The Hawaiian gazette., 1890-07-29
LATE FOREIGN NEWS.
The Steamer Farrallon Arrives With
San Francisco Dates to July 9th.

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| The steamer Farrallcn arrived
Wednesday with San Francisco
dates to July 9th, from which we
clip the following items:
The silver bill passed 122 to 80.
| There is political crisis in Sal
vador.
Taxes have been increased 6 per
cent. In Portugal.
Edwin Chadwick, the social
economist, is dead.
An extensive storm swept over
several States, July 9Th.
The telegraph operators in Eng
land are about to strike.
A drought in Mexico has caused
the death of 10000 cattle.
Twelve thousand teachers att
tended a school convention at st.
Paul, Mimi, July 9TH.
They are preparing for war in
Central America. Arms have been
ordered in large quantities.
A big London mob besieged the
police headquarters July 9Th. The
Life guards were ordered out.
China intends to borrow 30,000,-
600 taels of American silver for
strategic railways in Manchuria.
Ike Weir the Spider" beat Jas.
Connors, instructor of the Buffalo
Athletic club, in three rounds July
9Th.
A rich banker and land owner of
Sicily had to pay 100000 to Ital-
ian brigands as ransom for his re-
lease.
Edward HanIan defeated George
Hosmer, by half a length, in a three
mile race, at Sioux City, Iowa,
July 9Th.
Advices have reached Cairo that
the famine which has for some time
past prevailed IN the Soudan is rap
IDLY increasing.
The Louisiana lottery bill on July
| 9Th passed the House over the
Governors veto, by vote of IS
ayes to 81 noes.
England has given to France an
island in the Caribbean Sea, and
recognizes the French protectorate
over Madagascar.
Ex-Treasurer Archer of Balti-
more who stole more than 100000
of State funds, has been sent to the
penitentiary for five years.
At Trenton, N. j., July 9th the
wife of Charles Wilke, a German,
gave birth to fully developed
child with two perfect heads.
The worlds record in putting
the sixteen-pound shot was broken
July 9Th at New York, by George
r. Gray, who put the shot 45 feet
inch, beng one inch over any pre-
vious record.
A German "Jack the Ripper" has
turned up in Dusseldorf. A work
ing girl, aged II, was found in a
field, July 9Th, with her throat cut
and nutilated after the fashion of
the Whitechapel victims.
In accordance with the request
of America, Germany and England,
King Oscar of Sweden, has nomin-
ated Conrad Cehereeranb for the
post of Chief Justice of Samoa. The
appointee is now assistant judge in
Stockholm.
At Sheffield, England, an inn
mense petition was presented to the
Mayer of that town July 9Th, re-
questing him to call great public
meeting to protest against the Nc
Rinley Tariff Bill, which, if passed,
will hit the cutlery industry of the
town very hard.
There was no abatement in the
financial panic in Uruguay, July s.
In order to put a stop to the run
on the banks the Government issued
a decree making the 18th national
holiday. One million five hundred
thousand dollars in gold is on its
way there from Buenos Ayres, and
it is hoped that upon its arrival the
financial distress will be relieved.
In the U. S. Senate July 7th,
Morrill, moved to take up the tariff
bill, saying that it could be then
laid aside informally until the ship
ping bills were disposed of. The
Senate refused to do so-ayes 20,
noes "a. The reason it was not
taken up was, that several Senators
were disposed to take an indepen-
dent stand until the silver question
was disposed Of They claimed the
silver question was the greatest one
before the people.
In the United States Court, Phil
adelphia, July 9Th, Judge Butler
decided that the Lille patent for
sugar-evaporating apparatus is