The Hawaiian gazette., 1890-02-18

criminal idea and the sooner the author
tiles take hold of the matter and suppress
the sect with an iron hand the better for
the community, for wherever these fan
| atics 90 they are sure to find weak. mind
ed people who are easily influenced and
| willing to become their followers. 1t is
more charitable to consider it an insane
| freak, but it should be freely investigated
and severely dealt with whatever it may
| be-
A truly revolving sect of religious fan
atics have just come to light in the State
OF Missouri. Rumors have been ahoat
for some time in regard to this sect, but
it was hard to locate them. The HUI
name Society of Kansas City finally took
the matter up and thoroughly investi-
gated it and report a horrible state of
| affairs. 1t seems that a year ago, one
SIlas Wilcox appeared in the vicinity of
Blue River and began preaching the
doctrine of doing good for the sick in &C
cordance with biblical injunctions. He
had eleven followers and founded a sect
! known as "Samaritans." He gradually
widened his teachings until he advocated
drinking blood for all diseases, giving
the authority Of the Bible teaching that
! blood was life. The committee visited
the home of John Wrinkle and found
man living on a bed in the last stages of
consumption. Two emaciated children
were 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 were i'll 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 TO health.
The man could not be moved, but the
| suffering children were taken to Kansas
City and placed in a 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 the oath
| of January around Wall street and among
the various commission houses, of a
Sc, OOO, 900 failure in Buenos Ayres, South
America. Nothing definite could be
learned, however.
A strange phenomenon occurred in the
vicinity of Blanco, Cal, during recent
storm, it being nothing more nor less
than the fall of shower of fish. They
were of bright, silvery color, about two
inches in length, and instead Of fins they
had sharp spines about one-fourth OF an
inch long where the pectoral and dorsal
fins should be. Some of the fish were
! preserved and they are rare curiosity.
No one who has yet viewed them have
ever seen or read of their like before.
In the not very long ago, that is about
the 1st of January, small wooden box
was found unclaimed in 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 a claimant.
The other day it was opened and found
to contain 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 strange 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
quently of late A passenger train on
the Monon railway from Chicago was
wrecked at trestle near Indianapolis,
Ind e., January 9th. The wreck lmme-
diately took fire and several train men
and passengers were burned to death.
Gen NJ. g 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
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 of
death fell, it stilled the brave heart that
has ever beaten in unison with people
he had adopted into his own fair land
and bestowed with a lavish hand its
rich gifts while he preserved peace among
the Spaniards and the strangers who
had entered its golden gate Peace to
the honored dead
Ex-President Cleveland has lost none
of his zeal in regard to tariff reform and
advises that it should be most earnestly
pushed. He thinks that the thinking
men of the nation are massed almost
solidly on the side of tariff reform He
says, whatever may be our ups and
downs there is no danger as to the des-
tiny of party which absorbs the best
brains, intelligence and honesty OF the
country, and the cause which draws
these elements to its support is sure OF
ultimate triumph" He has no desire
to become the presidential candidate of
1892, although some of the Democratic
party leaders believe him to be the COM
ing as well as the right man for that
responsible position.
If has rainad in California almost con-