The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-19
WAR IN HAWAII.


Seven prisoners were taken. and from
them it was learned that the leaders of
the rebels were Samuel Nowlin. former
colonel of the Queens household guard.
and Robert Wilcox, who was the lead
er of the revolution in 1887, the other
prominent ones being half whites form
erly in the service of the Queen. After
the first surrender the natives came
dropping into the government camps
in lunches until there were soon more
prisoners than troops. y The prisoners
claimed they had six hundred rifles,
but only five hundred men were ar
rested. AT 6 o'clock the government
forces camped for the night, pursuit
being impossible in the dense brush.
REBELS ATTACKED FROM THE REAR.
While the rebels were being corraled,
the tug Eleu. with a field piece and a
detail of sharDshooters, left Honolulu.
and in a half hour was in a position to
shell from the rear the natives whose
camp fronted Lieutenant Kings COM
mand. A few well-fred shots scat
tered them like sheep, one shot falling
directly into the natives camp. 1t is
known that five men were killed here
and a large number wounded. The ma
tives were pursued by Lieutenant
Coyne's company as far as the nature
of the ground allowed. A shot from his
field piece scattered a GROVE of them
who appeared on the edge of the crater.
and -four dead was the result. Thirty
six rifles, two one-hundred-pound boxes
of cartridges and two dynamite bombs
were found in an improvised fort; also,
a lot of clothing, including a United
States navy dress coat. Squads of
troops secured the summit of Diamond
Head, but no natives were found. two
cases of gin were captured and brought
to headquarters. After being examined
by DR.. Copper, the army surgeon, the
stuff was pronounced poisoned, and it
was destroyed.
From statements of the natives cap
tured during the day it was ascertained
that the captain of the little steamer
Waimanalo was responsible for the
landing of the arms with which the
natives were supplied. The entire crew
was arrested. The mate confessed, and.
when confronted with his testimony,
the captain also acknowledged his guilt.
The government claims to have evil,
dence of the whole transaction from
the original purchase of the arms until
their final disposition. During the day
a large number of prominent royalists
were arrested, including the editor of
the Holomua, which p was sus-
pended, the business manage being
since arrested.
Son excitement was occasioned dur
ing the afternoon by the appearance
of two strange barks and two small
schooners off port. The steamer Clau-
dine and tug Eleu, with fifty men and
two went after and searched
them, but no c~ontraband of wal was
found.
W. A. Kinney, a prominent lawyer,
with his party, including four ladies
and two gentlemen. who were passing
through the rebel lines. were detained
from Sunday afternoon until released
by government troops on Tuesday after
noon.
Up to A o'clock D.. m. Tuesday thirty
four of Honolulu's prominent royalists,
not including natives. were under ar
rest. At midnight the remaining rebels
were being pursued in every direction
by small squads of police. the troops
returning to the barracks during the
night, their clothing torn and their
dilapidated appearance showing the
effect of their hard trip. The steamer
Lle-Au-Hou. which was sent to the
islands of Maui and Hawaii to ascer-
tain the condition of affairs there, has
returned with the news that every
thing was quiet. The inhabitants knew
nothing of the revolution and were not
even informed of it by those on the
steamer. But one trusted agent of the
government, Hon. P. p. Baldwin, went
ashor on either island.
H REBEL PROGRAMME.
A government spy who had been sent
to the rebel camp returned on Tuesday
at 10 p. M, stating that he had sue
ceeded in reaching the camp and gain
ing the confidence of the natives. There
were about $50 under command of Will
cox, who claimed to have 1000 men
with plenty of arms, provisions, etc.
Samuel Nowlin, with seventy-five more,
was said to be within a short distance.
The rebel programme was to march to
Punch Bowl and capture the powder
magazine there. The spy's story caused
two companies of volunteers to occupy
Punch Bowl before midnight. One field
piece was taken along.
At noon on Wednesday there was 1913
prisoners in Jail, about one hundred be-
ing prisoners of war. During the after
noon heavy firing was heard from Ma
noa valley. AT 4 O'Clock a of
s-harpshooters and another of the citi-
zens' guard drove the rebels from the
ridge downward. while the companies
and battery from the Punch Bowl were
in possession of the other side of the
valley. The rebels were hemmed in,
with no possible escape except by hand
to-hand climbing for about two thou
sand feet. The lowest estimate of the
rebel force is sixty, the highest two
hundred. At s D. m. a courier brought
word that one rebel had been killed.
one mortally wounded and six captured.
AT midnight another rebel was killed.
Carl Widemann, son of Liliuokalani's
latest envoy of the United States, has