The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1889-12-11
VARIOUS ITEMS.

VARIOUS ITEMS.
Jefferson Davis is very i'll.
Three hundred coal miners are
on strike in Colorado.
A Chinese laundry trust has been
formed in New York.
The Silver Convention at st. Louis
passed a long resolution by Senator
Bland, requesting Congress to pro-
vide at this session for free and UNI
limited coinage of standard silver
dollars of the present weight and
fineness, to be legal tender for all
debts, public or private, equal with
gold, and that until such provision
is made the Secretary of the Treas
ury be required to Coin maximum
of 100000 worth of silver per
month, as now required by law.
Fitch of Nevada in speech laid all
of the blame for the poverty-stricken
condition of the working classes at
the door of the capitalists who de-
monetized silver.
The national debt decreased near
ly five millions in November.
The official estimate of the loss by
the Lynn fire is 81 ,009, 500, and the
number of burned buildings $50.
Seven thousand people were thrown
out of work and 175 families left
homeless.
A $50, 900 fire occurred at keyport,
N. j., and a $lS0,000 one at Hart
ford, Conn.
Eighteen men and boys haye been
arrested in Wisconsin for taking
part in lynching. Many of the
best families in the town of Preston
are implicated.
An insane negro ran amuck in
the Bowery, New York, badly
wounding three persons with a
butchers AK.
The students lfe-saving crew of
the Northwestern University, Chi
cago, in furious snowstorm and at
great peril rescued the crew of q
wrecked steam schooner.
Henry II. Stowell's mansion at
Athol, Mass, was entered and
robbed Of cash, bonds, and jewelry
to the amount of over $50, 900. The
robbery showed skillful hands.
Mrs. Parnell, mother of the Irish
agitator, who lives at Trenton, N.
j., complains that the National
League has abandoned her to desti-
tuition, after she gave all her dowry
to the national cause.
Samuel Strong has sued Ger.
Butler for 10000 damages for
SANDER. The defendant said an
agreement for counsel fees submitted
by Strong was forgery.
The jury in the Navassa island
riot cases, on trial at Baltimore,
have found one prisoner guilty OF
murder, another not guilty, and dis.
agreed as to sixteen others.
| A hippopotamus has been born ir
Central Park, New York.
Tom Roe arrived at Chicago on
the I'd from San Francisco, having
made the whole journey on bicycle
He started Sept. % and beat Ste
vens' record by "a hours 10 min
utes.
| The Baseball Players Brother
hood is growing fast, promising L
make formidable league for next
season. Michael j. Kelly, the
famous 5000 player, is in Sal
Francisco enlisting members of the
Boston nine who have not previous
ly joined the brotherhood.
An English syndicate has bough
the great plant of the Michigan
Stove Co. of Detroit, which controls
factories in that city, New Yorb
and Buffalo.
Six lives were lost at the burning
of bakery and dwelling in Phila
delphia.
Mrs. Mary A. Plunkett, "Chris
tian Scientist" was divorced by thu
New York Supreme Court, at TIN
suit of her lawful husband, for tax
ing to husband A. Bentley Worth
ington, leading &C. ST." who ha
turned out to have half a dozel
other wives lying round loose, from
Connecticut to Washington.
Mrs. James Lythe, wife of {
wealthy farmer of Livingston county
Missouri, died from lack of medica
attendance, having trusted to TIN
"failh cure" of christian science.
Capt. Bailey and the FIRST mate o
the ship Southern Cross are on tria