The Hawaiian gazette., 1890-03-11
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

Edward Solomon, medical stu
dent at Freiburg, was killed in
duel with pistols at three PAGES by a
fellow student
The Ottawa Ministerial organ, the
Gazette, in opposing the proposed
Alien Labor law to shut out Amer
lean competition, says the law of the
United States on which the Cana
dian bill is based is a failure.
The body of Hiram Sawtelle of
Roxbury, Mass. was found Febru-
airy 14th, horribly mutilated and
with a bullet in the heart, buried in
the woods near Lebanon, Maine.
Isaac Sawtelle, brother to the dead
man. is under arrest, charged with
the killing.
The latest indignity perpetrated
upon American traders In Colombia,
South America, is the looting of the
stOrehouses on the San Bias coast.
These buildings are owned by Fos
ter & Co., Leopold Schepp and Will
liam Heron & Co. of New York and
merchants of Boston and Philadel-
phia.
The House Committee on Mer-
chant Marine and Fisheries has by
vote of seven to six, authorized a ia
vorable report on the bill introduced
by Representative Dingley of Maine,
exempting American coastwise sail
ing vessels piloted by their licensed
masters or by United States pilot,
from the obligation to pay State pi-
lots for services not rendered.
The President has signed the proc
lamation opening the Sioux Reser-
walton in South Dakota. The proc
lamation is very lengthy. 1t recites
all the laws passed upon the subject,
and states that negotiations were
concluded in satisfactory manner
with the Indians. In conclusion the
President declares the lands open to
settlement at once, excepting such
lands as are reserved by the acts,
and warns all settlers from invading
the lands excepted.
The President has now under con-
sideration the agreement recently
entered into between the Commits
sioners of the Government and the
Chippewa Indians for the cession OF
part of their reservation in Mime
sofa. The coded lands aggregate
about 3,500,000 acres, and it is ex-
pected that the President will an
nounce his approval within the next
few days. The reservation, however,
will not be opened to settlement be-
fore late in the coming summer, as
the whole tract must first be surveyed
and appraised.
Oyster vessels coming in to Nor
folk, Va, February 10th, give par
ticulars OF q storm which caught
number of oyster boats. Seven boats
loaded with oysters started about the
same time from the eastern shore for
Norfolk, and the sloop Josephine is
the only one of the seven reaching
the harbor safely. Several vessels
we're blown to sea and have not been
heard from. 1t is supposed that
at least twenty lives were lost in the
storm.
The Council of State, summoned
in pursuit of the Imperial rescript,
opened at Berlin February 14th.
The Emperor, in his opening adj
dress, said:
"The council should endeavor to
frame a scheme for the protection of
the workingmen from the arbitrary
systems and operations of employ
ers, by which a gross advantage is
taken of their needs and their in
ability to help themselves by any
other means than the desperate rem
edy of strikes.
at should also attempt to protect
women and children against the
protracted hours of labor. At the
same time due regard should be
given as to how far German indus
try will bear the increased burdens
thus placed on the cost of produc-
ton without jeopardy to Germany's
position as competitor IN the mar
kets of the world.
"Not less important for insuring
| the peaceful relations between mas
tiers and men are the forms of guar
antees to be offered workingmen to
secure them the right to express,
through representatives enjoying
their confidence, their own state
ment of their interests in any differ
ence. The closest technical study
should be given to the making State
directed industries, patterns and ex-
amples of effectual solicitude for the
work1ngman's wide field of fruitful
action in helpful support and aid of
what the law shall ordain."
The committees, or sections into
which the Council is divided, are
pledged to absolute secrecy as to the
contents of the bills laid before them.