The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1888-10-02

ratify the new treaty with the United
Stats, and the Restriction Bill, Just
passed by Congress, is in the Presidents
hands awaiting his signature.
Yellow Fever Ravages.
Prof. Richard A. Proctor, the astron-
omer, died in New York of yellow fever
in its most virulent form. He had just
arrived there from Florida and was sick
only for twenty-four hours. The dis
ease has been increasing and spreading,
/ fully 1000 cases having been reported.
| Cases have occurred at Louisville and in
| South Carolina. Congress has voted
| 500, 900 to prevent the spread of the
disease and 500, 900 for the relief Of the
sufferers. In Florida all attempt at
quarantine has been abandoned. Doctors
and nurses are in great demand, some
have offered their services from Cali
fornia, and they 90 about distributing
medicine to everybody. Cases have
occurred also in Missouri, and wherever
| they appear people rush to the banks,
draw their money and leave the State.
! All trains from the infected districts are
being stopped, and shotgun quarantine
| has been instituted in some places. The
suffering is intense and fully 10000 are
being provided with food.
Floods and storms.
At the floods in Gifu, Japan, $50 lives
were lost, 200 houses destroyed and $500
persons are destitute In Spain the
rivers Xenit, Guadelfer and Granada
have overfowed their banks, destroying
villages and drowning many persons.
| Twelve corpSes have been recovered. In
Austria three-fourths of Trieste is sub
merged with loss TO life and property.
In the Tyrol all travel is suspended.
The valley OF Adigo is huge lake. Hun
dreds of villages were submerged and
the waters surrounded Innsbruck. In
Switzerland Il, 900 acres OF inhabited
and populated land were covered with
water, all crops, granaries, barns and
houses being washed away and the peo-
Pile fleeing for their lives The City OF
Mexico has been flooded, the water
pouring into the city from the lakes,
when 5000 soldiers were set to work
building dykes. The price of food in
creased as there was but little produce
in the city Typhus and other epidemic
fevers are following all these floods.
At Savannah, Ga, the rice plantations
have been flooded and the crop is al
most a total loss. At Pittsburg four peo-
pie were killed by lightning and hail
stones destroyed every bit OF fruit and
foliage on the trees, besides smashing
the windows. Augusta, Ga, was flooded
by the Savannah river, small steamboats,
being able TO navigate the streets. The
loss is estimated at 81 600 900.
Tho forS1 r,rrrn fNar nf DEATHS narsaI hxy
the cyclone in Cuba is upwards OF 900.
Women and children, and sometimes
whole families, persisted by the dozen.
Whole towns were wiped out, and large
stone buildings in the principal cities
were demolished. Large areas OF fertile
land, planted with sugar, tobacco, fruit
and vegetables were destroyed, crops
and plantation machinery were also
ruined.
Some Other Disasters.
The explosion OF threshing machine
at Ciron, France, killed and injured fiji
teen people. At Baltimore two oil
trains collided, with the usual result,
loss $4,000, but no lives. The powder
magazine at Esquimalt Harbor exploded,
and was felt at Victoria. An express
train ran into freight train at Cleve-
land, o., killing four and wounding
thirty-two people. The melanite factory
at st. Omer, France, exploded, carrying
burning debris for three hundred yards
and burning six factories and two houses
Foreign Affairs
4 famine is feared in India
The young Emperor of Corea will as
sumo full sway after his marriage in
January.
The Mayor, an old volcano in the
Philippines, is in a violent state of
eruption; three villages have disap-
peared near Libog and one hundred peo-
pie are missing.
In coal bunker fire on the steamer
Pembroke Castle sixteen men were
smothered to death, but the fire did not
reach other parts Of the ship.
4 famine is feared IN Egypt, and hopes
OF a further rise in the Nile are aban-
doned.
Near cara, Dalmatia, an amphitheatre,
temples and cataeomb, thousands of
coins OF the Diocletian period, and rare
specimens Of Grecian and Roman sculp-
ture have been unearthed.
The Ameer of Afghan defeated the
rebels under Ishak Khan and captured
kamard
A society has been formed in Paris for
the abolition of negro slavery in Africa,
and French gunboats have been ordered
to the West Coast to pursue vessels en-
gagged in the business.
Captain Beaker has started from Brus-
sells with 200 men to explore the North
east regions OF the Congo State. The
Germans killed $50 rebels at Zanzibar
The bakers Of st. Denis, France closed
their shops in consequence OF a NUM-
cipal decree lowering the price Of bread
The working people plundered the shops.
Another OF the mysterious murders has
occurred in London.
1t is believed that Prince Bismarck
viii retire in consequence OF disagree
ments with Emperor William II. over
army matters.
The Irish inmates OF the Emigrants'
Home in Glasgow, broke out in a riot
and wrecked the Home. The police
broke twenty batons in quelling the dis
turbance and arrested sixty-five inmates
Several Greek Warships have been
ordered to proceed to Turkish waters
Immediately
CIV. Peter, one OF the original mem
bers of the publishing house Of CasseI &
Co., is dead.
A mutiny occurred at Portobello Bar
racks, London. The men sacked the
houses Of Major Whitley and other Off
cers, destroyed their furniture and burned
the Majors photograph in the yard.
Marshal Bazaine died suddenly OF