The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1892-06-04
UNITED STATES.
STORMS AND FLOODS.

STORMS AND FLOODS.
Wellington, Sumner county, Kan
sas, was devastated by cyclone last
night. Fifty persons are reported
killed and 125 injured. The Phil
lips House, Lutheran and Congrega-
tional churches, several newspaper
offices, foundry and the opera
house are among 200 buildings des-
troyed. Loss $500, 900.
To overestimate the suffering and
destruction in the valleys of the
White and Arkansas rivers is out of
the question. There are not thou
sand acres of dry soil left in Desha
county. The towns of Hollendel,
Chicot City, Red Fork and Pendleton
have been wiped off the earth, and
not a living being is at any Of them.
All have been rescued and are now
on high ground, but actually starv.
ing, so difficult of access are they to
relief steamers. All the big planta-
tions for forty miles in the Arkansas
valley are utterly ruined.
A waterspout visited Sloan
Springs, Arkansas, which resulted in
the loss of three lives and the des-
truction of property worth 500, 900.
DIR. Swallows house was carried
away, taking the doctor, his wife
and mother down the stream and
drowning them.
Thousands of acres of wheat and
much fruit were destroyed in Jack
son county, Indiana, by hail and
wind storm.
A general overflow of the Red
River valley, Louisiana, seems in
evitable from a steady rise Of the
river. Thousands of people at
Shreveport have been Impoverished.
The Sacramento river has reached
27 feet, the highest point in many
years, and the people are alarmed.
POLITICAL.
Ex-Speaker Reed has come out
squarely for Blaine. He is convinced
Mr.. Blaine intends to accept the
nomination, if offered to him by the
convention.
Senator Pettigrew of South Dakota
believes Blaine will be nominated on
the first ballot
The Republican convention of the
Fourth Congressional district, Hi
ncis, declared for Blaine by resolu-
ton but left delegates uninstructed.
In deafening roar of approval thai
followed the resolution, the Harrison
people themselves shouted for Blaine
Representative Milliken of Maine
an intimate friend of Blaine, say.
Blaine will write no more letters
that he will be nominated at Minnea
polls and elected.
Quay says Blaine will be nominate &c
by hundred voices at once.
The Philadelphia Inquirer will say
IN its Washington dispatches, that
Col. Clarkson announces Blaine ha
told him he would accept the nomina
tion.
EUROPE.
Salisbury was to announce tn
date of dissolution of Parliament Of
the evening of Whtsuntide. Th
decision will enrage the opposition
who will resort to every device t.
obstruct the Government business
No Gladstone Government will b.
possible until the end of the sprin
of 1898, and no home rule unit
1894, meanwhile the Belfour loca
Government measure. having q clea
year to operate, must complicat
Gladstone's task in creating ne,
Irish administration.
The proposed program for the cor
| gress of chambers of commerce G
} the British empire will include cor
siderable protectionist agitation
Proposed resolutions favor CONNER
cial union of the empire, the estat
:, ishment of differential rates betwee
Great Britain and the colonies, tn
preference of home products agains
foreign, Great Britain to grant
Z. discriminating tariff against grair
i. and an international monetary unioI
with unification of the currency {
the empire. From present indication
the gathering will be the creates
trade monstlation ever held
Great Britain.
1t is announced that the Quee
n offered Salisbury dukedom in th
a event of his retlring from power, bl
d 1t is doubtful if the Premier will az
n cent the honor.