The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-01-17
NEWS Of EAST AND WEST.
SPAIN WILL ASK THE UNITED
STATES TO INTERVENE.
Starvation on the Klondille, Heavy
Frost in Florida-Fifty Per Cent of
Pine Apple Crop Ruined.

SPUN - NOllSlt'llilS a lpl maj ~
! quest to the United States to use its
| good offices to stop the fighting In
! Cuba limitations have been receiv-
ed at the State Department. that the
! Sagasta government has become con-
WINGED that the only way to save the
Island of Cuba is to accept the prof
fered good offices of the United
| States 1t is understood that the Gu
ban republic will insist on formal rec
ognition before undertaking any ne
gotations with the United States,
claiming that il cannot treat with
power which regards it only as an or
ganized conspiracy of riot and pira-
cy. Officials al Washington are In
clned to the belief that the public an
nouncement of the acceptance of this
country as a mediator will result in
instant revolution in Spain, but they
admit it is the last hope and is being
seriously considered
The situation in the Klondille dis
trict continues to grow more serious.
Thousands of people who went IN
there poorly provided are fleeing ov-
err the ice and snow to avoid the fam
inc and pestilence. The American gov
eminent is preparing with all speed
to send relief. Two avalanches in Chill
koot pass destroyed eight tons of
provisions. Meanwhile the golden
food pours out. One steamer arriY-
ed in San Francisco with S1,225,000 in
dust, owned by four prospectors.
The announcement was made at ST.
Paul on the 4th inst. that lgnatius
Donnelly, the well known Populist
leader and famous as an author, Will
in six weeks marry Miss Marian
Hansen. who has been stenographer
in the Office of his newspaper. THE
; Sage of Nininger." as Mr.. Donneliy
is called, is GO years old. and Miss
Hansen, 20
On the night of the 4th inst a very
heavy frost was experienced in south
ern Florida and throughout the en-
tire southern states. during great in
jury to fruits and garden truck. Ov-
err 80 per cent of the pine apple crop
was ruined. The damage will foot
up to millions of dollars. The orange
crop was almost entirely ruined
Henry \. Janvier and Sidney L.
Bowen of Bridgeport, n. j., are on
their way to a central province of the
big Mongolan empire, where they
are to construct minis for silver and
copper coins on an order from the
Chinese government. They will have
, to travel 900 miles inland before theN
arrive at their destination.
DR.. William Smith, wanted in Chi
: cago for body snatching. charges the
nurses and physicians of state hos
pital with ending the lives of patients
in order to sell their bodies to dis
secting rooms, offering to the pur-
chaser the choice of the patient to
be killed.
\ London dispatch says important
evidence in favor of Mrs. Edith May
Carew, who poisoned her husband in
China has been discovered and an in
huentially signed petition to the
Queen asking for her retrial in Eng
land is preparing.
The crime records recorded by the
Associated Press dispatches under the
date of January sth include the lynch
ing of four men in Arkansas and one
at ColfaX, Wash, and the burning at
: the stake of two Indian rapists in
, Texas.
The rate war between the Southern
Pacific and the Oregon Railway and
Navigation Company, on the Portland
San Francisco route, is at an end. The
steamship rates have advanced to $12
for cabin and So for steerage.
DR.. j. II. Barrows, the Chicago di-
vine who lectured here last summer,
has had a most flattering call from
New York, but his own congregation
: is so anxious to keep him that new
: 100000 church will be built.
The new board of supervisors of
San Francisco has decided to have no
more book making or pool selling in
the city. 1t will likely put an end to
3 horse racing, as it has elsewhere in
the United States.
= BY the last dispatches from the
Ohio state capital Senator Hanna and
. his managers were claiming "A co;n,
plete victory. The vote for United
States Senator of Ohio took place on
, the nth inst.
Prince Albert of Flanders, future
king of Belgium, will soon make q
0 tour of America. \ Belgian military
attache recently stated that il
the course of his travels. he would
probably visit the Islands.
Maj, Moses r. Mandy IA very wei
known newspaper man, and promoter
of great eNpositions, died at Chicago
= on the Sth.