The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1890-03-11

highest DlQQer was the NOrbu AmeT-
lean Commercial Company OF San
Francisco which consists of Lloyd
Tevis,' d. o. Mills and Herman
Liebes the former as well as others.
They offered S10.625 a skin. The
Alaska Commercial Company offered
1915.
John Jacob Aston the richest land
holder in America died at New York
on the 22d inst. of heart failure. He
was sixty five years old and left one
son to whom his vast estate valued
at S150,OO0,000 is left.
A starch trust including all the
leading Eastern manufacturers has
been organized.
Sturdy opposition is being made
to the proposed removal of Geroni-
mo and his band of Apaches from
Florida to Fort Sill, Indian Terri
tory.
A scandal has arisen in Wash
ington about the purchase Of the
San Francisco post office site and
Postmaster Bryan and John P. Irish,
editor of the Alta are accused by the
Examiner of jobbery in this connec-
ton. Both are on the site commits
sion and it is charged that they
wanted to sell large lot at Mission
and Eighth streets to the govern
ment for 100000 getting it them.
selves for S650,0O0. The exposure
has made great sensation.
Chicago has been designated by
the House of Representatives as the
location for the Worlds Fair of
1892. The United States Senate is
expected to concur sin the choice.
Chicago led in the voting from the
beginning but eight ballots were
necessary to decide.
1t is reported that Father Nc.
Glynn, Henry Georges old asso-
ciate, is to be re-instated as a priest
of the Catholic Church.
The Pan American Congress will
recommend the establishment of
steamship lines between North and
South America both on the Eastern
and Western sides It will also re-
commend the construction OF rail-
road between this country and the
Argentine Republic.
European Affairs.
The Vossiche Zeitung says the an
tagonism between the Emperor and
Prince Bismark has reached point
that will necessitate the retirement
of the latter. The Emperor is de-
clared to be thoroughly disguised
with the present system of political
police.
The socialists made surprising
gains in the recent German elections.
They swept Leipsic, Magdeburg and
other cities, and made strong
showing in Berlin. They will cut
great figure at the next session of
the Reichstag.
A dispatch from Melbourne dated
the 18th February says: The colo
NAL conference has unanimously
adopted Sir Henry Parkes' motion
in favor of colonial federation.
George KEENAN,, the Siberian trsv-
eler has evidence confirming the
news of the horrible massacre of
exiles at Kara, Siberia. He offers to
prove all his statements, but the
Russian Government will not pay
any heed to him.
Great Britain has ordered fifty
dynamite guns for coast defense.
The Right Hon. Louis Mallet,
@. B., the wellknown authority on
commercial treaties, died at London,
February 18th, of influenza.
Charles r. Flint of New York has
received letter from Rio de Janeiro
saying that Dom Pedro will I'M
doubleday be allowed to return to
Brazil as citizen of the Republic.
At a meeting of the General Steam
Navigation Company of London,
which was held on the 25th of Feb
ruary, the report of the company
showed that the recent strike of
laborers cost sum equal to divi
dend of 10 per cent. The cost of
labor was increased 35 per cent. The
report further said that if the strike
were renewed the bulk of the ship
ping trade would be diverted to
other places.
Statistics are published at Berlin
showing the military expenditure of
the great powers during the past
three years. France spent $685.
100000 marks, Russia 1884, 100000
marks, Great Britain 2,475, 100000
marks, Germany 2, 43O, 100000 marks,
Austria-Hungary1 l, 1862, 000,0 900 marks,
and Italy 1,254, 100000 marks.
Count Gyula Andrassy, the we'll
known Hungarian statesman, died at
Volsosca, near Feume, on the 18th
INST. Death was caused by cancer
Count Andrassy was born in 1923,
and his family was one of the oldest
and proudest in Hungary.
A dispatch from Pekin, dated Feb
ruary 23rd, says that a hurricane
drove a Chinese boat to sea, and
5000 fishermen were drowned.
The Duke of Orleans has been
pardoned and sent out of France
Louise Michel intends to nurse the
lepers at New Caledonia.