The Hawaiian gazette., 1889-01-01
NEWS ITEMS.

| Prince Alexander OF REESE, unCtc VI
the Grand Duke Ludwig. is dying.
George Routledge. founder OF the pub
fishing house, is dead, aged 20.
Persia has waived her objections to the
appointment of Russian Consul ai
Meshed.
The authorities at Dublin have seized
thousands OF Zola's works, shipped from
! England.
NJ. Hammer has been elected Presi-
dent OF Switzerland and Nj. Ruchonnet
Vice-President.
The National Zeitung says the En-
peror's health is all right, and rumors to
the contrary are untrue.
\ petition in favor OF decimal coinage
in England has been signed by seventy
Members OF Parliament.
The Globe Hotel, Fort Worth, Texas,
was burned. The hotel guests narrowly
escaped. The loss is 100000.
The Meyer Sanitarium Hospital, at
| Youngstown, Ohio, was burned. All the
patients escaped. The loss is 5000.
During target practice on board \
French ironclad, in the Gull of Koran, a
gun exploded and killed one officer and
| five men.
Simmons, L baseball player, was
spiked by a runner in Il game ut Newark.
n. j., last July, and died December 18th
from blood-poisoning.
The roof OF llligworth's steel works,
Newark, n. j., in the course OF construc-
ton, fell in and ten workmen were more
or less severely injured.
Thirty persons have been bitten by
mad wolves near the villages in the
neighborhood of Orsov. The majority of
them have died, after suffering great
agony.
Two members OF the Republican So
ciety were arrested at Naples in an at
tempt to destroy the German Consulate
with dynamite bomb. The bomb did
not explode.
G.. B.. \. Bush, confidential clerk OF
Isaac d. Blauvelt, carriage manufacturer,
OF Paterson, N. j., has been arrested,
charged with systematic embezzlements
aggregating $4,000.
An escape OF gas at Quebec from one
OF the mains caused Il terrific explosion,
wrecking several houses, causing
$4,000 damage, and seriously injuring a
number OF people.
Nine oyster pirates were killed in the
nights naval battle December 10th, on
the Chesapeake Bay, and many wounded.
The cook and the mate of the Govern
ment steamer McLane were killed.
1t is reported that the steamship Glen
| gary from New York for London, was in
collision with an unknown steamship off
Gravesend and was greatly damaged. 1t
is feared that several lives were lost.
A famine is threatened in Northern
| China. There is still much suffering in
the flooded districts. Yen-Loh-na-la has
| been selected as consort for the young
Emperor. The Imperial Prince Aki OF
Japan is dead.
Menelek, King OF Shoa, instigated by
| the Italian Government which has sup
| Piled him with arms and munitions, has
rebelled against King John Of Abyssinia,
his father-in-law. Abyssinia is in a very
disturbed state.
Reports from Aiassowah state that the
powerful Benz and Bogus tribes have
deserted the Mahdi, and refused to
assist in the siege OF Suakim. Ii the
English troops defeat the rebels other
tribes will also probably follow.
1t is heard from Rome that the Pope,
DESTROYS of conciliating Russia, will grant
the concessions demanded by NJ. Izvol-
sky, including the introduction OF the
Russian language in Catholic churches
in Little Russia and Lithuania.
Secret societies, with extensive ramif-
cations, composed of young and edu-
Gated Armenians, have been discovered
in Russian-Armenia. The object of the
societies is to rebel against Russia and
establish Armenian independence
A dispatch from St. Petersburg says
the Rothschilds have contracted TO con-
struct at Batoum fifteen reservoirs for
storing kerosene with a capacity of $780,
600 froeds each. The Russians demand
that the Government restrict operations.
1t is asserted that an American svndi-
cate with a capital OF so, 900, 600 has
been formed to construct railroad in
Siberia, and that several former and
present American diplomatic consular
agents are interested in the undertaking.
The Pope has refused to bless medals
to be distributed in Ireland. He is re-
ported to have said: al cannot bless
them. The people of Ireland are dis
obedient. They seem to prefer the Cos
pei OF Dillon and O'Brien TO the Gospel
of Jesus Christ"
The Secretary OF the Treasury has in
formed Representative Morrow that he
would do. all in his power to give the
whaling fleet in Behring Sea and Arctic
waters relief station by ordering to
that service any available boats in the
revenue cutter and life-saving service.
The new Servian Constitution declares
the kingdom hereditary, with popular
representatives., and the religion Greek.
The electoral franchise is granted to per-
sons having direct taxes OF 10 dinars Ia
dinar being equal to a French france
yearly. The military service is COM
pulsory.
The Australian Yacht Designer said a
challenge will be certainly sent Tor the
America Cup. The challenging Yacht
VIII be compromise sloop, the chal-
lenge to come when the yacht is sufffci
emily advanced. 1t thinks Burgess can
build yacht TO defeat the Volunteer.
A fearful storm, with winds blowiro
seventy miles an hour, accompanied F,y
snow, has been raging at Cape Bretoi.
Many houses were unroofed and peopIe
turned hall clad into the bowling tern