Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-06-16
CULLINCS FROM THE MAIL
ROWLING SUCCESS OF THE JAPA-
NEsE LOAN IN LONDON.
cycling mishap ON n Large Scale-TO
Climb Mount Elias
Meteor, etc.

| Gold In paying quantities has
been found at Terra del Fuego.
Next session of the Universal
Postal Congress will be held in
Rome, Italy, in 1908.
Captain Henry Romeyn, having
attained the age of "a, has retired
from the U. s. Army.
Convict strikers at San Quen-
tin were ultimately reduced to
submission by a bread and water
diet.
j. j. De Haven has been ap-
pointed in place OF Judge Morrow
as District Judge for the North
ern District of California.
Prince Luigi of Savoy, who
visited Honolulu last year, has
started with party from Chicago
i for Alaska with the intention to
climb Mount Elias.
Baron Oscar Dickson, liberal
promoter of Arctic expeditions,
died lately in Sweden. He gave
100000 of the 100000 expended
on the 1878 expedition.
| George Fiferlieck was put out
of his head by hypnotisIn at an
entertainment in San Francisco
last year. Lately in st. Louis he
committed fatal assault on his
brother Joseph.
The japanese loan of 100000
yen, equivalent to about S2l, ,947,-
GIG, at per cent, aud payable in
gold, the issue price of which is
l0la, WAS subscribed in London
several times over within an hour.
In the case of John Z. Searles,
the Sugar Trust witness, Judge
Bradley ordered the jury to bring
in verdict of acquittsl, holding
that questions asked by the Sen
ate Committee were not pertinent,
and if so, were not within the
jurisdiction of the com mittee.
The house in which Samuel l..
Clemens -" "Mark Twain" = was
born in Florida has been pulled
down to make way for a lew
building. Mrs. Roney, owner of
the house, is besieged by ad-
mirers of the humorist, who each
want enough timber to make a
cane.
Jamaica negroes who deserted
their contracts on the Panama
canal started for Colon, but the
police and soldiers brought them
to full stop. They said they
only wanted to see the British
Consul. Some of the negroes
were wounded in fight with the
soldiers, who were sent after
them when they had beaten off
the police.
The Italian Judiciary Council,
now considering the Bank of
Naples scandals, has denied
Signor Crispi's demand to be tried
by the Senate, and will direct that
he be prosecuted by the ordinary
courts of justice. 1t is not stated
whether in return the Signor has
made any more dire prophecies
against the King.
While turning a sharp corner at
the foot of steep hill twenty rid
ers in five-mile road race near
Passaic, N. j., ran into the mouth
of big stone quarry, and every
one of the racers was injured and
every wheel was wrecked. That
none of the riders was killed is
extraordinary. Sixty cyclists had
entered the contest, and by the
time the steep hill was reached
twenty riders were punched to-
gether. They did not slow up for
the hill, but dashed down at full
speed.
An explanation of yesterdays
supposed earthquake has been
found, says a Lansing, Iowa, tele-
gram of June 7. Farmers resid-
ing west of this city report seeing
a large ball of fire sailing through
the sky in a northerly direction
about the time the shock was felt
Sunday morning. Immediately
following the disappearance of the
strange sight there was an awful
explosion, and it is now thought
to have been monster meteor
which must have struck the earth
somewhere in Northeastern Iowa.
| Nicely furnished rooms at the
populer House. ia Fort streat