Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1896-07-10

upon which the Canandaigua and
Swatara were despatched.
FEARS FOR BULUwAYo.
A Cape Town cablesays: Mass
acres of white people in Matabele-
land continue. Powerful chiefs
are joining the insurgents. The
attack on Buluwayo is expected
next new moon, July 10th. The
supply of provisions there isshort.
The mounted infantry of colonial
volunteers has left here for Mata-
beleland. Premier Sprigg pre-
diets a rising of natives in the
colony.
PIRACY IN CHINA SEAS.
A large number of the leading
Chinese and foreign merchants
are petitioning the Chinese autho-
rites to send war boat to the
water route between Foochow and
Formosa to annihilate bloodthirs-
ty pirates who have taken posses
sion of the high seas between the
two trading posts. Recently
thirty-two vessels laden with
freight have been stopped on
different pretenses, and, before
the crews could be prepared, the
pirates swarmed over the vessels
sides like rats, with knives in
their teeth.
They carried off women, bind
ing the men with cords, and trans
ferred the cargo to their own
crafts. The men were afterward
tortured to death by the blood
thirsty fiends and submitted to
the most devilish ordeals that
could be devised at the drunken
orgies of the marine manslayers.
The Chinese Government will act
Immediately, and 1t is expected
that every pirate ship will be run
down and the pirates strung up to
the yard arms.
Advices received at st. Peters
burg from Shanghai show that
disorders are rampant in different
parts of China. The Mussulmans
rebellion in the northwestern dis
trict of Kamsu has reached the
greatest proportions. Famine and
plague are also reported to be
raging in the southern provinces
of China. The secret societies IN
the country are again exciting the
natives against the Europeans.
CUBAN AFFAIRS.
Prince Don Antonio, the
Spanish infanta, is seeking a
cavalry command in Cuba.
1t is reported that General
Maceo has ordered the hanging |
of the Spanish General Bermu.
lez.
Rebel defeats make up the bur-
len of the latest war news. Many |
rebel leaders are on the wounded |
list.
Filibusters connected with the
steamers City of Key West and
Three Friends, after trial at Key
West, were released for want of |
sufficient evidence.
Owen Milton, an American
prisoner taken on the COMPETE
or, was threatened in the fortress
Of Cabanas, by Spanish officer,
because he would not give the
name of the writer of an anony.
nous letter from Key West con-
aiming SO for him.
At New York the jury disagreed
IN the cases of Captain John o.
Brien, Colonel Nunez and others.
The colonel was arrested again on
another charge of violating the
neutrality laws in conveying an
expedition to Cuba on the Lau-
ada. He gave $500 cash bail.
In the Spanish Senate General
Jampos made an eloquent de-
:ence of his course in Cuba.
criticising the Govern
nent he declared that if he did
lot carry out some rules of re-
orm in Cuba it was because the
Government never instruced him
o do so. He closed with a So
emn and pathetic appeal to the
government and nation to do all
n their power, whatever conces-
ions night be necessary, to put
n end to the war, (which cost
$1,000 lives and $l00,0O0,O0O an
lually.'
Premier Canovas himself re-
,lied to Marshal Campos and to a
I'm han antonOmiSt Sanotor Sano,