The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1890-04-01

been arrested for embezzling the
Government funds. His stealings
extend over a period of q few
months, and aggregate about So, 900.
Fast living and fast women were the
causes.
The strike of the Union Moulders
is still on, and there is no prospect
of an early settlement. The iron
masters recently brought forty-two
moulders from the East on special
train, but all but six escaped or
deserted after getting here
A thousand men are still employed
in the park on the new road. Funds
are rapidly coming in for the relief
of the unemployed, and it seems that
the period of distress is over.
The Supervisors have finally fixed
the water rates for 1SS9-90 and 1890
81, and the long battle between them
and the Spring Valley Water Com
pany is over.
The fur seal island lease has been
formally awarded to the North
American Commercial Company, and
George Il. Jingle, who was formerly
a Government agent at the islands,
has been appointed general manager
of the company.
On the 18th inst, a committee APP
pointed at the recent River Conven-
| ton IN Sacramento, started for
Washington to appear before the
House Committee on Rivers and
Harbors, and ask for an appropria-
ton of S30,000,000 to improve the
Sacramento river.
Gabriel, the old Indian who lived
at the County Hospital at Salinas,
Cal, died on the 18th inst. He is
supposed to have been about $50
years of age. He distinctly remem-
bered the coming of the Jesuit mis-
sionaries to California over a cell
fury ago.
The details of deal by which
Alvinda Hayward and other mining
men were nearly swiDdled out of
100000 in buying the Mulattos
mine in Mexico, have just been pub
hshed. The Mulattos is owned by
two Mexicans, and though it is
nearly worthless, they succeeded in
sailing" it for the experts.
American News.
Major General George Crook,
Z. S. A, died at Chicago, March 21st,
of heart failure, aged 81 years. He
had fine war record. His place
will be filled by the promotion of
General Miles.
The World Fair Bill will be con-
sidered in Congress next week.
The New York Court of Appeals
has affirmed the judgment of the
lower Court declaring electrical exc
cution legal.
The Master Laundrymen's Associ-
alton of New York, has begun an
anti Chinese war. A fund of $780,
600 has been subscribed with which
to drive the Chinese from the bust
ness. The Chinese first tried to buy
out several white laundries.
The Mississippi State Supreme
Court has reversed the decision of
the State Court convicting John l..
Sullivan of prize fighting Sullivan
was remanded and held under bond
to answer to such indictments as may
be found at the next term of court.
Burchell, the murderer of Benwell,
the young Englishman, near Niagara
Falls, has been held to await trial
His wife was released.
A dispatch to the London Daily
News from st. Petersburg says that
the Russian government has been
disagreeably impressed by the meet
ings which have been held in Eng
land and the United States to de-
nounce the outrages in Siberia.
The lower Mississippi valley has
been visited during the past fortnight
by floods. Great breaks occurred in
the levees at many points and at New
Orleans the Sugar Exchange was
flooded out, the water being higher
than ever known before. Much dam
age was done to growing crops but
there was no loss of life, the people
being forewarned that the water was
high in the rivers tributaries.
Congress has declared the 'Chero-
kee strip" in the Indian Territory
public land, but it is not yet open to
settlement. Thousands of boomers
marched into the new country on
hearing the news, only to be elected
again by the United States cavalry
Deputy-Commissioner of Public
Works Bernard f. Martin, Deputy
Sheriff Patrick Martin and Deputy
Sheriff Phillip Walsh, of New York,
have been arrested for accepting
brides from prisoners in their care in
return for extraordinary privileges.
Foreign News.
The French have declared war
against the King Of Dahomey whose
force of Amazons and male warriors
recently attacked the French settle
ments in Senegal. The French in
tend to annex part of the country.
Prince Hatzfeldt the Nobleman
whom G. p Huntington, the railroad
magnate, bought for his daughter,
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