The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1888-12-22
Late Foreign News.

rived off port at II o'clock Sunday
evening, with four days later news
than the Australia. Following is
summary:
The reward for the arrest of Tas-
colt, Smells murderer, will be in
creased to $4,000.
George Wetherell, the murderer,
was taken from Jail and hanged at
Canyon City, Col.
The British Commons refused to
discuss the sending of British troops
to the Soudan. The Government
was opposed by Lord Randolph
Churchill and narrowly escaped de-
feat.
Socialism is affecting even the
veteran soldiers in Germany.
Emperor William and King Hum
bert have congratulated Emperor
Francis Joseph on the fortieth ami
versary of his accession to the
throne.
Oscar Moore, three-year-old
child, is giving exhibitions of his
WOHOCIlul
Frank II. Bates has decamped
from Chicago, after robbing "Old
Hutch" of about $4,000.
Frank Van Ness has been ex-
PEELED from the American Trotting
Association.
Experiments with electricity as
means of producing death were
made at New York Dec, 5.
In the House Dec. 8 Vandever
introduced bill for the division of
California into two States.
Morrow has introduced bill pro-
viding for the building of new
revenue cutter for use on the Pacific
coast.
A movement for the erection of q
statue of Sheridan in Washington
has been begun.
j. B. Swearinger, manager of the
Occidental Hotel of San Buena-
ventura, was shot by an employee
Dec. 6.
II is proposed to build a seawall
200 feet wide around the city front
of San Diego.
Chinese gamblers have been hir-
ing substitutes to appear for them
in the Los Angeles courts and have
thus escaped.
Premier Grispi says the relations
between Italy and France are now
very friendly, and he believes there
ia No dancer of war
The Canadian press is aroused
over the proposition to annex Canada
to the United States.
Ormond, the great English race
horse, has been sold to an American
for Ell, 900.
The British troops are preparing
for an attack on the rebels at Sua-
kim.
Russia will resume diplomatic re-
lations with the Vatican.
Several Spanish Ministers have
resigned.
Wake, an artist connected with
the London Graphic, has been killed
by shot from the Arabs, who are
besieging the town of Suakim.
The British Cabinet Council de-
cided Dec. z to increase the forces
at Suakim.
The British steamer Bartlepools
has been wrecked at Egersund,
Norway. Only four of crew of
twenty-one were saved.
Dominick Mccartney has chal-
lenged John L. Sullivan for a fight
to the finish London prize ring rules,
within two months, near New York.
w. III. McBrayer, the well-known
distiller of Lawrenceburg, died Dec.
6, of paralysis.
Thomas Thompson, aged "a years,
pensioner of the war of 1912, died
at Rockport, Mass, Dec. 6.
A dispatch from New York, Dec.
9TH says: A syndicate of American
capitalists, formed in this city to
complete the Panama Canal, have
arranged to put up SIS, 100000. 1t
is expected to finish the work with
in two years. The syndicate was
formed through the exertions of
James d. Leary, famous for his ex
ploits with the monster RATS of logs
launched in Nova Scotia. Other
members of the syndicate are Nor
ton, Bliss & Co., Eugene Kelly,
and men who are already interested
in the American Dredging Company.
The latter company has 7,000,-
900 contract for dredging the Colon
end of the canal, and has perform
ed 100000 worth of work on
the contract.
A Zanzibar dispatch to the London
Times says: The coast villages OPP
posite Zanzibar are constantly being
burned by Germans. Bushiria,
with $500 men armed with breech-
leaders, and having two guns, on
Thursday forcibly occupied Baga-
inoyo. He intrenched himself 500
yards from the German company's
fortified stronghold, cutting off re-
treat to the sea and preventing the
landing of German boats. The
German men-of-war then lombard.
ed the town, destroying British
houses. A decisive engagement is
imminent.
The Boating Committee of Yale