The Hawaiian gazette., 1888-03-06

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ended, the men returning to work.
Tennessee's Prohibition Convention
has named Gen. Clinton B. Fisk as
candidate for President.
Joseph Holman, the boy pianist,
is coming to San Francisco with Mrs.
James Brown Potter in May.
Joseph Dollard has been arrested
by Pinkerton detectives for $4,000
diamond robbery at Norfolk, Va.
Alexander Campbell. the eminent
lawyer, died at his residence in Oak
land on Feb. 18th, at the age of rs.
Two Mormon elders left Ten
nessee town under threats of being
tarred and feathered if they stayed.
Three Franciscan Fathers are try
ing to get up a big pilgrimage of
American Catholics to Palestine next
spring.
President Cleveland was received
with great enthusiasm on his visit to
the Sub-Tropical Exposition at Jack
sonvine, Fla.
A mandate for the execution of
Maxwell, the murderer of Preller, is
delayed until after hearing of petition
in his behalf.
DR.. Locke, editor of the Toledo,
o., Blade, well-known by the pseudo
nym of Petroleum V. Nasty" died
of consumption February 10Th, aged
55 years.
Joel Russell, late Prohibition can
didate for Governor of California,
died suddenly at Haywards Feb.
18th. He was &c years of age, a
native of Maine
1t is said the Nevada Bank lost
fully S15,000,000 in the recent wheat
deal. One result has been the es-
arrangement of Mackay and Fair. The
latter has retired from the firm.
The treaty agreed upon by the
International Fisheries Commission
has been sent to the Senate. Conces-
sions are made on both sides. There
is nothing in it about the Behring
Sea fisheries.
The steamship City of Picking ar
rived in San Francisco February
18th, reporting two cases of small
pox on board She is the fifth Pacific
Mail boat in succession arriving there
with that disease.
The National Democratic Commit
tee sitting in Washington fixed July
Sd as the date for holding the Con
vention. Selection of a place was
being balloted on, San Francisco re-
ceiving the most votes Of any one
place but not certain of obtaining a
majority of the whole.
A mortgage for S1,5GO,OOO has been
filed at Los Angeles by the, Los
Angeles, Salt Lake and San Pedro
Railroad Co., to secure bonds for
the construction of the first seventy
five miles of the road, New York
syndicate furnishing the money.
Members of the American Yacht
Club are jubilant over the prospect of
a steam yacht contest. Sir William
Pearce, the Clyde ship builder, is
building yacht that is likely to be
dangerous competitor The prize is
a cup made by Tiffany costing S12,-
500.
The United Verde Company's cop
per mine and mill, at Jerome, Arr
iona, has been sold to NJ Clark, of
Butte, Montana. 1t is one of the
richest mines in the world, but has
been idle for some time. As the for
mer owners held it at S3.500,000 be-
fore the recent rise in copper, it is
conjectured that the price paid must
have been a handsome figure.
The representatives of the Sharon
estate through their counsel, Samuel
S. Wilson and John Curry, have filed
in the Supreme Court petitions for a
rehearing in the Sharon case. These
petitions thoroughly discuss the law
of secret marriages, and purport to
show that such marriages were wholly
prohibited by the common law Of
England and are not permissible un
der the law of California.
The United States photographic
offices are making an effort to get
some more exact information in re
gard to the whaling industry sort
of census of the whalers, for example
All United States shipmasters, as
well as those engaged in the, whaling
trade, are requested to forward to the
Government photographer the num-
Der Of whales they see, the kind, and
the latitude in which they are found,
etc.
A cyclone on February 18th des-
troyed the town of Mount Vernon,
Illinois. Fire broke out in the wreck
to complete the devastation. From
twenty to thirty people are known to
have been killed and more dead
bodies would likely be found IN the
ruins. The Methodist church fell
few minutes after $50 people had left
the Sunday school room. Not less
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