The Hawaiian gazette., 1893-08-01

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the opportunities of depositors.
Russell Sage has been sued in New
York for 100000 for seduction, alleg-
ed to have occurred in 1868. The suit
is generally considered an attempt at
blackmail.
The pOaehing sealers Alexander and
st. Paul have been seized for sealing
in the Behring sea.
DR.. Henry Meyer is in Jail in New
York for poisoning people to get their
life insurance policies.
George Frederick Parsons, the
writer, died at New York on the 10th
inst. He was one of the best known
literary men in the country, and for
years edited the New York Tribune.
S. J. Miller, eolored, was lynched at
Bardwell, KY, recently for numbering
two young girls.
Altgeld, governor of Illinois, who
liberated Schwab, Fielden and Neebe,
the anarchists, is preparing a pam
phlet to try to justify his conduct.
The fruit Gamers all over the state
are very much discouraged as the
banks refuse to advance money to
them with which to handle the crop.
1t is stated that Russia has decided
to use NewYork harbor as a naval cen
ter for her war ships in American
| waters.
The Columbia, the first triple-serew
vessel in the new navy, is fast APP
preaching completion. She has three
Shafts with powerful engine for each,
and can use one or more at pleasure of
the commander. Naval experts be-
lieve she will be the greatest war YES
sci in the world.
The government is having serious
trouble to secure men for the navy.
At the present time the force is lower
in rumber than it has been in many
years, and with no encouraging pros
poets of regaining its status. Slowly
but surely it has been decreasing for
two years past. Why this should be
| the case the navy department officials
are extremely DESTROYS of ascertaining.
Secretary Herbert has already taken
such means as were available to ac-
quire that knowledge by detailing a
board of inquiry to investigate and re-
| port upon the present system OF navy
recruiting and the cause of desertiOn
as existing among the ships of the
new navy. The Pacific, Asiatic and
Behring sea fleets are short 1000 men
and the secretary knows not where to
get them.
Susanville, California, was visited
by fire on July Goth which destroyed
sixty buildings with great loss.
Foreign News.
S. Petschcovsky, Russian engineer
connected with the survey of the great
Siberian railway, arrived on the
steamer Belgic. His headquarters are
at Vladivostock. He states that 45
miles of railroad have been already
constructed out of that city, and
that work is going steadily on. Other
sections of the great railroad are also |
in course of construction, but it is not |
expected that communication by rail /
and steamer ON inland water will be |
completed before 1902, when st. |
Petersburg will be in direct commu-
nication with Vladivostock, the prin- |
cipal seaport town in Siberia.
The official report of the officers Of |
the Camperdown regarding the loss
of the Victoria, shows that the losses /
were % officers and 1856 men.
1t is announced from Granada that, |
owing to the efforts of L. s. Minister /
Baker, peace now reigns throughout |
Nicaragua. Minister Baker was given |
a state ball, which was attended by |
the president and other high officials |
of the government.
Three more clauses of the Irish /
Home Rule bill have been passed |
without any trouble, and it begins to
look as though the measure would |
finally pass.
The Paris mObs have finally sub
sided, and the promised revolution
has not come. Just at present the
people have their minds engaged with
the complications between Siam, in
which China and England are ranged
with the latter, and Russia is backing
France. Should the latter endeavOr
to force Siam to surrender the terri
tory in dispute, war involving the
countries named would ensue. 1t is
believed that France will perforce
swallow her wrath.
Emperor William of Germany and
his pet army bill have won a feeble
triumph over their opponents, the
majority being Is. The announce
ment of the passage of the measure
caused no enthusiasm. Germany will
now 90 on a "War footing" to suit
William.
A New York dispatch says that the
discord between the high ecclesiasts
in the Roman Catholic Church con-
tinues, and now it is charged that
Archbishop COrrigan has practically
defied the authority of Satolli, upon
whom, as apostolic delegate in the
United States, the Pope has conferred
extraordinary powers.
The great Boring Sea tribunal at
last closed its labors on July Sth,
at Paris. The final argument was by
Hon. E. J. Phelps for the United
States. 1t is believed that in the pre-
sentatiOn of the two sides of the case,
America has the best of the PROPOSE
ton.
Sporting.
Senator StanfOrd's estate will soon
receive four Orloff horses from the
Gar Of Russia's trotting stud, to cross
into American trOtting stock. The
estate will send the Car four horses