruction by fire
of thirteen freight cars loaded with
through freight from New Orleans
or Deming for Los Angeles and San
Francisco.
New York, March 14.-The after
noon papers estimate the business
loss, the contingent loss and the
actual pecuniary outlay which the
storm will occasion in New York
city at not less than seven million
dollars, and the loss to the States
involved at 100000, 900.
Washington, March 14th.-The
Ways and means Committee to-day
began the formal consideration of
the Mills Tariff and Revenue bill.
The entire document was read to
the committee by the clerk.
Washington, March 15.-Because
the statistical information expected
from the Treasury had not arrived,
the Ways and Means Committee to-
day did not resume consideration of
the tariff section of Mills bill, but
took up instead the internal revenue
portion and made some progress to-
ward conclusion.
Mckinley offered an amendment
at the proper place to repeal entirely
the tobacco tax, but this was voted
down.
New York, March 15.-Hourly
reports are coming in from surround
ing towns of fatalities resulting
from the storm. The names of
twenty persons have come in who
perlshed and several Who afe MS Is
sing. Grave apprehensions are felt
for the pilot-boats, twelve Of which
are still at sea.
New York, March 14.-It is esti-
mated that the loss to New York
business men, the railroads, shop
keepers and wage-earners by the
storm is fully $10,000,000.
Chicago, March ia special
from Boston via London says: The
storm ragged necessarily for over two
days all over New England. Every
railroad out of the city was block
AIDED completely, and the only tele-
graphic communication is by the
Commercial Cable Company's lines
to Rockport, Maine, and thence by
cable to London. Never before was
there such complete Eprostration Of
business, and the damage to property
must amount to an enormous sum.
The morning and afternoon papers
of Tuesday were devoid of all tele.
graphic information, and no trains
arrived in the city.
New York, March 15.-The biz
zard has largely increased the loca
prices of necessaries. The market
stalls are nearly empty and all sorts
of meats have advanced from 2 tC
cents pound.
During Monday night at the Della
ware Breakwater twenty eight barks
and schooners were driven ashore ol
forced above high-wa9er mark or
shore. Every effort was made tC
prevent this wholesale loss, but the
elements proved more powerful thar
man. The total loss to shipping is
estimated at between four hundred
thousand and five hundred thousand
dollars. Only two bodies have been
recovered.
Washington, March l9.-The Su'
preme Court this morning delivered
an opinion in the Bell Telephone
case. In considering the question
of the alleged anticipation of Bells
invention by the telephone of Refs
in Germany, the Court holds that
Refs discovered means of trans
mitting musical tones and nothing
more. Bells patent being for the
process or art of transmitting speech,
would have been just as valid, even
if he had used the apparatus of
Refs in developing it. The court
hold that the apparatus of Refs
was not successful in transmit
ting speech and that his invention
was not in any respect an anticipa-
tion of the discovery of Bell. All
the points thus far considered, in
the Courts opinion, in the telephone
cases have been decided in favor of
Bell, including the points set up in
the claims of Refs, Vanderweide and
McDonough.
Portland. March 22.-A serious