The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-02-21

merican News.
J The In dams at Pine Ridge are
making more trouble. They am
pushed several cowboys and slaugh.
tered them, but the Indian police
took up the trail and either killed
or captured all the murderers. An
uprising is feared in the spring.
In the northwest the mercury
was nearly frozen for a week.
beginning February 4th. In Min
nesota it was 80, in Winnipeg ~,
in Dakota 40 degrees below zero.
The perfection of long-distance
! telephones has reached such a
| point that on February 9TH CONVEX
sation and music were easily trans
mitted from Boston to Chicago
distance of about 1900 miles. This
is the longest work on record.
Henry c. Denville, the author OF
some of the brightest society
dramas of the age, died on Feb.
10th at the age of ~ from typhoid
fever.
The heavy movement Of gold to
Europe . having bad effect on
finances and business in the East,
and it is reported that Secretary
Foster viii issue over $50, 900
in redemption bonds at 3 per cent.
to enable the Government to keep
the S100,000,000 gold reserve on
hand.
The recent winter rains in the
interior of California have been so
excessive as to cause heavy foods
in the San Joaquin, which have
resulted in great damage to crops
and other property.
The County Insane Asylum at
Dover, New Hampshire, was burned
On Februarv 9th, and forty of the
inmates were roasted alive. They
could not be induced to leave the
building.
Whitelaw Reid and family are
on their way to California to visit
with D. o. Mills at his Menlo Park
Palace, and to escape the severe
winter weather.
The repeal of the Silver Purchase
Bill in Congress was defeated on
the 9th instant, so far as the pres
ent Congress is concerned, and
that Act will be left to Mr.. Cleve-
land and his followers.
The only interest the United
States has in the seizure of the
Gilbert Islands by a British war
vessel last spring, as reported in
San Francisco dispatches, is the
mistreatment of the United States
| Consul at that time by the COM
mander of that vessel. The Consul
reported that he had been assaulted
by the British forces, whereupon a
protest was lodged with the Gov
ernl nent of Great Britain by our
Minister in London under in5truc-
tionB from the State Department,
and' assurances have been received
shat the officer responsible for the
assault will be called to account
for his action. A map of the ISL
4nds of the Pacific issued by
5he Photographed Bureau of
Che Navy Department includes the
Gilbert Islands in the territory
claimed by Great Britain.
The Secretary of the Navy has
approved the findings in regard to
the distribution of the Chilean
award for the families of those
killed and injured at Valparaiso,
October rs, 1891, in the attack on
the seamen of the Baltimore. The
Board arranged the casualties into
four classes and assigned a pro-
portionate amount of the $4,000
as follows To the families of those
killed, namely, Charles Riggan,
boatswain's mate, and William
Turnbull, coal-heaver, $4,000
each. To those seriously injured :
Jeremiah Anderson, coal-heaver,
$500; John Hamilton, carpenters
mate, $4,000; John w. Talbot, sea-
mans apprentice, $4,000; John II.
Davidson, landsman, $4,000; Geo.
Painter, coal-heaver, $500; Viii
liam Lacey, coal-heaver, $4,000
Herman Fredericks, seaman,
$500; Henry C. jarrett, seaman,
$500 John Mcbride, oiler, $500;
John Butler, seaman's apprentice,
$500. To those assaulted and de-
tanned in prison, eighteen in num-
Der, sums ranging from 5000 down
to 800. To those arrested or
slightly injured, twenty-three in
number, sums ranging from $500
down to $500.
DR.. Marvin Green, President of
the Western Union Telegraph Co.,
died at Louisville, KY, on the 18th
Instant
Foreign News.
There was q new turn IN the
famous Panama canal scandal in
France on the 9th inst, when the
judgment of the court was handed
down in the trial of the ringleaders
in the great Doodle game. Sen
fences were delivered as follows
- Ferdinand de Lesseps, five years
Imprisonment and 5000 francs fine.
Charles de Lesseps, five years
Imprisonment and 1000 francs fine.
Marius Fontane and Henry