Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1893 — THE HAWAIIAN SITUATION. [ARTICLE]

THE HAWAIIAN SITUATION.

The Star* anil Stripe* Have Been Replaced by tba Native Flag. Advices from Honolulu, dated April 0, state that the stars and stripes, which for tiro months have floated from the government buildings, have been hauled down and the remaining forces from the U. 8. cruiser Boston have been sent aboard. Nothing indicative of American authority remains in Honolulu save Minister Stevens and Commissioner James H. Blount, of Georgia, the latter of whom site In his easy c hair at his cottage, cogitating no one knows what. Blount has maintained a Chinse wall about the purposes of his mission there, and has satisfied neither side as to whether he came as an envoy to investigate or a minister to negotiate in a matter of vital importance to them.