The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1896-09-12
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New York on August Both from
Honolulu with large cargo of sugar.
Vermoupt has again gone Repub-
licau, but with plurality far larger
than ever before, while the Demo
cratic vote is smaller than in any
election since the close Of the Re-
bellion. The populists and Prohi-
bitionists were completely showed
I under.
Bourke Cochran, one of the fore
most Democratic leaders and orators,
has come out hatfooted for McKin-
ley.
Dispatches from Havana claim
that, by special order OF the Captain
General, U. S. Consul General Lee
has been prohibited from visiting
CabanasCastle or interviewing Amer
lean prisoners. General Lee has
formally protested, and also de-
manded the production of an Amer
lean correspondent, il alive, and il
dead the punishment of the officers
responsible for his death.
1t is announced that France has
signed twelve-year treaty of COM
MERGE with japan, by the terms Of
which France agrees to renounce
concessions at the open ports within
three years, and the two countries
exchange the most favored nation
treatment. France is thus put upon
the same footing as the United
States.
Italy is sending special Minister
to Brazil to demand satisfaction
from that government of all claims
made by Italy against her. The
envoy leaves for Rio on the cruiser
Piedmonte
Forty thousand Veterans psrtici-
pated in the parade of the Grand
Encampment at st. Louis on Sept
ember 2. The next Encampment
will probably be held at Buffalo.
The advance Of the British expedi-
ton up the Nile has been seriously
retarded by unheard of weather. A
heavy cyclone swept the advance
camp with hardly any warning, and
a sandstorm followed by thunder
storm, demolished hundreds Of huts
and tents, destroying twelve miles
of the new railroad, and cut off tele-
graphic communication with the
front for several days.
| WASHINGTON, Sept. 1.-Secretary
Smith closed his administration Of
the Interior Department to-day, and
retired from the Cabinet
OMAHA, Sept. 1.-The fast passen-
ger train service record in the West
was broken by the Union Pacifc's
Overland Limited last night. The
regular schedule time OF the train
is over fifty miles an hour, including
stops.
New York, Sept. Thirty minis
ters representing American Mission
AIRY Societies, headed by Rev. F. F.
Ellinwood, called upon Ii Hung
Chang today aud presented him an
address thanking him for his inter
est in missionaries in China. The
address, which is quite long, says in
no nation in the world have Ameri-
can missionaries received more Just
aud even generous treatment than
in China.
CONVENTION HALL, INDIANAPOLIS
IND, Sept. 1.-THE first days session
OF the National Democratic Conven-
ton, called by the Democratic advo.
Gates OF sound money and the oppo-
nents Of the Chicago platform, was
marked by unanimous action and
favorable surroundings OF wind,
weather and enthusiasm. Eight
hundred and twenty-four delegates
were present out Of possible 900.
These represented forty-one States
and three Territories. In many in
stances the delegates were supple
mented by full sets Of alternates, so
that the attendance equaled and al
most surpassed the seating canacitv