The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1900-03-15
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SIR Alfred Miner has declared
martial law in the districts OF Prizes
ka, Kenbardt, Britistown aud Bark
ley West, says Cape Town dis
patch.
The National Republican League
will gather in ST. Paul on Tuesday,
July II, to consider their future
policy and choose new officers for
the organization.
The members OF the California
Congressional delegation have for.
warded to the Senate Committee on
Foreign Relations protest against
the Jamaican treaty.
A rich gold regicn ella med by 10th
Italy and Abyssinia may cause war.
Menelels is said to be seeking quar-
rel, declaring that the whole aurif-
eroua region is in his territory.
News comes from Sydney by way
OF Vancouver that disastrous bush
fires in the,,Warrimoo district in We.
toria, Australia, have destroyed
100000 worth of property.
A despatch to the S. f. Call from
Washington, March 6, says that Ma
ior General Wheeler is likely to be
considesed persona non grata by the
House of Representatives
A bill providing that Cuban war
expenditures be reimbursed from
the islands revenues has BEEN in
PRODUCED in the House OF Repre-.
sentatives by Levy OF New York.
Prof. Moses has been appointed
to the Philippine Commission.
Judge Taft, who is president of the
body, opposes the acquisition OF
those islands by the United States.
Ferdinand w. Peck, the us Com
missioner to the Paris Exposition,
and Mrs. Peck have been introduced
in the House OF Lords in London
and have also met the Prince OF
Wales.
The Senate committee on Appro.
priations authorizes favorable re-
port on the House bill providing
that the revenues collected from
Porto Rico be expended in that isl
and.
San Francisco quarantine officials
refused to pass the Warren or her
passengers until they had been fumi-
gated, on account of Major General
Joseph Wheeler coming ashore while
the Warren was in Honolulu.
Comptroller Coler has made some
startling charges in New York City.
He says that city funds are system
atically looted aud declares that the
municipal counsel went to Albany to
work against the reform measure.
General Bates force of 1890 men
has scattered the insurgents in he
southern part OF Luzou, capturing
several towns. At Lithuanian the
Filipinos were charged with the
bsyonet and 81 left dead OF the field.
A bill has been introduced in the
House prohibiting the sale of distill.
ed or intoxicating liquors in the
Philippines in quantities OF less than
twenty gallons, except on physci-
ans prescription for medical pur.
poses.
Agoncillo, the Filipipo's foreign
representative, claims that the in.
surgents routed an American column
in Batangas. He says they took 40
prisoners, including officers and cap.
tured LOO horses, besides guns and
provisions. -e
The appeal of'Admiral Dewey and
his men from the award OF the
Court OF Claims in the matter OF the
bounty due for the destruction of
the Spanish fleet at Manila has been
fled in the United States Supreme
Court.
Correspondent Parslow OF tie
London Daily Chronicle reported to
have been accidentally killed on
Nov. 2, at Mafeking, was murdered
by Lieutenant Murcheson of the
British artillery. The latter was
court martialed.
San Francisco has a casa OF sus-
pected bubonic plague 1t arose in
Chinatown. A Strict quarantine of
the district was at once enforced,
the lodging house in which the man
died fumigated aud its inhabitants
prevented from leaving it.
Chief Engineer VIM. Mcdonald OF
the U. S. transport Manauense, tried
by a naval court appointed by the
British Consul in San francisco, was
found guilty of drunkenness and
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