The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1890-12-26
LATEST FOREIGN news.
(San Francisco, Dsc. IS, per s. s.
Chmo.)
United srArEa.

Heavy snow storms nave oecn eN-
perienced throughout the Middle
and Eastern States.
The coal miners strike In Ala
bama has assumed serious turn.
The iron workers agree TO refuse to
work with coal worked by convict
or scab miners il the strikers ask
them to do so. This would mean
that 5000 more men will join the
strikers. Already the strike has
seriously injured business.
The Tacoma (Washington) Coal
Company has just finished drift
through $50 feet of granite, and ii
IS said vein nine feet thick of al
most pure coal has been struck.
The vein has been traced for 10000
feet, and the company estimates
that it contains over three million
tons, and that it all can be mined
without trouble from water.
The markets are still depressed.
Many failures are reported from diff
ferent parts.
1t is reported that the negroes in
Dakota have caught the Messiah
craze and are holding nightly meet
ings.
Gloom has fallen on the Demo-
Gratis in South Carolina over the de-
feat of General Wade Hampton in
the Senatorial. contest. He was
beaten by the Farmers Alliance
movement, q lieutenant of which,
John Laurens Manning Irby, was
elected. Democrats went round
with Grape on their clothing and
tears in their eyes.
GREAT DISCOVERY.
The announcement is now made
that by the ingenuity Of Mr.. EN-
anuel aluminium can be freed from
kaolin at cost of about $3.50 a
ton, that price being 1000 times less
than by the Pittsburg process. As
there is now more demand in the
world for aluminium for mechanical
purposes than there is for gold, the
immensely of the field is realized
and the fortune open for the dis
coverer will be apparent.
SHOCKING PARRICIDE.
Carl Holtz, an aged widower, wa'
murdered by his son Paul aged Is
in Chicago, by cutting his jugula
vein. The youthful parricide tolc
the police his father had attempted
suicide. When the police reached
the house the old man was still aliv
and wrote on a piece of paper
"Paul Holtz did it," A few Mo
ments before his death, when hi
throat had been bandaged, t
the surprise of every one present
the old man in hoarse tones, with
finger pointing to his son, said
"You have killed me, Paul, but yo
can never enjoy the money. Go
will punish you for this"
THE AUSTRALIAN MAIL SERVICE.
At a meeting of committees of tn
, various commercial bodies of Sa
Francisco the recommendation wa
Endorsed which President Harriso
ma lie in his annual message 18th;
r adequate provision be made b
| Congress at the present session
n insure the permanence of the Au'
tralian mail service from San Fran
cisco under the American flag, whic
is rendered doubtful by reason {
! the refusal of Australia to contr
' butte further to the cost and the III
q willingness of New Zealand to al
cept the entire financial respons
!. bility; also, that the maintenance
I of direct mail communication wit
! New Zealand and Australia and I'll
adjacent South Pacific Islands
necessary to the protection and d.
velopment of American commerce.
THE INDIAN TROUBLES.
:. The famous chief Sitting Blu
with seven other Indians were kille
0 in a fight with the Indian polio
o Four policemen were killed an
q three wounded. The police we
SuTIOunucu lOT sOlne Iluic, Dul iuai
e tanned their ground until relieve
IF by United States troops, who no
e have possession of Sitting Bull
camp, with all the women. childre
# and property. Red Tomahawk WI
: the one who killed Sitting Bull.
J, The Cheyenne camp has bee
It aroused by courier with the new
# that party of fifteen men was b
IS sieged at Days ranch. The couri
S who brought the news had to NAL
: break tblough the Indians, fri
# both pistols right and left and r
ceiying bullet in his overcoa
General Carr sent Major Tupp,
with 100 men to the rescue.
s CANADA.
The west-bound express fro
Halifax on the Inter-cOlonial Ra