The Hawaiian gazette., 1889-07-16

many ddN >, but was n DdltutlN bSb
ter throughout the day. He was born
in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania.
in 1899 and was elected by the
United States Senate in 1915 and
soon afterward attained that intlu-
ence which made him leader of the
Pennsylvania republicans until his
death. He continued in the Senate
until 1869 when Lincoln made him
/ Secretary of War. He resigned in
1862 and became minister to Russia.
Cameron finally left the Senate in
1877.
The Union Pacific engineers and
fremen have compelled q restoration
of wages on the Kansas Central
Road, part of the Union Pacific sys-
TEN.
Mrs. Sarah Jane Whiteling was
hanged at Philadelphia on the morn
ing of 25th June at 10 O'Clock. The
body was cut down at 1910. The
crime for which Mrs. Whiteling suf-
! fered the extreme penalty of the law
was the deliberate poisoning of her
husband and two children for the
purpose Of securing the small insur-
ance which she carried on each of
their lives. Her husband died
March 20, 1883; one child April a,
and the other May 26.
hemnele the first man sentenced
to die by electricity in New York
Will not be executed without a long
struggle against it. He was to have
been executed on the 18th inst. but
Judge Day of Auburn has decided
that expert testimony concerning
the effect of electricity on the human
body and the pain of electrical
shocks must be taken. The case has
gone over until July 30.
Gold shipments for Europe have
been very heavy recently and thus
far this year over S40,00O,OOO has
been sent abroad.
Elk Commodore Smith of the New
York Yacht Club says the cablegram
received to-day ends the prospect of
a race for the America cup this
season. The yachts must challenge
through the clubs to which they be-
long, and as the Royal Yacht Squad
ron will not let Lord Dunraven &C
cept the cup terms, nothing is to be
said on either side.
RUsHFoRD, Mimi, June 2Sth.-A
combined cyclone, waterspout and
hailstorm passed east OF here last
night, destroying everything in It's
path. Il belt two miles wide and
thirty miles in length Is absolutely
laid waste, trees being as bare of
leaves as in winter. Immense trees
two feet or more in diameter were
torn up and twisted of. For two
miles in width the merciless hail
pelted everything into the ground.
Hailstones fell fully as large as a
mans fist
Shipping.
Secretary Tracy has granted the
Union Iron Works an extension of
time in which to complete the
Charleston. About six weeks viii
elapse before another trial trip is
made.
Proposals Will be invited in a few
days by the Navy Department for
the construction of four tugs, author
lied by the last Congress, at a cost |
not exceeding $4,000 each. They
will be stationed at San Francisco,
New York and Washington.
Those at San Francisco and New |
York will be $50 feet long, and the |
other two 80 feet.
The splendid oil steamer W. L. !
belonging to the Mission
Transfer Company of Santa Paula, |
was burned at the dock at Ventura |
on the 25th The vessel was taking |
on load of oil, continuing to load /
until midnight. The fire was dis
covered about l o'clock and it is not |
known how it originated, About |
1000 barrels of oil were in her tanks.
Ten men were aboard the vessel. but
no lives were lost. The ship and |
cargo are a total loss. The loss is
about $4,000, besides the oil that |
was aboard.
The British ship Cape Verde, Nit
chell, is reported wrecked on the
Australian coast, she was under
charter to come here and load +.
wheat.
The steamer Victoria is ashore at
Isle Yerte. The vessel is probably
total loss. She is supposed to be the
vessel whose cargo drifted on the
coast at Nantucket.
The Oregon Railway and Naviga-
lion Company has chartered the City
Of Topeka. She is fine iron steamer
Of HOO tons, and will be put on the
route to Puget Sound and British
Columbia in connection with the
steamer Idaho, which is not capable
Of doing all the business offered.
The ship Commodore f. Fl. Allen :
which departed on the 18th inst. for
New York carried 252,3S2 gallons of
wine and over $4,000 gallons Of
brandy, which is next to the largest
shipment ever made to New York
The total shipments of wine to New
York via Cape Horn this year aggre
gate 1,388,516 gallons.
The American bark Brazos, Capt.
Edgett, from Newcastle, n. S. W,
for Hongkong, has been wrecked
800 miles from Sandy Cape. Some
Of the crew were saved, the remain
der are missing.
On the 18th inst. the tug Relief,
which had been sent up the coast to
search for the abandoned schooner