The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-10-26
TELEGRAPHIC NOTES.

from her territory this month,
The Socialists have secured nineteen
seats in the Belgium Parliament.
The cash balance in the United States
Treasury is now over 100000, 900.
French monarchists say the late
Comte de Paris was worth $4,000, 600
Guatemala and Mexico are likely to
settle their frontier trouble peaceably.
A plot against the Gar has been dis
covered among Russian Army officers.
The Canadian Minister of Finance
will go to London to negotiate loan.
The light house on Cape San Bias on
the Florida coast was rocked during the
recent storm.
Anarchists in London are sending
threatening letters to French Govern
ment officials.
United States Marshals in Kentucky
bagged 120 moonshiners as the result of
six months work.
A secret alliance, offensive and defen-
sive, has been entered into between
Nicaragua and Honduras.
The Russian Minister at Rome has as
sured the Pope that the Cars illness
has been much exaggerated.
A shutdown has been ordered at the
Mollenhaur Sugar Refinery in Brooklyn.
1t will throw out 1900 men.
The late Master Workman Powderly
of the knights of Labor has opened a
law Office in Scranton, Penn.
English and French papers express
the opinion that the Powers will soon
intervene in the Corean war.
A dispatch states that Japan seeks
territorial expansion, and the occupa-
ton of Formosa offers obvious advan-
tages.
A syndicate has been formed in New
York to recover the "a, 800, 900 in guineas
sunk on the British man. of-war Hussar
in 1850.
The subject of annexation is para.
mount in the Hawaiian election, and
pledges are exacted from candidates to
that end
The Carnegie Company proposes to
reduce the wages of all its employees
after November 10Th, except common
laborers.
Great Britain will launch seven new
battle-ships within the present fiscal
year. They are to be built after the
Majestic type.
The Kamirs were repulsed in an attack
on Lourenzo Marques, but the Portu-
guese are in constant alarm over their
possible defeat.
Russia is said to have $500, OOO,O in
gold within reach for a rainy day,
though the fact does not appear in the
Treasury statement.
The New South Wales Legislative
Assembly has passed resolution favor
ing extension of the franchise to women
by a vote of So to 10.
Patriotism in Japan animates all
classes of the people, the mendicant
priests and nuns contributing their
mites to the war fund.
Admiral Maigret of the French navy.
now visiting the United States, has ex-
pressed great admiration for the new
American naval vessels.
During the first Quarter of the current
fiscal year the receipts of the Govern
ment from all sources were $97, S4S, ia,
as against S9S,62s, 23i of expenditures.
A Treasury expert declares that there
is enough silver now held by the Gov
| eminent to make a column one foot
square and six and three-fourths miles
high.
Estimates by the directors of the mint
place the gold product of the world at
$4,000 600, an increase of $4,000, 900
over the amount stated in the annual
report.
New Zealand will urge Uncle Sam or
American capitalists to put on a new
steamship line that will help develop
United States trade in the South Sea
Islands.
The sugar planters of Louisiana have
taken their claim for bounty on the
crop of 1894 into court, and they have
reasonably good claim.-Philadelp
Ledger.
President Cleveland has issued a
proclamation opening to settlement the
unalloted lands on the Yankton Reser-
walton in South Dakota, containing over
100, 900 acres.
The new tariff on wooden goods does
not go into effect until January /, 1895.
This is the cause of the activity in East
ern wooden mills. People must have
winter clothing.
A Mexican named Modericos died at
Ingram, near Kerrville, Texas, tie
other day. His relatives and intimate
friends assert most positively that he
was $50 years old.
There was net increase in the public
debt, less cash in the Treasury, during
September of $s,l52,7)0 "a. The public
debt at the end of September is stated to
have been $S97, 646,s1
No further details of the damage by
the powder explosion at Granada, Mic
aragua, have been received. Half the
city was destroyed aud 200 lives were
lost. The houses were mostly adobe.
A London dispatch says Queen Vic
toria is displaying some concern in
connection w.h the rumored prospect
of an engagement be We, Miss Anna
Gould and Prince Fran, lis of Batten-
berg.