The Hawaiian gazette., 1893-02-28
American News.

making more trouble. Ihey am
pushed several COWBOYS and slaugh
tered them, but the Indian polio,
| took up the trail and either killed
or captured all the murderers. Al
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 s
point that on February eth 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 is having s bad effect on
finances and business in the East,
and it is reported that Secretary
Foster will issue over $50,0Oo,OO0
in redemption bonds at 3 per cent.
to enable the Government TO keep
the $10O,000,00O gold reserve on
hand.
The recent winter rains in the
interior Of California have been so
excessive as TO cause heavy floods
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 February 9Th, and forty of the
inmates were roasted alive. They
could not be induced to leave the
building.
WhiteIaw 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.. Cleye-
land and his followers.
The only interest the United |
States has in the seizure of the
Gilbert Islands by a British war
Tessel last spring, as reported in
San Francisco dispatches, is the
of the. United States
Consul at that time by the COM
nander of that vessel. The Consul |
exported that he had been assaulted
~ the British forces, whereupon
protest was lodged with the Gov
.rnment of Great Britain by our
Minister in London under instruc-
ions from the State Department,
nd assurances have been received !
hat the officer responsible for the
ssault will be called to account
Or his action. A map of the ISL
nds of the Pacific issued by
he Photographed Bureau of
be Navy Department includes the
Hilbert Islands in the territory
laimed by Great Britain.
The Secretary of the Navy has
pproved the findings in regard to
he distribution of the Chilean j
ward for the families Of those
lied and injured at Valparaiso, /.
october 16, 1891, in the attack on :
ne seamen of the Baltimore. The
GARD arranged the casualties into |
,ur classes and assigned a pro- t
ortionate amount of the $4,000 {
: follows; To the families of those '
lied, namely, Charles Riggan, {
oatswain's mate, and William 9
coal-heaver, $4,000 t
lch. To those seriously injured G
sremiah Anderson, coal-heaver, I
500; John Hamilton, carpenters
ate, 5000; John W. Talbot, sea- o
ans apprentice, $4,000; John H. t
landsman, $1,000; Geo. I
anter, coal-heaver, $500; Will O
am Lacey, coal-heaver, $1,000; .
erman Fredericks, seaman, i
500; Henry c. Jarrett, seaman, il
500; John Mcbride, oiler, $500; I
I'm Butler, seaman's apprentice, g
500. To those assaulted and de- il
ined in prison, eighteen in num- v
T, sums ranging from 5000 down Ii
800. To those arrested or =
ightly injured, twenty-three in 2
lmber, sums ranging from $500
,wn to $500. h
DR.. Marvin Green, President of h
e Western Union Telegraph Co., i:
ed at Louisville, KY, on the 18th G
slant. il
Foreign News. 81
There was a new turn in the d
mons p1rar,. o.zT