The Hawaiian gazette., 1890-09-02

the rails, and fell upon its left sld(
upon the engine. The lower for
ward portion was torn to pieces
and of the passengers in the car
some fifty in number, many were
thrown into the rear corner, from
which eleven bodies were taker
out. The escaping steam and smoke
from the engine instantly filed the
car.
| American News.
Nearly twenty-five lives were
lost in a cyclone near Wilkesbarre
Pa, on the 10Th inst.
Silver is still advancing on &C
count of the governmental pur.
chases.
Some efforts are to be made to
stop further immigration of Nor
mon converts at Castle Garden.
The New York Central strike
has not been settled, and the
Knights of Labor contemplate
ordering q general strike on all
roads leading into New York.
There was trouble between the
Pinkerton police and the strikers
in Albany on the 18th inst, and
twenty people more or less injured.
The New York "Sun' confirms
the fact that John d. Rockefeller
will give s2O.0OO,O00 for the estab.
lishment of a Baptist University in
New York. and hints that Professor
Harper of Yale will be its first
President.
The coffee merchants. of Balti-
more are very much interested
over the rumored formation of q
coffee syndicate with a capital of
100000. One dealer who has
relations with both Rio and Santos,
says the syndicate is for the pur-
pose of doing away with the middle
man, who is an importer in the
coffee trade. The syndicate will
buy up all the coffee it can from
planters, regulate the prices, and
ship to an agency in the United
States, instead of to the importer.
The Missouri Pacific Express
train was held up by masked men
near Upton, Mo-, on the 18th inst,
and 100000 was stolen.
Money is unusually stringent in
New York, and the treasury de-
partment will endeavor to release
the stress by buying more bonds.
Plans have been made for new
Herald building on Broadway, be-
tween Sixty-fifth and Sixty.sixth
streets, New York. The paper is
to occupy the building within SIN
months. The outside walls be-
tween the ground and the first
floors are to be constructed of iron
pillars and plate glass, so that the
people can see the workings of the
pressroom from the street.
The population of the new State
of Washington is 343,5 64. In 1880
it was 1911 Seattle has 1914
people and Tacoma 35, S5S.
Foreign News.
A dispatch from the City of
Mexico, August 81, says g The
treaty between Guatemala and
Salvador was signed August 18th,
Guatemala reservlng five days in
which to ratify the convention.
The conditions of the agreement
are the retirement of Ezeta from
the Presidency; that Ayala take
possession of the Presidency and
order an election for President, and
that the state of affairs existing be-
fore June 22d be re-established."
A dispatch from Melbourne says:
The union officers on many vessels
here have been replaced by non
union men, and the seamen have
declined to work with them after
the expiration of the time set in the
notice that has been served upon
The vessel owners. 1t is expected
the shipping trade will be CON-
pletely stopped before Saturday.
The funeral services over the late
Cardinal Newman We're conducted
1t the Oratory ct Edgebaston, near
Birmingham Eng, on the 10Th
INST.
La Canadien of Quebec appeals
to the leaders of the Ottawa and |
Quebec governments to provide
work for the inhabitants of the
counties below Quebec, whose crops
IRE total failure. Thousands of
'amilies are preparing to leave the
and unless the projected
Matane railway is pushed ahead, in
order to provide these families with
bread an emigration will take place.
which will be ruinous to the Do
nInion.
John Ruskin is rapidly sinking.
He is almost continuously delirious,
md during these irresponsible mo-
nents he attempted suicide with a
'azor. The strictest watch is kept
'ver him, but despite this he has