Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1898-10-14
PROMOTIONS In. The NAVY
Cuban General Garcia Gets a Fat Job
from United States.
New French Minister for Washington -PrOp:-
sal by Germany 10 Prevent Collisions on
Atlantic Other Items.

The President has made the fol-
lowing appointment: Navy-Lieut-
enant- Commander John A. Pile
bury to be a Commander; Lieut.
enant Commander William II
Reeder to be a Commander; Pass
ed Assistant Engineer Frank W.
Bartlett to be Chief Engineer; ACT
ing Gunner Ayles Joyce to be a
gunner in the Navy.
The entry of American pork at
German custom houses without GER
tificates of it's freedom from trichi-
nosis, the officials of the Agricul-
tural Department say, is the fault
entirely of the custom department
of the German Government, and
is not to be attributed in any way
to lack of diligence of the de-
partment's agents.
Nat G. Goodwin and Maxine
Elliot opened the season at the
Grand in Cincinnati with Clyde
Fitch's romantic comedy, "Nathan
Hale" The play deals with the
stirring days of 1776. Goodwin
and Maxine Elliot both made de-
cided hits and the play scored an
imm ense success.
Rev. Jabez Fox, who was we'll
known in the West in the slavery
agitation prior to the war, died in
Washington on the Sd inst. at an
advanced age. He was born in
Massachusetts and went to Michi-
gan, where he edited the first free
soil paper at Detroit, the Daily
Democrat.
The Paris Figaro states that
Count d'Aubigny, now French
Charge d'Affaires at Munich, will
replace M. Cambon as Embassa-
dor to the United States, and that
NJ. Cambon will go to Madrid.
The Jaragua Iron Company of
Santiago de Cuba, with Offices in
New York, announce that the
steamer Newlyn had left Santi-
ago with cargo of iron ore con-
signed to the Maryland Steel
Company of Baltimore. This is
the first shipment of iron ore from
Cuba since the outbreak of the
war with Spain.
The President has appointed
DIR. David j. Hill of Rochester,
First Assistant Secretary of State,
to succeed John Bassett Moore,
resigned. DIR. Hill is president of
Rochester University, is a scho-
larly gentleman and is noted for
his knowledge of international
law.
A private letter from an Ameri-
can citizen close in touch with the
Cuban military Commission in
Cuba states that great suffering
exists in Havana for lack of food.
People are starving, some dying
on the streets, and many others
who are unable to 60 out and beg
die in the houses.
Yellow fever is said to exist in
the city, but little fear is express
ed by the writer of the letter, who
says it is not reported as danger
Gus.
Major General Joseph Wheeler
stated, on leaving the President,
that his future plans were not
finally decided, though be said he
understool that he would be sent
to Cuba with his army division to
take charge in Santa Clara pro-
vince.
Lieutenant Hobson has at San
tiago changed his program and
worked for an entire week on the
Vizcaya in recovering her guns.
Divers will make final examina
ton Of the Vizcaya's bottom, in
the hope that there Is bare pos
sibility of raising the ship
Colonel William j. Bryan has
left ashington, looking quite re-
covered from his illness. He was
accompanied by Mrs. Bryan, who
will go with him for short rest
in Virginia and then to Florida,
where Colonel Bryan rejoins his
regiment.
General Garcia has accepted the
position of Commissioners to ar
range for disbanding the Cuban
insurgents at salary of $500 a
month and expenses from the
United States.
As result of the representa-
tions made by the Hamburg Am
erican Steamship Line, the Ger