Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-06-22
TREATY BETWEEN BRITAIN AND
VENEZUELA RATIFiED.
Turkey IL Thtrsting for Moro Blood
Trial of Butler starts at
sydney.

1t is feared that Barney Barna-
to's death will produce a financial
panic, as milliens we're invested
in Kaffir securities on his advice.
Natives at Mashowing, Africa,
attacked the police camp and kill
ed six of the police. Part of the
native troops in the Congo Free
, State have revolted and murdered
a brother of Baron Dhanis and "a
Europeans.
President Mckinley has been
unofficially informed that Weyler
will be withdrawn and a concilia-
tory policy be adopted in Cuba.
Should things prove otherwise,the
President is likely to send an Ill
timatum to Spain.
Barney Barnato, the diamond
king" of South Africa, committed
suicide by jumping overheard
from the steamship Scott, on voy-
age from Cape Town for South
ampton. His wife was on the
ship. Barnato's origin is obscure,
but it is most generally believed
that he was the son of a poor
Hebrew in the East End of Lon
don.
While the carriage of President
Faure of France was passing a
thicket in the Bots de Boulogne,
Paris, June IA, bomb exploded
near. Nobody was injured. The
bomb was piece of tubing charg
ed with powder and swan shot. A
man named Gallet was arrested
on suspicion. In the th;cket was
found pistol inscribed, snort
Felix Faure," also a newspaper
with an insulting article on the
President and cartoon. The cul-
prit is supposed to be either a
mailman or practical joker.
Lord Lamington, Governor of
Queensland, in his speech open
ing the Legislature, expresses the
hope that the Pacific cable scheme
will be carried into effect at a
very early date.
The final ratification of the
boundary arbitration treaty be-
tween Great Britain and Vene-
zuela was made at the State De-
partment, Washington, June IA.
Both countries will now have to
prepare their cases for arbitra.
ton.
Five hundred men have been
drowned in a gale off the China
coast.
Governor Budd has reprieved
Durrant until July 8.
Jacob Dolson Cox of Ohio has
been selected by President Nc
Kinley as Minister to Spain.
There is hitch in peace nego-
tiations, and a suspicion that
Turkey is thirsting for more
bloodshed. A proclamation has
been issued to the effect that ter.
ritory gained by the sacrifice of
Ottoman blood could not, under
the Ottoman law, be surrendered.
The Powers show no weakening,
however, in the stipulation that
Turkey shall not annex Thes.
sally.
Commander George E. Wingate,
U. S. N, of the Charles.
ton Navy Yard, is dead. He was
born in Portsmouth, N. H., in
1887, and had been in the service
since 1862.
Sharkey and Makers fight was
declared a draw. After being
knocked down in the seventh
round Sharkey discarded all rules.
The police invaded the ring and
made Wholesale arrests. Sharkey
is going to Ireland.
There was a sharp tilt on the
sugar schedule in the Senate on
the 18th, between Hoar of Massa-
chusetts and Tillman of South
Carolina. An amendment to place
all sugars on the same basis was
rejected, rs to 20.
The trial of Frank Butler, who
is suspected of killing fourteen
men and perhaps many more, be-
gan at Sydney on June IA, on the
charge of numbering Captain Lee
Weller while prospecting with
him last September near Sydney.
A petition on behalf of Cuba,
wound on a wheel and said to
contain six million signatures,
was presented to the House of
Representatives on the l4th. 1t