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The sun., 1897-05-17
COL. AGUIRRE's DEATH CONFIRMED
He Was the Victim or n Foul Murder by Gen.
WeyIer'a Soldiers.

Weyler'a Soldiers.
WASHINGTON, May 16.-A private letter re-
ceived in Washington to-day from Of the
United States Consus In Cuba confirms recent
newspaper dispatches announcing the killing OF
Col. Carlos f. Aguirre Of tho Cuban army by the
Spanish troops. According to the Consul 8 state
mcnt Col. Aguirre tho victim of a murder
as foul as any in the long list chargeabe to
Weylers rule in Cuba The Consuls letter.
which ia dated May z. says:
"He IAguirrel was shot last week by a
Spaniard and, half alive, was dragged by a
guerrilla with rope around his neck to Gen.
O'Bregon, who was very angry at the sight"
Col Aguirre was an American citizen, who
lived for many years in this country. His broth
ers. Coils. Felix and Monure Aguirre, were killed
in the previous Cuban war. and his nephew.
George Washington Aguirrc; was recently re;
leased from Cuban prison. after many months
confinement, his case having been the subject OF
a long debate In the Senate. A. A. Agurre an
other brother of the murdered officer, is one of
the most active friends Of tho Cuban cause in
tho United States. He is now in Washington,
and will call the attention Of the, President and
the Secretary Of State to the inhuman circum-
stances of his brothers death.
The sun., 1897-05-17

Young Woman Said TO Have Received In
Jury I'm . sixty-Foot Plunge.

Young Woman Said TO Have Received In
Jury I'm . siHty-Foot Plunge.
1t is reported by telephone from Bath Beach
that Miss Murdoch, who, 1t Is said, lives at 80
st. Felix street, Brooklyn. and who Is said to be
young, attractive. and member of the Gilbert
Dramatic Society. took her first dip of the sea-
son yesterday on the beach in front OF Avoca
Villa. at the foot of Bay Twentieth street, Bath
Beach.
1t is reported that Miss Murdoch. after SWIM
ming about in the water of Gravesend Bay took
header from the pier twenty feet above tho
water. 1t is declared that among the patrons of
Mr.. f. G. NJ. Fitzgerald's resort. well known as
Avoca Villa were two professional divers, who
said they did not wish their names to appear In
print.
1t Is asserted that these two mon scoffed at
Miss Murdoch's performance and outclassed
her by thrilling forty-foot plunges. thereby. 1t 10
reported. bringing tears TO the eyes OF the young
woman and tempting her to further aquatic
feats. to tho delight. 1t is said. of the visitors
to Avoca villa, which. 1t Is not denied. was
crowded.
Miss Murdoch. 30 the story goes, ran nimbly
to the end OF the pier and assembled pole which.
it is said towers full sixty feet in the air. From
the very top. 1t is affirmed, Miss Murdoch. who
II is reported. did not realize the giddy height
to which, it is said she had ascended. took
header, clearing tho water, 1t is stated. fully
sixty feet below.
The story that comes from Bath Beach is 10
the further effect that u man, said TO be Max
Levy, who, It is reported, lives at 2sl Union
street. Brooklyn. became alarmed at the length
dangerous experiment. Ho had, It Is reported,
seen her strike the water on her side and with
considerable force so 1t is said.
THE SUN 3 informant heard, 80 he says, that
Mr.. Levy dived under the surface and brought
MISS Murdoch to the shore. II Is asserted that
management OF Avoca Villa promptly sum
mOned a physician, who, II is said admins
that later she was removed to her home, where,
IL Is reported, Miss Murdoch's family said last
iii from the plunge, which. It Is said she tcoH *
from the Ayoca Villa diving pole.
The sun., 1897-05-17
TROLLEY sMAsHUP IN BAYoNNE.
DIR. Bondy's Carriage Wrecked-He Ia BADLY
Hurt-Mis Horse Runs Away.

DF. bonoy'o carriage Wrecke0-Ho u baoIy
Hurt-His Horse Runs Away.
DIR. Sigismund Bondy of Bayonne was badly
injured yesterday afternoon through the col
lision OF trolley car OF the Consolidated Trac-
ton Company with his carriage. DR.. Bondy's
coachman drove mettlesome horse down the
grade Of West Eighth street, Bayonne. and
turned into Avenue d just as a trolley car
dashed down the grade OF the avenue caused by
the depression beneath the New Jersey Central
Railroads bridge. AS the carriage crossed the
tracks the car crashed into 1t. The impact
hurled DR.. Bondy and his coachman over the
dashboard and overturned tho carriage. The
car pushed the men and wreckage aside and did
not stop until 1t reached the intersection of Lin
net street, block distant. Motorman James
Heating OF Bayonne said he was unable to avert
the accident. He was not arrested.
The horse struggled free from the shafts and
turned up West Eighth street, running for more
than mile along the Hudson coun nty boulevard
before IT was caught. It was cut in several
places. DR.. Bondy was bleeding from several
cuts about the head and was prostrated by
shock. His condition Is quite serious. He de-
clares that the car was travelling at rate of
speed not allowed by law. The coachman's in.
jurieB slight.
The sun., 1897-05-17
RECTOR H1PKINs GETS A DIVORCE
A Surprise to tho Members or st. Johu'a
Church In L.archmont.

Johns Episcopal Church here had surprise
this morning, when they read In the Sunday
papers a despatch from Fargo South Dakota,
that the Rev. Frederick Southgate Hipkins had
got divorce on Saturday from his wife. Sue f.
Hipkns.
The plaintiff, until last September. was tho
rector of st. Johns Church, and with his wife
and two children lived in the rectory adjoining
tho church. The rector was fond of golf and
cycling, and when he was not wearing his vest
ments was TO be found at the greens or out with
"hneeling parties attirsa IN knickerbockers.
panied him or took part in the festivities of the
manor. She kept almost constantly secluded in
the rectory, and few of the congregation ever
saw her. All that was known was that sho was
Southern woman of rare beauty.
The sun., 1897-05-17
Thinks Hts Vire Was Poisoned.

Robert Janerett of 174 East Seventy-seventh
street called at the East sxty-seventh street po.
lice station last night and reported that his wife
had died on Friday under suspicious circum-
stances. She was attended by DR.. Ferris of 166
East Eighty-first street. Janerett said that his
wife was taken i'll on Wednesday night and tho
doctor treated her for cramps.
On Friday afternoon, when he went after q
death certificate. he told tho doctor that he
thought his wife had been poisoned. The doc
tor refused to give the certificate until tho Coro-
ner had been notified. He said last night that
the woman had died of peritOnitis.
The sun., 1897-05-17

Boston, May 16.-Edward A. Mosely OF Wash
ington, Secretary OF the Interstate Commerce
Commission, last night was elected President.
General of the American Irish Historical Society,
70 succeed the late Roar: Admiral Richard II.
Meade. Mr.. Mosely was formerly member of
Of the Society OF Colonial Wars and Sons of the
The sun., 1897-05-17
Mrs. BaIIenbers.s Diamonds Found.

The diamonds which Mrs. Julius Ballenber
lost on Friday night while going from her sister
home at 1865 West 121st street to her boarding
house at 2lO West 127th street have been re-
and Eighth avenue by Henry j. Penny. a car
penter living at 3O5 West 10th street. He re-
turned them as soon as he learned who tho
warded.
The sun., 1897-05-17
CHURCH MEMBERS OFT An xIGHE
Tho Rev MIR. Van Dykes Male ana Female
Bicy cIists stalled at DunelIen.

New BRUNSWICK, n. j., May 16.-Twcnty FIVE
young men and young girls members OF the h''
cycle club connected with tho Highland PARK
Reformed Church. took club run to Dunelicn.
ten miles from home. yesterday evening.
They wero storm bound there and could OBJ
tain but one room in the only hotel. This room
the young girls engaged. They prepared 10
spend the night sleeping in relays OF four IN tho
single bed.
The watchers. tired OF the relay business. mad"
their way TO a neighboring bakoshop ant there
passed the rema inder OF the night, The men ~
the party bunked RS best they could In tho wait
ing room at the railway station.
This morning tho Rev. Mr.. Van Dykes he
draggled bicycle club returned home to listen 10
parental lectures and TO offer explanations "t
their absence.
The sun., 1897-05-17
MIR. ATKINS AND CUBAN SUFFERING.
me Boston sugar Man Denies That Ne 10 OPP
posed 10 Relief Measures.

BOSTON, Mass. May 16.-President Edwin F.
Atkins OF the Trinidad Sugar Company. who
left Cuba two weeks ago and who stopped in
Washington on his way back TO consult with
President Mckinley and with the Department
Of State on Cuban matters. said to-day:
"The story that tried to influence the Gov
ernment against sending relief TO Cuba is alb
surd. / would be in favor of a general popular
subscription IN this country for the relief OF suf
iering In Cuba, not limited to the Americans.
Large sums have been donated by our people
again and again for the relief Of want In all
Parte OF the world, and why not for suffering
The sun., 1897-05-17
Ice sum In tho Nsst-Bound steamer Ian

Ice htii In the wesi-b0und steamer Lane.
The French line steamship La Champagne in
yesterday from Havre, found that the icebergs
have not vanished from the lane OF the liners,
She sighted four big bergs on the southeasterIy
edge OF the Banks.
The sun., 1897-05-17
FLINT's FINE FURNITURE.

Elaborate or Plain
whatever you fancy at
Factory Prices.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1897-08-09
The Last Sad Rites

Enquiry at the British Vice Con-
sulate elected the information that
the program for the funeral Of the
late British Commissioner and Con-
sul General A. G.. S. Halves would
not be ready in time for publication
in THE INDEPENDENT this afternoon.
1t may, however, be stated that
the invitations to the Consular
corps announce the hour as for 10
o'clock tomorrow morning from
St. Andrews Cathedral.
The services will be read by Rev.
John Osborne, Alexander Mackin-
tosh and V. II, Kitcat, aud detach-
ments from all the warships in port
will be supplemented by Govern
ment troops, police and the band.
While the funeral will be under the
main control of the British Vice.
Consulate aud Captain Field the
Hawaiian Government will do all in
its power to add to the impressive
ness of the occasion.
The banks, Wholesale and leading
retail houses will be closed and the
usual respect paid to the mem DRY OF
one who numbered many friends
and no enemies.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1897-08-09
whitewaehing the Sultan.

Sir Ellis Asbmead- Bartlett was in
terviewed recently at Paris on bis
return from the East, says the Glas-
gov Herald, Referring to his audi
ence with the Sultan, he said: His
Majesty explained his position and
views very fully to me. My impress
sion of his Majesty was that OF all
who converse with him in reason.
able and friendly spirit, that is to
say, most favorable. do not believe
that the Sultan has ordered the
massacres or any similar deeds. He
is essentially a kind hearted man,
but in position OF most desperate
difficulty. Owing to the hostility
of English public opinion during
the last few years, and of the coer-
cion adopted, first by Lord Rose
bury and then by Lord Salisbury's
Government, the Sultan has been
forced to lean entirely upon the
Mussulman element for support,
and seek for the protection of Rus
STA. This is regrettable but natural,
and is largely due to English blum.
ders, and, above all, to the deplor.
ably hostile attitude OF the British
ambassador at Constantinople.
Sir Ellis went on to speak of the
reforms naugurated by the Sultan
and predicted a speedy improve
ment in Turkish administration if
only Turkey is given breathing time
and tranquility is maintained. He
added further that it was the aim Of
Russia to prevent all serious reforms
and Russian influence was directed
against the real improvement of
Turkey. Russia has now only form
ally and specifically joined in the
European Congress, because there
by it can prevent anything effective
being done.
He also said that he belle we'd the
Sultan, if be was sure of protection
from Russian interference, would
gladly, OF his own accord, without
need Ct any coercion, adopt any rea-
sonable scheme OF reforms proposed
by England with the support of the
Triple Alliance. Sir Ellis couclud-
ed with the remark that he had
spoken with many Turks while in
Turkey, and everywhere found an
intense desire to be friendly with
England, and an equally intense dis
trust of Russia.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1897-08-09
Married

OLDINe-WRIeHT-On the l4th Of
July, at St. Augustine's Church, Ko-
hala, Hawaii, by the Rev. l.. Fl.
Byrde, Edwin Ernest Gliding of Nova
Scotia to Annie, youngest daughter
OF the late George Wright OF Vic
toria, Australia.
MIsr-ATKrNs-At Kohals, Hawaii,
on Thursday, August 5, 1897, by Rev.
L II. Byrde, H, w. Mist to Miss
Mary Atkins.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1897-08-09
Timely Topics.
Honolulu, Aug. 9, 1897.
The Outer Test of a

Gentleman according to the
Chesterfeldian Code is to be
we'll shoed, hated and gloved,
we'll groomed, in fact. A true
gentleman also looks after the
comfort of his horse, and in
no way can he do this better
than in seeing that his ami
mails shoe gear is also the
best the market can give
The almost universal ex-
perience of all horseshoers in
the Hawaiian Islands and in
the United States, proves
that SOHOEN BERGER'S
SHOES stand without a rival
in all respects, and we are the
EXCLUSIVE AGENTS for
them. Ask any of our lead
ing horseshoers and they will
tell you that they give excel
lent, and the very best, salts
faction. The fine quality of
material, superior make and
finish recommend them to all.
The general shape of the shoe
full fills the latest and most APP
proved ideas of practical horse
shoers. They are smooth and
in form the concave made to
conform 10 the horses hoof,
the creasing neat, punching
clean and properly done, and
in a word they are the finest,
best shaped and cheapest
shoes on the market. The
PUTNAM, CHAMPLAIN
aud LIGHTNING shoenails
are also the best that can be
manufactured. The Light
ming is a new brand that has
won very great favor in the
American market on account
of its quality and low price
Try it.
Tho Hawaiian Hardware Co., Ia
26S FORT STREET,
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1897-08-09
Too Dry.

Deputy Sheriff Nahale came back
on Wednesday from Kohala. He
reports it very dry there and several
of the plantations are a complete
failure this year. The Hawi Mill
has discharged all its hands aud
will not grind this year, George
and Robbie Hind, owners of the
Hawi Mill, have been taking a holt
day trip around the big island, look
ing at coffee land, general improve
ments, etc. They have a fine coffee
plantation at Kaawaloa, South
Kona.-KoHa Echo.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1897-08-09

The Chronicle and tho annexa-
tionists are continually sending forth
dark inuendos OF the disturbance Of
the peace in Hawaii by the "Hawai-
ian royalists." They may, however,
rely upon it that the Hawaiaus will
never again be led or entrapped
into any such folly. They can and
will win their fight by legitimate
means through diplomatic meas
ures and not by the arbitratement
OF war. In the event of any riotous
disturbance they will be found
fighting on the side of the Govern
ment, oligarchical though it may be.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1897-08-09

In reference to the Transvsal the
San Francisco Chronicle says:
"Much as the British might like to
do "a little pirating,' as one of their
newspapers confessed some months
ago, they are hardly callous enough
to undertake it in the face of the
exposure which has now besn made
and in way to draw the scathing
hiss OF Christendom." Cannot the
Chronicle look closer home, and
notice the "pirating" of Hawaii by its
own country2
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1897-08-09
Non-PoliticaI.

As we announced already that the
Kona Echo is not included among
political papers, and if our chief
editor expressed any idea on the an
nexation or any other political sub
jects, that must be tho opinion of
himself. The readers please do not
expect to seek any political opinions
from our paper, This is merely in
structive journal, AS our American
editor is true to his country, our
Japanese editor must be more loyal
to his own country.--Kona Echo.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1897-08-09
MONDAY, AUG, 9, 1897,
OF GRAVE IMPoRr.

The INDEPENDENT, while agreeing
in the Main with the following ex-
pressions Of viows contained IN the
Bennington Reform, would remind
that Journal that naminally wo have
plenty OF Church,, Missionaries,
parsons and teachers to give US a
preponderance of Christian souls
in these Islands, although our un-
published census returns might en-
brace among the christians au I'M
due proponderonce of Mormons, re-
gistered principally by way of a
protesting joke at what was deemed
governmental inquisitiyeness.
The proposed annexation OF the
Sandwich Islands to the United
States is matter of grave import.
There is strong probability that
annexation will he consummated,
since annexation is declared by
President Mckinley to be "a part Of
the grounded policy of the govern
ment"--mesning possibly McKin-
ley's government-and he is expect
cd to use the power of his Office to
accomplish tae end he seeks. There
is reason to believe that the United
States has already reached the safe
limit of expansion and that further
extension of territory will add to
the dangers surrounding our form
of government. The thinking mind
has long since realized that in
country of broad expanse Of terri
tory interests become so antagon-
istic that central government can
with increasing difficulty legislate
equitably for the whole of it. The
tariff discussion has raised many
questions of expediency, and its
settlement in the form of bill that
will lay agreeably upon the diverse
interests of the east and west, north
and south, has become task calling
for the display of the highest pa.
triotism. The east, being manu-
featuring section, demands free
wool, while the west, being an agri-
cultural section, demands duty on
wool. So it is with hides, and, in an
inverse way, with lumber The
incest sort of compromise on hun
drsds of questions of every sort is
needful to maintain cohesion of
divergent interests. There was a
great civil war waged in this coun-
try over subject Of not greater i'm
port than some others that confront
US. The money question is one of
them. The interests Of the creditor
and debtor classes clash ominously.
All things considered, we surely
have territory enough, but if there
is possibility that additional OBJ
legations can safely be taken on, let
us cast our lures toward Cuba or
possibly Canada, but not toward ISL
ands in the sea two thousand miles
remote from our shores-islands
volcanic rather than organic, and
peopled with heather rather than
Christian souls.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1897-08-09

1t is not unlikely that if the Ha-
waiaus could receive formal guar.
autee that in the event OF annexa-
ton they would have the same vot
ing privileges as white American
citizens they might be more favor
ably Inclined towards he change.
They dread, however, the Greeks,
who have before treacherously be-
trayed them, approaching them
with gifts in their hands only to
slay them. They have been wound
ed before by the same mea in diff
ferent garbs.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1897-08-09

The attention of the Marshal is
called to a fragrant violation OF the
Curfew Law in its intent and spirit,
if not in its letter, which occurs on
Saturday evenings regularly on the
corners Of Nuuanu and Hotel streets.
Girl children hang around peddlIng
flowers until midnight, and approach
very familiarly all male passers-by,
much to the annoyance OF the re-
spectacle and to the apparent en-.
joyment of the looser class. The
fate Of these poor children would
not be difficult to predict.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1897-08-09
NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION.

THE CO-PARrNERSHIP HERETO
fore existing between A. S, Humphreys
and =. j. NJ cdonald for the practice of
law under the finn name of Humphreys
e. Macdonald has been dissolved. Mr..
Humphre,s will occupy the offices at cor
ner King and Bethel Stree s, and will at
te nd to sll civil matters now in the hands
of the firm
HUMPHREYS & MACDONALD, -
A, S HUMPHREYS,
S. J MAJ DONALD.
honolulu, August 4, 1897. 65 '-1w
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1897-08-09

The article in Saturdays issue of
this paper on "Hawsii and the
United States" should have been
credited to the Finapcesring of Lon.
don, England.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1897-08-09

There was curious fatality in re-
gard to the death OF Commissioner
Halves. dying on the anniversary Of
his arrival in the islands, and re-
turning, dead, to Honolulu on the
very day he predicted. In life he
never broke his word and even in
death he kept it.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1897-08-09
Born.

FRENoH AT Waanae, Oahu, on
August &, 1897, to The wife OF DR.. 7.
L. French, son.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1897-08-09
TOPICS Of THE DAY.

We trust that the Hawaiians will
not be seduced by tho newspaper
yarns in regard to the New Eldorado
at Clondike. That region is just
the place for Fitzgerald's or Coxey's
armies Of unemployed laborers and
hoobou.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1897-08-09

Mr.. Monwar, OF Mr., Paul Neu-
mann's Office, states that the Chi
nese doctors have an infallible
remedy for carbuncle,
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1897-08-09
Died.

KAEo.-At Nawiliwili, Kauai, on
Sunday, August 1, 1897, Samuel X.
Kaeo, Jr., eldest son Of S. X. Kaeo;
aged, over Ia years.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-07-03

The Cleveland Iron Trade Reviews Resume OF
the Week In Iron Circles.
The dock situation n today the most
important hctor in.the outlook ior iron
ore. The nsuiIicicnoy Of the cas supply
aud the halEhty of the dock companies
TO find room or cargocs Mat 10y reason
oi car shortages cannot 20 direct nom
yessel 20 AlSnace means congestion
that is IaeI becoming sertus. With Che
arriyaroi Judy orc consumers who
have besn.simIty waiting or The sAua-
tiOl TO Guvelpp, iird IL necessary 20 de
eide as 81 the-pufhasoss and cOnseqHent-
" There will be considerable figuring IN
the next month as to the otes aud vessel
tonnage. Poor dispatch for vessels in
ore trade is iibcly.to be the rule for the
mex few weeks, and short season con-
tracts will expire with loss ORC down
than was figured on originally. The
wild rate Of City cents from Duluth stlll
rules, howevor, and on contracts rum
ming 60 Oct. sixty cents is being consd.
erod The situation il certainly ilrmer
from the vessel standpoint, though IL Is
not expected that the wild rate will be
changed for some time. Total salcs OF
ore are figured upwards OF 100000
tons, including sales from docks, and orc
midcd by consumers. Under the low
prices recently fixed for Mcsabi ores,
considerable additional sales are looked
for, but the basis Is such that no chances
eau be taken on advancing ireights. For
non Bessomcr Mesabis $50 TO Sl.90
has been The range, and quite a little
has been sold for shipment to the east.
There are signs Of concessions on orc
freights from Lake Erie ports, the effect
Of The completion Of tho Bessemer road
being felt earlier than was expected.