The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1893-05-09
american News.

! mystery. The deficit will be made
good by friends.
American News.
On April % the territory Oklahama
! was visited by four cyclones which
! destroyed several small towns. The
loss OF life is placed ut forty-three, and
| the injured ut more. On the l4th inst.
! cyclones did terrible work in Missis-
sippi and Missouri. At RObiusOnviIle,
! Miss, not a business house was left
| standing. and fire added to the
destruction and suffering. Several
people were cremated. The loss of
! life is placed at about twenty, and the
| injured number several hundred.
General Edward f. Beal, the IA
nous soldier and veteran of the Next
can war and the Rebellion, died at
| Washington on the 22d of April.
The Trinity placer mine, situated in
this state, has been sold to Denver
! syndicate for S25O,OOO. The loves.
average yield of the mine is $1,000 per
day, and it runs as high as $4,000 per
day.
In storm on Lake Michigan, at
/ Y.
| working ON the city water tunnel crib
and drowned. Tue United States Life
Saving service is held responsible for
| the loss of life.
Ed Partridge, the great wheat
plunger of Chicago, who has been the
terror of the board of trade in that
city for years, is reported to be ruined
by going short on May wheat. He
was fixed to make a million, but the
big combine smashed him.
The Earl of Craven and Miss Martin
of New York were married on April
lst in that city. The brides dover
was S1,OOO,OOO cash.
The youngest daughter of Pierre
LorrillOrd, the tobacco king, was mar
ried on April ID to Mr.. Thomas 5.
Taller.
The session of the Trans Mississippi
congress opened at Ogden, Utah, on
April n, and had representatives from
twenty states, among them some of
the most prominent men in the west.
The topics of discussion are river and
harbOr prOvements, the silver bill
and the Nicaragua canal. The object
of the convention is to influence con-
gress to pay more attention to the
western part of the country.
Senator David B. Hill, the famous
New York politician, W tn commit
tee of congress, is to visit the far west
to investigate the question of govern
ment aid to immigration.
The heavy export of gold to Europe
has continued, and at one time the
$lOO,O0O,0OO gold reserve was broken
into. A panic was expected, but to
none materialiZed. 1t is stated that
Secretary Carlisle desires to negotiate
a loan of S25, 000,000 to S5O,00O,000 on
bonds at p per cent, with the option
of calling them in at The pleasure
of the government, but the
bankers decline. Boston banks
have offered the treasury $4,000 on
certificates, and it is expected that
this flow of yellow metal from the
interior banks to the treasury will
force the Wall street gOlu bugs to
come forward and open their boards
to the government.
Prominent capitalists and engineers
are proposing to irrigate the Colorado
desert in San Diego county. The COM
pany is capital zed at S7,5OO,0O0 and
the scheme is the biggest on record.
1t is believed that the desert would
be the most productive spot on earth.
The winter weather in Chicago has
continued into the spring, and on the
25th inst. the grounds were flooded by
a great Orm. Only a few of the
exhibits are in place and many of the
buildings are unfinished. However,
the fair will open three days hence as
per programme. The big show, how
ever, cannot be in shape much before
June LIST.
The Columbus caravels have arriv- !
ed in Hampton Roads safely in tow
of the Spanish gunbOats.
Evans and SOntage, the California |
bandits, are said to have visited |
Visaia again with the purpose of |
revenging themselves on their enc |
mics, but they were forced to fly for |
their lives.
Mrs. Almira Hancock, widow of |
the late General Hancock, is dead.
Wardner, Idaho, where the great |
strike occurred last year, was
destroyed by fire on April Goth. Loss,
$500, O04.
Edwin Booth, the great tragedian,
is dying of paralyses.
At the conclusion of the Worlds
Fair the monster Krupp gun, the
largest piece of ordnance in the world,
will be presented to Chicago by Herr
Krupp and mounted on fort built in
Lake Michigan, opposite Hyde Park,
Permission for the construction of
Of which was secured at Washington.
The fort is to be five acres in extent,
and will be for business as well as
pleasure. Mounted on it the great
gun will re able to protect the entire
city front from attack by water, as it
could sink an ironclad with a single
shot. Work on the fort will be COM
menc-d at once and pursued with the
greatest rapidity, so rs to be in work
ing order before the Fair closes. 1t
will cover five acres with the most
approved defenses.
Business men and farmers in the
central part of the State are propos
NJ to construct canal from Fresno
% give an outlet by the San Joaquin
liver and thus be independent of the
Southern Pacific in the matter of
reight.
a New York dispatch says: 4 meet
ny Of the Nicaragua canal stockhold-
.rs Will be held at noon ON the 18th.