The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-07-06
TELEGRAPHIC NOTES.

The laborers in the Homestead, Penn. .,
steel works are on strike.
Colonel Breckenridge feels sure that
he will be renominated to Congress.
The Irish people have raised 800 900
to keep their members in Parliament.
The Pope calls upon Italy and France
to shake off the despotism of Freema-
sonary."
The spring and autumn maneuvers of
Europern armies cost annually over
$4,000.
There is crusade against the cigar
and cigarette in the German provinces of
Austria.
President Zelaya denies that there is
rupture between Costa RIGA and Mic
aragua.
Keighley, Butler county, Texas, has
been nearly wiped out of existence by a
cyclone.
Major Moses Neall, allotting agent for
the Kickapoo Indians In Oklahoma, has
ended his work.
The band of counterfeiters Just ar
rested in Hamburg had baffied discov-
cry for five years.
Governor Mckinley is expected at the
National Republican League meeting at
Denver this week.
From Ostrogoshsk, on the Volga, it is
reported that the whole of that district
Is being ravaged by rats.
Italy's debts will continue to grow,
,f al
vigorous financial reform is made.
Russian officials are in CONSERVATION
over new law requiring expensive uni
forms and many will be bankrupted.
The pension appropriation that will
remain unexpended at the end of the
fiscal year will approximate 24,3S5,-
COO.
The inundation in the valley of the
Waag, in West Hungary, is the worst
since 1888. Over thirty Villages are
submerged.
Erastus Wiman has obtained an order
returnable to show cause why he should
not have stay of proceedings pending
his appeal.
Prince Bismarck summer trip to
Varzin has been postponed. 1t is said
his health is such as to cause the ut
most anxiety.
Conspicuous among the guests at the
reception on board the cruiser Chicago
at London was the daughter of General
Robert L, Lee.
Rev. A. +. Kolasewskie, the head of
the rcbellious Roman Catholic Poles in
Cleveland, Ohio, has been formally ex-
communicated.
Negro political leaders have postponed
the convention of colored Republican
clubs which was called to meet in
Chicago July Gath.
Supported by the army, General
Equsquida will probably assume the
Presidency of Paraguay without the
formality of an election.
A satisfactory test of the Haffkine
innoculation against cholera has been
made at village in India, where the
disease has been epidemic.
One of the new rifles used by the
Italian soldiers sends ball with force
enough to go through five inches of solid
oak at distance OF 1000 feet.
Relations between Costa Rca and
Nicaragua are becoming strained. MIC
aragua is massing troops on the frontier
and Costa Rica is arming men.
Thomas A, Edison, the great inventor,
was lately thrown backward from a
chair. He is now confined to his room
and there are fears that he has been
injured internally.
During his stay in the south of
France, the King of Sweden and Nor
way visited the ex-Empress Eugene, to
whom he is related through her mar.
riage to Napoleon III.
fastest advices state that China was
willing to withdraw her troops from
Corean territory if Japan would do the
same simultaneously. On June 9th
Japan had not complied.
The British regular army at the end
OF last year numbered 900, 900 men of all
ranks, which was about 5000 above the
establishment" During 1893 1884,
recruits joined the army.
President Zolaya OF Nicaragua is anx-
ious that the canal project be discuss I'd
thoroughly in the United States, which
Government he thinks should under
take the great enterprise.
Senior Lerno, President of the Rebel
Provisional Government in Santa Cath.
erina, Brazil, has been shot, it is report
ed, by order of General Saraiva, who
took him prisoner recently.
| The Prince OF Wales is dieting him.
self. lie eats nothing but easily digestet
food, and by direction of his physicians
he resists at public and private dinner
tables everything but the plainest food
The House Committee on Military
Affairs has agreed to favorably report {
bill introduced by representative Hen
derson to buy parts of Shiloh battl,
grounds for national park at the ex
pense OF $l50,000.
The pope's encyclical, forecast o.
which has already been cabled TO the
Associated Press, has been issued 1t il
much remarked that the letter is ad
dressed to all princes and peoples, in.
stead of as usual to the archbishops and
bishops.
The total estimate of revenue unde
the Senate Tariff bill is given at $49l
073,SlS. This includes the receipts from
existing internal revenue laws, from tn,
postal service, from the income tax anC
all sources of Governme revenue
The income tax is estimated at $50,
600, 900,
Mrs. Annie Kapicowsbi started from
the State House step at Boston at II a
m. Monday to make trip around tn
world in fifteen months, starting with
out a cent and returning with a stipu
lated sum, the amount of which is no
disclosed. The trip is to settle wage
of 100000 to $4,000 that it cannot b
done.
WHAT THEY THOUGHT.