Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-10-28
SCRAPS FROM LATEST MAIL
Africa is Predicted the ThGater Of War
in Twentieth Century.
Beautiful Town Of Windsor, N S., Wiped Out
by Fire-The Jersey Lilly" Really
Free A Fugitive Dies.

Lii Hung Chang is reported to
have retired from his high office.
The champagne vintage of Eu-
rope is finished aud turns out
poor.
A man named Cole has been
lynched in Arkansas for killing
an officer
Over one hundred lives were
lost by the wrecking of the Cuban
coasting steamer Triton on a rock.
The U. S. s. Marion is to be
condemned, and probably turned
over to the naval militia OF Cali
fornia.
Iowa Hill, thriving town of
Placer county, Cal, has had it's
business section almost wiped out
by FIRE.
Van Wyck leads a poll made by
the New York World to ascertain
the preferences of Greater New
York for Mayor.
Commodore Chi Of the imperial
Chinese navy has visited the
Brooklyn navy yard and paid his
respects TO Commodore Bunce.
The widow of Bill Nye, the
famous humorist, is reported to
have lost her fortune in a wreck
ell bank at Asheville, North Caro-
lima.
A mob Of about a thousand
people from the slums of Dept
ford, a London suburb, wrecked
the home of a golf club because a
fence had been erected about the
grounds.
Lord Londonderry resigned his
seat in Parliament for a North of
England shire on account of the
passage of the workmen's COM
pensation bill by the Government.
He was re. elected.
Cardinal Richard, Archbishop
of Paris, has issued a pastoral an
nouncing the institution at Ssint
Sulpice, in the Department of
Tarn, of a brotherhood for the
conversion of England.
Much anxiety is felt. at Buenos
Ayres over the non arrival of the
steamer Belgica, which has on
board the explorer, Adrian de
Gerlache, and his party, bound
for the Antarctic regions.
A servant in the employ of
William L. Townes, United States
Consul General in Rio Janeiro,
made an unsuccessful attempt to
murder the Consul-General. Mr..
Townes' assailant was arrested.
By the falling of the dome of
Robinson's opera house in Gin
cinnati on October Is, three per-
sons were killed and thirty or
more were injured, some, it was
feared, fatally. Rotten roof tim
bers caused the casualty.
Edward Langtry has died in the |
English asylum to which he was
consigned, leaving the Jersey
Lily" really free. Prince Ester
hazy has written to the Times
contradicting the report of his
engagement, but not mentioning
Mrs. Langtry's or any woman's
name.
Frank V. Mcdonald, ex Cashier |
of the Pacific bank, San Fran
cisco, died fugitive from justice |
in London. When the bank was
wrecked Frank and his father,
DR.. Mcdonald, fled, leaving r.
ID. Mcdonald Jr. and other di-
rectors to bear the brunt of often |
aed justice.
Conditions at Dawson City |
the food supply are
even worse than has been stated. |
W. A. Ryan, a correspondent of
the Chronicle on the Yukon,
writes from Fort Yukon, giving
facts which indicate that death |
must come to many through lack
of food. Even those along the
river may feel the pangs of hun
ger before the winter is over.
Another account says there is
nothing to eat at Dawson but rice
and sugar. |
The Army and Navy Gazette
voices the opinion of British mill
taIy men in congratulating the
country upon the fact that the
Government has at last determin-