The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1892-03-29

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to attack the enemy unawares. The |
cartridges are being made in secret
factory in Detroit, charged with 100
pounds of dynamite apiece and their
explosion can be timed to a second.
They are of magnetic iron to cling to
the vessels bottom.
GENERAL INTEREST.
The results of the recent great
Japanese earthquake in Gifu-ken,
where the damage was greatest, are
thus summarized: 1889 deaths, 49,
81 persons wounded, Al, 203 dwell
ing houses completely and 2l,37S
partially demolished, 23,379 dam
aged and 1859 burned after collapse,
in addition TO 1744 other buildings
demolished or damaged. The total
number of buildings thus affected
was therefore S8,01l.
A suit has been filed at New
Orleans on behalf of the heir of one
of the Italian Malta, who assassinated
Chief of Police Hennesey, against
w. S. Parkinson and others, claim
ing damages to the amount of S10,-
600 for the killing of one of the brig
ands in the Parish prison one year
ago.
Dir. Mary Walker says she knows
who threw the bomb in Russell Sage's
office and that he was a nihilst. Mr..
Sage says DR.. Mary Walker had
written to him to help her get bill
through Congress in which she wos
to be paid for her services during the
war. The letter stated that she had
written to Mrs. Aston but had re-
ceived no reply. If Mrs. Aston had
replied, the doctor says there would
have been no explosion. Inspector
Byrnes has the letter.
President Harrison has declared
that on and after March 10Th, the
Government will enforce the recipro-
city clause of the Mckinley Act, and
unless the countries which have not
yet entered into reciprocity treaties
with the United States do so before
that date the Mckinley Act will i'm
pose tariff on the products of those
countries which now come in free.
Advances of three cents per pound
in all mider grades of coffee may
ensue. The grades of coffee which
will be affected by the enforcement
of the Mckinley law are those used
by the Weather class of people. The
coffee in general use comes from
Brazil, which has already passed a
reciprocity treaty, and Brazil coffee
will not be affected.
Sub-Treasury officials at New York
have detected a number of light
weight gold pieces among coin re-
Gently received from California. 1t
is thought the Chinese are working
systematic scheme of placing coin in
an electric bath, by which process 5
percent of the gold is "sweated"
out, as the Government will not ac-
cept coins which have lost more than
one-half of l percent, al light-wei ght
coins are stamped with a big L and
returned to the banks from which
they were received.
According to the New York World
a pitiful state of affairs exists on
North Brothers Island where the
smallpox hospital, the typhus fever
pavilion, the scarlet fever and mea-
sizes wards and the lepers' tent are
located. The reporters sent over to
the island reported that the patients
were sadly neglected. Persons de-
lirious with fever were strapped to
their cots and exposed to midnight
fogs, others appealed to them for
water and assistance. In one pavil-
ion where forty-tive female typhus
patients are, there was no attendant.
Convalescent patients helped the at
tendaLts to bury the dead And this
is in New York What blot it is
on the fair name of this State.
Lieutenant Hetherington, U. S. n -,
has been held for the assassination
of Cover Robinson at Yokohama re-
Gently. Cover Robinson was the
Ward McAllister of Japan and the
acknowledged leader of society there.
He was a member of the English
club in Yokohama and what he said
in social matters was law. 1t is said
that if Mr.. Hetherington had under
stood the customs of Yokohama So
ciety better, he would not have been
so hasty with his pistol. The murder
has attracted much attention among
a number of San Francisco people
who knew Cover Robinson and they
are not slow in saying, particularly
among the fair sex, that they wish
Hetherington was in his grave instead
of his victim.
Mrs. Osborne pleaded guilty to the
theft of the Hargreaves jewels and
perjury and was sentenced to nine
months of hard labor. 1t is under.
stood, however, that the hard labor
part OF the sentence will only be
theoretically carried out. Great
sympathy has been expressed for hel
husband, Captain Osborne, who has
| accompanied her throughout the try
ing ordeal. The sentence was a sur
prise for it was supposed it would | I