Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-10-25
CULLINGS FROM LAST MAIL
Oxnard Makes a Big Sugar PROPOSE.
ton to Sacramento.
Guatemala a Tough Country-U. 5. Ministers
Appointed in Russia
GermanyS Need Of a Navy.

fighting prairie fires in the
suburbs.
Professor Francis w. Newman,
the English author and philoso-
pher, is dead, aged 80 years.
More bodies have been dug up
near Odessa, Russia, of fanatics
who buried themselves alive.
Seven girls persisted in the
burning of the South Dakota In
dustrial school at Plankinton.
Edward Langtry's insanity is a
wonder, as he had been in the
best of health up to his break
down.
The Bank Of Spain refused the
retiring Minister for the Colonies
loan of 50,000,000 pesetas for
the Cuban campaign.
Hayti proposes to consolidate
its debt and adopt gold currency
on the American standard to re-
place its paper currency.
In a street fight between the
followers of President Igleslas
and his opponents at San Jose,
Costa RIGA, several persons were
killed and injured.
II. G. Oxnard offers to have
sugar factory erected at Sacra-
mento at a cost of $1,000, 900,
which will spend S1,0O0,0O0 a
year, if supply of beets be
guaranteed.
Major Ginter of Richmond, Va,
left an estate of between $1,000,
600 apd SS,000,000. After dealing
handsomely with his relatives, his
will leaves requests to all the
charitable institutions of the city.
A returned Californian says
Americans have few rights that
are respected in the republic of
Guatemala. Times are bad there
also, and hard money can only be
got for paper at IL per cent dis
count.
l.. s. Swenson of Minnesota
has been appointed U. 8. Minis
ter to Denmark, and Godfrey w.
Hunter of Kentucky, Minister to
Guatemala, with w. b. Sorsby of
Mississippi as Consul General
and secretary of Legation.
French and Italians have start
ed masonic branch in Canada,
under a charter of the Grand
Orient of France, which does not
believe in the Bible. Other lodges
disown them and have written to
the Prince of Wales for instruc-
tons.
Major Moses p. Handy, the
special United States Commits
sioner to the Paris Exposition of
1900, has secured 25 per cent
additional space for the American
exhibits, making the space of the
United States equal to that of the
other big nations of the World.
The Koelinische Zeitung init
mates that Germany does not as
sumo forcible control in Samoa
because Great Britain and Ameri-
ca have finger in the pie. Never
theless it holds that the defense
less condition of Germany's
coasts, together with her interests
all over the world, requires a
strong navy.
The German Government has
refused to recognize Ferdinand
Neumann of Illinois, who was
nominated by President McKin-
ley on May 90 to be United States
Consul at Cologne. 1t is sur
missed, as the only reason imagin-
able, at Washington that Neu-
mann is Objectionable on account
of concert enterprise of his at
the Worlds Fair by which some
German artists were injured in
pocket.
Passages in Lord Tennyson's
biography are exciting discussion
in the United Kingdom, as they
show Queen Victoria's hostility to
the cause of Irish home rule. A
reply of Lord Tennyson to one of
the Queens letters, written when
Gladstone was promoting home
rule bill, shows that Her Majesty
was very unhappy over her first
Minister'S policy. A London cor
respondent cables the Evening
Post of New York: "This evil
dence of the Queens stepping
! outside her constitutional adyisers