The Hawaiian gazette., 1893-03-28

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| There is a strong chain of evidence
showing that they killed McWhorter,
thinking he was another man. The
reward for the capture of the MUIR
derers is $4,000.
The Atkinson House Furnishing
Company, of Boston, has failed Tor
over a million, owing to the tlghtness
of money. Their assets are more than
double their liabilities.
The Edison General Electric Works
at Schenectady, New York, have been
flooded and damaged S5OO,0OO. More
than 1000 people are thrown out OF
work, and all the exhibits in prepare
ton for the Worlds Fair were de-
| stroyed.
The Government is working on an
air ship, the invention of Professor
Langley, of the Smithsonian Institute,
which is endorsed by the faculty of
that institution, and promises to be a
success. 1t is made of steel, allu-
minimum and silk.
Despite his protest, the friends of
Governor Mckinley have raised a
fund by subscription, sufficient to
clear him of debt.
Herr William h. Munderloh, the
accredited representative of Emperor
William in the Canadian Provinces,
is dead; his wife has gone mad from
the shock, and two children are await
ing death at their home, and there is
a son barely able to stand the thrice
terrible blow. These are the pitiable
settings of real life tragedy enacted at
the Great Northern Hotel in Chicago.
foY. orrrnnH IN hU
the Congressional conferees on the
naval bill are the appropriation of
$780, 200 for building submarine tor
pedo boat and conducting experiments
Herewith, and 100000 for the ex
penses of an international naval rem
devious and review. The agreement
in regard to light draft gunboats is in
the nature of a compromise. The
House provided for one, and the
Senate added three more. The reports
show that the committee agreed upon
three altogether. These boats are to
be protected, of about 12U0 tons dis
placement, and to cost, exclusive of
armament, not more than $780, 90
each.
Clark Moore, the man who aided
the bandits, Evans and Sontag, to
escape. has been tried and acquitted.
The Crow Indians have gone on the
warpath, and threaten to eXterminate
the whites in Montana, on account of
the aggressions of the latter with
respect to public lands. The troops
have been called out, and war is i'm
minent.
The work of placing the exhibits in
the Worlds Fair is progressing rapid
ly and the great show will doubtless
"Jim" Keene, the great speculatOr,
is trying to make corner in wheat,
and stands to win or lose $4,000, 900.
He now controls 20,000,000 bushels
and it looks as though he would sue
coed.
EX-President Harrison says he is
glad to retire to private life and is
tired of magnificence. During next
winter he will write book. He says
it will relate specially to a number of
important matters connected with his
administration that the public have
not fully understood. They are, he
says, of such nature that notwith-
standing their importance they will
not become matters of history, and it
is his intention by this means to make
clear certain things of which the pub
lie is now in ignorance on account of
misrepresentation. What these sub
jects were Harrison did not at this
time care to indicate.
Miss Julia Force of Atlanta, Geor-
gia, who murdered her sister and was
declared insane, has been shown to be
sane and must stand trial. Her con-
viction is certain.
Georgia has been swept by a great
cyclone and the result is the loss of
fifty lives and an immense amount of
property. The victims are homeless,
without food or shelter in biting win
ter weather. Appeals for help have
been sent out and are promptly re-
sponded to. One town of 1000 inhab-
itants was swept entirely from the
face of the earth.
Russell Sage the great financier says
concerning the Sherman Silver Bill:
"a decision has apparently been ar
rived at by the treasury officials to
use the S100,000,000 reserve. 1t is an
expedient that will prove a temporary
palliative, but will not tend to allay
all the fears on the monetary question.
fThe cause of the trouble will not
be removed until the Sherman bill is
repealed, and Europe will not buy our
stocks or bonds with any confidence
until this measure is entirely out of
the way.
~ think that the election of S. H.
II. Clark to the presidency of the Mis-
souri, Pacific will be gratifying to ev-
erybody concerned. His resignation
from the Union Pacific does not mean
anything, because he will still remain
a director of that company and the re-
lations between the companies will
continue friendly"
Several acres of the finest business
blocks in Boston were destroyed by
fire ION March lst and twenty lives
lost. The damage was 81 100000. Sew
eral of the buildings were supposed to
be fireproof, but the fire department
could not control the flames for three
hours.
The Standard Oil Trust is being as
sailed in the courts to declare it pub
lie menace and restriction of the laws
of trade. The fight will be a bitter
one.
The strain on the national treasury
by the withdrawal of gold for export
has heen relieved nv the sanding of