The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1891-11-17
American News.

has been admitted to probate. This
is the first victory for Searles as
against Tim Hopkins. The case will
now be fought in the Courts.
Governor Steele of Oklahoma has
been made Pension Commissioner. to
succeed Green B. Raum, who has
brought considerable scandal on the
administration.
A tower 100 feet high, to cost $780,
Oel, Is proposed as one of the features
/ OF the Worlds Fair at Chicago.
Lieutenant Schwatka has returned
/ from his exploring trip in central AL
aSka. He also measured Mt. ST. Elias,
I over the height of which there is so
much dispute he made il nearly
1900 feet high, or the highest noun
] tain on the continent.
General Schofield has made his an
nual report as head of the army He
makes plea for more coast defenses
Edison, the inventor, has asked for
one-seventh of all the space in the
! proposed Electrical Exposition Build
ing al Chicago. He proposes TO make
the greatest exhibit of electrical. ap-
| planes ever seen.
Eugene E. Garcia, paying teller OF
| the Louisiana National Bank 81 New
Orleans, is q defaulter to the extent
Of $4,000. His Stealings ranged over
many years
The Valley Forge farm, made ia
nous by Washington's army winter
ing there in l77777, has been sold for $40
per acre at auction.
Anna Dodge, an almshouse inmate
at Butte, Mont, has fallen heireSs TO
an estate worth 5000, 600 in England.
She is a distant relation of VIM 7.
| Coleman of San Francisco.
DR.. :. {. Sylvester of Bangor, Me,
has announced a new consumption
cure. Chloride of gold and manga
nese are the principal ingredients of
his injection.
There is trouble on the Mexican
border c. E Cara, q Mexican ban
dit, is at the head of an outbreak, and
President Diaz has offered $4,000 for
him, dead or alive.
Dougherty's mill, in the Santa Cruz
mountains, Cal, was burned on the
18th inst The loss was $4,000.
There was wreck on the Atlantic
x Pacific railroad near Flagstaff, Ari-
IONA on the 18th inst, and fifteen
people were injured.
DR.. Cyrus iced of San Francisco,
the "konshanite, who claims 70 be
Christ on his second coming. has Sc
cured the support nf the Economics,
a curious colony in Pennsylvania, re-
ported TO be worth $50, 0O0, 900.
a new method of making cannons
and doing the work fast has been in
vented by an Indiana man.
The New York Tribune has been
Unionized after being 3 rat" office
since 1877, excepting three months in
1888.
The campaign is about over in
Ohio, and the election will be held on
the Sd of November. II is believed
that Mckinley will be elected Cover
nor without s doubt.
By the bursting of q box on the
wrecked steamer FL Dorado, it was
discovered that several cases marked
"toweling" really contained kid
gloves. They were sent 10 Stein
burger & Kalisher, of this city.
The Pan-American Railway Com
Texas. The company now controls
240 miles of road in Texas, but the
new charter Is supposed 10 mark the
1t is commonly believed ar Wash
ington that Stephen B. Elkins, a
close friend of Blaine's, viii accept
the position of Secretary of War,
vacated by Redfeld Proctor.
The BEDDING and Weaverville (Cal-)
stage was robbed on the sd instant,
for the third time within week, and
the sixth time in three months. Two
highwaymen in masks did the work.
They got about $500 for their pains.
II is proposed 10 have water COM
n1unicstion in the San Joaquin Val
ley, as far as Firebaugh's Ferry
by the construction of lochs. A canal
Of twelve miles from Firebaugh's
would take it to Fresno. Heavy rail-
road rates have driven the people TO
do this.
1t is believed that the Salton lake
viii soon be thing Of the past. No
more water is running in from the
Colorado and the opening is sitting
up. High water will not come for
four months yet by which time the
openings should be entirely closed.
Henry Willard, the railroad mag
nate, has predicted that in the near
future all railway trains will be oper-
ated by electricity.
Edward Arnold has returned to
New York from his japanese tour.
Blaine has resumed his duties in |
Washington after a rest of many |
months.
The contest over the escheated !
property of the Mormon Church has |
begun in the United States courts in |
Utah. The MormOns want it re- |
turned to them ayerring that they do |
not now sanction polygamy while |
the Gentiles want it sold and the |
proceeds applied TO the school funds.
Miss Alice Hecht committed sui |
eide by jumping from the Washing |
ton monument on the Goth inst. She |
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