The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1892-04-29
LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.
(Sap Francisco, Apra 1911, per
Schooner Transit.
UNITED STATES.

people of the United States would
not stop the agitation on the subject
until silver was restored to the place
which it occupied previous to the
unfortunate legislation of 1878.
Senator Palmer, in debate on his
Joint resolution for constitutional
amendment to provide for electing
Senators by the people, said it was only
after the Republican party fell into
the hands of men who used it for the
advancement of private interests |
that 1t became the foe to the country !
which it now was. The resolution
was referred TO joint committee.
An English company has let con-
tract for an irrigation canal in Ari-
zona, to be 20 miles long and 30 feet
wide at bottom, and estimated to
cost S1,2O0,0OO. S. s. Watson of
Los Angeles is the contractor.
The s. $. China arriving in San
Francisco on the 18th had case of
smallpox among her 220 Chinese
steerage passengers and was placed
in quarantine.
1t is again complained that the
Pacific Mail steamers do not call at
San Diego as often as their contract
under the subsidy act requires.
Portions of New York State have
been shaken by two earthquake
shocks in close succession.
The New York and Cuba Mail s.
5. Co. have had their contract under
the subsidy act Cancelled at their own
request because it didn't pay.
There is war between the cattlemen
and the rustlers in Wyoming. The
cattlemen have killed some of the
rustlers and burned their houses.
United States troops will assist the
Territorial authorities in restoring
order.
1t is believed Attorney General
Miller will get the vacant seat in the
u. S. Supreme Court.
There is great crush of town site
boomers awaiting the opening of the
Sisseton reservation in the North
west.
Jim Hall and Bob Fitzsimmons
finish at either New Orleans or San
Francisco, not before Nov. l, or after
Dec. 80, for purse of SIP 200 and
+ side bet of $4,000 each.
/ Bernard Reiss, of the firm of Neu-
s berger, Reiss & Co., San Francisco,
[. has been arrested second time for
smuggling silk fabrics.
Just after it became generally
known that the Republican candidate
for mayor was elected in Jersey City,
n. j., early this morning, fire broke
out IN the office >of the City Con.
troIer and City Treasurer. By the
latest news ohtainable, it was thought
. all the contents of the offices would
be destroyed. Republicans believe
the fire was started by Democrats to
destroy the records of corruption
. during their control.
Widespread disaster and destitu-
: tion by floods are reported from Mis-
sissippl. Hundreds of lives were
lost. From 1000 to 1900 negroes
are left without houses, food, or
l. credit.
r The Boston Smelling Works Co, s
l. works are burned. Loss, $3.50, 900 !;
n
! men are thrown out of employment.
u A gang of anarchists has been dis
g covered in Brooklyn, N. Y, working
with over-nsured occupants of tene-
ments to burn their property for a
n share of the insurance.
70 Two hundred people attended at
the pier of the Inman line, New
| itoti Of Tnl
r, mage, to assist in asking Gods bless.
in ing on 2S0, 600 pounds of -four, the
,e first instaIlment Of 1000, 900 pounds
which the Christian Herald promised
to send to the famine districts in
=, Russia by the steamship Conemaugh
% which will sail in a few days.
- EUROPE.
II De Giers, Russian Minister of For.
- egn Affairs, is suffering from erysi
IL pelas in the head, with an ulcer in
ss the ear, and will probably resign.
he 1t is reported that the prohibition
n of the export of grain from Russia
will be Withdrawn this month.
1t is announced that Prince George
of Wales will visit the Worlds Fair
Home Secretary Matthews is sale
lie to have decided on releasing Mrs
of Florence Ethel Osborne, who is serv
le ing nine months sentence for thu
theft of Mrs Hargreave's pearls anc
al subsequent perjury.
10 Countess Russell, wife of Ear
ne Russell, from whom she lately triet
rf to get divorce and her sister Mrs
Dick Russell, appeared in a skir
lie dance before a fashionable LondoI
he audience at performance in tn
IN Royalty Theater for the benefit of th
el National Lifeboat Institution.
~ MISCELLANEOU
RS From Zanzibar the discovery i
at reported of plot to depose the Sui
gel tan in favor of a prince of Muscat
Tho Rritish Ia ara said IN ha in faUor 4,