The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1888-05-15
LATEST FOREIGN news.
San Francisco. April IS, per Bark
z. S. Thompson.

ReUies. defends the Christian faith
against Col Robt. Ingersoll's attacks.
Secretary Bayard Is pushing the
case of John Fanchier. citizen of
Nevada. who was arrested SIX months
sgo and impressed into the French
army.
Miss Mollie Green, teacher aged
Is, made q heroine of herself at Cy-
press Greek. Tennessee, by success
fully defending her school children
against mad dog.
Senator Stewart of Nevada has
secured the passage of bill amend
ing the mining laws. The same
Senator Is working for a public build
ing 10 cost S150,0O0 at Virginia City
and one to cost 100000 at Reno.
The House Ways and Means Com
mittee has agreed TO limit the general
tariff debate to seventeen days from
April 18th and two evening sessions
weekly, and to equal the division OF
time between the Democratic and
Republican speakers.
The committee of five against Pow
DERBY have addressed a circular to
the knights of Labor, declaring the
order had dwindled from 100000 to
10000, and calling on all true
knights to join the opposition and
help to re-organize the order.
An appeal of the San Francisco
Board Of Relief for the Sufferers by
the Floods in Germany states that
more than $1,000 people are totally
ruined by the foundations Of the river
Elbe and its continents. the total loss
OF property being over 400,000,000
marks, equal to S100,u00,000
Upon q call for correspondence in
the Behring Sea dispute, Sir John
Macdonald and Sir Charles Upper
assured the Dominion House of Com
moLs that they had the utmost conf
dence that the United States would
be forced to compensate all Cana
dians damaged by seizures.
At the annual meeting of the Union
Pacific Railway, held in Boston,
Samuel Carr, jr., was elected Manager
and Yice-President in place of the
late I. J. Potter. Charles Francis
Adams was reelected Presi lent and,
with one exception, the old Board
was retained.
DR.. ". f. Ashley and Eugene
Gross have been murdered by vigil
antes IN Indian Territory This is
the most atrocious deed enacted in
that country. where crime has full
sway and has assumed many hideous
forms. These vigilantes are in most
cases far worse than those they
seek 10 rid the country of.
Representative Bynum of Indiana
n the House assailed the motives of
the Pacific Coast lumbermen and
shipowners for petitioning Congress
not 10 put lumber on the free list. He
said that the lumber pool, which has
adopted all the methods of newly
invented trust, has simply made the
people of California pay about
SI.5OO,O0O into its pocket.
Senator Voorhees, of Indiana made
powerful speech on the 18th in sup
port of the Democratic policy In an
eloquent historical sketch, referring
to Senator Ingalls, imputation of dis
loyalty to Democratic leaders in his
speech of March 9th, Voorhees, con-
tended that Mcclellan and Hancock.
Democrats both, saved the Union at
Antietam and Gettysburg.
A telegram has been received at st.
Paul from Rome making new Arch
bishopric of Minnesota and Dakota
and appointing Bishop Ireland of st.
Paul Archbishop and Father McGol-
rick of Minneapolis Bishop of this
diocese Heretofore this was included
in Wisconsin and has been under the
jurisdiction of Archbishop Heise of
Milwaukee.
The latest device for evading the
Iowa prohibitory law under the late
decision Of the United States Su-
preme Court is the organization of
transportation companies, with head
quarters in other States and agencies
in Iowa The object is to put up beer
and liquors in bottles and packages
of various quantities from single
drink to gallons, to be sent to agents
in that State and sold in the original
package.
o. NJ. Shaw, an intimate friend of
Blaine and proprietor of the West
End Hotel at Bar Harbor, Maine, is
Just home from Florence, Italy. where
he LETT Blaine four weeks ago. He
says Blaine is seriously affected with
diabetes, and it is useless to talk OF
him as a candidate. He advises the
Maine statesmen to accept the situa-
ton at once and decide on another
candidate Besides, Mr.. Blaine was
In earnest when he declined becom-
ing q candidate
Philadelphia beat New York in the
opening league game of baseball, by
to 3 runs. Association matches on
the 18th resulted in scores as follows:
st. Louis 1, Cincinnati 5; Athletic Of
Philadelphia is, Cleveland s.; Balti-
more 5, Brooklyn 5; Kansas City 6,
Louisville Is. The Beanesters of