The Hawaiian gazette., 1893-01-17

speech, and he will start the ma
chinery in motion.
The Chicago and Northwestern
railroad is to be extended to Ogden,
and it is thought it will finally
come to San Francisco.
1t is reported that the entrance
to San Diego harbor is shoal-
ing rapidly, and that big ships will
soon be shut out. The contracts
for dredging Oakland harbor have
been let.
Senator Carlisle says Congress
is sure to do something with the
silver question. He favors the re-
peal of the Sherman law, and the
renewal of the Bland measure.
Congressman are taking deep in
terest in the question.
The recent heavy storms in the
interior of California have caused
excessive floods in San joaquin
and Sacramento valleys, and great
damage has been done by the
breaking of levees. Nearly 100000
acres of crops have been destroyed,
and there has been much suffering
among settlers who were surround
ed by the waters.
George w. Vanderbilt has pre-
scented the American Fine Art So
ciety with his private gallery,
valued at 100000.
J. G. Blaine is recovering slowly,
and the doctors think he may pos
sibly escape death at present.
President-elect Cleveland is in
vesting heavily in street car prop
erty in New York and st. Louis.
The British government has de-
cided that the big guns of the
navy are impracticeble and they
viii be abandoned. Sixty tonners
will be the rule.
A train on the Santa Fe road in
Colorado went off bridge and fell
fifty feet, killing two and severely
injuring several other passengers.
An old shipowner, who has in
spected the three Canadian cruis-
ers built at Owen Sound, about
which there has been so much talk,
says that they are not such form
idable war vessels as represented,
but are really what they pretend
to be-revenue cutters. On the
other hand, he declares that within
a month past there have been
launched at Toledo two 2500-ton
vessels purporing to be for the
lake trade which can be converted
within few hours into men-of-war
capable of knocking the Canadian
cruisers into cooked hat.
In order to protect United States
railroads from unjust competition
and discrimination President Har-
rison, it is said, will suspend the
operation of the rule which permits
the Canadian Pacific railroad to
transport goods in bond through
United States territory without
being subject to duty. This will
throw great deal of business back
to San Francisco which now goes
via Vancouver.
Railroad operators will organize
an immense association, the object
of which will be to prevent strikes
during the Worlds Fair.
It is proposed to build d railroad
from San Diego to Phoenix, Ari
zona.
The past week on the Atlantic
ocean has been one of the storm
lest and coolest in the history of
ocean traffic. Ships have been in
great distress owing to icy sleet
which prevented the handling of
their rigging. One helpless crew
was rescued when almost perish
ing.
It is announced that the EngIish
syndicate which has been endeav-
oring for several years to develop
the northern portion of Lower Cal
ifornia has given up in despair and
will forfeit its concession. The
stockholders have lost an immense
amount of money.
Conxicts in the Little Rock, Ar
kansas State Prison are dying off
rapidly, and it is feared that the
disease is cholera. The typhus
fever has broken out in New York
and is raging in Mexico.
Mrs. Nellie Brundage, wife of
prominent citizen of Seattle, COM
mitted suicide on account of her
connection with q scandal.
Tascott, the alleged murderer of
millionaire Smell of Chicago, is
said to be in the mines of Alaska.
He was met there by an acquaint-
ance last fall.
The New Years call custom is
dead at Washington. For the first
time in the history of the Republic