The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-05-28

GUN SIAN llNOgLE, May H. 4 he
Sultan of Turkey has contributed
fund.
PARIS May 17.-Most of the towns
and communes throughout the country
are actively at work raising Martinique
relief funds. The Government is plac-
ing contribution boxes in all the Post
offices. The total relief fund has reach
ed 4jOO 600 francs.
The Bank of France and other finan-
Cial concerns are opening subscription
lists in aid of the fund The Bank of
England has contributed $500 to the
Bank of Frances relief fund. The pro-
vincial branches Of the French bank
are also collecting subscriptions.
The Minister of the Colonies, NJ. de
Crais, during the day issued an official
note to the effect that comprehensive
arrangements had been made to assure
food supplies for Martinique. The
neighboring French colonies had con-
tributed largely, while generous sup
plies, sufficient to feed 100000 persons
for twenty days would arrive from the
United States shortly. The Colonial
Office has also ordered 100000 kilos of
Goldfish, 100000 kilOs of bread, 10000 kilOs
of preserves and $4,000 kilos of disin-
fectants to be sent to Martinique.
NEW YORK, May IA cable to the
L
Governor L'Huerre is taking precau-
tfons to prevent Wholesale looting at
st. Pierre during relief work. French
troops and revenue officers have been
ordered to watch out for this business
\ small boat with officers was sent
to st. Pierre. The officers arrested on
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
eighty-One loOters. Eleven were women.
The officers shot many looters whom
Il. h, lon
shooting has been hushed up ,as the
French law does not Justify such aC-
ton. Thursday Presiding Judge Des-
fontains sentenced fOrty-four men and
four women to various terms of impriS-
onment, and on Friday twenty-seven
men and seven women were also con-
victed of looting. The men were sent
to prison for five years and the women
for three. AttOrney-General de Ire
Voux de Breffeillac does not think these
sentences are severe enough, and will
appeal the cases to the Paris Assizes.
The Martinique courts have jurisdic-
ton over penitentiary Offenses, of which
the maximum penalty is five years.
LOOting is a crime which belongs to the
Assize Court Notwithstanding this,
it is stated that the acting Judge at
MOrne Rouge, a summer resort outside
St Pierre, sentenced one looter to
twenty years imprisonment.
People attacked and tried to lynch
the hooters while they were being taken
to iail. Gendarmes drew their reVolVers
and the people fled, cursing the looters
as they went There were no casualties.
The French cruiser Suchet, with act
ing Governor L'Huerre, Senator Knight,
Deputy Clement, Colonel Dams and
Chief Surgeon Lydin aboard, sailed
from here yesterday morning for the
cities north of st. Pierre. At Grand
Riviere the Suchet found that the river
had overlooked its banks. Provisions
were delivered for refugees, and twenty
five of them We're taken on board the
cruiser. At Basse Pointe many persons
swan out to the Suchet and asked to
be taken aboard, but the Captain had to
refuse them, as the vessel was crowded.
Provisions were distributed at Riviere
Blanche, where the former bed of the
river was found to be covered with mud
twenty feet deep. The doctors went
ashore and examined the situation
Closely. They ordered the bodies burn
ed and directed the people to leave the
place. About fifty persons were brought
to Fort de France A chemist who was
aboard the Suchet analysed the sand
or ashes that Mont Pelee emitted and
found them to be a composition of sui
phur and saltpetre.
NEW YORK, May lin a letter
written just before he started on ais
last voyage, which ended when his ship
was destroyed in the roadstead of st.
Pierre by the eruption of Mont Pelee,
Captain c. Y. Muggah indicated that
he had a presentiment of impending
disaster. The letter was written to an
old friend the captain of a Canadian
Government steamer.
To Captain Muggah Mont Pelee, in
Martinique, and the Soufriere of St.
Vincent were old acquaintances. More
than once he had sailed under their
shadows and he had not the confidence
in them that was displayed by the ma
his letter he said: I'VE are leaving here
for Martinique in the morning and l
hope the old ROraima viii do as well
as she did on her last voyage. We have
some passengers this trip, including
the mates family and other women. |
| hope that they will get through all
right.
Il heard a peculiar yarn from a priest
not long ago about the forming of a
lake on the summit of Mont Pelee, like
the one formed in 1872 on SOufriere,
| Really, l have a creepy sensation when
under the lee of the mighty crater"
FORT DE FRANCE, May 1.-THE
members of a party which yesterday
returned to the town from the interior
report that little destruction was done
| there, and that the country, except In
the immediate vicinity of the volcano,
suffered little.
| HANCER