The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1897-04-15

President Dole of Hawaii has sent a
special commissioner to the United States
to urge annexation.
c. A. SprecSles, the sugar king, has
discharged all but two of the white men
on his Hawaiian plantation and put ori-
entails in their places.
In replying to an inquiry from the sec
retary of war, Morgan johnson of Fargo,
M D., says $4,000 is needed for the inn
mediate relief of flood sufferers.
BY the suspension of the Globe Savings
bank in. Chicago, over $500 000 in cash
and bonds of the University of Illinois
are missing. The president of the bank
cannot be found.
The senate committee is working on the
line of cutting down the Dingley bill tar
ifs.
Ten lives were lost and a block of
buildings burned at Buenos Ayres by
thes explosion of a car loaded with fire.
works.
The burning of the Lancaster House at
Rossland, b. c., caused loss of $1,000.
The boarders also lost their effects.
The trotting stallion Ashland Wilkes,
Is years old, and sire of John r. Gentry.
2:O0l3 has just been sold for $7500,
Secretary Bliss has re-instated Captain
Henry c. Potter of Ohio as chief of the
mineral division of the land office at
Washington.
War preparations throughout the Turk
/
News comes of cyclone passing over
portion of Saale county, Alabama, de-
molishing many houses. One woman was
caught by the falling timbers of her
home and died before she could be res
cued
Notwithstanding The fact that the floods
along the Red River of the North caus-
ed a loss of a quarter of a million dollars
at Fargo, N. D., and inundated so miles
of fertile territory, the people in that sec
tlon have declined The government aid
voted them.
The Kaslo G. Lardo, the Duncan rail-
way, Stiken & Telsen railway, Cariboo
railway; Victoria, Vancouver & Eastern;
Vancouver & Lulu Island bills have been
passed by the British Columbia legisla-
ture.
The Poughkeepsle, N. Y, glass works.
have been completely destroyed by fire
today. The loss is approximately $780,
Geo; insurance $50, 600.
Members of the theatrical profession
throughout the country are interesting
themselves in the case of James b. Cen
try, the actor who is under sentence of
death in Pennsylvania for the murder of
Madge York.
The Honduras congress has decided to
grant a concession to a Honduras syn
dicate acting in conjunction with a party
of New York capitalists for an inter
oceanic railroad from Puerto Costes on
the Atlantic to Amalapa on the Pacific.
Mrs. Leland Stanford has taken out
81, 00,0G0 insurance for the benefit of
Stanford university. Should she live 10
years and continue her annual payment
of $40 000, the university will receive at
her death s2GOO,Oo instead of s1,OOo.0oo.
Adyices from Tahiti state that Queen
Mamae, who for seven years, as ruler of
the island of Raiatea, has dehed the
ct1rrapIprpd and that the
long standing rebellion on the islands of
Raiatea and Hauhene has been put
down.
Representative Simpson of Kansas has
declared that he will carry into effect his
threat to block any business which the
national house of representatives may at
tempt to do by unanimous consent be-
fore the speaker has appointed commit
tees
Information has been received from
Pretoria, South Africa, that the British
have secured Inyack island at the en-
trance to Delagoa bay, and squadron OF
warships will proceed there to take pos
session and proclaim British territory
Daniel Wosey Voorhees,, eX-Unted
States senator from Indiana, is dead. lie
was born in Butler county, Ohio, in 1927,
and while an infant was carried by his
parents to their pioneer home in the Wa
bash valley of Indiana. He was gradual
ed from the Indiana Asbury mow De
Pauw university in 1919; studied law and
commenced the practice of his profession
in 1851. lie served several terms in the
national house of representatives before
entering the senate.
Rev. Or. Henry stauffer has resigned
as pastor of the First Methodist Ep'sco-
PAL church of Spokane. and will take
charge of the First Methodist church of
Sedalia, Mo. Rev. p. A. Cool, eX-president
of the University of Sedala, succeeds Dr.
Stauffer at Spokane.