The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-11-01

Boscopel, wiped out the best sugar
plantations of the island.
The dying Ned" Stokes is haunted
by the memory of James Fisk, whom
he killed thirty years ago.
The commission reporting on the
wreck of the Islander, off Victoria, cen
sures both master and pilot.
| The steamship Portland has arrived
at Port Townsend, bringing $50 pas
sengers and three tons of gold.
The Pacific Mail steamship Siberia.
the largest ship ever built in America,
has been launched at Newport News.
The United States grand jury at
Phoenix. Arizona. has indicted Coiinc-
tor Corey for accepting brides from
Chinese
The Russian minister of war has re-
leased six Afghan spies and sent them
back with friendly messages to the
government.
The French government prevented
the coal miners strike by threatening
the members of the committee for in
citing civil war.
Colonel Fife, formerly of the First
Washington Regiment. will marry Mrs.
Duboce. the widow of the colonel of
the First California Volunteers.
| Dizziness in ocean freight accounts
for the presence in the Atlantic Basin,
Brooklyn, of l24 berthed steamers ard
numerous floating grain elevators.
General Hughes telegraphs from the
island of Cebu reporting that there
has been no trouble on the island of
Samar since the fight at the Candara
river.
The third interna tional congress on
weights and measures has determined
the kiiogram and preached the impOr
tant question of the Enumeration OF
yarns.
Bodies of nine men of the Ninth
United States Infantry, who fell at
Lundy's Lane. Canada. nearly 100 years
ago were lately found there. They
were reinterred with international GER
emonies.
At q meeting of committees repre-
senting Austrian agricultural and man
ufacturing interest the countries of
Central Europe were urged to unite
, for common defense against trans
oceanic competition.
President Won Gosseler,v of the prov
ince of West Prussia, has called a con-
ference in DantZic to discuss remedies
for industrial and agricultural distress
The unemployed of Dantzic are petit
t tioning for municipal work. Metal
, workers in Hamburg also want relief
, A dispatch from Simla to the Lon
don Times and the New York Times
, says it is reported that Ameer Hahit
:. merchants of Kalsul for the purpose
of stimulating trade and reviving the
former tiourishing commerce with In
| dia, which Ameer Abdur Rahman's iis-
cal policy practically destroyed.
Paris dispatch says: The premiere
e of Saint Saens Les Barbares," with
words by Victorin Sardou and Pierre
Cheusi, was given at the opera las
;. night The libretto deals with the in
% col, 1N,yI or lav i,,, In, hs
l first century before Christ. interweav
D ing the love of Marcomir, a barbarian
chief, for Floria, a vestal virgin, wh'
t sacrificed her VOWS and accepts hi
{ hand and heart. Marcomir saves tn,
town of Orange from pillage and mas
sacre. the opera closing with a superb
march of the departing barbarians anc
antique dances expressive Of the JOY
of the citizens at being relieved Of thei
presence. The music. which Is on tn
I whole of the Wagnerian order, contain!
many harmonious and beautiful pas
sages. but did not seem to excite thu
enthusiasm of the fashionable au
dience.
$ Germans are moving to proven
Jesuits forced to leave France from
settling in Austria or their own coun
try.
n The Chicago postoffice was robbed o
$75 900 in stamps by thieves who tun
nelled under the vault. There Is n
clue.
Hamilton recently, has been given Vi
e by searchers, who believe he was eat
en- by mountain lions.
:, Angry sailors cast the sights ant
other fittings of guns on the British
7 battleshp Magnificent into the sea, t
call attention to their grievances.
Il Admiral Bowles recommends that tn
| nNnt inc Irxy Df Ia hon n
) from Spain, be towed to the Philip
pines. as it can be made capable o
I raising vessels of 10000 tons.
c. b. Elliott, general manager Of tn
y Cape government railways says
american industrial competition is Sc
Il rious. as it has only just begun. Splen
did new machinery and new method
are everywhere in preparation, ant
work will be undertaken on such
a scale as to make successful competition
difficult. My strong advice to TIL
heads of British firms is to visit tn
| United States and see for themselves
- What greatly surprised me was tn
extent Of the use of automatic machin
n cry, nothing like which Is to be see'
in England
:. Count Leo Tolstoi is again i'll in tn
}. Crimea.
= Mrs. Mckinley is reported to be do
: .ns WE'LL
Gen. James A. Walker died at Rich
I mond. Va.
= The annexation movement in Cub
s growing
n Joaquin Miller's daughter, Maud,
= seriously ill.,
Florida's orange crop is estimated =
: 200, 900 boxes.
n Heavy rains are causing damas
near Skagway.
S Frank Jay Gould will wed Miss Hell
= en- Kelly, of New York.
Tagalog dialects are to be taught
a the Hopkins University.
: Rev Robert Mcintyre, OF Chicas,
may locate in California.