The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1891-02-18

UNITED STATES.


The friends of the Shipping Bill
are confident of its ultimate passage.
Many members from the Middle and
West, who lately opposed, now favor
the bill.
Twenty-Five candidates were voted
for in the South Dakota Legislature,
the first day of the balloting for
United States Senator
A meeting of the General Com
mttee of two hundred, of the Pan
American Congress, is called for
Washington, April 10.
An organization of railroad en-
ployees has been started at Spring
field, H., for the protection of their
interests by fighting what is known
as granger legislation" which by
making war on the railroads, it is
claimed, has so reduced their earn
ings as to necessitate the cutting
down Of wages and the laying off of
employees.
Ten thousand miners struck, Feb.
9Th, in the ConnellsvilIe coke region,
against a reduction of wages, and for
l25 cents ton.
Eight table glassware houses in
Pennsylvania and Ohio have joined
in an application for charter as the
United States Glass Company, with
capital of 81 900, 900. This is said
to be the beginning of combination
that will soon take in all the table
glassware factories of the country.
Three men were rescued from a
Nanticoke (Pa. } coal mine after be-
ing imprisoned three days without
food.
A number of people persisted in
Nebraska during q late blizzard.
The management of the World S
Fair are trying to preserve terms of
peace with the labor unions. A cut
ting down of expenses has been in
augurated.
A conference with the Indians is
proceeding at Washington. The
chiefs had great complaints of white
encroachments and of small rations.
All but one of them voted in favor
of civil instead of proposed military
agents.
Patients under treatment with
Koch lymph at San Francisco are
reported to be improving. One of
the doctors has declared that it is
proved the lymph will cure tubercu-
Iosis of the throat.
TREATY WITH BRAZIL.
The San Francisco Chronicle says;
The wisdom of the suspensive clause
of the Mckinley bill has just been
clearly and forcibly illustrated by
the treaty entered into between the
United States and Brazil. Brazil
has agreed that in consideration of
the free entry into the United States
of sugar, molasses, coffee and hides,
as provided in the new tariff law, she
will admit duty free wheat, wheat
-four, coal, mining machinery, agri-
cultural tools and a large number of
other American products, besides re-
ducing import duties very materially
on large number of other articles.
1t is estimate d that the reduction is
about S., O00,O 900 a year in duties,
and that trade with Brazil will be
| increased some SIS. 600. 600 to S1O.-
100000 year.
A story comes from Boston of four
American seamen having been i'm.
prisoned three years in a Siberian
mine. They were captured for poach-
ing seals in the Behring Sea by
Russian cruiser. One of the men be-
longed to Boston. One of them died
in captivity, after starving on rice
soup and being eaten by vermin.
THE HAwAnN TREATY.
A Washington despatch of Feb. s
says: Major Mckinley said to-day
that he believed that the matter of
the Hawaiian treaty would be put
tHlOuSn GHe IlOuoc Cllo WIEN. l1c
expects another onslaught from the
Democrats on the tariff law of which
he is the author, but is prepared with
facts recently gathered showing that
public opinion is turning in its favor
and that the Mckinley bill is bene-
fit, not a detriment, to the public
welfare.
SECRETARY WINDOW DEAD.
Secretary Window of the Treasury