The Hawaiian gazette., 1890-03-11

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wind and hail did great damage.
Lord Stanley, Governor-General of
Canada, has made himself unpopular by
neglecting members of Parliament in a
social way
Miss Edna Busch, daughter OF the
famous st. Louis brewer, will marry her
cousin, Hugo Reisinger, against her par
ents' consent.
Street-car conductors in st. Joseph,
Mo-, have struck against the use OF a
new device for registering fares.
Proceedings have been begun in New
York to, force the clearinghouse Of
Henry Clews & Co. to an accounting.
A mass meeting at Lathrop, Mo-, Feb
ruary 10th Endorsed the action of the
women who wrecked the saloons there.
Men from Arizona and New Mexico
appeared before the House Committee
on Indian Affairs to protest against the
removal of the captive Apaches to In
dia Territory
Eugene Callahan, boy OF sixteen,
fred three shots at Maude Hall, who is
a year younger, February 14th, and then
blew out his brains. The girl was not
injured. Callahan was madly infatu-
ated with the girl, and realizing that the
passion was not reciprocated, made ter
rible threats, which were regarded as
idle talk. The affair took place at Che
yenne.
The Salem, ILL.,, Bank vault was en-
tered by burglars February 18th. The
cracksmen got in the neighborhood Of
$25, 900 in cash, besides securities Evil
IDENTIFY the robbers found little trouble in
breaking into the vault. The safe proper
was Cracked" the old-fashioned way,
by use of gunpowder. The robbers over
looked at least 1000 in currency and
securities.
The towboat Port Eads of the st.
Louis and Mississippi Valley line during
a heavy fog struck pier OF the railroad
bridge below the city, Memphis, Tenn,
and in few minutes sunk. She carried
a crew of forty men. Seven lives were
lost.
The President has nominated Charles
Emory Smith of Philadelphia to be Min
lister to Russia, in place of Allen Thorn
dyke Rice, deceased. Charles Emory
Smith was born in Mansfield, Conn.,, on
the 18th of February, 1912. He became
editor of the Albany Express in 1865 and
of the Albany Journal in 1870, and since
1880 has conducted the Philadelphia
Press.
An accident is reported on the Chesa-
peake & Ohio Railroad at Big Pen tun-
mel, w. Va. The freight train approach
ing the signal station ran into an open
switch. The engine pushed the signal
station into New river and plunged in
after it. The telegraph operator,
engineer and fireman were drowned.
Rev. Albert P. Miller was awarded
$500 damages, February 18th, against
the New Jersey Steamboat Company for
refusing to sell him stateroom on &C
count of his color.
Jake Kilrain and his troupe exhibited
at the Opera House, st. Louis, February
14th. Tom James, of Dallas, met Ran
zia the lightweight of the troupe. James
was knocked out in the first round with
neck blow which resulted in his death
an hour later. Kilrain and the whole
troupe were arrested for murder, Kilrain
weeping bitterly.
There are a number of people who be-
lieve that there will be bloodshed at the
Republican primary soon to be held in
Sacramento.
Secretary Tracy has decided to present
silver service to Chief Parrish OF the
Fire Department and gold watches to
Policeman Cattell and Fireman Wright
for their heroic action at the Tracy fire.
Aninfernal machine containing powder
and gun cotton was sent through the
mails to John NJ. Mcbride of Philadel-
phia February 14th, but owing to its
faulty construction it failed to explode.
In response to a telegram received
from the San Francisco Board of Trade
the U. S. Postoffice Department at Wash
ington February 10th, ordered that all
the mails between San Francisco and
Portland should be carried by the regular
coastwise steamers between those points
until further orders.
In the mail received at Washington
February Sth, by Senator ingalls, there
was small pink-wrapped box. Upon
being opened the box was found to con-
tain a cartridge, with the following in
scription in black ink:
ELECTION pills for Old Cuff or for In
gals, from Jackson, Miss. Come to see
us, old Nutgalls"
Senator ingalls, was not alarmed at the
contents, but both he and his secretary
thought it prudent to lay the cartridge
carefully away, as there was possibility
that it might be more destructive than
an ordinary cartridge. On examination,
however, it proved to be buckshot cart
ridge containing nine large buckshot and
a charge OF powder.
Reports have just been received of
terrible experience of two Mormon elders
in Marion county, Alabama. The elders
were engaged in their work of making up
party for Utah, when they were notified
to leave. They paid no heed to the no
tice and that night they were called out
by party of men who came openly
without masks. Taking the elders into
the woods they gave them fifty lashes
each, applied tar and dried leaves
to their gaping wounds and then
the tar was set on fire and the
elders turned loose. They ran to a
creek few yards distant and jumped in,
which was the last seen OF them 1t is
not known whether the injuries are fatal
or not.
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