The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-02-09

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prisoner by officers of the government
and may be tried for treason. Wilcox
and other leaders OF the insurgents we're
captured by the government troops in
the vicinity of Honolulu, where they
were hiding after the rout of their fol-
lowers. They are being tried by court
martial for treason. and there is no
doubt that they will be severely pun
ished.
The royalist revolters made no stand
against the government troops. The at
tempt at a rising was an utter failure.
The rebels were badly demoralized in the
first engagement and they first fed and
then dispersed. The insurgents are quite
disorganzed, and what is probably the
final attempt to restore the queen has
failed signally. With the queen and
all their leaders in prison the royalists
have little hope of accomplishing any
thing.
That the ex queen was fully aware of
the plot and an active participant in the
schemes of the reactionaries is proved
by the fact that in her residence the
agents of the government found num-
Der of dynamite bombs and a consider
able quantity OF arms and military
stores. 1t was after the discovery of
these contraband materials in her pri-
vate residence that the arrest of the ex.
queen was determined on. Stringent
measures will be taken by the govern
ment to prevent recurrence of trouble
with the royalists. The ex queen having
violated her promises of peace will be so
dealt with as to take away her power for
evil. She may be kept under surveill
ance or she may be deported. President
Dole and his associates are weary of her
and her schemes and plots for disturb
ing the peace of the islands, and will toll
crate no further annoyance from her.
Order has been fully restored ard
martial law is in force. 1t is now con-
ceded that the government is amply able
| 10 take care of itself and the permanent
| cy of the republic is assured.
THURSDAY evening dispatch was
received from London stating that the
North German Lloyd steamer Ebe, Cap
tain Won Gossel. from Bremen the pre-
vious day for New York via Southamp-
| ton, had been sunk in collision with the
British steamer Crathie, bound from
Rotterdam for Aberdeen.
The first intimat.on of the disaster
came from Loestoft. Suffolk. one of the
| chief English fishing ports. Late Thurs
day afternoon a dispatch was received
from that place sa, ing that it was re-
ported there that transatlantic line
steamer been sunk in the North
Sea, and that the loss of life was very
great.
The first dispatch stated that there had
been $50 persons on the Elbe, and that
only nineteen had been saved, the rescued
having been landed at Lowestoft by fish
ing smacks. Later dispatches to the Ex-
change Telegraph Company and to
Lloyd's confirmed the report of the loss
of the steamer, and still later it was
learned that the Crathie. the steamer
that sunk thu Elbe, had put into Mas
Luis, Holland, in a damaged condition.
She reported that she had been in col
lision with an unknown ocean steamer.
FROM the details now at hand it is
learned that the Elbe was proceeding
along at her usual rate of speed and
keeping the ordinary lookouts. The
night was dark, but there was no gale.
Suddenly the forward lookout on the
Ebe reported to the officer ON deck that
the lights of steamer we're close aboard
over the port bow. Before the course Of
the Elbe could be changed SO as to sheer
her off from the approaching steamer,
the latter struck her just abaft the en-
CINE room. going through her plates as
though they we're pasteboard and stick
ing her nose almost completely through
the hull of the Elbe. For time the
Crathie held the Elbe on her nose, but
then her engines were reversed and she
backed out of the aperture she had
made. AS she did so the water rushed
into the Elbe in torrent and she began
Immediately to settle.
The officer in charge of the ship at
once saw that she was doomed, aud gave
hurried orders to clear away the life
boats for launching. Three of the boats
were cleared and lowered, but one of
them shortly after it got clear of the
steamer, capsized and it is thought that
all OCCUPANTS were drowned.
The first boat contained the third
officer, chief engineer. purser and about
twenty of the passengers. These are the
persons who we're picked up by The fish
ing smack and taken to Lowestoft.