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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JUNE 28, 1896. A BRING 0N A " B DGCLOSURE Lajouchere’s Inquiry Into Financiai Losses in South Africa. REVELATIONS IN ORDER. Tangled Sfate of the Finances of the Treublesome Chartered Company. RHODES AND CONFEDERATES. Various Plans Proposed for the Pur. pos¢ of Bringing the Conspira- tors to Trial. [Coryright 1896 by the New York Times.] LOYDON, Ene., June 27. — Poor Mr. Balfour, having been forced to exhibit himself in the penitential sheet, candle in hard, for a sufficient period to enable his whole party and the public generally to dizest the fact of his unfitnees for the command, it is now smart Mr. Chamber- lamn’s turn to claim popular attention nd show what a different sort of person | he is. To-day’s announcement that the Char- tered Compeny directors have finally been squeezed into dismissing Rhodes, Belt and Harris furnishes an effective overture for next week’s performance, in which the | Brummagem star will have the limelight | Labouchere’s question, | all to himself. put down for Mon Government has t against financial , s to what steps the ken to insure itself loss in South Africa, may bring on a big disclosure of Cham- | berlain’s policy or the revelation may come a little later. The question is a most pertinent one, because the com- pany's liabilities are by its charter limited to the amount of its paid-up capital, whereas it purports to be assuming re- sponsibility, not only for the Transvaal Indemnities, but for the enormous outlay involved in tighting the revolted blacks in Rhodesia, which must amount to a great deal more than the company can pay. Even before these troubles began experts beid that the Chertered Company’s finances were in a very queer state, and it is foreseen now that bankruptcy is in- evitable unless the Government comes to the aid of the company. Presumably there will be a loud and strenuous appeal for this from the interested parties, who possess immense social and political in- fluence; but it is certain that the demand | will be vehemently resisted by the Lib- erais, who would have an overwhelming popular majority with them. This pro- vides a situation just after Chamberlain’s own leart, one movement and a high order of cunning e e ties, and he is said to believe that he is go- ing to emerge from the ordeal with colors fiving, at least that is what his backers at Birmingham all believe. They are saying, too, without conceal- ment, that the time is close at hand for Balfour to make a graceful withdrawal from the scene which is too rough and exi- gent for his delicate nerves, and to fet Chamberlain come into his own. This talk is now so loud that the Tories can no longer profess not to hear it, and it puts them in-a perplexing quandary. They themselves say in almost so many words that Balfour is ‘““no good” as a leader, but the alternative of Chamberlain, which they now see is imperative, frightens them. They all say they would not serve under him, and probably this is true of at least enough of them to destroy the present Ministerial majority. On the other hand it is manifest that Balfour is the only fory in the House of Commons aren whom Chamberiain would consent to re- | gard as his leader. If Baifour goes Cham- berlain must come, and the perception of this fact is rendered doubly bitter by the knowledge that Chamberlain is all the while undermining Balfour, weakening him and prying him out of his place. It is a very curious situation, all things con- sidered. 1t is expected that next week we shall learn what the Government, that is to say, Chamberlain, proposes to do in the way of preparing for the trial and punishment of Rhodes and his confederates. A variety of methods of procedure are open, but the London Times predicts that the one adopted will be a commission of both houses nominated by the Lord Chancellor and the Speaker, with Chamberiain as chairman. Tue objections to this will be that the Lords are open to a good deal of suspicion of prejudice in the Chartered Company’s favor, and there is also the difficulty about finishing the inguiry before the session comes toan end. The general House of Commons opinion is that there will be a royal commission of three Judges, as in the Parnell case, and it is understood that they will be Russell, Hawkins and Pollock. Thereis the fur- ther complication of the Jameson trial, which ought to be finished before the other inquiry is begun. Itis now under- stood, however, that if their technical ob- jection to the jurisdiction of the London court fails, Jameson and his colleagues will at once plead guilty, thus obviating the necessity for a long trial. The conflagration which threatens the existence of the Ottoman empire con- tinues to be smothered in one place only to break out in another. The Cretan re- volt for the moment seems to be under partial control, but there are new and threatening outbursts of disorder in the Van district of Anatolia and among the Druses of Lebanon. By the time these are stamped out it looks as if Macedonia would beon fire. Vienna is getting re- ports of outrages and revolts in various parts of Macedonia, which point to the conciusion that the general rising which has been organized so long can hardly be restrained now. Besides, although every- body says that Russia is intent upon restraining it, nobody can prove the state- ment. Prince Nicholas of Montenegro began a visit to the King of Servia at Belgrade to- day. Itis to be returned next month, and all the other small courts of Eastern Eu- rope are agog with rumors of an impend- ing Balkan confederation under the astute leadership of Ferdinand of Bulgaiia which shall do all sorts of wonderful things under the patronage of Russia. M. de Blowitz records from Paris the in which dexterity of | rlant than the solider quali- | discovery that Russia has about decided to come to the assistance of France in the Egyptian business and try to secure the consent of all the Continental powers toa plan for neutralizing the Kbeaive's terri- tory, which would have the effect of driv- {ing Eneland out. What basis the story bas there is no means of judging, butit does not sound unlikely. One of the nicest things about the Prince of Wales has always been bis pub- | licattitude of admiration and affection for Gladstone. Even in the hottest stage of the swell mob’s fury againstthatstates- man when they called Gladstone ‘‘the murderer of Gordon” and *‘a traitor to the union,” the Prince kept his head and | founa numerous graceful little ways to let it be seen that he had no sympathy with this violent discourtesy. There used to be stories afloat of his sharply rebuking the men of his set, who imagined that he would be pleased to hear them insult the “‘G. 0. M.” Of course, this was always open to the explanation that the Prince merely obeyed the law, which impels heirs to thrones to be in opposition to the crown, and that he | made a show of a great liking for Glad- stone chiefly because his royal mother made no secret of her loathing and hatred of the Liberal leader, but those who know best always insist that the Prince's ex- pressions of feeling on this subject are genuine and profound, and certainly his fervent eulogy of Gladstone and his wife, made in their presence at the great Welsh | university gatheringat Aberystwith yester- day seemed to come from the heart. It was greeted with wild and prolonged cheering by the Welshmen, and every- where to-day, even in the Tory papers, it is alluded to as a very timely and popular performance on the part of the Prince. | Gladstone himself appeared with his right | eve covered and leaning heavily on a | stick, but he spoke fluently and with much | of his old voice. The statement from Washington that the British Embassador had asked Secre- | tary Olney’s intervention to secure Harri- son’s release by the Venezunelans was re- ived here with quite general approba- tion. 'I have seen no adverse comment in any quarter, but on the other hand many expressions of the opinion that this is the way matters should stand between the two great English-speaking peoples when the affairs of the New World are in- volved. This is practical proof of what these dispatches always insisted on: that nothing would delight the English more than formally to concede our primacy in the Western Hemisphere if they could be sure that they would then be treatel like blood relations and friends, instead of as hated rivals. Nobody here is really sorry for the smashup of the old' Conservative gang in Canada. Some of the more zealous Tory journals profess conventional regret, but it is palpably perfunctory. Canada for a long time has been a source of much dis- appointment to Englishmen. They have resented its narrowness, its mental sterility and its ingrained provin- | cialism all the more because comparisons | with the States suggested themselves con- tinually and almost invariably to the pre- judices of the Dominion. Hence Laurier’s triumph is hopefully laid hold upon as a promise of new blood and new ideas in Canada. The average Briton would really prefer, I believe, a restive or even a muti- nous Canada, which produced the effect of animation and brain power, than the kind | of apathetic, backward, Orange-ridden community he fancies the real Canzda to be. The success of the deceased wife’s sister bill on second reading in the House of | Lords possesses only an abstract interest. It cannot possibly get to a vote in the Commons, even if the Bishops do not suc- | ceed in drumming up a majority to kill it in the House of Lords on third reading. The debate on it this year was much less entertaining than usual, and the reason- {ing of its opponents certainly much more difficult to understand. Adfter reading carefully all their speeches one’s mind remains quite blank as to why they really object to the change. The | nearest approach to a practical argument continues to be the old point: if the pro- | bibition is lifted single women will come | to live with their married sisters and | poison them in order to secure the hus- bands for themselves. This theory is stated now with less bluntness than for- | merly. But. it is evidently still enter- tained, and even the Archbishop of Can- terbury allows it to be understood that he ho!ds it. Many interesting reports are coming by | mail from Russia about the big strike in the cotton and woolen mills in and about St. Petersburg. At one time it is said 40,000 workmen were out, and apparently half that number are still obdurately idle. The censorship will allow nothing to be telegraphed about it or to be printed in the Russian papers, which fact, perhaps, prompts the correspondents and others to exaggerate the importance of the thing. | It seems, however, that many secret proc- | lamations of nihilistic crders have been rcirculatod among the strikers, and that | this discovery of a way by which the police can be defied by the organized proletariat has created a great impression in Russia. | The strikers, simply by keeping away from the mills and even declining to go and get the wages due them, have baffled the authorities. The latter would have known well enough how to deal with any assemblage of the people by turning loose on it the mounted Cossacks with their whips, but they are powerless to deal with a moujik who merely stays at home. The vlan is to send all the strikers back to their native villages with their personal rights to travel in the empire abridged, but this will only spread the story of a successful labor demonstration all over the country and put a swarm of new ideas in the heads of the rural peasanury. There has also come from the Ruseian capital reflections of vague rumors that | Nicholas 1Iis in a state of physical col- | lapse, due to the terrible strain of the Moscow fortnight and that there is some occasion for the fear that he is not going to get strong again. An official dispatch | says that he is suffering from jaundice, but gossip hints that this malady was se- lected for the bulletins in vrder to explain the changes in the Czar’s personal aspect which can no longer be concealed. Sir Augustus Harris was really one of London’s most noted pnblic men,and it was quite fitting that he shouid have had a funeral to-day exceeding in display and numbers anything the metropolis had seen for a long time. It may be said with literal truth that he killed himself by overwork. Jt had grown to be a mania with him to accumulate responsibi es wherever opportunity offered, and toward the end he did this with hardly any reference as to whether there was profit in them or not. Thus he finally piled up a burden so huge that no human being could live under it. Yet I bear that it is & matter of profound uncer- tainty whether he leaves a penny of per- sopal fortune. He made a deed of gift to his wife a while ago, however, represent. ing a considerable sum, and probably the public will never know just where he stood financially. The Cobden Club made a special effort this year and raised funds enough for a dinner to-night at Greenwich, this being the fiftieth anniversary of the announce- ment in the press of England that the corn law had finally besn abolished by Parliament. Qver night we may be sure there was a good deal more said about Laurier than about McKinley. Sarah Bernhardt has not put on grace- fully rounded flesh for nothing. It is an- nounced from Paris that she is going to produce at the Renaissance next winter Alfrea de Musset’s beautiful “Lorenzac- cio,” which has never yet been played. ‘What is even more interesting is the fact that she is to take the role of Lorenzo de Medici for herself. ~ HaroLp FREDERIC. MINSTRELL RYMAN’S SUICIDE. Closes an Eventful Career by Inhaling the Gas Through a Rubber Tube. NEW YORK, N. Y., June 27.—Edward, better known as “*Ad” Ryman, the minstrel and negro delineator, who was well known in the theatrical profession and all over the country as ‘‘Governor Ad Ryman,” was found dead to-day in_his room at his boarding-house, 242 East Sixtieth street. He had committed suicide by inbaling gas through a rubber tube attached to a gas Jjet. Ryman was 55 years of age and was one of the old-time negro minstrels. He had been on the stage at least thirty years. He was born in Ohio, At ope time he was connected with the old San Francisco minstrels. His principal specialty was making stump speeches and he was a great favorite on the variety stage. His last engagement was at Tony Pastor’s dur- ing the week beginning May 4. DENTH I b COLLIION Shocking Accident at a Colorado Railway Water Tank Station. One Engineer Killed—The Other, With the Two Firemen, Seriously Injured. COLORADO SPRINGS, Coro., June27.— The Union Pacific and Denver and Guif passenger, which left Denver this after. noon at 3:20 o’clock, collided with a stand- ing switch engine at Bierstadt, a watering- tank station, twelve miles east of this city. Engineer Michael Shannon of the passen- ger train was instantly killed and Fireman Collins and Baggageman Davis seriously, if not fatally injured. Engineer O’Rourke and the fireman of the switch engine were seriously injured by the water tank col- lapsing. The Denver passenger train was reported eleven minutes late and as a consequence Engineer O'Rourke of the switch engine stopped his engine at the tank and began taking water. There is a heavy curve just behind the water tank which completely hides it from the southbound trains. The accident was caused by either the switch engine overstaying its time at the tank or the passenger making up lost time. The passenger train was running at the rate of thirty miles an hour. Engineer Shanncn did not see the standing switch engine until he was almost upon it. He quickly reversed the engine, but it was too late to prevent an awful head-on collision. 8hannon was instantly killed, while his fireman received probably fatal wounds. Engineer O’Rourke and his fire- man saw tbe flying passenger train just in time and jumped under the water-tank, which collapsed from the force of the col- lision. The passenger cars were badly broken, but fortunately none of the thirty passengers on board received more than a severe shaking up. The body of Engineer Shannon was brought to this city. He lived in Denver and leaves a family. The injured trainmen were brought to this city. pe e A SANTA TERESA’S POPULARITY. The Banished Maiden Positively Declines President Diaz's Invitation to Return to Mexico. EL PASO, Tex., June 27.—Santa Teresa is still the center of attraction in El Paso. Yesterday morning ex-Governor Lauro Carrillo of Chihuahua, now a Mexican Senator, arrived in this city from Mexico’s capital, the bearer of a message from Presi- dent Diaz to Teresa. The Senator, 1n com- pany with Francisco Mallen, Mexican Con- sul at El Paso, the Federal Judge and Pre- fect of Police from Juarez, Mexico, called on Santa Teresa and had a long chat with her. It was learned that the purport of the message of Senator Carrillo was that President Diaz, realizing the great power and go&u!arity of Teresa with the masses of Mexico, and fearing that the lower classes might hatch up a revolution through the impression that Teresa is expatriated by the authorities, extends a cordial invitation to Teresa and her father to come to Mexico, under the guarantee of full personal liberty and the protection of the Government. After heariui the President’s message through, the banished maiden replied courteously that she would never again enter Mexico while President Diaz was in power. There is no denying that she has effected some wonderful cures. Inquiries are pour- ing ir from afflicted persons in California, Louisiana, New Mexico and Colorado. Captain Isaiah Weston is reported to have been cured of paralysis by Teresa. g gty SWEDEN'S REEO KING. COelebration of the Four Rundredth An- niversary of His Birth. CHICAGO, Tir., June 27. — The four hundredth anniversary of the birth of Gustavus Ericson Vasa, or Gustavus I, Sweden’s hero King, will be celebrated in Chicago and in many other parts of the country to-day and to-morrow, the local celebration taking the form of a picnic, to be held to-morrow in Burlington Park. The celebration is under the auspices of the Swedish National Association, and it is estimated that there will be an attend- ance of fully 10,000. Perhaps the most in- teresting part of the programmewill be the reproduction of the battie of Brunns- backs Ferry. Four hundred men, dressed in the war costume of the sixteenth cen- tury, will represent the Swedish anda Dan- ish forces. After the latter are routed the triumphal entry of King Vasa into Stock- holm and his coronation will be enacted. e 1§ SOLD UNDE#R FORECLOSURE. St. Lowis and San Francisco Railway Passes Into New Hands. % ST. LOUIS, Mo., June 27.—At noon to- day the St. Louis and San Francisco Rail- way was sold under a decree of foreclosure issued by the Federal court. There was one bidder, E. C. Henderson of New York, counsel for the reorganization company. The purchase price was fixed at §1,250,000, and these were Mr. Henderson’s figures. On Monday next a temporary organiza- tion of the new comvany will be effected. D. B. Robinson will be selected president. The headquarters will remain at St. Louis. e T Cleveland’s Centennial. CLEVELAND, Omio, June 27.—Active preparations are under way for the cen- tennial exercises in July commemorative of the founding of the city of Cleveland. and all this week. NEW TO-DAY—CLOTHING. FOURTH OF JULY WITH US, BOYS! WE SUPPLY THE FIREWORKS FREE. YOU APPLY THE PUNK A great Jubilee Sale, boys. In our Juvenile Suit Department we will pre- sent each purchaser with a box of assorted Fireworks, commencing Monday YOU'LL HAV'E A JOLLY TIME, BOYS, AT OUR EXPENSE. OFF THEY'LL A thousand pretty Reefer Suits, in blues and nobby Spring colorings, jaunty, with wide braid on collar. Also 500 very pretty and durable Tweed Suits, in double-breasted style, all col- orings, including Bluwe Cheviots, stylish, up-to-date clothes, you know, to celebrate the Fourth in. Great Jubilee Special at --$2.50-- e RAPHAEL’S (Incorporated), The Big Boys’ Favorite Trading House. | breasted OFF THEY GO! Long Trouser Boys--- The ones wearing long trous- ers. 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They’re choice, very choice, all of the prettiest and jauwntiest colorings, made in our own tai- lor shops in New York. = THEY'RE 4 A Al Bedinning to-morrow and while they last, —$3.50-~ FOR THE PICK. 9 11, 13, 15 ' Kearny Street. G00D PROGRESS [N THE REICHSTAG. Certain That the New Code Bill Will Become a Law. AS TO CIVIL MARRIAGE. German Statesmen Now Propose to Make the Action Compulsory. HERBERT BISMARCK BOLTS. Foliows the Directions of His Vener- able Father and Causes a Sensation. BERLIN, GErMANY, June 27.—Through- out the week the Reichstag has made good progress in its consideration of the Gov- ernment’s civil code bill, and the measure, which passed its second reading this after- noon, is now certain to pass all of the stages necessary for it to become a law be- fore the end of the present session. The only debates that have attracted even a partly full house this week have been upon those clauses of the civil code bill relating to civil marriage and the property rights of married women and the game laws. The bill proposes to make civil marriages compulsory, and in opposing this provi- sion Dr. Lieber, the leader of the Centrists, expressed regret that the committee to which the bill was referred had not treated marriage as a sacrament to which the assent of the civil authorities was neces- sary. Other Centrist deputies as well as Gen- eral von Roen and several other Conserva- tives supported the view of Dr. Lieber, holding that the civil marriage clause was derogatory to the oflice of the clergy. Herr Niberling, Imperial Minister of Jus- tice, denied that the Government had any desire to place a mere civil marriage upon an equalfooting with a religious ceremony, nor did they wish to come into conflict with the churches; yet for many reasons, he said, it was desirable that the clause should be maintained. The clause finally passed. The Centrists afterward scored a vic- tory, however, by succeeding in having eliminated from the bill the provision making incurable insanity a ground for divorce. A motion offered by Herr Bebel, socialist, giving married women control over their own property, was re- jected, but another socialist amendment fixing twenty-one years as the limit of age, beyond which parental consent to marry was not required, was adopted. Prince Bismarck is of opinion that the civil code ought to have received more mature consideration, and as a protest against the hurried munner in which the bill was handled the ex-Chancellor di- rected Count Herbert Bismarck, his eldest son, to leave the House when the 1 first vote upon the measure was taken in ne Reichstag. This direction was obeyed, and Count Herbert's demoastration in leaving the chamber, followed by ten Conservative Deputies, created -a mo- mentary sensation. Prince Hohenlohe's parliamentary din- | ner, which was given by the Chancelior | Tuesday evening, is still being talked about as baving been svarsely attended in contrast to the ministerial dinners given during the period of Prince Bismarck’s occupancy of the office of Imperial Chan- celler, at which the fate of Parliamentary measures was wont to oe decided. The presence of Dr. Stocker, ex-court chap- lain, bearing very lightly his fall from court and political party favor, was also noticed and commented upon. Another subject of comment upon the occasion was the attendance of Baron Riedel, Finance Minister of the kingdom of Bavaria, who is associated with a project for the conver- sion of the imperial securities, a fact which 18 most remarkable in that the scheme has hitherto been strongly op- posed by the Bavarian Government. Prince Hohenlohe in conversation at the dinner expressed his satisfaction at the prospects of the passage of the civil code bill, and also at the general condition of Germany and the pacific aspect of things abroad. The Chancellor, however, could not be drawn into any expression of opinion, or indeed any reference whatever to the re- ported negotiations on the part of Ger- many with France and England upon the question of the summoning of an inter- nationsal monetary conference. Neverthe- less, it is reported in official circles that overtures have been made through Count von Hatzfeldt, German Embassador to Great Britain, to induce Lord Salisbury to send delegates to such a convention. The fact that the Emperor has ordered from London a small collection of books on the subject of the currency, which it is his Majesty's purpose to study during -his coming Nordland tour, has lent color to the prevailing rumors that the Govern- ment is now making an effort to satisfy the demand of the bimetallists for a conference. The decision of the international com. mission upon agriculture, sitting in France, requesting the French Government to con- voke an international monetary confer- ence, has greatly strengthened the hopes of the German bimetallists that the pres- ent negotiations to that end will be suc- cessful. The Emperor will start from Kiel on July 1, on board the imperial yacht Hohen- zollern, upon a voyage in northern Nor- way seas. The yacht will be accompanied by the German cruiser Geflon, and the trip will last six weeks. King Oscar of Swe- den-Norwdy will meet his Majesty at Christiania. The United States Consuls and Vice- Consuls in Germany will hold a business meeting at the United States consulate in Berlin on July 4, after which they will at- tend the official reception which will be given by United States Embassador Uh!. The American physicians and dentists in Berlin will celebrate the day by holding a picnic at Grunau after attending Mr, Uhl’s reception. TIN MILLS TO CLOSE, Ten Thousand Men Concerned in a Dis- pute Over Wages. PITTSBURG, P, June 27.—After a conference that lasted from 9 A. M. until 5 P. M. to-day, the tin plate workers and makers were unable to agree, and on Tuesday night of next week all of the tin mills will close, Eendinguumemant. The manuiacturers have asked for another conference on Thursday of next week. About 10,000 men are concerned in the dis- pute in the tin mills of the country. TIDAL WAVES VISIT HAWAI Much Damage to Property, but No Loss of Life. DEEP EBBS AND FLOWS. Convulsions Thought to Have Had Their Origin in Japan. THE LEGISLATURE ADJOURNS. Grape Wines Will Enter Free, While Japanese Rice Wines Are Heavily Taxed. HONOLULU, Hawam, June 20.—A succession of heavy tidal waves struck the western side of the island of Hawaii on the 15th, doing much damage to prop- erty, but causing no loss of life. The firsg wave struck Kawaihae at 8:15 a. x., de- molishing the wharf, and Kailua, thirty miles south, at 8:30, destroying lumber- yards and flooding the lower floor of Miss Paris’ hotel. After damacing various wharves and landings on the Kona coast the tides rounded the south point, striking the Kau landings at 9:40 A. M., but doing little damage. Hilo was reached at 10 A. x., the water rising only eight fvet and doing no serious damage. In bays on the Kona coast the sea came up to points twenty and thirty feet above mean tide. The tides continued to come i all day at half-hour intervals of ebb and flow. Although the indications are that these waves came from the northwest, Honolulu barbor experienced but slight effect. Our tide-gauge records fourteen small tidal waves of about one foot in height, lasting from 7 A. M. to 2 . M. of the 15th. At the narrow head of the Larbor there wasan alarming succession of deep ebbs and flows every half hour. At harbors on the east side of Kauai the sea ebbed and flowed so as seriously to molest vessels and boats, and fishpond walls are reported to have been broken away at the southwest point of Maui. No satisfactory theory is advanced as to the location of the terrestrial convulsion causing these waves. It is supposed to lie in a northwest direction, possibly in Japan. The Hawaiian Legislature adjourned on the 15th. The President vetoed the sake bill which raised to 60 cents a gallon the duty upon still wines made of materials other than grapejuice of under 14 per cent alcoholic strength, and to $1 for all be- tween 14 and 21 per cent. This law was intended to affect Japanese sake or rice wine. Thisis now imported in immense quantities at very low prices and contains a large amount of poisonous methylic alcohol, which is especially injurious to the native Hawaiians. Both Houses immediately passed the bill over the President’s veto, with butone dissenting vote, and grape wines accord- ingly enter free, while sake has a heavy duty. The reason alleged for the Presidenv's veto was ‘“‘the serious hardship to Japan- ese of small means of increasing the cost of their accustomed stimulant.” The President was believed to have been influenced by strong protests from ithe Japanese Consul and merchants. He is naturally anxious to avoid any cause of collision with Japan, whose attitude to- ward Hawaii is covertly menacing. The Legislature has repealed the regis- tration act, which had been passed two months before without serious opposition. On putting it into execution a popular clamor arose against the thumb-marks as an indignity, and against all registration as belonging to despotism. The natives were also taught that the measure was a covert means of compelling them to sup- port the republic and became much agi- tated. It was thought best, therefore, to repeal the act. Fifty-two Japanese from Oloalu planta- tion are in Lahaina jail for refusing labor after a riot on the night of the 15th inst. Captain Bray, who recently took the mission yacht R. W. Logan to Ruk, re- turned here to-day with his family, per Gaelic via Ponape and Manila. He re- ports the Spanish Government as about to send priests and soldiers to occupy the American mission station at Ruk. NEW TO-DAY. 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