The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1893-01-25
LATE FOREIGN NEWS.
(Sam Francisco, Jan. IS, per S. s.
AuStralid.)
UNITED STATES.

SNAA11C 81 n Co.
Blaine is still in critical condi-
ton. More than the usual number
of lights were burning in the man
sion last night, which gave rise to
reports that Blaine was not so we'll.
The Calumet club house in Chi
cago has been burned, with a heavy
loss in works of art. 1t is feared
that Kittie McCabe, a servant, per-
ished in the flames.
j. N. Luning of San Francisco,
cruising in his yacht Alert, has gone
insane and been taken to Paris by
two keepers.
Nearly 800 talesmen have been ex-
amined without getting a jury, in
the trial of the cattlemen at Chey-
enne, Wyoming.
The Navajoes have driven out
every party of prospectors crossing
the San Juan river, Utah'territory.
Whitelaw Reid is to visit Califor-
MIA.
A frigid spell reigns from Maine
to Florida. The Sound steamers for
New York have been blocked by ice
off Whitestone, l.. l.
President elect Cleveland missed
the suburban train for Lakewood,
and rode on locomotive cab. The
engine broke down at half the dis
lance and Cleveland did the rest of
the journey in a sleigh.
AT great sale of trotting stock
consigned by William Corbitt of
San Mateo, Cal, to Peter G. Kellogg
& Co, New York, John H. Shuts
took the young stallion Regal
Wilkes, 2:11a, for $4,000 Forty
two head changed hands for a total
of SCI ,S45, an average of Sl472.
Col. Creed Raymond, a prominent
lawyer of San Francisco, is dead, in
the 57th year of his age. Some years
ago he spoke before the United
States Senate committee on rail
roads, talking five hours a day for
three days. The effort of preparing
and making this great speech under
mined his health, the failure of his
physical system dating from that
time.
HAWAII NOT IN IT.
The Louisiana State Lottery has
been granted charter from the Re-
public of Honduras and will re-
move it's business to that coun-
try on the expiration of it's present
charter on January /, 1894. The
concession is monopoly of the lot
terry business for a term of fifty
years. Important features of the
concession are the right to lay a
cable line and grant for a steam
ship line from any ports on the
Honduran coasts to any part of the
world.
The Government of Honduras, as
consideration for granting the
charter, is to have the free use of the
cable and steamship line and to re-
ceive S1,O0O,OO0 in American gold
coin and graduated percentage of
from l percent to 3 percent on the
face value of all tickets sold by the
company.
Stephen M. White, Democrat, has
been elected United States Senator
for California.
The committee on the signal ser,
vice in the San Francisco Chamber
of Commerce spoke favorably of the
new management and advocated a
cable to the Farallone Islands, to be
a branch of the Hawaiian and Aus
tralian cable, which Congress was
memorialized to aid in the construc
ton of.
Governor Murphy of Arizona ha:
gone to Washington to urge the adj
mission of that territory as a State
Three recounts are still in progress:
before the Superior Court at Sar
Francisco. O'Donnell for Mayor
has made some gains.
SAD MISFORTUNE TO MUsIN THE VIOLIN
A Des Moines, Iowa, despatch O.
yesterday says: Ovid Musin, thu
violinist, who was in wreck on thu
Northwestern railway near Stor,
City last Monday night, to-day
brought suit against the railway fo
$4,000 damages, S25, 600 for himsel
and 5000 for his wife. Before thu
accident Musin was a robust ant
healthy man with coal-black hair
Now he is bent and broken and hi
beard and hair are almost snow
white.
DEATH OF GENERAL BEN. BUTLER.
General Benjamin f. Butler diet
at his Washington residence on Jan
| 11th He was in the canital watch
ing a case in which he was interested
in the Supreme Court. A few week
ago the case was decided agains
him. His death created an immens
surprise, as it was not known that h
was ailing beyond ordinary infirmit.
of age. Gen. Butler was about Z
years of age. His father, Capt, job
Butler, fought in the war of l8l:
Gen. Buffers operations at Ne,
Orleans form an important item i
the history of the war between tn
North and the South. Since the wa
he has served his country as a Con
gresham and Governor of Massa
chusetts.
1t is stated the autopsy on tn
body of General Butler showed tn
cause of death was the bursting {
small blood vessel in the brai
caused by a violent fit of coughing
All his organs were in excellent col
dition, and but for this accident;
cause he would probably have live
many years. His brain weighed for
ounces more than that of DAM,