The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1889-04-23
OUR SAN FRANCISCO LETTER
Per Il. VI. $. $. ZeaIandia, San Fran
cisco, April :. 1889.
(From Our Special Correspondent
Foreign Affairs.

The great Eiffel Tower has beef
opened.
Emperor Francis Joseph is re
ported to be i'll.
Sheik Ell Senoussi has approached
within few hundred miles of khar
toum.
Emperor William went unexpec
teddy to Posen, and paid a visit to 6
large number of persons made home
less by the food. His Majesty gave
a large sum to the committee for the
relief of sufferers by the flood.
Sir Philip Henry Currie will sue.
coed Pauncefote, the new British
Minister to the United States, as
permanent Under Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs.
One thousand dock workers struck
at Marseilles.
The King of Holland is expected
to die any moment.
The House of Commons voted
Ell, 100000 to increase the navy.
Countess Rodetzky, granddaughter
of the famous Field Marshal Rodetz-
ky, suicided, shooting herself to
avoid critical surgical operation.
The Russian newspapers have
been prohibited from publishing re
ports of the discovery of the illicit
manufacturing of bombs at Zurich.
1t is said the Gar is thoroughly
alarmed.
Many nibilists have been arrested
at Wilma, in Russia. 1t is learned
that the bombs discovered at Zurich
we're intended to be used during the
Cars visit to Berlin.
Copious rains which have been Of
great benefit to the crops have fallen
throughout the Colony of Victoria.
Extra precautions were taken for
the safety of the Prince of Wales
while attending the races at Leices-
ter This was on account of an
anonymous letter warning the Mayor
that a plot was on foot to shoot the
Prince.
The Russian Minister to Buch
Arrest is instructed to demand an ex-
PLANTATION of the expulsion of Rus
SLAMS from Roumania.
Sonnenburg, Russia, is under
water; damage enormous; families
camping on high lands.
Murders are of daily occurrence
in Santiago, and assaults and rob-
berries frequent.
King Jonn of Abyssinia is reported
dead from wounds received in battle.
Emil Treitel, grain dealer, Berlin,
has suspended with liabilities of
100000 marks. The failure affects
New York as well as European ex-
changes.
Emperor William visits England
the first week in July, proceeding
direct to Windsor to visit the Queen.
Emperor William, as a mark of
renewed confidence, has summoned
to Herrenhaus DR.. Won Puttkamer,
who was dismissed by Emperor
Irish distillers have formed a 4
trust with a capital of f1,000,000.
jameson stayed out.
Business on the Isthmus at Pana-
ma is almost at a standstill. Several
hundred Italian laborers in Brazil |
have appealed to the King of Italy |
to rescue them from virtual slavery.
Brig Mary E. Dana, with arms
and ammunition for Legitime in |
Hayti, was abandoned at sea; crew
saved and taken to Glasgow. Fight
ing is reported in the Haytian in
5erior with unknown results.
Notes From Washington.
The President has appointed Jas.
\. Huston, of Indiana, to be Treas
1rer of the United States; Ellis II.
of New York, Assistant
Treasurer at New York; William
Wharton, of Massachusetts, First
Assistant Secretary of State; Corn
illus Vancott, Postmaster at New
York; Joel B. Erhardt, Collector of
Customs for New York.
The Postofice Department las is
ued notice to senders Of American
foods by parcels post to Hawaii, in
tructing them to mark parcels of
UGH, Manufactured in the United
'tates," so as to get the benefit of
.oods free of duty by treaty.
Secretary Blaine has been inform
d by telegraph of the purchase, by
n American syndicate, of the entire
amaica railway system. II
Also, by the consul at Auckland,
the wreck of the ship Red Cross, |
f Richmond, Maine, at Rarotonga, {
Il hands saved, the ninety destitute !
urvivors being cared for by the
onsul. The Red Cross, 1926 tons, =
apt. Mcintyre, sailed from New q
astle December 31st for San Fran :
sco.-ED. p. G. A. a
The Secretary of State has been 4
formed by the consul-general at >
[elbourne of a grand popular ova- n
on gwen the American flag, when 7
le representative of the United i
tates went forward in his order to 7
,celVe the AWARDS 10 his country, at n
le close of the Centennial Exhibi- 3
on, January 31st. a
American Affairs. n
Thirteen establishments were h
1rned at Attica, Ohio. "
Natural gas in terrific force and "
,Iume was struck near Palestine, c
hio, at a depth of 7C0 feet. a.
Bernard Blume, leader of a gang il
incendiarieE, Anarchists, has been n
rested in Jersey City. The gang h