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HONOLULU, HAWAIIAN ISLANDS, FlilDAY, MAY 6, 1S9S.
PRICE FIVE GENES.
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J. Q. AVOOD,
Attorney at Law.
AND
NOTARY PUBLIC.
OFFICE:
Corner IClng
Streets.
and Betliel
mi. C. J5. HIGH,
Dentist.
Philadelphia Dental College 1892.
tljusonic Temple. Telephone 318
A. C. AVA L L, J). J). S.
Dentist.
IXVE BUILDING. : FORT STREET.
GIJOSS31AN, D.D.S.
Dentist-
SS HOTEL STREET, HONOLULU.
Office Hours: 9 a. m. to 4 p. m.
Dll. A. J. DEI1UY,
Dentist-
CORNER FORT AND HOTEL STS.
MOTT-SM1TII BLOCK.
Telephones: Office, 615; Residence, 789.
HOURS: 9 to 4.
GEO. II. IILTDDY, D.D.S.
Dentist.
FORT STREET, OPPOSITE CATHO
LIC MISSION.
Hours: From 9 a. m. to 4 p. m.
DR. M. WACHS.
Dentist.
University of California.
Beretanla near Fort street.
Office Hours: 9 to 12 a. m. and 1 to 4
p m
C. L. GARVIN, M.D.
Office iNo. 537 King street, near
Punchbowl.
Hours 8:30 to 11 a. m.; 3 to 5 p. m.;
7 to 8 p. m.
Telephone No. 448.
MRS. F. S. SAYANT-JEROME, M. D.,
HOMEOPATH,
Has opened office No. 223 Hotel
street.
Woman's and Children's Diseases.
Special studies of dietetics and phy
siatrics. THE HONOLULU SAMTARIUAl.
1082 KING ST.
JL quiet home-like place; where train
ed nurses, massage, "Swedish move
ments," baths, electricity and physical
training may be obtained.
P. S. KELLOGG, M.D.,
Telephone 639. Supt.
CUAS. F. PETERSON,
Attorney at Law.
AND
NOTARY PUBLIC.
15 Kaahumanu St.
ltyle a. dickey',
Attorney at Law.
14 KAAHUMANU STREET.
Telephone, 682.
william c. pakke,
Attorney at Law.
AND
AGENT TO TAKE ACKNOWLEDG
MENTS. Office: Kaahumanu SI., Honolulu.
O. O. TRAniAGEX,
ARCHITECT.
223 Merchant Street between Fort
and Alakea.
Telephone 734.
Honolulu, H. I.
-LIMITED-
pl&n&de, Cor. Allen and Fort SU.
D.OLLISTER & CO., - - AGENTS.
P. O. Box
480
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Telephone
478
New and Flrat-Clasa
SECOND-HAND FURNITURE
OF ALL KINDS
SOLD CHEAP FOR CASH.
Highest Cash Price paid for Second-Hand
Furniture at L Corner KinS
and Nuuanu Streets.
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of the following Stocks have
been placed in our hands for sale at
prices that should be of interest to in
tending investors:
Ewa Plantation Co.
Paia Plantation Co.
Kahuku Plantation Co.
Hawaiian Electric Co.
Inter-Island S. N. Co.
Wilder S. S. Co.,
Hawaiian Safe Deposit and
Investment -Company.
GEORGE R. CARTER, Mgr.
Office In rear of Bank of Hawaii, Lt J.
SPECIAL BUSINESS ITEMS.
ART AND SCIENCE.
At the World's Columbian Exposi
tion art and science was thoroughly
exemplified. The greatest . achieve
ments of modern times were on" exhi
bition. Among the many beautiful
displays none attracted more atten
tion than that made by the Singer
Sewing Machine Company. It won the
enthusiastic praises of all. B. Berger
sen, Agent, Bethel ' street.
The City Carriage Company possess
only first-class hacks and employ only
careful, steady drivers.
Carriages at all hours.
Telephone 113.
JOHN S. ANDRADE.
TOURISTS'
GUIDE
THROUGH
HAWAII.
PRICE, GOc.
BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED.
FOR SALE BY ALL NEWSDEALERS
WOMAN'S EXCHANGE.
215 Merchant St.
HAWAIIAN CURIOS Leis. Kapa.
Niihau Mats, Calabashes, Idols, Fans,
Shells, Seeds, etc., etc.
SAM O AN TAPAS, Carved Emu
Eggs, Hula Drums, Gourds, etc., etc.
Point Lace Handkerchiefs, Doylies,
Fayal work and Hawaiian Dolls.
Telephone 659.
DR. GEO. J. AUGUR.
Homcepathic Practitioner
and
Surgeon.
Special attention Given to Chronic
Diseases.
Richards street, near Hawaiian hotel.
Office and Residence the same.
Office hours: 10 to 12 a. m.; 3 to 4
p. m.; 7 to p. m. Sundays 9:30 to
0:30 a. m. Telephone 733.
MISS TOWNE,
TEACHER OF CHINA PAINTING
Studio, Second Floor Pacific Hard
ware Company.
Class Days Mondays and Tuesdays,
afternoon; Wednesdays and Fridays,
morning.
CHARLES CLARK.
Attorney at Law.
121 MERCHANT STREET.
Honolulu Hale. Tel.
Up Stairs.
343.
W. T. M0NSARRAT,
VETERINARY SURGEON AND DEN
TIST. TELEPHONES 161 & 626.
The Name Plate That Marks
the High Grade Wheel.
H. E. WALKER, Agt.
CCLEyElANGP
TOLEDOf
AMERICA OPENS FIRE
TO LIBERATE CUBA
Two
Spanish Merchant
Waters,
Spain Threatens to Bombard American Ports.
President is Expected to Call for
Volunteers.
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(FROM THE ADVERTISER EXTRA).
KEY WEST, (Fla.), April 23. An incoming tug reports
that the New York lias captured a Spanish passenger steamer
plying between Havana and Porto Rico. The torpedo flotilla
is coming in. It is believed here that the prize captured by
the Flagship New York is the Alfonso XII., the mail steamer
due at Havana today (not the warship of that name). The
Spanish ship tried to run away, but the New York gave chase,
firing shot after shot until the Spaniards hove to and surrendered.
KEY WEST, (Fla.), April 22. Patrick Mullen fired the
first shot in the war between Spain and the United States,
and the big Spanish freight steamer Buena Venture is the
first prize of this country.
She was captured this morning eight miles south of Sand
Key Light when the fleet of Rear Admiral Sampson had been
gone from here scarcely an hour on its way to Havana.. The
Spanish vessel was brought to this port.
SHANGHAI, April 22. The American squadron at Hong
kong has sailed for Manila. It is- reported that the priests
and the commercial classes favor surrender, but the military
is' determined to resist.
MADRID, April 22. The Spanish Government states that
it intends, as soon as the Americans bombard Havana, to do
the same to Washington, Philadelphia and other points.
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PKOCLAMA.TIOX ISSUED.
Blockade of All Cuban Ports Or
dered Hy the President.
WASHINGTON, April 22. The fol
owing proclamation, announcing the
blockade of the Cuban ports, was is
sued today:
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNIT
ED STATES A PROCLAMA
TION. Whereas. By a joint resolution pass
ed by the Congress and approved April
20, 1S98, and communicated to the Gov
ernment of Spain, it was demanded
that said Government at once relin
quish its authority and government in
the Island of Cuba and withdraw its
naval forces from Cuba and Cuban
waters, and the President of the Unit
ed States was directed and empowered
to use the entire land and naval
forces of the United States and to call
into the actual service of the United
States the militia of the several States
to such extent as might be necessary
to carry said resolution into effect; and
Whereas, In carrying into effect
such resolution the President of the
United States deems it necessary to
set on foot and maintain a blockade
of the north of Cuba, including all
ports of said coast between Cardenas
and Bahia Honda, and the port of Cien
fuegos on the south coast of Cuba;
Now, therefore, I, William McKin
ley. President of the United States, in
order to enforce the said resolution, do
hereby declare and proclaim that the
United States of America has institut
ed and will maintain a blockade of the
north coast of Cuba, including ports
on said coast between Cardenns and
Bahia Honda, and the port of Cienfue
gos on the south coast of Cuba, afore
said, in pursuance of the laws of the
United States and the laws of nations
applicable to such cases. An efficient
force will be posted, so as to prevent
the entrance and exit of vessels from
the ports aforesaid. Any neutral ves
sel approaching said ports and at
tempting to leave the same without
notice or knowledge of the establish-
ment of such blockade will be duly
warned by the commander of the
blockading forces, who will indorse on
her register the fact and the date of
Yessels Captured in Southern
of AH Cuban Ports.
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' such warning and where such indorse
ment as made, and if the same vessel
shall attempt to enter any blockaded
port she will be captured and sent to
the nearest convenient port for such
proceedings against her and her cargo
as prize as may be deemed advisable.
Neutral vessels lying in any of the
said ports at the time of the establish
ment of such blockade will be allowed
thirty days to issue therefrom.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto
set my hand and caused the seal or
the United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, this
22d day of April, A. D. 189S, and of
the Independence of the United States
the one hundred and twenty-second.
WILLIAM McKINLOT.
By the President:
JOHN SHERMAN,
Secretary of State.
THE PRESIDENT'S INTENTIONS.
Proposes to Ask Congress for Deelara
atlon ot War.
WASHINGTON, April 22. It is the
present intention of the President to
send a message to Congress tomorrow
asking for a formal declaration of war.
A special session of the House has
been called for 10 o'clock tomorrow for
the purpose of passing the army reor
ganization bill in time for final action
on that measure by the Senate when it
mets at noon.
The Secretary of the Navy has asked
Congress for authority to enlist a naval
auxiliary force to man the torpedo fleet
intended for coast defense purposes.
There is a difference of opinion be
tween Secretary Alger and General
Miles as to the time of movement of
necessary troops and fleets into Cuban
territory. Secretary Alger, carrying out
the wishes of General Lee, it is under
stood, wants the troops to go ahead
without waiting for the call for volun
teers. General Miles, on the other
, hand, thinks it dangerous to send less
than 50,000 troops into Cuba, and
! deems it advisable to wait until this
number has been organized and drilled
before an attempt is made to occupy
the island.
PRESIDENT IS OT SL'Iii:.
Asks Attorney-CJeneral If IIo Has
Authority to Call Volunteers.
NEW YORK, April 22. A Herald
Washington correspondent telegraphs
With a preamble to cover the present
situation, a proclamation calling for
100,000 volunteers, couched essenti.illy
in the language of Abraham Lincoln's
first call for troops, was prepared at
the War Department and take to the
President shortly after he had signed
the volunteer army act. In the discus
sion of the issue of the proclamation,
the President himself called attention
to the fact that Congress has author
ized no limit to the number of troops
that may be called out. The volunteer
army act provides the President shall
issue his proclamation stating the
number of men desired within such
limits as may be fixed by law.
President McKinley, however, is not
satisfied that his authority under law
to call out men is yet sufficient, with
out express authorization by Congress
of a stated limit. On account of this
uncertainty Attorney General Griggs
has been requested to give a decision.
LETTERS OF M'AKQUE.
Spanish Organ ltelleves In Hlght
of Prlvateerlne:.
MADRID, April 22. El Epoca (Con
servative) discusses the question of
privateers, and expresses a doubt of
the truth of the report ihat the United
States has renounced this option, "in
as much as America and Spain were
the only nations that maintained the
option at the Congress of Paris in
1856." The paper insists that all the
arguments then adduced by the United
States for upholding the option now
are in favor of Spain, who will not re
nounce it."
El Epoca says also that "Spain does
not consider fair the declaration of the
neutral powers as to contraband of
war, thus favoring one of the belliger
ents, namely, America," and it cites
the case of England in 1885, who op
posed stoutly the action of France in
the. Tonquin war in declaring rice con
traband. "All that England then alleged in
favor of British subjects;" says El
Epoca, "can be urged by Spain respect
ing coal, which is the bread of life of
industry, without which modern war
fare is impossible."
Respecting the blockade of Cuba, El
Epoca calls to mind and invites the at
tention of Europe to the fact that
"both America and Spain accepted
clause four in the declaration of Paris,
providing that 'a blockade must be ef
fective and not on paper.' "
El Epoca declares that twice the
present American fleet would not be
adequate to establish an effective
blockade of Cuba. Moreover, under the
established rules, a blockade requires
previous notification to the authorities
of Cuba and the powers, allowing all
shipping a definite term to clear out of
the blockaded ports.
TOPEKA 1H REPORTED SUNK.
New Cruiser IJoaght liy IT. S. Goes
Down Off Falmouth.
LONDON, April 22. The Daily Mail
says this morning that it is stated in
Falmouth shipping circles that the
American cruiser Topeka, formerly the
Diogenes, which left Falmouth on the
evening of Tuesday, April 19th, found
ered in collision with the bark Alba
tross at midnight on Thursday. Ac
cording to the Daily Mail, the captain
of the Albatross asserts that after the
collision the steamer, whose name he
did not ascertain, flashed a light and
suddenly disappeared. He believes she
foundered.
Mission a Failure.
HAVANA, April 22. The committee
that went early in the week to Santa
Cruz del Sur as agents of the autono
mists to try and persudae the insur
gents to accept the armistice offered by
Spain will be back in Havana Sunday,
it is expected. Its misson was a fail
ure. It did not even get a chance to
speak to the insurgent leaders whom
it was asking to turn to peace.
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Armistice at an End.
LONDON, April 22. The Madrid
correspondent of the Daily News says
the Government has instructed General
Blanco to declare the armistice in Cuba
ended.
THE PARIS MAY HE CAPTURED.
Union I.Iuer Leaves Southampton
With Cuoro of Ammunition.
SOUTHAMPTON, Eng., April 22.
The steamer Paris of the American
line, chartered by the United States
Government, sailed at 2:13 p. m. for
New York, though her regular sailing
day is Saturday. She had 350 passen
gers, and her cargo included a quan
tity of guns and ammunition. There
was great enthusiasm among the
crowds on the docks, and the band of
the Union Steamship Company's
steamer Britain played "Yankee Doo
dle" as the Paris steamed seaward.
The Paris passed Hurst Castle at 3:35
p. m.
LONDON, April 23 The Daily Mail
says: The Spanish embassy notified
the Madrid Government of the depart
ure of the Paris, and it is believed that
fast cruisers from Cadiz and Corunna
will try to intercept her.
The Liverpool correspondent of the
Daily Telegraph says: . Surprise was
expressed here today (Friday) that the
Paris should have sailed unescortoi,
especially as there were rumors In the
Mersey that Spanish war vessels were
waiting to Intercept here off the south
coast of Ireland. Yet the passengers
of the Paris were assured of iheir per
fect safety.
The Chronicle publishes a rumor vhat
the American liner Paris had alreidy
been captured by Spanish warships.
RELIEVE IIEil SAFE.
Oregon and Marietta Left Callao
for Ilrazll on April 5.
NEW YORK, April 22. The Wash
ington correspondent of the Herald
says: Learning that the Spanish tor
pedo gun vessel Temerario is still at
Montevideo, naval officers heaved a
sigh of relief and have ceased to worry
about the safety of the battleship Ore-'
gon and the gunboat Marietta. The
Oregon left Callao, Peru, April 5, and
it is believed that during the 17 days
which have since elapsed she has cov
ered a distance 4,300 miles, which
would place her at this time in about
the vicinity of Montevideo.
There is reason to believe the Oregon
and the Marietta, when next heard
from will be reported at Rio de Jan
eiro. Minister Bryan, the American
representative to Brazil, has made ar
rangements for coaling the ships im
mediately upon their arrival. Brazil
cannot refuse to permit the vessels to
purchase sufficient coal to carry them
to Key West, her neutrality obligations
only requiring that she shall not per
mit her ports to be used as a base of
operations by one power against an
other. After leaving Rio de Janeiro
the Oregon and the Marietta will steam
at once to Key West, where they will
coal. They will then join the North
Atlantic Squadron. I was told at the
Navy Department today that the Nich-
theroy had not sailed from Rio de Jan
eiro, and the officials state now that as
war is now on between the United
States and Spain the former Brazilian
cruiser will be held at her present an
chorage until the arrival of the Ore
gon and the Marietta, which will con
voy her to the United States. It ha3
developed that Brazil declined lo sell
the Nichtheroy with her battery, so
that when she starts for this country
she will have no guns aYoard.
Coal All Routcht Up.
BUENOS AYRES, April 22 All the
coal available here and at Rio de Jan-
(Contlnued on Pae 2.)
Royal makes the food pure,
wholesome and delicious.
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