15 May 1897
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Newspaper
Evening Bulletin
Location
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1897
Page
1
A readable fragment notes an office location at 505 Fort Street in Spreckels Block, room 5, providing a concrete address reference without additional context or events.
The Treasury Department will enforce a new act prohibiting import of teas below established standards. New York shipments will carry sample lines from seven expert standards, with half-pound packages sold at cost to importers. After May 1, 1909, importers must prove genuineness, or bonds and export within six months.
The Memorial Day committee of Gen. W. De Long Post G A R decides no evening literary events at the Opera House. After the marches to the cemetery the members will not wish to attend more, and theater costs would be wasteful. With several war vessels in port and a large expected turnout, the parade will be the main event. the orator will speak briefly, not exceeding twenty minutes.
The U S S Adams arrived in Hilo last Monday and will sail to Honolulu next Monday. Commander Gibson led the visit with officers including Lieutenant Holcombe and Ensign Hagland. Several crew members traveled to the Volcano while in Hawaii.
Japanese merchants hosted a four hour reception last evening for Naniwa cruiser officers and visiting Tokyo dignitaries. Tanai hotel setting lit with electric lights and greenery featured a formal menu and two addresses, with Cabinet members and press correspondents in attendance.
Ejectment verdict favored the plaintiff with one juror dissent in the Magoon noted case. Judge Perry continues to hear Goo Kim and Wail hee Bugar Company matters. Judge Carter admonished until next Saturday in the Miranda divorce case. Correa reports no appearance for the plaint and defendant in Kamabalova matter. Lindsay represented plaintiffs in several dockets with no defendant appearances.
Mesas Jourmalista at Work with Suzuki Seki and Furuya visiting Japanese news paper correspondents given a long interview by Attorney General W O Smith. Mr Seki acted as interlocutor and both sides discussed immigration Inwa and their applications to countrymen in recent misunderstanding cases. The visitors appeared bright and keen and seemed pleased with the ministerial reception and information provided.
A church choir song in Chicago led to police capturing four members of the Weirpang gang. Paroled prisoner Fred Dreaksan, moved by the song Where Is My Wandering Boy Tonight, is said to be granted freedom for aiding the case. Detectives Hamilton and others gathered sixty three pages of confessions. authorities say hundreds of thousands in stolen goods were found at Edward Erest Weir and associates’ homes.
London April 20 The chancellor Sir Michael Hicks Beach read the budget. The 1896 97 balance allows the exchequer revenue to £101,477,000 with expenditures of £101,477,000 leaving a surplus of £2,437,000. The national debt was reduced £7,584,000 during the year. British trade for the last fiscal year reached £738,100,000, up 6 per cent. Income tax revenue exceeded the estimate by nearly £3,500,000.
Public attention centers on annexation, reciprocity, naval missions, and the Greece Turkey war while speculation runs high. Amid the doubt, Buttato and Hofbran emerge as favored brews with steady supply guaranteed at the Royal, Pacific and Cosmopolitan Saloons under the established interchangeable check system.
Warm weather boosts demand for soda water at Hawaiian Soda. We invite comparison of prices and workmanship before ordering portrait enlargements. Address: King Brown, Hotel Street.
A Honolulu Dairy Co wagon halted on Spencer Street when a horse folded back on the towing lines, snapping connections. While repairs were made, the second horse bolted into the bushes, and the milkman chased it for an hour. No milk was spilled.
Madam Yule recently arrived from the Coast offers permanent electric facial and bodily treatments at Eagle House on Nuunann Street. She conducts permanent removal of moles waste and hair by electricity and advertises an excellent face bleach.
A report from the Molokai Leper Settlement details an attempted murder by a blind elderly man who asked a girl to live with him. She refused, visited him, and was stabbed multiple times, suffering arm and abdominal wounds but surviving after the assailant was jailed.
A Shanghai Mercury report describes six Chinese crew members traveling to King robbed and murdered by an apparent ambush. One escaped by diving overboard as a suspicious boat boarded the merchants vessel and overpowered its crew, leading to robbery and multiple killings.
Acting Minister Ellie Mills of the United States paid an official call on Minister H. B. Cooper at the Foreign Office this morning. A guard of honor was paraded for the visitor as customary practice. The event noted no major agenda beyond an official notification related to the alleged scuttling of the American ship Indiana at Hilo.
A local rainstorm drenched Tantalus last evening with totals of 21 inches at Prank Brgno's, 12 inches at Richins Park, and about 36 inches in town. The shower was confined to the area, with no signs of continuing, but officials note the moisture will be vastly beneficial.
Bite improves plans and outline specifications for the proposed courthouse addition arrived by the Kinau. They were prepared under the direction of Judge Hitchcock and other officials. The people of Hilo are in a state of elation over the prospective visit of Minister King and Superintendent Rowell in connection with the projected wharf.
The U S Government sustains a ruling in Anglo California Bank v Secretary of the Treasury. The Supreme Court on April 30 decided the government may collect duty on imported merchandise withdrawn for consumption at the rates of a tariff act that had been repealed.
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