The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1891-08-25

AWA1AN GAZETTE, TU,
committed suicide by poison recently.
He was respondent about Threatened
heart disease.
Matthew Carrin, an aged leper, has
escaped from the Pesthouse- He scaled
the wall, and it is believed that he trav--
eled south along the San Bruno road
toward San Mateo. There Will be little
trouble in finding the unfortunate man,
for the marks OF his disease are too PLAN
to escape notice, but it viii take some
body with stout heart to capture hlm.
Two hundred and forty Chinese "mer-
chants" are booked TO arrive on the
steamship Oceanic from China. lie
courts are preparing to check the III
fiux.
Adolph Sutro is building summer
baths north of the Cliff House. 1hey
will cost $500, 200.
The National Librarians Association
viii meet in San Francisco shortly.
Petroleum has been discovered near
Petralla in Humboldt county.
A new wave motor is soon TO be tested
near Point Labos.
The squabble over the Chief OF the
Department OF Horticulture and Nll-
culture of the Worlds Fair continues.
1t is believed that ]. De Barth Shorb OF
San Gabriel will get the place.
The city debt is S617.9l4.
The profits of the recent Fete Cham
petre for Charity at Sutro Heights were
s., So.
James q. Fair has been beaten out OF
500 by bunco sharp. There is talk
among Pine street operators OF present.
ing the man, whose name is Bayard
Saville, with a testimonial.
American News.
The weather in New York on August
10th was the hottest in twenty years and
many people dropped dead in the
tirely suspended.
Fred Douglass, Minister to Hayti, has
resigned his position. His stated reason
for so doing is that he is now 20 years OF
age and too old for public labors.
The only Patti has announced that she
will make another farewell tour of
this country.
The result of the international Postal
Convention at Vienna is that the Aus
tralian Colonies have been admitted to
the Postal Union; after July /, 1892,
each country in the Union will be re-
quired to issue double postal card for
foreign service. The Colonies will come
into the Union on October LIST next.
Thus far seventy seal poachers have
been warned to leave Behring sea under
penalty of seizure by United States war
ships.
James Russell Lowell, the eminent
poet and scholar, is dangerously i'll.
Political prophets are now declaring
that all signs point to the nomination OF
j. q. Blaine for the Presidency in 1892.
Seattle had $50, 900 fire on July 3lst,
in which one lie was lost.
The Government of India will make
grand display at the Worlds Fair.
Thirteen OF the most prominent
citizens of Petosky, Michigan, have been
arrested, and charged with the murder
OF two men fifteen years ago. The evil
dence against them is conclusive.
A mammoth cave has been discovered
in Ohio that is thought to be as wonder
full as the great Kentucky cave. One OF
the Railways is over 600 feet in length.
A Boston inventor has discovered a
process by which rebellious metal can
be easily forged and tempered by cleo
tricity.
A storm in Williamsport, Pennsyl-
vania, on July 30th, destroyed thirty
FIVE houses.
In riot at Lake Charles, Louisiana,
on August 4th, fourteen men were killed
and many wounded. 1t is reported
that the rioters massacred men, women
and children wantonly.
A fire in Chicago on August Sd des-
troyed 81 ,OO0,O 900 worth of property.
Chairman Quay, of the National Re
publican Committee has resigned.
The farmers of North Carolina have
denounced Grover Cleveland, and do not
want him as the Democratic Presidential
and the Southern farmers
generally are opposed to him.
Bob Ingersolls' private secretary was
killed in quarrel with man who occu-
pied house with him. The shooting
grew out of the difficulties between the
wives of the two men.
Mckinley, the high-tariff candidate of
the Republicans of Ohio, for governor
predicts a great victory for his party and
the Mckinley bill this fall.
Secretary Blaine's health is improving
Pittsburg manufacturers are returning |
70 the use OF coal for fuel, in place OF the |
natural gas, which is becoming ex-
lausted.
The annual reunion of the Grand |
Army of the Republic at Detroit, Michi-
gan, the fore part OF August was at
ended by 200, GOO visitors.
Chicago is to have big elevated rail-
way system to be built by Jay Gould |
and other capitalists at cost OF s25. 000,
100.
Thirteen people were killed in a COLI
;ion on the Lake Shore road near SYRIA
use, New York, on August 9th.
The question having arisen as to the
itatus of workmen brought to the United
States by foreign exhibitors to work on
heir departments in the Worlds Fair,
he Acknowledgement has rendered an
opinion that skilled employees OF foreign
exhibitors and clerks, stall-keepers and
'thers at the Chicago Exposition who
'ome in good faith for the purpose of
citing up and operating the machinery
4 such exhibitors are outside of and not
ubiect to the contract laws OF the Uni
ed States.
Secretary Foster says that the immi-
ration laws will be strictly enforced in
with propositions OF philan-
hropists TO bring Russian Jews to this
odntry. They will be barred out where
is shown that they are pauper criminal
T decrepit.