The Hawaiian gazette., 1888-03-06
LATE FOBbIdN NEWS.
San Francisco, February 14th, per
bark Ceylon.

N enter the BRUSH OaDlnet.
There Is still fire in the Calumet
and Hecla copper mine, Michigan.
A company has been incorporated
TO give Albany, Oregon, a street rail
way.
A promising vein Of coal has been
found near Sulphur Springs, Napa
county.
The United States Government is
issuing rstiOns to starving Piute In
dians il Arizona.
4 bin Is before Congress for a com
mission on the subject of the alec
bolic liquor traffic.
The Senate has passed a bill appro-
ur1ating S5O0.000 for the construction
Of a public building at Portland,
Oregon.
An amateur orchestra company,
composed Of society ladies of New
York is giving charity concerts in
that city.
Twelve Government and five Oppo-
sition candidates have been elected
on the second ballot to the Roum-
anian Deputies.
An agitation has begun in San
Francisco against diseased cattle
6aFing received at Butchertown for
she city's meat supply.
Il is proposed to build military
telegraph line along the Oregon
coast. Senator Mitchell has intro
duced a bill in Congress for the pur-
pose.
Ralph Lee, who shot the banker
Rawson IN Chicago, dangerously
woUnding him, has been sentenced
70 eighteen months in the County
Jail
Representative Hatch of Missouri
IS father of a bill to prohibit fictitious
and gambling transactions in articles
produced by American farming in
dustries.
Clara Belle Mcdonald, who tried
10 shoot her father-in-law, is now
before the San Francisco courts on
charge Of forgery in conjunction with
her alleged swain, Seneca Swain.
Shoemakers at Philadelphia are
ordered by their District Assembly to
remain out on strike until the manu-
facturers comply with the rules
adopted at joint conference in May
last.
About six hundred men are push
ing the cruiser Charleston on to com
pletion When she is launched the
keel viii be laid for the cruiser San
Francisco, to be completed in Sep
TENDER. 1889
The United States Supreme Court
at Washington has decided the Jung
Ah Lung habeas corpus case in favor
Of the Chinese. Justices Harlan.
Field and Lamar dissented in an
oral opinion
The first clause of the Socialist |
bill. prolonging the existing law till |
Sept. 30, 1890, passed second reading
ID the German Reichstag. The
Quinquennial Parliament bill passed |
N the Landtag.
Owing to the explosion in the Duns- !
muir mine, British Columbia, vessels
can get no coal, and masters are dis
charging sailors without . cent, leav- |
ing them penniless on the beach, in |
violation of the articles.
There is heavy cutting in grain
rates on the railroads in the Western |
States. D. o. Mills, director of the !
Erie road, has come to Its assistance
by providing money at five years for
the construction Of 500 grain cars.
New York police are raiding bucket |
shops. but each after being raided |
opens out as usual next morning.
" Bucket shops are places where
gambling is conducted by specializing
on the markets without any real
business being done.
Bills are before the Utah Legisla
ture. TO prohibit the sale Of tobacco
ID any form to minors under Is years
Of age, granting bounties for the
destruction of wild animals. and to
make future children Of polygamic
marriages illegihmate.
a party of Hungarians at Silver
Brook. Pa, returned home drunk
from a Polish church dedication. In
q fight lamp was overturned and ex
ploded. Six of them were roasted to
death. three were fatally, and six
more were seriously burned
A Rome correspondent says that
the Pope, IN an audience, in reply to
statements regarding the situation in
Ireland. said that he hoped to obtain
from England on the
Irish question, provided the Irish
adopted legal, peaceful attitude.
The supporters Of the French cop
per ring contend that the result of
the combination will be to transfer
the copper market from London to
Paris. and that its formation has al
ready increased the public fortune in
France 10 the extent of 100,000,000