The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-05-28


Agricultural returns Issued Mar 70
give = gloomy picture Of the co1tf1a-
I'd decline Of British farming
II Is stated II the uachfuists' head
quarters AZ New York that OUT Of tie
1900 machEnIs1s in the shops az
Greater New York and vicinity fully
5000 viii go to work Monday under
the new scale
Swiss engineers are preparing plans
for tunnel 10 pierce the base OF the
Thasfs at Stz-CrOce. near ChIavenna.
France Il win be twentv-fcur miles
long and ten years win be consumed
IN its completion
Coxey. the leader Of the muson-
veal army. has entirely abandoned
old-time socialism. for his sandstone
quarry is fourishing and be is putting
up new steel mill. which promises TO
be moneymaker.
The Dutch expedition observing the
total eclipse OF the sun at Karangsa-
go Sumatra, telegraphs that during
the eclipse the sun vas partially OBJ
graphs were taken.
New Jerseys dream Of a rich and
populous city arising from the vast
wastes of Hackensack meadows may
soon be realized big tract was
sold May 20 for 5000. 900 by the Pike
estate to a syndicate.
Howard Gould has completed ar
rangements TO erect the finest coun-
try mansion along Long Island sound
De- fv.%
Il will be known as Castle Gould and
will cost close to 100000.
The San Joaquin and Kings rivers,
which unite near Whites bridge, Fres-
no county. Cal. broke their levees
May 20. flooding the entire country on
both sides of the Southern Pacific
West Side Railroad for miles.
T. c. Van Epps. prominent citizen
of Olympia, Wash. has directed the
fishermen of Olympia and Tacoma to
secure for him the largest Goeduck
CLAIMS TO be found on Puget Sound fo-
the President Mckinley party.
The Imperial Government has sub
mitted to the German Reiehstag.
through Count Won Buelow. a PROPOSE
ton to assist in the building of rail
way IN East Africa from Dares Salaam
to Mrogoro. a distance of 140 miles
The country. home of Thomas r.
Wanamaker, at Meadbrook, Montgo-
merry county. Pa. was struck by light
ming May Is and entirely destroyed.
The loss is estimated at s$500,000.
many valuable paintings were burned.
A dispatch from the southern part
of California refers to an enterprise,
said to be successful, in the line of
manufacturing orange marmala lie
from the Gull oranges. which are al
ways abundant and this year are SUI
perabundant.
Two United States Coast and Geo
detic Survey vessels. the Patterson.
Captain ]. F. Pratt commanding, and
the Macarthur. Captain Westdahl COM
manding, have sailed for Alaska to be-
gin their annual summer work IN
those waters.
Arrangements for control Of the
Northern Pacific have been effect
ed and the former contending parties
are awaiting the arrival of ]. p Nor
gan from Europe. when the details CT
the management will be submitted for
his approval.
Two liners L'Aquitaine from Hav-
re and the Mesaba from London,
which came into the port of New
York May 10, reported passing dan
gerous derelicts. which. if met with
in the night time. would certainly
have resulted in disaster.
Alexander Winton and Charles B.
Shanks. both of Cleveland, o., left
San Francisco May Is across the
country for New York in an automo-
bile. Thus far trip of this kind has
never succeeded. although several at
tempts have been made.
The Atlantic liner Deutschland has
made a new record of 5S7 knots, or
SIC statute miles, as days run,
which is nearly twenty-four and one
half knots per hour. No cruiser has
yet been built which could overhaul
such vessel in the open sea-
Involuntary petitions in bankruptcy
were filed in the United States Dis
trict Court at Pittsburg. q. against
the Shaw Piano Co. and Matthew
Griswold of Erie. Pa. The liza
bilities of the piano company are
about $3.50 900 and Griswold's 1000.
Fabricio Condo and Carlos Rohl,
who have been at New York for the
past four months trying to negotiate
a loan for the Government Of Vene-
zuela, sailed for home May Is. The
/ efforts to secure the s25,000. 900 desir-
ed by President Castro were unsuc-
cessful
The great street railway strike last
| ing twelve days. requiring the pres
ence of 5000 members of the National
Guard in the city, costing the lives nj
two prominent merchants and entail
ing an expense to the county of Alba
nv. n. Y, of over 5000. is amicably
settled.
Conditions on the Shoshone Indian
Reservation in wyoming are begin
ming to assume alarming aspects. Six
/ hundred Arapahoe braves are said to
be defying the authority Of Agent
Nickerson. who has asked for author
lity from Washington to use troops &c
suppress the rebellious Indians.
Plans for a transportation system
contemplated to encircle the glo5s
are credited TO J. ]. Hill Of the Great
Northern and ]. Pierpont Morgan Of
New York II is stated that but linl
to the chain is lacking, and that be
fore Mr. Morgan's return from Europe
within a week or two. il viii be sup
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