The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1890-02-25
LATE FOREIGN NEWS.

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youths have been arrested.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe has
much improved in health and
strength. She is neither insane nor
imbecile, as has been stated, but has
reached the stage of second child
hood.
The total debt of Australasia is
f167 sic, 401, or an average per head
of the population of f45, Us Cd.
Most of this great debt was incurred
for constructing railroads, which are
owned by the colonies.
Herr Sormits, editor of the Col
ogne Gazette, has been sentenced to
one months Imprisonment in the
fortress for publishing calumnies
against the Empress Frederick, the
mother of Emperor William.
The Brazilian minister at Brus-
sells has sent in his resignation, not
to the provisional government of the
republic, but to his master, Dom
Pedro, at Lisbon, whom he thus
acknowledges as still the rightful
Emperor.
February 5th Flint Morris of Jer-
sey City was expelled, and Perry
Taylor of Schoharie, N. Y, and Al
bert Wells of Dedham, Mass, sus-
pended for six and two weeks respec-
lively for stealing the clapper of
Rutgers College bell. All are sophie
mores.
Admiral Krantz, Minister of Ma
rine, proposes important additions to
the French navy for the year 1891.
His plans include the construction
of seventy eight new craft. of which
ten are to be heavy ironclads and
fifty four torpedo-boats of various
classes.
The London Times Vienna dis
patch reports that at Sofia the most
vigilant military precautions are
taken. On February 5th Prince
Ferdinand offered to abdicate if it
was thought best for the benefit of
the country. but the Ministers una
nimously opposed.
Prince Antonio Marie Philippi
Louis d'Orleans, Duke of Montpen-
sier, died suddenly February 4th, at
San Lucas de Barramanda. He was
in the sixty sixth year of his age.
The Duke of Montpensier was the
fifth and youngest son of King Louis
Philippe of France.
The work of removing the bodies
of the miners who lost their lives by
the explosion il the colliery at Aber-
sychan, February 6, is being carried
on as rapidly as possible. One hun
bred and seventy bodies have been
taken from the pit. 1t is believed
that the number killed will reach
100.
Alfred Thomas. a Home Ruler,
will at the next session of Parlia-
ment move an amendment to the
address in reply to the Queens
speech at the opening of Parlia-
ment that the affairs of Wales ought
to be administered by a special de
partment, presided over by Min
lister acquainted with Welsh national
affairs.
The Daily Telegraph says that the
report of the ParneI Commission
will be published during the first
week of the session of Parliament.
1t is precise and vigorous in dealing
with the forgeries, but finds it i'm
possible to exonerate Parnell from
his failure to separate political
organizations from organizations
that were openly criminal.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bradley Martin, on
February z, gave the most gorgeous
private entertainment ever given in
New York. The occasion was din
ner, followed by cotillion, given to
274 of their friends and as farewell
to New York for some months. The
affair cost $4,000. Delmonico's was
hung with tapestries worth fully
$4,000, and nearly $4,000 was spent
in orchids alone
Two shocking accidents occurred
February 5th at Roebling's wire
mill. Trenton, \. J. Chas. Cheattle,
aged IL years, was pierced through
the body and for an instant sus-
pended in the air on a red-hot rod
about three inches in diameter.
Young Cheattle was what is known
as ''hooker-up" in the mill. Mart
Molesky, drawer of fine wire in the
same mill, was pierced in the stomach
about midnight. He was a new man
and did not understand how to ar
range his wire.
There is now no doubt that Mary
Anderson is engaged to marry An
tonic de Navarro of New York. In
fact she has admitted. The pros
pective husband of the beautiful act
ress was christened, about 80 years
ago, Antonio Fernando de Navarro,
and he is the elder son of Jose f. de
Navarro, the wealthy Spanish-Ameri-
can who projected the magnificent
Spanish fats in Fifty-eighth and
Forty-ninth streets. These houses,
the Cordova, Madrid, Lisbon, Gren-
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