The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-02-09
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$3.50, in lieu of travel pay and allow
ances.
Edward ]. Phelps, former Minister
to England. is seriously i'll with pneu-
monia at New Haven, Conn.
An Italian girl has been released
from a Turkish harem at the demand
of her country's ambassador.
Forty-eight Fraser River salmon
Gamers formed combine in order to
meet Puget Sound competition.
Two deaths and much suffering have
been caused by cold snap in Chicago.
The mercury was 8 below zero.
Sugar-Raw, strong; fair refining,
4c; centrifugal, 90 test, 7-16c; mo-
lasses sugar, 8 3-4c; refined firm.
The Paris Figaro has brought a
counter suit for damages against Count
Boni Castellane for 100000 francs.
/. A plot to destroy the Suey Sing Tong
headquarters by dynamite has been
frustrated by the San Francisco police.
Butler may attempt to relieve Lady
smith by turning the east flank of the
Boer army that has twice defeated his
force.
The rebel armies in Luzon have been
scattered by the American troops and
their forces reduced to maranding
bands.
Mrs. Matte Rich has been sentenced
at Ell Paso, Tex, to fourteen years in
the penitentiary for the murder of her
husband.
A collection of art works valued at
5000, 900 has been presented to the Chi
cago Institute by Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel
Nickerson.
Premier Semlin of British Columbia
denies that the Alien Exclusion Act
the mines.
Red Cross nurses are trying to Sc
cure the passage of a bill providing
for the employment of women in army
hospitals.
The Philadelphia is in dock pre-
paratory to her trip to Pago-Pago with
the new Governor and detachment
of marines.
The British War Office discredits
the st. James Gazettes dispatch about
Butler having crossed the Tugela on
a return trip.
First Vice-President Morton of the
Santa Fe Railway Company is in con-
ference with the California fruit men
as to routing.
Charles e. Macrum formerly United
States Consul at Pretoria, sailed from
Southampton in the St. Paul on the
9th of January.
The British steamer EXpedient ran
down and sunk harbor steamer near
Altoona, Germany. Thirty workmen
were drowned.
The National American Woman Suf-
frage Association met on susan b. An
thongs eightieth birthday and received
her resignation.
Ruth A. Condo, daughter of Million
aire Swift Condo of Utica, N. Y, has
eloped with a son of Col Chas. Fl.
Thorn of that city.
The transport Senator arrived in
San Francisco Jan. 80 with eighty-one
convalescent and seventeen insane sol
diers from Manila.
Reports from Samoa are that Ger
man annexation is regarded with in
creasing disfavor by Americans, Brit
ish and the natives.
c. F. Cole, formerly president of the
Globe National Bank, is charged with
3tVV,ooV' iic wac aitVot0u
and released on bail.
A plan is being perfected in Wash
ington to sell postage stamps in book
form at the same price now paid for
loose stamps in sheets.
A report has reached London that
the Boer shell factory at Johannesburg
was destroyed on January 20. The loss
is stated as irreparable.
Sir Campbell has assail-
ed the British ministry, bitterly con-
demning its method of dealing with the
South African problem.
Albert Goebel, cousin of the wounded
Kentuckian, nearly lost his life at Chi
cago by fall from train while suf-
fering from heart disease.
1t is reported that the Chinese boy
Emperor Kwang Su committed suicide,
but there is q general belief in Shang-
hal that he was murdered.
General Otis reports that the rebel
forces of Manila are disintegrating and
are now little better than robber bands
preying on peaceful natives.
Henry Wohler, an old South Sea
navigator and commander of the new
missionary schooner La Croix du Sud,
died in San Francisco Jan. 80.
There is a decided opposition In the
House to the resolution giving Miss
Helen Gould the thanks of Congress.
She will probably get medal.
United States experts have officially
reported against sixty out of 800 sam
Piles of tea admitted through New
York as unfit to be used as tea.
Salisbury was attacked in the House
of Lords, Rosebery demanding inform
alton as to the intentions OF the Gov
eminent regarding the campaign.
| The National Association of Masters
and Pilots has adopted resolutions IA
voring the construction of the Mica
ragua canal by the Government.
A fierce storm swept the Atlantic
coast on the 26th ult., reaching a We