The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1890-08-12
ONE DAYS LATER NEWS.
The Barkentine $. G. Wilder Makes =
Quick Trip From the Coast.


The barkentine S. @. Wilder,
Capt. Grifiths, arrived Saturday,
twelve and half days from San
Francisco. leaving there one day
later than the Mariposa. From a
paper of July 9th we clip the fol-
lowing items:
John D. FIske, theatrical man,
was shot down and instantly killed
by Joseph L. Stillman, the lnven-
tor. at Fresno. CAL, July Goth.
While running Stillman, after taking
aim, put three bullets into him. A
famous divorce case is now settled.
The inventor is under arrest, and
declares that FIske bounded him
and tried to blackmall him.
The Norwegian bark Varnia,
Captain Bal, which arrived at
Gloucester, Mass, July 10th from
Trapani, reports that on June Goth,
IN latitude fl degrees IS minutes,
longitude % degrees 5 minutes,
she ran into and sunk the Danish
brigantine Metto, from the Rio
Grande to the British channel for
orders. Captain Thorngerson and
his crew of six men We're rescued
and landed at Gloucester.
A dispatch from Saratoga says:
The Bliss diamond robbery is once
more prominent. The reward has
been increased TO $4,000 for the
return of the property and convlc-
ton of the thieves and $4,000 for
the recovery of the jewels, with no
questions asked. The police con-
fess themselves mystifed and
bafled.
Twenty-one persons were in
danger from eating supposedly
poisoned meat at Rice Lake, Wis,
July Goth.
The corner stone of the Masonic
Temple at Buffalo, which is to be
one of the finest buildings of the
fraternity IN the United States, was
laid July 10Th with imposing cere-
monies.
William g. Judge, General Sec
rotary Of the. American section of
the TheosophicaI Society, and Pres
ident Of the New York branch,
through his attorneys has prepared
s. voluminous complaint in $4,000
libel suit against the New York
Sun printing and publishing asso-
citation. The complaint is based on
syndicate article entitled = Bla-
vatsky Unveiled" published by the
"Sun."
a special from Warsaw, \. Y.
says an English syndicate has an
nounced its readiness to purchase
the Washington Bar gold mine OF
Madison County, Mont.
". H. Henderson, ex-Attorney-
General of Arkansas, and Federal
Judge in New Mexico under Cleve-
lands administration, is dead.
Nathaniel F. Locke, the father of
the late D. P. Locke, better known
as Petroleum V. Nasty" died at
Toledo. Ohio, on July Goth, at the
age of 81.
a terrible cyclone struck Law
renee, Mass, shortly after 9 o'clock
on the morning of July 26th. caus-
ing great damage and loss of life.
a heavy rain was falling, and sud
denly q black cloud descended
upon South Lawrence, tearing trees
up by the roots, overturning houses
and causing frightful havoc. Over
one hundred houses on Springfield,
Salem and Portland streets were
wrecked. Six people were killed
outright, six others died from in
juries received and between twenty
and thirty more were seriously in
jured, some fatally. The cyclone
took 8 northeasterly course. After
the storm the sight was a terrible
one.
Queen Victoria is said TO be deep
" stirred by the trouble in the
Second Battalion OF the Grenadier
Guards. which has resulted IN the
Punishment Of that favorite body of
household troops to Bermuda. The
very decorations bestowed by the
Queen after the Egyptian campaign
have been contemptuously DIS
carded by the veterans, driven to
desperation through severe and OPP
pressiYe treatment.
The Russian feet in the Black
Sea is getting ready for a naval de-
mOnstration which it is expected
will sustain the next demand upon
the Porte for the payment of the
war indemnity.
The tariff bill was resumed, July
26tb, in the House, and Morgan ad-
dressed the Senate, stating that it
bore heavily upon the Iaboring
classes. The colored people, he
said, were capitalists, manufae-
turers or skilled workmen and