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MWFflfiMl. MINISTEK BLOUNT'S CONCLUSIONS MADE PUBLIC. A Synopsis of the Voluminous Documents?Why Ho Hauled Down the United States Flap:?Minister Stevens's Alleged Haste in Acknowledging tho Provsionals. | i ? l?nt! mo<lA nilh OUCrtHiirV Ui O'.aiC \il?uaiu UMO rnituv y?.v lie all thf correspondence between theSecrey tary of State and James H. Bount. Commissioner and later Minister to the Hawaiian Islands. Mr. Gres'aam. in giving this voluminous printed matter to the press, explained that it included everything connected with Mr. Blount's mission to Hawaii, with the exception of some statistical tables relating to the islands. The matter consists of three parts, the first beginning with a copy of the instructions given Mr. Blount on March 11, 1893. prior to his departure from Washington for Honolulu, the second his report, and the last part engine with a brief letter under date of July 21, 189.-5. Mr. Blount arrived at Honolulu March 29. 1893. In his report he calls attention to his receDtion by Minister Stevens, who, "accompanied by a committee from the Annexation Club, came on board the vessel which had brought me. He informed me that this club had rented an elegant house, well furnished and provided with servants and a carriage and horses for my use. that l couia pay for this accommodation just what Ichose, from nothing up. He urged mo very earnestly to accept the offer. I declined it, and informed him that I should pro to a hotel." The committee renewed the offer, which was declined. He also refused to accept proffered favors from the ex-Queen. Concerning the position of thp United States in the islands he says: 'The troops from the Boston were doing military duty for tbc Provisional Government. The American flac was floating over the Government Building. Within the Provisional Government conducted its business under an American protectorate, to be continued, according to the avowed purpose of the American Minister. during negotiations with the United St -t-s for annexation. My instructions required me to make inqr. * -js which in the interest of candor and ln>: \ could not be done when the minds of t vvjsnnds of Hawaiian citizens were fall of r.a rnrtainty as to what the presence of Ameri : ?r. troops, the American nag ana me American protectorate implied. It seemed necessary that all these influences must be withdrawn before those inquiries could be prosecuted in a manner befitting the dignity and power of the United States. "Inspired with such feelings and confident no disorder would ensue I directed the removal of the flag of the United States from the Government Building and the return of the American troops to their vessels. This was accomplished without any demonstration ot joy or grief on the part of the populace " Mr. Blount then tells how Minister Stevens oalie 1 upon him with W. C. Smith, who represented that the withdrawal of the United States marines meant that the Japanese would land troops from a man-of war in the biriior. The American Minister expressed his linlief in the statement. On * bit of his testimony is a cemucaiu fronF. Wundenberg. This witness was a deputy clerk of the Hawaiian Supreme Conrt /.ml "laitned that his information was der vil :rom personal attendance at nil the on nr -nces of the Committee of Safety with w -.eh he claimed to have acted "in pood fa 11" up to th? time the Stars and Stripes w-r? hoisted. Wuaderberg says that the Committee of Si fty met at 4 p. m. January 18, 1593, and <V?uded that it was not ready for tne landing ot the American troops and sent n committee to tell Minister Stevens of their decision. He is said to have replied : "Gentlemen. the troops of the Boston will land at 5 o'clock thi? afternoon whether you are ready or not." The troops were landed after business hours when all was quiet, and Wunderberg testifies thnt nobody appeared to know why they were there. xnc committee cituif iuxoiuci a8?iu iu?i evening and invited John H. Soper to act as Commander-in-Chief of the forces to support the new Government which was to be declared. Soper declined the appointment until after Mr. Stevens had been communicated with and had definitely promised recognition of the Provisional Government and the support of the marines of the Eoston. The new Government was proclaimed, according to Wunderberg. at 2.40 p. m. on January 19. before a dozen or more loungers uid thirty confederates, with American maj nnee under arms in temporary barracks not a hundred yards away. Wunderberg declares that the basis of action throughout was the general understanding that Minister Stevens would keep his promise to support the movement with the B9Ston'fl meD. Otherwise, he testifies, the movement would not have been attempted, or if attempted would have ended in miserable failure* followed by the imprisonment or dentil of those who participated. A long interview with Mr. S. A. Damon, president of the Advisory Council of the Pro* visional Government, also embodied in the report, reveals the story in a different light. Ho stuced that the Committee of Safety sepa rated and traversed tbe streets witn caution ( to avoid the Queen's police. J. O. Carter, one ofthe leading revolutionists. informed Commissioner Blount that he wis one of the delegates who went to inform the Queen that she was deposed. U? had been told that Minister Stevens had recognized the Provisional Government and counted the Queen to avoid a demonstration by her forces that might cause a conflict with " the United States Government, anJ that her case would be justly considered at Washington. The report makes it appear that Minister ' Stevens recognized the nevf Government before it was installed, and that such recognition was flourished as a weapon to assist in intimidating the Queen into abdication. hays Mr. Blount: "The leaders of the revolutionary movement would not have undertaken it but for Mr. Stevens's promise to protect them against any danger from the Government. But for this tboir mass meeting would not have been hold. "But for this no request to land the troops would have been made. Had the troops not been landed, no measures for the organization of a new Government would hav-3 been taken. The American Minister and the revolutionary leaders had determined on annexation to the United States, and bad agreed on the part each was to act to the very end." In conclusion of this roport, for the remainder is made up entirely of statistical matter and a disquisition upon the trade of the island and the character of the population, Mr. Blount says: "That a deep wrong has beon done the Queen and the native race by American officials prevailed the uativo mind and that of the Queen, as well as a hope for redres3 from thi United States, there can be no doubt. 'In this connection it is important to note the inability of the Hawaiian people to cope with tiny sreat power, and their recognition of it by never offering raaiut-im<a m fh^ir Hncroachments. The suddenness of the landing of the Unlted States troops, the reading of the prociamalion of the Provisional Government almost in their presence, anl the quick recognition by Mr. Stevens easily prepared her for the suggestion that the President of the United States had 110 knowl?dgo of these occurrences and must know of and approve or disapprove of wna; had occurred at a iuture tii?H. "Pais. too. must hnvo contributed to her disposition to accept the suggestions of Judjre Widemanu and Mr. Damon. Indeed, who could have supposed that th>* cirni:r.ftt-in'.es surrounding her could havo been f^r.is^en and sanctioned deliberately by the President of the United StatesV '"Her uniform conduct an 1 the prevailing sentiment among the natives point; to aerbellof, as well as theirs, that the spirit of justice on the part of tho President would restore her crown." I The present vintage of Hungry is werM than it has been sines tho anp^arame of phylloxera and permoaporu. Tsie Oovernment has distributed over th*? country aiar^a quantity of strong American vine*. which will withstand the ravages of phylloxera, bu the grafting period is not yet over. The Kara "Sea Is remarkably fro of ico, and Dr. Nansen's expedition has a lino prospect of reaching the Ndrth Pole. : Tiiij JtfLWS EPl'i'OMlZJhiD. Eastern and Middle States. WnxiAM H. Beers, ox-rresident of tl New York Life Insurance Company, died i VT V 1_ TT~ ?9 W?r? -r HOW iuri\ UilJ. ?1*1 U1UU \J l i UIOCOO' after an illness of several weeks. Jessie IIi'Doxald, aped fifteen took poiso and di?d instautly at Pittsburp, Penn., ac cordinp to her promise to her dying friend who committed suicide because she wa scolded for truancy. A cuaxr named G. 0. Roeth, stopped i front of Delmonico's, New York City, whe the dininp rooms were well filled, and fire five shots from a revolver throuph the Fift avenue windows. He was captured an locked up. Tre steamship Yarmouth, of the Bosto and Yarmouth Steamship Co., has been sol to Flint <fe Co.. of New York, who areti Agents of President Peixoto, of Brazil. Th ouui pmu. A3 g;o-u,uuu. The Rev. Dr. Charles F. Deems, pastor < the Churchof the Strangers, died of paralys: in New York City. Hb was born in Bait more on December 4, 1820. The Brazilian cruiser Nictheroy anchore outside ot Sandy Hook, N. J., and fired sei eral dummy shells from her dynamite gun. South and West. There was a heavy frost at Brunswick Ga., and the end of the yellow fever epi demic is believed to be near. Thomas Thas, a Deadwood (South Dakota miner, killed his wife, who had left him, he cousin and his wife, who had befriended hei and then himself. The Edgewood Female Seminary, a Catb olic institution at Madison, Wis., conducte by the Dominician Sisters and valued a about ?75,000 was destroyed by fire, an Marjorie Rice, of Stevens Point, Wis., an Maggie Stack, of Chicago, perished. John Shohan'e. house, twelve miles fro: Lafayette, Ga., t*as blown np by dynamite Shohan and his wife, who were in bed, wer hurled fifty yards, but landed safely withou serious injuries. Shohan is a Deputy Mai 3hal and has been raiding illicit distilleries Don Caklos Diaz, Spanish Consul at Bal fimore, Md., committed suicide by jumpin from the third story window of his home He was insane. Education Day was celebrated by 300 school children at the Augusta (Ga.) Es position. Delegates were in attendanc from the principal colleges of Georgia. Cbime Is rampant in Chicago, and any on found in the street between one and ftv a. m. will have to give an account of him self. Crooks aro being arrested by wagoi loads. Fires are lighted in the rolling mills of th ilahoning Valley, of Ohio, and the men hav Ing agreed to the $4.75 rate of wages. Secbetaet Carlisle has ordered the rc leasrt of the Russian convicts under arre3t a 5an Francisco, Cal. Mexican revolutionists have scattered cii .'ulars all through the Rio Grande Valley c Texas, offering $75 per month for recruit for their cause. The circulars are signed b 3anta Ana Perez. Washington. Steps were taken at Washington to be^ii (he erection of a monument to mark th birthplace of Washington, at Wakefield, Va The President appointed D. M. Kilpatrick if Louisiana, Assistant Treasurer of th United States at New Orleans in place o Vndrwa* Hero. Jr.. and John D, Stocker, o Seorgia, Surveyor of Customs at Atlanta 5a. The President returned to the Whit House after spending one day on privat business in New York City. The resignation of General L. A. Grant Assistant Secretary of War, which was tend ?red to the President on the incomi/vj of th Id ministration, has been accepted, to tak dffcet on December 15. The United States Supreme Court has de iided the great lakes to be high seas. The United States Secret Service officer during the past year have secured 205 con fictions, most of them for passing counter feit coins. Fines to the amount of $20,001 a-ere imposed upon persons arrested by them The face value of counterfeit money cap :ured amounted to $3,897,118, and they als secured 191 plates and numerous dies an noulds. Foreign. The German Reichstag was openodby Em jeror William in person ; in his speech fron ihe throne the Kaiser returned thanks fo !he passage of the Army bill, and spoke o ihe financial and other measures to De miro luced. The Gladstone Ministry was defeated ii ihe British House of Commons on McLuren'i imendment to the Parish Counclla bill, thi imendment being carried 147 to 126. / Sib Robert B. D. Mobieb, British Ambas ?ador to Prussia, is dead. Marseilles, France, was thrown into i ?tate bordering jon panic by an attempt ti ?low up the house of General Mathelin.Com nander of the Fifteenth Army Corps, wnt &as his headquarters in Marseilles. Prince Alexander^ Battenberg, formerl; Prince of Bulgaria, is dead. Great gales are reported along the south ern coasts of England which have cause< many maritime disasters. The British miners' strike was settled a the conference of which Lord Roseberry wa Chairman ; the men return to work at the ol rages; a Board of Conciliation will be aj pointed. Ax Indian uprising is imminent in Britisl Columbia. Many more vessels were reported lost ii the storm off the British coast: great dam age was done to shipping from the Baltic t the Mediterranean; the loss of life wa heavy. Several prctaainent young French Cann dians were arrested while preparing to blo\ up with dynamite the NoIsoa monument i Moatr?aL PEOCLAIMS AN EMPIRE Mello Names a Grandson of Dom Pe dro as Emperor. ADMIRAL SIELLO. ft %r -l o~~?,:,>v. \fimvfa* r\9 1?avaI<v nenor iUorec, ojjjilijsu jiuiislw vi * uiv>>, Affairs, has received at Madrid, from Brazil, telegram that Admiral Mello has proclaime Count d'Eu's eldesl son Emperor of Br.tzi Thi8s0n.is Prince Piorre d'Alcantara Lou Philippe. Ho was born at Pctropolis, ne: Rio Janeiro, on October 15.1875. His motlit is tho present Countess d'Eu and Princes Isabella of Bragaoza, daughter of tho lat Don Pedro. This step on tho part of Admiral Mell benrs out tho assertion that ho has been fu nished with mon**y by the royalists to carry o war against the Government of Brazil. Thmee has been sold 100 acres ofthao Webster homestead at Marshfleld. Mass., i; eluding the old observatory on Black Mouu Tha doe:1s show that Daniel Webster pu chased part of the property in 1844. Tl Boston woman who has bought tho lai cov:)toJ it on account of its historical assoj atious, which sho wi3h.es to see preserved. Van Roberts, a hotel keeper at RusnTTTI Mo., Jias fallen heir to 5GOO.OOO. loft liisn b John Bennett, who died at Las Vegas, Nei Mexico, for saving him from drowning in tb Sangamon lliver twenty years ago. " 1 BIG Ifii FAIR. ia ? It TlTTTT TVT-VTrt ? ITnTTT /I nnTfl TTTl TAT 9~ iJUlLJJiiWrCS inuw uuinu- ur hn SAN FKANCISCO. a '? Groat Diversity in Architectural Styles Expected to Produce a Q Novel Effect?The Main Buildings n Described ? Special Features of d the Fair -Oriental Exhibits, (j The flvo main buildings of the California Midwinter International Exposition have n been planned, accepted and contracted for, and building operations are now under way. l? They are to be erected in Garden Gale Fark, San Francisco. They will be grouped around j[ a parallelogram, in the center of which thore [g will be an electric tower 270 feet in height i. and a number ot artistically ornamented fountains. The largest building is that ded signed for manufactures and liberal arts. A. Fage Brown, of San Francisco, is the architect. Its dimensions are 462 by 237 feet, covering 101,784 square feet of ground. This building is Moorish in design, with the picturesque effects to which that style of archiI I h d" > ' I * egal?fea ft iQgl i" . ^ ??? q>g THE AOItrCDLT '* tecture readily loads itself. A gallery, averaging: thirty-five feet in width, extends 0 around the interior, from which visitors may survey the exhibits. Broad avenues traverse 0 the main floor longitudinally, crossed by one of equal width at tight angles in the center.* e There is au additional floor under the dome, I i hm iii'H b : -T'*1 *pft l j0)' i S 5^ a THE ADMIKISTBATIOJf BUILDING. 8 at a height of fifty-four feet from the ground, opening out into a root garden, which will be filled with paims and plants, and on the four great exterior towers there are projecte ing balconies. e i m ^p")ff ::g rrrrrrrrfTrr p|j 0 ! r Pm frfr-fr fv i ja.?1 * -t * g the meceanicaj a ???????????? home of the mechanic arts. The second largest building is the Mechanical-Arts Buildiaj, designed by Edward R. Swain. Its size is 160 by 324 feet. In the 1 center are two large tanks, with fountains in 3 each, the power for op-jratins? which originates with the pump exhibit, which will sar} round the tanks. The building is as purely Indian as it is possible to design a building y of this class in that style. The peculiar roof, with "'prayer towers" rising on each side, the lofty arch entrance flanked fey kiosks, 1 and the brilliant coloring are expected to produce an excellent effect. Immediately in the rear cf this building and separated from 1 it by six feet of space is placed the boiler 3 house, thirty-five by 231 feet, containing thirty boilers of 100 horse power each, which } will furnish power to operate the elcctric lights and the macninery or the Exposition. 1 spanish mission architecture. One of the striking architectural features 11 of the Exposition is to bo the Horticultural ~ and Agricultural Building, designed by Samuel Newsom, an 1 which is now undercou8 struetion with the others of tho group. In this instance th*> architect took for the l- foundation of his work the old Spanish misr dion style which is so characteristic of Calin fornia's early history. With this he has combined more than a tinge of tho llomanesque. Tho great dome of this building, behind and above tho arched entrance, will carry a seeondaiy dome ou its crown. It will be 101 feet six inches in diameter and ninety leet from the ground to the lantern. Round the dome on the outside there will be a roof garden, tho background o! which will have a series of plaster figures in low relief, no: cherubs of ltaphael or Michael Angelo, but nineteenth century cherubs ot the Kato Greenaway order. * Tho extreme length o? building will be 260 fes: six inches and the greatest width 190 feet. UEUISISCENT OF OLD EOTPT. One of the smaller buildings is the FineArts Building, designed by C. C. McDougal. iljiiiiiitirf 10II pJilfliliBiHiB Lv . - ??-? THE MAXn?ACTURES A^D n The desigu is conspicuously Egyptian. Sphinxes are placcd at tho basp. of n ?rass d terrace, mounted on high podestnls. between I. which pedestals ara bro.yl steps forty feet in j3 length and eight in number, leading to the level of the entrance to tin iront vestibule. Lr This vestibtre is sixty feet in lencth. thirty!r four feet wide and forty-eight feet to tins base i!J of the pyramid, which is the crowning I?mH lure of tho entrance to the building. The rooms Tor pa'ntings, the statuary court an i o the gallery'or wati-r colors are rectantjiiiar in form ami perfectly lighted. The stairs. a waitlisting an 1 !'rie:;e<? show tho liea .U ?? beasts and birds and the sicred ibis. The rooms under the gallery are united by a so ],1 rics of draped openings. The second story is n. a gallery, the rail of which forms the liuish ,t. of tliu tfruud interior <"ourt. " T11E ADMINTS1I! ATIDJf DUfLDI.VfJ. Iii addition tothustrnsturesdetailed abovo l. tlioro will be iu Adminis'.rntiou Building, :l* Oriental in outline, reptwntintf a combinitiou of Central Indian an 1 Sinmeao architecture. Tliis building, dfsignad by A. Page I. Brown, consists of a lr.ry? central square, y covered by a dome, with four pavilions at y the ringles. The priii"ipal fcaturo of the ie building ia ths richly oru.amsuted domu. 1J3 * v ? . ^ - v-.-r-.r-y faet io height by fifty feet in dinmeter, benu. j tifullv decorated inside. which is intended , bo brilliantly illuminated at night. Tht? building is lo contain the offices of the exTHE FIXE ARTS BUILDISO. 1 position management, the department o! publicity and promotion, the foreign depart- 1 ment, assembly-rooms for foreign comm.*** j sionera, press headquarters, the postofflce, J bank and information bureau, and will un* I doubtedly be the center of general interest In the exposition. ' One of the first special concessions made ' was to the Chinese Six Companies of San 1 Francisco, who are already building a struc- 1 .in. ; ? i.. t I iure 01 txieir uwu, u puroi^ uucubut'ouou iw j ^ n i^^aaaa^^88iu. -7 : " i TTEAL BUILDHf 5. feet lone by ninety in width, with a center court yard eight r by forty feet set oat with rare Chinese plants. In one end of the building is a Chinese theatre. On either side of the court yard are open booths for the manufacture of Chinese productions. BEPLICA OF THE NANKIN PAGODA. The crowning exterior feature of this building will bo a Chinese pagoda seventy rivo im XJ1K", iosuiuucu nuor iuo vcioutaiou j tower at Nankin. Tbe roof will be of tiles, E with fantastically twisted carved figures ol the fabled dragon projecting from the angles and with fluttering dragon flags of blue, red and yellow. Another concession that bas been granted is tor a reproduction here of the Prater ol Vienna in a space of 72,000 square leet adjoining the central court of the exposition. Entrance to the grounds will be through a massive gateway, beyond which will be various bits of architecture of a pleasing and striking character. All of these are now in course of construction. There is a concert hall seventy-five feet square, a theatre of Moorish design sixty by ninety feet, a Louvre reacuurant and a score of ornamental booths, in which Austro-Hungarian wares are to be manufactured and displayed. Here also will be the Czarda-Hungarian, where Hungarian life will be represented with gypsy girls in characteristic costumes. The waitresses in the concert hall will be in the Swiss National costume. OTHEB DrVUBTIJfQ FEATURES. ( A little way from the Vienna Prater work is being pushed forward on the concession to oriental Nations, which is to embody many of the features ot Midway plaisance. There will be a Turkish theatre, a Cairo street and EI 1 rr4"ti&f]Cywrrrrrrrr n ' WW>m Ntftwwn a ^ | 5 -ip<"? [. ARTS BriLDIXO. a cafe chantant, where National dances of all Nations will bo presented. A Japanese tea-garden is to b*J another feature of the exposition. The Government of Hawaii has two acres, where the progress in the Hawaiian Islands and other islands of the southern seas will be exemplified in contrast with native life. The central feature of the exposition grounds will be an electric light tower 270 leet high, witii an elevator running to tne height of 220 feet. The base of the towet will occupy a space fifty feet square, and the first gallery, oiijhty feet from the ground, will have a seating capacity of 200. There will be three other galleries above this, th*> topmost within six fMt of the pinnacle. In il will bo a powerful sbarch-ltght. THE LABOR WORLD. We have 209 tailors' unions. Po3tcoal has labor exchanges. Gehmaky has 288,000 union men. E New Yoek has 300,000 workiDgworcen. * Geneva, Switzerland, has a watch school. c Helena, Montana, has Chinese hucksters, * Cigarslvkees havo had 142 strikes since j 1831. , The United Typothetae favors compulsory j aroitcation. Amsterdam, Holland, has 00,000 Idle dia- p j mond workers. v Organization has raised wages $300,000 a ? year in Boston. V ii Tnu International Boot and ShoaworKers' n Union has 4600 members. 8 Cincinnati is furnishing work for the un- I employed in the city parks. ? Stonecutters have made Washington, D. ' C., their general headquarters. New Zealand furnishes work and free J5 j railroad passes to the unemployed. ^ 1 | I _ aLi rimBSwSfl ^ r '! S Mill MlMSiMM j p p a LITIZilAL ARTS BPILDINO. -JJ I Uailuoad companies, it is said, are pre! paring to annihilate unions throughout the j country. Chicago unions asktbat one of tha World's ! Fair buildings shall be preserved as a home I i for labor. I Witu machinery 10.') m<?n do the work forj nicrly requiring 500 in manufacturing boots : | and show. f I The Bishops and Members of Parliament ^ ! met in London to discuss the problem of tho ' , unemployed. 1 j Olseyvills (R. I.) textile workers Imvo ' ; had their wages reducoJ thirty-eight per c 1 cent. 9ince September 1. 0 Twusty-kive window glass factories are ^ ! now in operation, and the iooked-for big I building season nest year indicates busy _ ! mills. [ The scale of t'uc Finishers' Union, accord- d I ing to Amalgamated men, allows a cut in \ ! wages ranging from twenty to twenty-flvo t ! per cent. i A vkeiout train passed Eakerstlald. Cal., r i with 250 unemployed workingmen on board. A i Thoy were looking for work, and proceeded 1 ! East, and many intend ttf no to New Orleans. t -'SINEWS FROM HAWAII Minister Willis's Credentials Presented to President Dole. The steamship Australia, from Honolulu, arrived .it San Francisco, Cal., bringing new.? from Hawaii that thera had been no change in the political situation. The new United States Minister. Willis. presented his credentials to Prasldent Dole of the provisional Government, and had not indicated, prior to the departure of the Australia, any intention on the part of the United States Government to insist on the restoration of Queen Lllluokalani. The ceremony took place In the gold room at the Government Building. Secretary" Potter of the Hawaiian Foreign Office introduced Consul-General Mills to President Dole, and Mr. Mills presented the new American Minister. Mr. Willis, after a short pause, and in a voice which trembled slightly as he proceeded, delivered the fol. owing remauks from memory in a moat impressive manner: "Mr. President: Mr. Blount, the late envoy sxtraordinary of the United States to your Sovernment," having retained his office while absent f. jm his post, I have the honor low to present his letter of recall, and to express for him his sincere regret that he is unible in person to make known his continued ?ood wishes on behalf of your people and his grateful appreciation of the many courtesies. "I desire, at the same time, to place in rour hands a letter accrediting me as his sue :essor. In doing this I am directed by the President to give renewed assurance of 'rlendBhlp, interest, and hearty good-will, ?hioh our Government entertains for you md for the people of this island realm. "Invoking that spirit of peace, friendship ind hospitality which has ever' been the ihield and sword of this country, I now, ipon behalf of the United States of America, ender to your people the right hand of good vill, which I trust may be as lasting as I enow it to be sincere, expressing the hope hat every year will promote and perpetuate hat good will, to the honor, happiness and >rosperity of both Governments.' President Dole then made raplyas follows. Mr. Minister It is with much satisfaction hat I receive the credentials you brine from lis Excellency the President of the United Jlttica KJL AUiOIiCjft) UUU1 OUillUI^ JV/U (U ?n . invoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to represent that country it the capitol of the Hawaiian islands. Your assurances of continled friendship of your Government for ne and the Hawaiian people add to the [ratification which long experienca of the renerous consideration of the United States or this country has fostered. Permit me to Lssure you that we heartily reciprocate the expressions of interest and good will which rou on behalf of the American people have sonveyed to us. Aside from our geographical position ind the consequent preponderating commerlia! interests which centre here, the present idvanced civilization and Chrlstianizafion of rour people, together with your enlightened lodes of law, stand to-day beneficent monunents of American zeal, courage and intelligence. It is not surprising, therefore, that he United States were the first to ecognize the independence of the Hawaiian islands and to welcome them into the great anks of the free, equal and sovereign Unions, nor is it surprising that this historio ie has been strengthened from year to year >y the important mutual reciprocities and igreement alike honorable and advantageous o both Governments. Partly from proximity, partly from the eading influence of American citizens in tho vork of inaugurating Christian civilization rad indnstrfal enterprises in these islands, >11 aril! mnpfl from the reDeated acts of riendly assistance we have received rom your government during the )sst half century, we have be,'ome accustomed to regard the States of America as a firm friend and ally and have earned to look first to her in our emergences. We congratulate ourselves, Mr. Miniser, that the Government of the United States is to be represented by one who, we tre assured, is familiar with the quesions arising from the relations beween the two Governments, and to whom ve look for maintenance ol pleasant official ntei coarse. In speaking of his mission Mr. Willis de?lared that his instructions would never je known until they were officially handed :o the Provisional Government. GO VEEN OR BUSK DEAD. He Expires Suddenly at His Home In Wisconsin. JERKMIAH tf. AOSK. Ex-Governor Jeremiah Bosk died a few nornings ago at Viroqua, Wis. He had been 11 about two months. The death came withiut the slightest indication of the approachng end. The members of his family who urvive the General are his wife and two laughters, Mrs. Charity Rusk Craig and iliss Mary, and two sons, Lycurgus J. and Maine Rusk. Jeremiah McLain Busk was born in Mor:an Count}*, Ohij, on June 17, 1830. He forked on a farm while attendingschool,and n removlngto Wisconsin in 1853 he settled [own to farming In Vernon County. Enterag the Federal Army in 1862, he was comlissioned Major of the Twenty-fifth Wisconin Regiment. He rose to the rank of .iontoiijinf'.PrtlnnnI iinH eprvwl unrlpr iherman until the close ot the rar. In 1S65 he was made Brevet Brigadierleneral of Volunteers for his services at the attle of Salkebatchie. He was Bank Controller of Wisconsin from 13G(! to 1870, when e was chosen to Congress as a Republican, rhere ho served three terms. As Chairman f the Committee on Pensions he greatly faciltated the adjustment or the pension rates, le declined a diplomatic appointment in 'araguay and Uruguay offered iiim byPresilent Garfield, and was elected in 1982 Govrnor of Wisconsin, serving three terms, and eclining reelection to a tourth. Mr. ltuslc ad the distinction or being the first Sscreary of Agriculture, being appointed by resident Harrison at his accession to j he Presidency, pursuant to an a"t of longress makingthe head of the Departlent a membor of the Cabinet. The ap- ) ointment was recognized ad eminently Jit. reneral Busk was a man of powerful fiysiqud. being six feet three inches tall nd heavily built. In his oa.lier years he ras a stage driver. He was a man of ahupt, homely speech, but o2 a warm heart. ANOTHER BIG GUN. t Makes the Fifth Completed at the Washington Factory. Another o! the bis thirteen-inch guns has ust been completed at the \V;ishingtou D. C.) gun factory, making tho llfth gun ot hat caliber now ready for naval purposes, ."welve in all are to be asgcmbled, which ara o bo mounted on the battle ships M;issahusetts, Indiana, Iowa and Oregon. Five if the number are finished and ready for rial at the proving ground at Indian Head. ?he mounts for one are finished, and iis oon as the gun and carriage can bo trans orted down tho Potomac the trial will be leld. This gun requires 550 pounds of powler for a fuij charge. The projectile it hurls reighs 1150 pounds and can be thrown iliireen miles. The projectiles for armor-piercng cost ?500 and the powder an l fus'.'s $175 t,f 1- .4 <1 | H >MI>Aa.ul| nore, milKlU? BUI'II ?11UI IITUU tnpio??7tJ4. v?ru. Vhen it is taken into consideration that tU? ife of this ^ua is not over 500 roun Is and bat the jjuu uad earring? cost $50.?),000 it fill be appreciated that not many shots can j >e wasted. i . BIG BAILBOAD STEEEE. The Employes of the Lehigh Qui Work Suddenly. Pursuant to an order from the Grievanc Committee in Philadelphia a general strik on the Lehigh "Valley Road was begun a Easton, Penn., and elsewhere at 10 o'clock a night a few days ago. There was no unusual demonstration The men simply quit work and staye away, They said all passenger train TPan Irl .V?a ?h?m ?U i* J ?a.1 ,, -u.u wo iuu iuxuu^u iu urauiiauuoa and so would the perishable freight Other trains were side-tracked. A stool train was abandoned in the South Plainfleli (N. J.) yards, and four coal trains were side tracked along the New Jeisay division. The employes asserted that the eole ques tion at issue was the right to join labor or ganizations and seek redress for grievance through them. The order to strike was sen out mysteriously and obeyed instantly. The total number of men on strike wa estimated at not less than 3000. Those in oluded in the strike were the Brotherhooi Locomotive Engineers, the Brotherhood o Locomotive Firemen, the Order of 'Bailroat Conductors, the Brotherhood of Bail road Trainmen, which includes thi brakemen, baggagemen, etc., an< the Order of Railroad Telegraphers. The or der for the strike came from. Philadelphia a) 6 o'clock in the evening. The Grievance Committee of the men had been sitting there for weeks. A more complete temporary lock ing up was never before seen. The men ii the offices had not said a word to their su periors about the time the strike was t< come. They hadn't said definitely thai it was to take place at" all. Ex aotly on the stroke of 10 o'clock one of th< operators in the office of the train despatchera got up from his desk, walked over to th< uuur. 100s am aai aaacoai irom inenoox,anc walked out; at the same moment the otbei operator, who wasn't prepared to go oat.founc that he was pounding away with his key at t dead wire. The wire had been grounded al Pittston Junction and at the Cozton yards. The Instruments in the office stopped theli tloklng, and from that moment It wasn't known where any train on the road was, and there might have been a hundred in danger of collision without any meant of notifying them of their danger, A lltttle after the operator mentioned wen! out, iand while the other operatoi was engaged in discovering that the wires had been grounded" on the Wyoming division, one of the oldest conductors onthe road came in. His train had jost arrived. He told the Superintendent that a strike had been ordered, and he conldn't take the train any further. , "Ton mean that you will not take it out of the station?*' asked the Superintendent. ' "Yes sir." was the reply, ''i am a Brotherhood man." He was followed by other men. Then the news came that the switchmen in thn vn.r.1 bad knocked off, Itaving the switches as they were set at 10 o'clock. Word also came that locomotives were being housed and that men were quitting at North and South Wllkesbarre.- ? Trains were constantly coming Iil and as fast as they arrived the crewu sidetracked them and then west home or stood around to see what would be done. The officials didn't lose any time. Some of the minor ones went out up and down the tracks, ' throwing switches and doing the work ot the strikers. The one or two engineers that were loyal were utilize^ getting sidetracked cars out of the way to make room for more. No objection was made to this on the pan of the strikers, but when an attempt was made to move two cars of live stock out on the main line and get them started for their destination, there was a row. As fast as the cars were coupled to an engine they were uncoupled. They were uncoupled from each other also. There was no show of violence. The strikers went at it In a business-like way. and finally the attempt to move the car* was abandoned until morning. A parade of the striking man was held at Wllkesbarre. * PROMINENT PEOPLE. ? "Ex-Govzbhob Chablzs H. Bell, of New Hampshire, is dead. Rudyabd Kipling has applied for membership to the Society cf American Authors. Judoe Richard Pabkxb. of Virginia, Vho presided at the trial of Johh Brown in 1859, is dead. Govebnob Russell, of Massachusetts, says he will resume the practice of law when his term expires. Babox Koewioswabteb, the Vienna banker, ?_ i _ _ J rf . IS anHU. no was ll puuuiar puuiuiimupui and leaves a fortune of $20,000,000. "Mabk Twais" looks old. His fuzzy halt is almost white and he stoops more than ever. But he caa crack a joke with his usual vim. DwightL. Moodt, the evangelist, is to conduct a series of revival meetings in Washington this winter at the invitation of several ministers of that city, Senatob Sheehan s real estate holdings at Washington are rated on this year's tax list at 3400,000. He is tbe heaviest individual taxpayer at the Capital. William D. Howell, the novelist, is about to come out an advocate of radical changes in the social system. He is even accused ol decided leanings toward Anarchy. Mb. Gbeeshaige will be the first Governor of Massachusetts born a British subject since Governor Eustis, who was elected in 1823, and served until his death, in 1825." The oldest officiating clergyman in the city of London, the Bev. James Jack9on, vicar of St. Sepulchre's, who took deacon's orders in 1825. is about to resign his living. L. Z. Leitzk, the Chicago millionaire, has notified the directors of the Columbian Museum that he will contribute $100,000^to the fund, provided the museum is built and retained in .Jackson Park. Geronimo, the once powerful Indian ohief of the West, who made a great deal of trouble for the United States Army, is now a quiet and peaceful prisoner at Mount Vernon Barracks, an army post on the Alabama Biver, a Bhort distance above Mobile. The present Mavorof the town of MolliensVldame, in the Department of Sommo, in France, has held the office continuously since 1839. or for fifty-four years. His name is M. Trancort, and he is ninety-two years old. He possesses the vigor of a well-preserved man of fifty. The \iS11 of the lato historian, FraDcis Parkman. gives all his printed books relating to history, voyages and travels, also his printed books in Greek and Latin and all his maps, to Harvard College. His historical manuscripts go to the Massachusetts Historical Society. Capt.vix Samtjel Norie, one of the last of the once noted band of whaling captains of New London, Conn., Is dead. He circumnavigated the globe many times in both New London and New Bedford whale ships, and accumulated a handsome fortune in the seal fishery in the latter part of his seafaring career. j FOOTBALL AT WEST POINT, i ??? Colonel Ernst Says the Risks Are Greater Than the Benefits. Colonel Ernst, Superintendent of West Poin'. Military Academy, says in his report In reference to the injuries received by cadets in the football field : ' It is doubtful, in my opinion, if the benefits derived from playing this game, which I a:n free to acknowledge are very considerable in some directions, are commensurate with the risks it entails to life and limb, which, according to statistics, are much greater than ar^ commonly supposed." CHOLEKA AND FAMINE. A Cad Condition of Affairs in Turkey's Asiatic Provinces. uonsranunopie aav?ces state mai me condition of affairs in the Asiatic provinces is bad. A famine prevails at Erzeroum. Bitlis, and Van. The severe winter aggravates the distress. The provinco of Aidin alone has suffered a loss of 815,000.000 in the year s trade owing to cholera and Quarantine. Statistics just Issued by the Geographical Survey show that the total coal output of the United States during j?ar va* 000 ton3. valued lh* mines at $207,566,381. More than ball, or 99,000,000 !ons, was mined lr? Dnn nni'lwn n la MINISTER AND QUEEN. ;t Two Prominent Actors in the Ha* wailan Controversy, e Herewith are appended sketches of the o careers of L. A. Thurston, representative of.t the Provisional Government of Hawaii at X Washington, and of Lilaokalanf, the deposed Hawaiian Queen. General attention has _ been attracted to Mr. Thurston by reason of d bis denial of Commissioner Blount's allega: tions that the Provisional Government was i the result of a conspiracy, and was founded upon fraud and duplicity. , i LorrlXi A. Thurston, chairman of the i Hawaiian Committee at Washington, is & h Hawaiian by birth. He is a grandson of the Ber. Asa Thurston, of Fltchburg, Mass., whe> was one of the pioneer missionaries that . sailed from Boston In the brig Bhaddens In s 1812. Mr. Thurston Is a lawyer by pmfes | IASB^'iL THt^TOT, , sion, and is a graduate of the class of '81 of l the Columbia Law SchooL He has i been identified with' every reform. movem'ent In Hawaiian affaire and was attorney general clerk . and later admitted to tne^supremo ocurt bar. In 1884 he began the publication of>the Honolulu Daily Bulletin, wu elected to. the Eegislature in 1886, and was the leading spirit in the reform movement of 1887. Was Minister of Interior, . Premier and President of the Emmigration Commission. In 1842 be was' elected to tije House of Nobles for a term of si* years. He Is largely interested in many industrial enterprises and was special commissioner to Chioar fo to arrange for the Hawaiian exhibit at the air. He waa a favorite of King Kalskan 1 and once held a cabinet - position under that potentate. Lydia Liifuokalani, the deposed Queen of the Sandwich Islands, Was born in Honolulu, on September 2, 1838. According to the custom of that country, she was taken, from her mother soon after uirth and entrusted to the care of relatives.: Her early education was obtained at the Royal school. While QtTEEN LILIUOKALANL .... there she met and was infatuated with -v young man from Massachusetts, whom she married in 1862. Prior to her marriage to the young American, her, edueation. 1 was completed in England. In Aprii, 1877^ when arouidjH||Hfl8roG8ffl lisheJSKBH^fec.tvfrti ? cessfmSBjti MittS)|i6iK^ & won kalai|p^%?wWHWn?TOamTTsu?lajj and composed several songs that have become popular. Probably the best known of these efforts is. "Love to you.'* Lieutonant-Ooneral J. 0. 1 Doonis, commander in chief of the royal army, is thfe husband of the Queen. He has held high state positions under nearly all the monarchs of the islands. ; LYNCHED "ilf COURT. flu Iowa Mob Hangs the Assaulter of a Little Girl. . An excited and angry mob hung Fred Gus, laveson to the stair raiilng Of Jusiico Truitt's i court room at 2.30 p. nu? at Oltumwa, Iowa. Gustaveson assaulted the four-year-old girl of Jonas Sax about 10 o'clock the night before. He was promptly arrested shortly after committing the crlmo and lodged in jail. i ; Next morning ne was raten to ine box house and positively identified by the iittlo girl and a companion. * * At 2 o'clook Gustavpson was taken quietly to Justico Truitt'8 ofllce for arraignment. The mother of the little girl succeeded in getting to the top of the stuirs, anl from the platform in front of the courtroom swung a rope, and, together with her aged father, appealed to the orowd below to hang Gustaveson. , This precipitated a fight .with the court officers, which was carried on w"itl? desperate determination for Ktivural minutes. Tho leader of the mob seized the rope from the hands of Mrs. Sax and placod it about Gustaveson's neck in a twinkling. With a yoli of rage the ropo was seized bj a iiunureu uuiiiu nuu , mn ijutiiwu^ mriwi was dragged from his cbair a'.*ro3s the floor to the door, where ho was lifted over the railing until the rope had been secured, when he was let go. 1 q Ho hung suspended above tho pavement ? on the principal street of the city for fully i ten minutes, the contortions of his body being extremely revolting. Suddenly the rope parted and the body dropped to the 3treet below, und a concerted rush was mado by the spectators for its possession. The police, however, were first to reach thr dead body, and hastily throwing It into s. farmer's wagon standing near by drova rapidly to the jail, being followed by t'X. lnoh. >' } OUR PUBLIC LIBRARIES. i I ; We Have 3S01, With Fifty Books to , Each 100 of Population. The Bureau of Education has prepared a circular of information, giving a complete < list of all the public libraries in the United States contains: 1000 volumes and upward. Th? statement.shows whei each library was , tounded, how it is support Mi, whether it is a fr^e or a subscription library, the number oi volumes it contains, and the names of the librarians. A comparison of the report of 1335 is made with the statistics of 1891. The increase in tho number of libraries was from 2987 to 3304. In 1835 the average size of the libraries of over 1000 volumes was #331 volumes, and in 1891. 8194. In 1835 there was one library to ea^h 18,822 of the , population, while in J891 there was one to every 10,462. In 1885 t'we were in the libraries of the size mentioned thirty-four booke to every 10D of the population, while in 1891 thii number had increased to fifty. New York heads the list with 511 libraries. Massachusetts comes next with 508. then Pennsylvania with 350, Illinois with 218, Ohio with 193, Michigan with 139, Connecticut with 133, . California with 111, Missouri with 105 arid New Jersey with ninety-six. Lamenting for Their CroD. Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho are Lamenting the loss of a great part of their wheat crop, estimated at 5,000,000 bushels. Excessive and long-continued rains have A done the damage. J I ; i