The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1893-01-11
LATE FOREIGN NEWS.
UNITED STATES.


Tests made of the viscera of two
dead convicts in the Arkansas peni-
tentiary for arsenic revealed no poi
son, and the doctors believe the sick
ness among the convicts is cholera.
An examination is to he made for
the comma bacilli.
RETALIATION ON CANADA.
1t is said on trustworthy informa-
ton that President Harrison and
his Cabinet will signalize the close
of their administration by a moro
severe blow at Canada than any pre-
viously attempted. This will be in
stopping the bonding privileges of
Canadian railways III the United
States.
The attorney of the Canadian
Pacific road is at Washington in
consultation with the Congressional
friends of the Canadian roads, and
there is evidence of !rnnuine alarm
in the minds of the h.euds of Cana
dian interests.
Senators Frye and Cullom are said
to be advising the President to take
some radical step in this direction
to bring Canada to terms. Cullom
has often expressed the opinion that
the Canadian roads are constantly
evading the interstate commerce law
to the disadvantage of American
lines.
The Canadian Government has
suspended operation of the acts
making a discriminative duty on
molasses and sugar imported in
directly, in comparison with those
imported directly from the country
where produced. 1t is understood
this action was taken to avoid what
might be considered unfriendly
legislation aimed at the United
States.
OVERDUE STEAMER ARRIVES.
The long overdue Cunard steamer
Umbria was sighted off Fire island,
New York, shortly after midnight
and arrived at quarantine at $3.50
o'clock the morning of Dec. 81, and
after inspection steamed slowly up
the bay to dock. She had 315 pas
sengers on board, about equally di-
vided between the first and second
cabins and the storage. All on
board were well. Gallant Captain
Mckay had brought his fine steamer
and all on board safely through the
terrific gales, though disabled, and
amid the thanks OF the passengers
and the noisy greeting of steam
whistles from the vessels in the har-
Dor brought her to the dock. 1t
was twelve days since she had left
| Queenstown, and this was the longest
time on record for the crack ocean
racer.
BLAINE BETTER.
blaine was better az ii O'Clock last
night than he was at the same time
the previous night. The report that
he mad suffered another relapse and
that his condition had assumed an
alarming aspect appears to have been
unfounded. His relatives share the
belief OF DR.. johnson that the eX-
secretary is maintaining the steady
Improvement noted IN his condition
during the last week.
BLOODY BATTLE IN MARYLAND.
A mob of 100 men moved on the
Jail at Bakersfield, Maryland, night
before last for the purpose of hang
ing Calvin Swipes, a member OF the
notorious Hatfield gang, and the
Two Switson brothers, under sen
tence of death for murder.
Sheriff Mooman swore in twenty
deputies and met an assault on the
Jail with bullets. The lynchers were
repelled, leaving three dead before
the Jail porch. while half a dozen
were badly wounded.
The fight incensed the population
of three counties, and by 4 o'clock
yesterday afternoon 400 determined
men assembled at ,ahersfield A
report at s o'clock states that the
Jail was carried after a desperate
battle, in which a score of lives were
lost on both sides, among the killed
being Sheriff Mooman. The report
says that the three murderers were
lynched.
On the night of the I'd inst. a
masked mob overpowered the Sheriff
at Loudon, Tennessee, and took the
alleged murderer, Henry Duncan,
from Jail and hanged him.
PROFESSOR BRIGGS ACQUITTED.
After a trial lasting twenty days
Professor Charles A. Briggs was
acquitted Dec. 30 upon every one of
the charges of heresy brought against
him by the committee of prosecu-
ton. When the members of the
ecclesiastic court filed out of the
old Scotch Presbyterian Church in
Fourteenth street, few minutes be-
fore & o'clock, the radiant faces of
Professor Briggs partisans told the
whole story.
President Hastings and the faculty
of the Union Theological Seminary
were especially pleased with the YER
dict, which was of such importance
to their institution. The vote was a
great surprise to the opposition.
There were l2S ministers and ell
ders who voted on every charge.
The strongest vote for Professor
Briggs was 73 in his favor. and AZ
against him, and his weakest show
ing was on charge 3, where the vote
stood 81 in his favor and 81 against
him.
EUROPE.
WILD SCHEME.
Among the private bills to be sub
mitted to Parliament next session is
one for the construction of bridge
across the English channel from