The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-06-02
TELEGRAPHIC NOTES.

Montrealers dropped about $500, 900
by the Wall street panic.
Admiral Gherardi wants to have
charge of the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
The farmers throughout the Dakotas
are complaining of scarcity of help
Gold in paying quantities has been
found in the vicinity Of Gravenhurst,
Ont
The PROFITS to Chicago from its water
works for the last fiscal year were
$t,3S9,S54.
The property loss in the Miami
Valley on account Of the floods, will
reach $Ioo,o 900
The Fredericton, n. b., Board Of
Trade will discount American silver as
per cent. after this month.
Physicians have found that an cpl
demic of typhoid fever in Louisville,
KY, was caused by bacteria from milk.
Capitalists are figuring on an electric
road between Pittsburg and Cleveland,
10 miles, against 1870 miles by steam
rail.
In Washington City the death rate
among negro children is nearly three
times as great as among white children.
As precaution against cholera the
elevated railroad stations of New York
are to be provided with isolating rooms
at two of the stations.
Congressman Fitch of New York has
polled the House Of Representatives
and found that it has a majority OF
thirty five for free Coinage.
During a heavy ranstorm at Bren-
ham, Texas, small fishes unknown to
that region, four moCcasin snakes and
many water bugs fell on the streets.
A unique strike took place at Color.
ado Springs, Col, when the chain gang
threw down their tools and refused to
work longer on two meals day.
English rains are too late to save the
hay crop, and Canadian hay and Ar.
gentine alfalfa are being imported, the
former selling at 34s per ton.
The Whiskey Trust has settled the
question of middlemen, and hereafter il
will absorb the profits formerly going
to the wholesale handlers Of the com
pany's prod cts
"Lady" tramps are seen every day in
Michigan. Week before last two o.
them struck L"omis. They ate theil
(. Cheese and crackers under a tree neal
town. Two men saw them and en-.
gagged them as housckeepers for the
summer.
After years Of trouble and the txpen
diture Of considerable money Penn
Syvania woman succeeded in getting
together 1000, 900 cancelled postage
stamps. She then learned that nobody
wanted them, and she has become in
sane.
Rochester expects to profit by tn,
power generated at Niagara Falls. 1t i:
said that the tunnel company has con.
tracted to deliver $4,000 horse powe
} to the manufacturers of that city.
r The Pennsylvania Railroad has in
= augurated a policy of retrenchment il
all departments, and has discharged
several thousand men between Jerse,
City and Plttsburg
Governor Flower has vetoed a bill
} which would have allowed the addn,
. of the Kelley cure for drunkards to thu
E disciplinary course # the penlte ntiare
, of the State of New York.
Mr.. Veneklassen of Iceland, Mich.
is too sick to attend church. A tele
phone line is now being built from tn,
church to his recidenCc to enable hin
{ to hear the sermons every Sunday.
The Navy d apartment has beef
r officially advised that the Russian
e Italian and Argentine war ships now a
$ New York will visit Annapolis Road
at the time of the Naval Academy
), commencement
=, Several prominent New Workers hat
conference with Secretary Gresham
: yesterday. They desired that snm,
It action be taken with view to hayinI
. this Government insist that passport
:, issued to American citizens of the Jew
. ish faith who contemplate visitin
Russia shall be vised by the Russian
Consuls at the various ports. 1t wa
ascertained the Russian laws did no
{ permit the Consuls to do so,
y The findings Of the general court
( martial convened at Fort Leavenworth
d Kan, for the trial Of Captain William
. S, Johnson, retired, and the recon-
mendation in the case, have been di:
{ approved by President Gle veland. Tn
c charges against Johnson were failure t
: pay his debts and duplicating his pa
c accounts. These acts were not cor
T, demned, and the President believe,
they should have been.