The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-02-11

freak, but it should be freely investigated
and severely dealt with whatever it NAV
be-
A truly revolving sect OF religious fan
atlcs have just come To light IN the State
OF Missouri kumors have been ahoat
Tor some time III regard TO this sect, but
it was hard IL locate them. The HUI
name Society of Kansas City finally took
the matter up and thoroughly investl-
gated it and report horrible state OF
affairs. 1t seems that year ago, one
SIlas Wilcox appeared IN the vicinity OF
Blue River and began preaching the
doctrine OF doing good for the sick in ac-
cordance with biblical lnjunctions. Tie
had eleven followers and founded sect
known as "Samaritans" He gradually
widened his teachings until he advocated
drinking blood Tor all diseases, giving
the authority OF the Bible teaching that
blood was life The committee visited
the home of John Wrinkle and found IA
man living on bed in the last stages OF
consumption. Two emaciated children
We're in the house, but Wrinkle denied
that he had been drinking the blood OF
the children. The appearance OF the
little ones, however, aroused the suspi-
cion of the officers and they stripped
them. Their limbs We're i'll a terrible
condition, the arms were covered with
sores about the elbows showing plainly
his efforts at bleeding, When confronted
with this Wrinkle confessed that he had
been guilty of the inhuman practice, and
asserted that the children gave their
blood voluntarily TO restore him 10 health.
The man could not be moved, but the
suffering children We're taken to Kansas
City and placed in home. The HUI
name Society will lay the matter before
the Governor as the Kansas City author
tiles are powerless to act upon the case.
Rumors were in circulation on che oath
OF January around Wall street and among
the various commission houses, of q
ST 900 900 failure in Ruenos Ayres, South
America. Nothing definite could be
learned, however.
\ strange phenomenon occurred in the
vicinity OF Blanco, Cal, during recent
storm, it being nothing more nor less
than the fall OF a shower OF fish. They
were OF bright, silvery color, about two
inches IN length, and instead OF fins they
had sharp spines about one-tourth of an
inch long where the pectoral and dorsal
fms should be. Some OF the fish We're
preserved and they are rare curiosity.
No one who has vet viewed them have
ever seen or read OF their like before.
In the not very long ago, that is about
the 1st OF January, a small wooden box
was found unclaimed in a sleeping car
arriving at Mobile, Ala, from Montgo-
merry. The box received some pretty
rough handling and was finally stored in
the baggage room awaiting claimant.
The other day it was opened and found
10 contain a number OF cartridges which
were pronounced by an expert to be dy-
Mantle. Lift it up tenderly, bury it
with care" said the officials, and it was
passing range the delicate way that box
was handled until it Was carried across
the marsh country, over the river and
buried under six feet of water.
Another horrible accident has been
| added to the already long list OF railroad
catastrophes that have occurred SO fire.
quently of late A passenger train on
| the MonOn railway from Chicago was
wrecked at a trestle near Indianapolis,
Ind. January 9th. The wreck imme-
diately took fire and several train men
and passengers were burned to death
Gen NJ q Vallejo, once the pos
SCISSOR of large part OF California, and
| the most historical character in this land
of gold, died at his home in Sonoma
| valley, Gala, last week. He was the
| oldest native son IN the State and had
| been elected an honorary member of a
| number of the parlors OF the order Of
| Native Sons of the Golden West. The
| town of Vallejo was named for him and
it was originally intended for the capital
/ of the State. California owes much to
the memory OF this grand old man, and
! it is only just for the State to look out
| for the best interests OF his aged wife
| and children When the curtain o.
death fell, it stilled the brave heart thai
has ever beaten in unison with people
| he had adopted into his own fair lanC
| and bestowed with a lavish hand it,
| rich gifts while he preserved peace among
the Spaniards and the strangers VIII,
had entered its golden gate Peace tc
the honored dead
Ex-President Cleveland has lost none
of his zeal in regard to tariff reform ant
advises that it should be most earnestly
pushed. He thinks that the thinkin!
men of the nation are massed a!mos
solidly on the side of tariff reform Ht
says, "Whatever may be our ups aDt
downs there is no danger as to the des
tiny Of a party which absOrbs the bes
brains, intelligence and honesty of the
country, and the cause which draw
these elements to it's support is sure o
ultimate triumph " He has no desir
to become the presidential candidate o
1899, although some of the Democrati
party leaders believe him TO be the com
ing as well as the right man for tina
} responsible position.
It has rained in California almost con
stantly since the first week in October
The Oldest inhabitants cannot remem be
another winter like it. It has been ex
} tremely cold, snow falling in alrno4
every country in the State, a thing, here
tofore unknown.
Lucia Iarate, better known as tn
Midget" and the smallest woman i
; the world, was one of the victims tina
: died during the snow blockade a
, Truckee January 29th. She had bee
sick several days and her illness wa
. supposed to have been caused by eatin
r canned goods. Her stomach was go in
2 famed that she could take no nourisf
ment. She-was twenty-seven years oil
2 and was born at San Carlos, Mexico
' When born she weighed hree-qnarter
. of a pound and now weighs very littl,
She was but twenty-seven inches i
? height. Her body was embalmed Sh
was the smallest human being eve
= known.
Miss Pauline n. Fyfe, native
+ Honolulu and daughter Of y. X. Fyfe
a Honolulu, and Julia G. Fyfe of Petal
n mu, Cal, died in San Francisco Januar
. | 28th, of pneumonia. She was beaut
8 ful and most attractive young lady ar