The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1890-04-22

OF them nave sold their houses and
all their personal property, and GER
tainly several hundred people will
be gone by the end of the week.
Several months ago Mrs. Wood
worth, an emotional evangelist of the
first calibre. made her appearance in
Oakland She put up Il tent and
preached to the people. Her sole
text was to fee from the wrath to
come" Her converts became numer-
GUS and her tent meetings became
famous. Her victims by the score
became seized with fit-like frances.
Weak-minds finally began to give
way, and when Mrs Woodwork
packed up her effects about month
ago, the excitement was intense.
She had seen visions of the destruc-
ton of the city by earthquake and
water. Then others saw the same
vision, and at last one of the doom
sealers, Erickson, Swede, predicted
the destruction on the 14th of this
month, and others did the same.
Erickson was adjudged insane by the
authorities, and was sent to the
Stockton Asylum. His place was
taken by Bennett, man who rode
about the street on bicycle warning
the people to /" flee to the noun
tains." 1t is entirely within the
range of possibility that five or six
hundred people will be scared out of
Oakland by the 14th inst, and some
of the doom-sealers are already
camping on the hills back of the
city.
Blaine's Reciprocity Scheme
1t has transpired in the debate on
the report of the committee on Gus
toms Union of the Pan American
congress, the American delegates on
behalf of Secretary Blaine, offered
full reciprocity to the Argentine Re
public. 1t is also said that Blaine
will offer full reciprocity to all the
countries of South America. The
action is deemed most significant
and favorable for the development of
trade.
Inter-Oceanic Canal.
A dispatch from New York dated
the 4th says: The Nicaragua Canal
Construction Company has just con-
tracted for dredging channel and
harbor at Graytown to a depth of
twenty feet, work to begin within
forty-five days This is for the pur-
pose of transporting machinery and
plants for canal work and to dis
charge them at the docks instead of
transferring them seventeen miles
by railroad from Greytown. The
rock cut contracts for the work are
to begin Immediately. The con-
tractor and assistants sail for Grey
town April 29th. A railroad is nee
essary to carry in the contractors
plant and remove the excavated ma
terial. The latest advices from Mica
ragua report good progress on the
pier and pipe line of thirteen miles
to convey fresh water from the
mountains to Greytown.
The Commission of Panama Canal
experts has reached Paris and a dis
NAL report has been made to De
Lesseps. He is plunged into the
depths of dependency and at last
admits that the canal is failure.
Several sub-contractors are to be
prosecuted for swind)ing.
San Francisco News.
Senator Stanford, G. p Hunting
ton and all the Southern Pacific
magnates are here. Senator Stanford
has decided to resign the presidency
of the road, and Huntington will
succeed him. 1t is probable that
Charles f. Croker will become first
vice-president.
The Board of Health has decided
to ask Congress to set apart five
acres on the east side of Angel
Island in the bay, as site for leper
and smallpox hospital.
The strike of the iron moulders
continues and is without special
feature.
The Governor has appointed Louis
Sloss, Jr., regent of the State Uni
versity, vice j. S. Hager, deceased.
Horace Davis has resigned the pre-
sidency of the institution.
Ex-Postmaster S. W. Backus has
been Endorsed by the California dele
CATION in Congress for re-appoint-
ment to the position of Postmaster.
Ex-Congressman j. A. Louttit has
been sued for $4,000 for breach of
promise by Mrs. Emma Eastman.
Mrs. Xarifa j. Falling, who shot
and killed her husband for consort-
ing with another woman has been
acquitted by a jury in the Supreme
Court.
An English Company has been
organized to bring English farmers
to America and locate them on Cali
fornia lands.
The granite quarry men at Rock
lin, Placer county, are on strike for
nine hours labor each day.
On the LIST inst. l. w. Hellman the
Los Angeles banker, assumed the
Presidency of the Nevada bank. The
new directors are John W. Mackay,
j. l.. Flood, J. F. Bigelow, d. B.
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