The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1888-02-28
LATE FOREIGN news.
American and European Happen
ings in Brief Form.
Cholera continues bad in Chill.


parliament five years has passed third
reading in the German Reichstag.
The memorial to General Logan in
the Metropolitan Methodist Church
at Washington was dedicated Feb. 8.
Many arrests have been made in
Southern Russia, owing to the dis
covery of an extensive agrarian move
ment.
The Prince of Wales grievously
annoyed an audience at the Opera
Comique, London, by loud converse
ton with his companions in the royal
box.
The Supreme Court of California
has decided the appeal in the Sharon
alimony case in favor of Sarah al
thea Hill, plaintiff, wife of the late
ex-senator Sharon.
General Yannovak, Russian Minis
ter of War, has issued an order of the
day in accordance with the decision
of June, 1887. forming a mobilizing
section at artillery headquarters.
There is a wide breach between
Father McGlynn and Henry George
The former says the Anti-Poverty
Society can get along well without
George if he does not come back to it.
A Russian paper says that mum
Der of patriotic St. Petersburg CAPT
talists are forming a company for the
purpose of acquiring fast steamers
which can be easily converted into
armed cruisers.
Albert ]. Smell of Chicago has
offered a reward of $4,000 for the
arrest or information leading to the
arrest of the murderer or murderers
of his father, the millionaire who was
murdered in his house by burglars.
In reference to an invitation of the
California Board of Trade to work
men to come to the Pacific Coast, the
New York World says it is in posi-
ton to state that the labor market of
the Pacific Coast is not in any better
position than that east of the Rockies.
Chicago Anarchists are in a panic
over the publication of a slate
writing, obtained through Spiritual
list medium, which purports to be a
letter from their executed comrade
Spies, who believed that death ended
all but, according to this communica-
ton, found cut his mistake.
Application for bail under writ of
habeas corpus was made before the
Supreme Court of California in bank
February Sd, on behalf of Dr. Llewel
lyn A. Powell, who killed Ralph S.
Smith at Redwood City on November
18th. The Court some days later
granted bail in $4,000, which was
deposited by several bondsmen.
A woman in Wilton, who thought
that she deserved a pension, tried to
get one, but failed because her mar
rage took place after her husbands
discharge from the army. But she
didn't give up. She Investigated her
first husbands record, found that he
was soldier in the Mexican war, and
has Just received a pension of IS
month.
With the advent of the dry season
work has been generally resumed on
the Panama canal, and there is great
activity on both sections. At Culebra
preparations are being made for I'M
interrupted work, day and night. The
electric light has been introduced
there for this purpose. Other i'm
portant arrangements have been
made at MANY points.
The British bark Abercorn, from
Maryport, England, for Portland,
went ashore near Gray's harbor,
Oregon, Jan. Both. Only two men
and the cabin boy were saved, and
that by the heroic exertions of a sea
otter hunter named Mcintyre and
some Indians. Pilot johnson, who
went on board at the mouth of the
Columbia river, was among the lost.
The New York Post, giving statis-
tics concerning the decrease of wine
making in France because of the raw
ages by the phylloxera and mildew,
reports that the production has fallen
off more than 100000 hectoliters
since 1877, but says that the manu-
facture of wines from raisins was last
year increased $4,000 hectoliters and
/ the importation of foreign wines
reached 10,582,0OO hectoliters; at the
same time the wine production in
Algeria is increasing and last year
100000 hectoliters of Algerian wine
were produced.
1t is said that Secretary Bayard
and Chang Yang Hoe have come to
an agreement in regard to the total
exclusion treaty between the United
States and China. The document,
which was expected to be sent to the
Senate in few days, amends the
present treaty so that all Chinese,
whether they are the subjects of the
Empire of China or the subjects of
Great Britain, shall be excluded from
entering the United States. There
is, however, no deportation clause in
the treaty. The Cinnamon who are
/ there will have the right to remain,