The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1893-08-24
LATE FOREIGN NEWS.
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eress solely to the pressing need of
the hour for prompt repeal. He
notes the fact that the people in the
last elections made an emphatic de-
mand for revision and reform in
tariff legislation,
The pledges then made must be
kept, but since that time an unfore-
seen exigency has arisen and it must
be met and mastered,
1t is the plain duty of Congress
therefore to afford relief to the coun-
try by placing the repeal of the fl
nancial statute ahead of all other
contemplated legislation relating to
the tariff or any other subject. That
is the substance of the message.
GENERAL ITEMS.
Gold in the treasury is daily in
creasing. Silver is being bought at
.726.
A graduated reduction in wages
of Union Pacific Railway employees
is expected.
British shipmasters at San Fran
cisco are combining against the ex-
tortion of blood money.
Lon Turner, the sailor kid" was
killed by Robinson, a colored pug"
in prize fight at Denver.
Henry j. Farber was sentenced at
Los Angeles to 20 years imprison-
ment for criminal assault.
The town of Snow Hill, Maryland,
was on fire yesterday with every
prospect of total destruction.
A sack containing $500 in gold coin
was stolen from the house of Mr..
Jordan, S56 Twenty-first street, Oak
land.
Rev. Rodney Edwards has been
acquitted by jury in San Francisco
of the charge of embezzling old Mrs.
Aliens money.
In scheme of retrenchment, the
New York Central will cut off four
trains each way between New York
and Chicago.
Mr. Cornely, who is organizing the
Midwinter Fair for San Francisco at
Chicago, is meeting with very en-
couragement.
Nevada claims to be the only
State that has not had any failure
or suspension since the beginning of
the financial storm.
In the court-martial at Vallejo
one of the charges of embezzlement
against Paymaster Sullivan has been
etfectually disproved.
There is internal war among the
Board of Lady Managers of the
Worlds Fair. Their meetings are
turbulent and afford much amuse.
ment to spectators.
General George B. Bingham died
at Westboro, Mass, Aug. 6, aged 52
He was one of the first, men in Wis
consin to enlist in the United States
service at the breaking out of the
war.
Owing to rough treatment receiv,
ed by constables in enforcing the
new liquor law of South Carolina
Governor Tillman will arm the off
GERS with revolvers and instruct
them to shoot if molested.
California raised 43,5O0,O00 pounds
of sugar from 1888 acres of beets
the past year. The total acreage oI
beets and sorghum for the United
States was 24,793, from which 81 200,
600 pounds of sugar was produced
The strike of all Missouri miners
ordered for the 7th did not material
iZe. The strike was ordered tc
bolster up the losing cause of the
Kansas strike and is not because The
Missouri men had any grievance O.
their own.
Counsel for ST. Clair, who ha
been sentenced to death at Sal
Francisco for the murder of tn,
mate Of the Hesper, on the voyag
from Australia to Honolulu, ha
been granted an extension of fifteel
days to prepare bill Of exception
in the case.
In Wall street the principal con
cern is the continued scarcity of al
forms OF currency, notes and specie
Money brokers are paying as high a
! to l percent for currency and wer
getting as high as 81 for it in bi
lots. They are bidding up to pei
cent for gold to arrive, notwithstand
ing that the rate of foreign exchang
did not warrant the importation G
, gold.
The yacht Colonia won the Con
modore cup at Glencoye, Long Is
t and, making the distance of 26 mile
in two hours and seven minutes. Th
! Queen Nab, the first large centre
r board boat in England, came i
= second. The other starters were th
r Vigilant, Lasca. Mayhower, Conste
: lation, Dauntless, Ramona, MAJ
r guerite and Ariel. 1t was the Made
} race of the cup defenders, Coloni
| and Vigilant.
2 Colonel Fisk of Colorado, del,
= gate to the silver convention, says
] the East persisted in reducing tn
l value of money, a combined effol
s would be made by the West an
!. South to wipe out the protectiy
. tariff and to pension every soldie
I who served in either the Federal c
, Confederate armies, their widow
e and orphans, and TO enact a la
70 providing graduated income ia
10 Tor that purpose.
, EUROPE.
= The American Yacht Navajo
e won race at Southampton, Ems
land nn 4 ha - L.