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Opening For Labor and Capital in Hawaii.

THE OCCIDENTAL OR ORIENTAL.

The Latter Preferred by tlie Dominant Party of Hawaii—It Desires Political Union With the American Republic For the Promotion of Republican Methods.

Report of the Labor Commission. WASHINGTON, June 22.—Consul General Mills at Honolulu has sent to the state department a report of the labor commission on the coffee industry in Hawaii. The commission says that there is now labor enough to supply the coffee plantations, but that tlie supply may fall off at any time and the coffee industry be seriously crippled. Coffee is a staple product and offers very good returns and should be fostered. "It has been apparent," says the commission, "that our moral and political institutions were altogether too dependent upon the single industry of sugar. In other countries governed by abie and enlightened men persistent and far reaching efforts have been made to induce desirable immigration and create diversified industries. Here, however, there has been a singular stagnation and indifference of public opinion

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these subjects, owing largely to the dominant power of native monarchy, which was hostile to progress."

The commission speaks of many things that are now imported that might be raised in the jslands and would furnish support to a large number of men and women who are urgently needed to improve the social and political condition of the country. The coffee industry offers such an opportunity.

The laud tenures are said to be not satisfactory. Leasehold interests can only be obtained and no large number of Americans and Europeans will accept them. Much business is done on credit, and planters with only leaseholds find it difficult to obtain this credit.

The system does not discourage Asiatics as the Chinese are large cultivators of rice and will swarm into coffee plantations as soon as they are sure of its success. There are now 2,500 acres in coffee plantations, but if, as proposed by tlie government, a wise and satisfactory adjustment of the land tenures was secured there would be in a few years 20,000 acres in coffee and then more laborers would be needed.

The commission says it can not consider the question of labor as it relates to coffee without being confronted with the fact that it is intimately connected with the social political problems existing between Hawaii and the great nations which lie on either side, of it. "The time has arrived when it must be determined whether Occidental or Oriental civilization sliall dominate here. The future civilization of Hawaii must be in substance, if not in form, Occidental or Oriental. The native pulj'iiesiau rate fails to supply more than a minority of the agricultural laborers needed by the country, and will assimilate itself, onwardiy at least, to whatever stronger civilization gains supremacy here. To the west is an Oriental civilization which, with the exception of the Japanese, is stagnant, repressive, wholly improgressive and undemocratic. To the east there is an Occidental civilization which is active, progressive and advancing on all lines toward the best development of man. The dominant party of Hawaii desires to assimilate its social and political life with that of the Occidental nations. It desires political union with the American republic for the promotion of republican methods.''

The commission say the sugar interest has not improved the body politic by reason of importation of inferior laborers.

It is suggested that immigration from the United States is very desirable, and it is recommended that an agent be sent to the United States to encourage the best class of immigration.

There is a strong sentiment against any more Asiatics. Opening of trade with Puget sound and the Pacific coast is recommended,, by which an exchange of Hawaiian products with those of the Pacific northwest may be made.

The reciprocity treaty with the United States is highly commended as having done a great deal for Hawaii.

WILL NOT BE PROSECUTED.

The Case Against the Iron Hall Officials Finally Disposed Of, PHILADELPHIA, June 22.—The case against W. B. Somerby, ex-supreme justice of the Order of Iron Hall C. H. Baker, supreme medical examine** Joseph Glading and James Eckersly of the executive committee, was called yesterday in court of quarter sessions.

District Attorney Graham, who is also receiver for the Pennsylvania brancli of Iron Hall, after a jury had been impaneled, stated to the court that the above named men had been indicted for placing $200,000 of the Iron Hall money in the Mutual Trust company of Philadelphia, of which they were also officers and directors. The trust company was the eastern depository of the Iron Hall, and when it was threatened with the appointment of a receiver unless it maie good $170,000 shortage in its capitid stock, the $200,000 was taten from Iron Hall funds and placed in the trust company.

District Attorney Graham asked that a verdict of not guilty be returned because from an examination of the records he was satisfied that the men indicted had acted with due authority and could not be criminally presecuted. Judge Arnold ins true red the jury to render a verdict in accordance with the district attorney's statement.

...* Last Ceremony Performed. HOLTENAU, June 22.—After visiting the Russian armored cruiser Rurik at 9:30 yesterday, Emperor William laid the last stone of the Baltio and North sea canal in the presence of many thousands of spectators. The weather was brilliant and the ceremony took place in the open air,. V-

FOR THE ARCTIC SEAS.

The Greenland Scientific Expedition All Ready to Start. NEW YORK, June 22.—The steamship Portia will leave Brooklyn today, carrying the members of the Greenland scientific expedition of 1895 to St. Johns, N. F. There they will board the steam barkentine Kite, Captain John Bartlett, master, and will start for Greenland about July 1.

The expedition will be under the direction of Emil Diebetsch of Washington, the brother of Mrs. Peary, and the party will be composed of Professor Rollin D. Salsbury of Chicago university Professor L. L. Dyche of the Kansas State university Theodore Le Boutillier of Philadelphia and Dr. John E. Walsh of Washington.

The expedition has two principal objects in view: First, to reach Anniversary lodge, Bowdoin bay, in North Greenland (lat. 77.48 inin.), in order to communicate with Mr. Peary, his companion, Hugh J. Lee of Meridep, Conn., and his servant, Mathew Heplon second, to afford the scientists who accompany the expedition opportunities to study the geology and glaciers of the coii! 1 try as well as the liora fauna of the region to be visited.

CROPS DAMAGED.

Another Disastrous Hailstorm in Different Sections of Minnesota. ST. PAUL, June 22.—Another disastrous hailstorm is reported from different sections of the state as having 00,curred last night. A Morris, Minn., special to The Pioneer Press says a destructive hailstorm struck the southern part of Stevens county last night doing much damage in the towns of Horton, Synn and Dannen. The crops on a strip of land one mile wide and six miles long were wiped out, about 2,000 acres of grain being destroyed.

A Fergus Falls special says: A heavy hailstorm between 5 and 6 o'clock last evening, passed over the townships of Oscar and Elizabeth in Otter Tail county, covering a territory two miles wide and two by 10 long, varying in severity. The territory passed over was the garden spot of the county and the hail beat the wheat into the ground. As the grain was about to head it is doubtful if it recovers.

POISONED PAREGORIC.

A Mother and Two of Her Children Dead From Its Effects. HORNELLSVILLE, N. Y., June 22.— The wife of George Huber, living near Fremont, last night gave her two children, Rose, aged 2 years, and Fred aged 7, a dose of paregoric, .taking some of the medicine herself. The girl and mother died shortly after in terrible agony, but the boy's life was saved with an emetic. J^Last winter Mrs. Huber took a child to be christened after giving it a dose from the same bottle and upon arriving at t^ie church the child was found to be dead, supposedly from suffocation. It is thought that poison was contained in the medicine through the druggist's error.

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Boat Race Postponed.

POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., June 22.—The wash of a passing tug yesterday afternoon smashed the shell of Pennsylvania's crew against their boathouse float as the men were getting away for the start of their four mile race with the eights of Cornell and Columbia. One of the aquatic trio being thus disabled, the other two determined to deter the contest until next Monday evening, so that Pennsylvania might mend her wounded shell and take part in tlie struggle for which each has been for weeks in preparation.

Killed His Brother-in-Law. HUDSON, N. Y., June 22.—Harry Kroosz, station agent at Philmont on the Harlem railroad, shot and killed liis brother-in-law, George Jacobi, and then killed himself, yesterday. Three shots were fired. Kroosz received word yesterday morning that his services would 110 longer be required and suspected Jacobi of having been the cause of his discharge. He had been despondent all the morning but had no quarrel with Jacobi, who was sitting at the telegraph instrument when he was shot. No one saw the shooting.

Murdered and Robbed.

AITKEN, Minn., June 22.—A settler named William Kylma, living in the town of Beaver, in the southeast portion of the county, who has been missing for the past 10 days, was found murdered yesterday by blows on the head with a hammer or an ax. He was known to carry a large sum of money, said to be as much as $1,500, secreted on his person, and this the murderer knew, as the secret pocket was torn open and the money gone. He is said to have a brother in Duluth named Thomas.

Blast Exploded by Lightning. WHEELING, June 22. Yesterday while workmen were preparing an electric battery to explode a series of dynamite blasts in the Standard Stone and Lime company's stone quarry at Rowlesburg, on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, lightning struck the wire and a premature explosion followed. Stephen Ringer and Adolphus McVicker were fatally injured by the flying scones and several other laborers were badly hurt.

Representative Jlitt Leaves Washington. WASHINGTON. June 22.—Representative Hitt, accompanied by Mrs. Hitt, left here this morning for Narragansett Pier, R. I. He has been growing stronger for some time and his physician thought he was able to travel. It is thought the sea air at Narragansett Pier will be very beneficial, and he will probably spend the summer at that place.

Confessed His Crime on the Gallows. DUMAS, Ark., June 22.—Anthony Johnson, colored, was hanged here at 1:46 o'clock yesterday afternoon. His neck was broken. He confessed his crime, and asked his hearers to be warned by his sad ending. Johnson, on April 14, 1894, shot and killed Howard, another negro, whom he claimed had been criminally intimate with hiq wife

GREENFIELD,"INDIANA, SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 22, 1895. PRICE, TWO CENTS

Local and Personal.

Attend the festival at the Court House tonight. 0.»C. Irwin left for Chicago today on a business trip.

Patronize the festival at the Court House tonight.

Taylor Duncan went to Cincinnati today with a load of cattle. Will Freeman, of Liberty, was a guest of Miss Myrtle Johnson yesterday.

Misses Gertie Larimore and Jessie Scott, are visiting Indianapolis friends. Charles Huston is quite sick at his home on Mechanic street from kidney trouble.

Attend the festival at the Court House for the benefit of the Presbyterian churi

Rev. B. F. Dailey and wife are rejoicing over the arrival of an eight-pound baby girl.

Mrs A. J. Anderson who has been visiting her relatives at Evansville came home yesterday.

Geo. Alig, of Indianapolis, proprietor of the Home Stove Works here, is in the city today.

Dr. Byram and sister, of Indianapolis, are guests of Dr. Murray Ellison and wife this evening.

Arthur Moon returned last night from a successful weeks' work for the Acme Remedy Co.

Major Griffin and wife, of Indianapolis, were here today attending the funeral of Mrs. Zula Carr.

Mrs. E. T. Swope and her guest, Miss Madge Nolan, of Dallas, Texas, were at Indianapolis today.

Miss Emma Meek who was visting her friend, Miss Pattie Allen at Hagerstown, came home today.

Spring Chickens are cheaper now and have .a nice lot of the in stock at E. P. Thayer & Co. market. 2t

Miss Flo Borrey went to Fortville today and will visit her sister, Mrs. Paul Hagan over Sunday.

Mrs. Will Willett and Elmer Willett, of Indianapolis, are visiting M. T. Willett, Jr., and other relatives.

Mrs. W. H. Peters went to Hendrickson, Mo. today, for a months visit with her brother, C. A. Reeves.

James M. Tyner and wife, of Morristown^ will be guests of his brother, Elbert Tyner here over Sunday.

Dr. Baxter, a veterinarian from Julietta, was here on business today in connection with Dr. I. W. McGuire.

Mrs. Frances Garrison and daughters Mary and Anna, went to Edinburg today where they will visit relatives for a time.

Bob Fair secured 19 squirrels yesterday and Harry Regula 4. They were not together all day however. Bob and Han are great hunters.

Miss Flavia Freeman will go to Kokomo next week where she will visit her grand mother, Mrs. H. M. McDaniel for a couple of months.

Rev. E. W. Souders, of the Presbyterian church, was called to Indianapolis today by important private business that will detain him over Sunday.

Mrs. Ed Pratt and daughter, of Richmond, who have been here visiting her parents, A. L. Ogg and wife southeast of the city, returned home today.

Death was in the city today. James Death, formerly of Rush county, but now a traveling salesman .from Indianapolis, was here calling on our merchants.

Miss Olive Adams and her guest, Miss Edna Clippenger, of Indianapolis, today went to Rushville where they will visit the formers relatives for a week.

Mrs. Seymour Morrison and little son, of McCordsville, are here this week with Mr. Morrison who is superintending putting in the telephone exchange.

Mrs. Maggie Rottman's class is holding a festival in the Court House yard this afternoon and tonight for. the benefit of the Presbyterian Sunday school

Nelson Bradley has sold nine acres of land on Brandywiue, south of the railroad, to the Weston Paper Co,, where they will build filters to prevent the pollution of Brandy wine.

Hon. W. R. Hough returned this morning from Kansas City, where he had been to

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his brother, A. W. Hough, who has been very sick. He reports his brother as being much better.

Judge C. G. Offutt has been selected to read the Declaration 011 the Fourth of July, and Will A. Hough will read Washington's Farewell address. Greenfield will have a great celebration and no mistake.

Daniel Roland and wife have returned from a visit at Anderson. Dan says that Greenfield is much the best place for him to do business and that he proposes opening up another second hand store as soon as he can secure a room. s~*

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Messrs Weston and Philips, of Dayton, Ohio, the big stockholders in the paper mill, are here today. The chances are that suits will be brought to stop the defiling and poisoning of Brandy wine by the slush from the mill.

Alphonso Gray and his mother left for Onargo, 111. today where they will visit the latters daughter, Mrs. W. H. Eglay for a time. Later they will go to Letitia, Kansas, where another daughter, Mrs. Will Harris, lives. Mr. Gray may also visit his brother in California.

Miss May McClintock, of Carmi, 111., who has been visiting Mises Flo and Pearl Randall, left today for Cincinnati where she will visit a few days before her return home. Sbe was accompanied by Miss Flo Randall, who expects to be gone a month. Miss McClintock is quite popular here and is one of the prettiest and most charming girls that visits our city.

The Indiana University has issued its annual catalogue for the year 1894—'95 which is a pamphlet of 120 pages. The total enrollment for the year is 771. Of these 47 are graduate students. The largest previous enrollment was 633 ef the year 1893—'94. There were in all 106 students who received degrees at our last commencement 76 A. B. 18 LL. B. and 11 A. M. Among the new professors are Dr. Frank Fetter, chair of political economy, formerly ofCornell L'niversity Dr. H. W. Johnston, professor of Latin Dr. Robert Lyons, professor of chemistry. He returns from a three years' course of study in Germany. On account of the growth in the number of students, in-

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structors have been added in chemistry, botany, Greek, French, German and English. The faculty now consists of two professors emeritus, nineteen professors, six associate Professors, two assistant professors, twenty instructors and five tutors and laboratory assistants, making in all fifty- four members of the faculty. A comparison with other institutions shows that no institution of its size in the country has drawn more widely on the resources of the best American and European universities. All University publications will be sent on application to President Joseph Smain, Bloomington, Indiana.

The Sudden Death of Mrs. Zula Carr at Indianapolis. The sudden death of Mrs. Zula Carr at Indianapolis yesterday morning, the announcement of which was published exclusively in yesterday's REPUBLICAN, was a sad shock to her relatives and friends in this city. Mrs. Carr was here about two weeks ago, and was at that time and up to her death apparently in good health. She went from here to Indianapolis and was staying at her brother-in-law's, Major Griffin, until her husband could dispose of his business at Mauzy, Rush county, preparatory to moving to Indianapolis. Thursday night at 11 o'clock she was suddenly taken sick, and at 2 p. m. was dead. The cause of her death was "bold hives" or congestion of the lungs. Herjremains were brought here this morning and taken to the home of her uncle* James H. Carr. At 2 p. m. the funeral occurred at the Christian church, where services were conducted by Rev. M. E. Nethercut, of the First Methodist church after which she was laid to rest in Park cemetery. Several years ago Mrs. Carr joined the Christian church in this city, but had recently taken her membership to Mauzy, where she was greatly interested in church work. Mrs. Carr was a great help at Mauzy and she will be sadly missed thera. Her husband has the sympathy of our people in his sad bereavement. He is an industrious young man, and was the postmaster of his town. Mrs. Arminta Evans, Mrs. Carr's mother, is well known here, and the entire community sympathize with her. She is getting along in years, and the sudden death of her only daughter is a sad blow to her in her feeble condition.

Church Motes. PRESBYTERIAN.

As the pastor, Rev. E. W. Souders, was very unexpectedly called away from the city, there will be no preaching at the Presbyterian church tomorrow. The olher services will be held at the usual hours.

M. P. CHURCH.

Sunday services. Sunday School, 9 a. m. preaching, 7 45 p. m. Subject, "The One Thing Desired by David." All are cordially invited. J. L. BARCLAY,

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FIRST M. E. CHURCH.

Sunday subjects at M. E. church. 1:30 a. m. "The River of Peace." 7:45 p. m. "Vanity Fair." All invited.

M. E. NETIIEUCUT, Pastor.

A New Orchestra at the Christian Sunday ischool. An orchestra has been organized at the Christian Sunday School and commences playing tomorrow. It is composed of first-class talent from a number of our well-known musicians and will prove a great help and benefit to the school. All are cordially invited to attend the school. I-- !. t,-, us Hello! Hellot Hello!

When you have a good news item call the Central office and ask for No. 31, the EVENING- REPUBLICAN office. We want all the news. Also call us up on business.

Parties desiring dressmaking or plain sewing arej requested to call at No.— West Main street, 2nd door west of J. E. Hart'S. 68tf MRS. AMANDA A. BINFORD.

/RISING TIDE OF TRADE.

K. G. Dun i'c Company Si-nds Out iv Very Eituouragius liejjort. NEW YORK, June 22.—R. G. Dun & Company's weekly review of trade says From all parts of the United States the best advices obtainable tell of a rising tide of trade and industry which threatens here and there to amount toofar and too fast. The volume of all business is by 110 means equal to that of 1892 as yet, though in some important branches larger than in that or any other year. Two influences of tremendous power contribute to the rise, encouraging crop news and confident replenishing of stocks which have been for two years depleted to the utmost.

Excepting too heavy rains in Texas crop reports this week have been highly encouraging. Future injury to cotton cauviiot be predicted, but as yet nothing indicates a yield uelow 7,500,000 /bales, which is not supposed to threaten famine if the commercial and mill stocks were remembered, now exceeding by 2,500,000 bales a full consumption until Sept. 1. Receipts continue small and consumption close to the maximum here and abroad, though the marketing of British goods is not entirely encouraging. Liberal purchases of all products by the south do not indicate belief tlia tany serious misfortune impends.

Reports from spring wheat states and from the Pacific coast are so cheering that although the loss of winter wheat was large, those whose estimates have been most accurate in recent years, now vary in predictions from 430 to 470,000,000 bushels. Atlantic exports for three weeks, flour included, have been only 8,758,718 busliuls, against 6,000,232 last) year, indicating 110 urgent demand at current- prices. There has been a fall of 6 cents in wheat, with heavier sales than for three weeks past.

The rush for supplies in iron and steel resembles a "bear panic" in the stock market. Because prices are mounting everybody hurries to buy, so that they mount higher. Bessemer iron has reached $12.65 at Pittsburg, the bar association has advanced common to $1.15, the wire nail association put their price to $1.50 per keg, the steel rail makers have raised the prices to $24, eastern and southern furnaces have both raised prices again 50 cents per ton, and structural beams are $1.35 and angles $1.25.

It is undeniable that works in opera--tion are crowded with orders, and others who have been idle for years are preparing to resume. At the same time the most potent cause of the upward start in prices, the general belief that a combination of coke producers woulJ. raise the price to $1.50 after July 1, is apparently removed by war among the producers and a fall to $1.25 in contracts for the last half of 1895.

Failures of the week have been 228 in the United States, against 314 last year, and 31 in Canada, against 25 last year.

GREEN GOODS SCHEMERS.

Eight of Them on Trial For Using the United States Mails. DETROIT, June 22.—The eight prisoners under indictment of a charge of using the mails to promote a green goods scheme at Hillsdale, were put on trial in the United States court yesterday. They are: Charles E. Keefer,. John P. Treadwall, William Derry, Watson W. Marsh, James C. White, Charles Ellis, Charles L. Dodgson and. Dan O. Meara. Five lawyers are guard ing their interests.

After securing a jury the inspectors, who worked up the case, testified to the facts regarding the decoy letters written and the circumstances leading up to the* arrests. Miss Rebecca Draper of Montciair, N. J., who assisted in trapping the gang by purchasing some of the counterfeit money by mail, has been, summoned as 011c of the witnesses.

No Lynching and No Trial. ELLAVILLK, Fla., June 22.—Henry Foy, colored, strangled and outraged a little girl 9 years old, a relative of hiswife. The girl managed to reach homO' and tell her mother. The sheriff, after scouring the country, found Foy about 4 o'clock yesterday morning. He was armed with a double-barreled gun, and on being commanded' to surrender turned it toward the sheriff. The latter was too quick and sent^a load of buckshot into Foy's left side, killing him instantly.

One More Week to Live,

FRANKFORT, Ky., June 22.—"Bad" Tom Smith has only one more week to live for the murder of Dr. Rader, in Breathitt county. Governor Brown, upon receipt of the mandate of tlit* court of appeals, fixed next Friday, June 28, as the day for the execution of the sentence of death passed upon Smith. Mrs. McQuinn, his accomplice, will be brought to the penitentiary next week to serve a life sentence fo* the same crime.

One Killed and Three Injured. SAN FRANCISCO, June 22.—Yesterday a number of workmen were tearing down the old city hall, a stone structure nearly 50 years old. The work has progressed so far that the building was a mere shell. The northeast corner walL suddenly spread and the roof caved inFour men on the roof fell inside the building. One, James Wilkinson, was killed by the debris. The three others, were injured.

A Question For the Police to Solve. NEW ALBANY, Ind., June 22.—Mrs. Carrie Ilolzher died yesterday in this city from the effect of wounds alleged to have been inflicted by her husband, John Holzlior. Her skull was crushcd and her right arm broken.' Her hus-1 band claims that she was intoxicated and fell off a horse. He is under police surveillance pending the result of the coroner's inquest.

Supplies For the Destitute. KANSAS CITY, June 22.—A large consignment of supplies for the destitute of Oklahoma were shipped to Round Pond yesterday. Rev. Shane and JudgeNash, who are soliciting aid, say, however, that more supplies are badly needed and will continue to receive food and. clothing at their headquarters here and forward to the suffering people.