Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-10-21
VARIOUS AMERICAN ITEMS
An Inspector DonOunCGS the Chinese Ex-
CluSiOn Act as a Farce.
Motion in Durrant'S CaSe-JuStiCe Field Re-
signs New Territory Out Of Alaska
-ParSOn Brown Repudiated.

the old ones are getting we'll.
A package containing $4,000
has been lost in the registered
mail between Omaha and Denver.
A U. S. post office has been
opened at Dyea, on the KIondike
route, with Clara I'll. Richards as
postmistress.
indianapolis has elected a
Democratic Mayor out of six can
didates, and a City Council also
Democratic by large majority,
Evangelina Cisneros, the young
lady Just released or escaped from
a Cuban prison, will get a rousing
reception in New York and other
cities.
O Minneapolis -four millers have
lost a suit to prevent millers in
other places from using the name
Minneapolis" in brands and
trade marks.
The Western Union Telegraph
Co. has a surplus of nearly
S., 100000 for last year, after pro
vidipg for dividends, interest and
sinking fund.
An effort will be made in Con-
gress to organize a new Territory,
to be called Lincoln, out of that
portion of Alaska comprising the
basin of the Yukon river.
Charles Harris, a pioneer gold
miner of California, has been ar
rested for burning down the
Moser and Roanoake stamp mill
at Mokelumne Hill mines.
Deputy sheriffs at the De Armitt
mine, Pennsylvania, arrested
brass band because they would
not obey an order to stop play ing.
The band played on their way to
Jail.
Many officials of the town of
Wisconsin, are under
arrest for embezzlement. The
treasurer is charged with stealing
all lest years taxes amounting to
S37 600.
Seven new cases and five
deaths, is the latest yellow fever
bulletin from New Orleans. At
Mobile, seven new cases in the
city, six more landed from a
steamer, and no deaths.
Window glass manufacturers
have organized a trust at Pitts
burg, the greatest combination
that trade has ever made. The
capital is only 100000, but the
trust represents S30,O0O,000.
Justice Stephen j. Field of
California has resigned from the
bench of the United States Su-
preme Court. His successor will
probably be U. S. Attorney Gene
raj McKenna, also of California.
Attorney General Fitzgerald of
California moved in the United
States Supreme Court at Wash
ington to advance the case of
Durrant on the calendar. The
motion was taken under advise.
ment.
Col. J. Thomas Schsrf, Chinese
for the southern district
of New York, has resigned his
office. He says four years. ex-
perience has convinced him the
Chinese Exclusion Act is a farce,
and has resulted in the corruption
of the Treasury department.
The State department has again
calledPeru's attention to the claim
on behalf of McCord, an Ameri-
can citizen who was imprisoned
in that country ten years ago. In
reply the Minister for Peru ex-
presses a desire to have the affair
closed, but says the delays have
not been his country's fault.
The Dubuque conference of
Congregationalists has issued an
apology to the church at large for
receiving Rev. G. o. Brown after
he had been deposed by the Bay
conference of California. As il
had passed Brown to the Chicago
conference, the Dubuque CON
ference could not 60 any further
John Armstrong Chanler, the
first husband of Amelie Rives the
authoress, has been committed as
a hopeless case to the Blooming
dale, N. Y, asylum. His wife
after separating from him married
Prince Troubetsky, of Russian
noble family, and she is now
secluded somewhere with mental
disease. Chanler, who is a grand
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