Events That Have Happened.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 136, 13 June 1904, Page 2

Events That Have Happened.

AMERICA'S DRINIC BILL. NEW YORK, April 12. The American Grocer publishes porno interesting ligures on the drink consumption for the United States. The bill for 11KKJ is estimated ut 1,-151 .GlilUiTO dollsiry, which gives an average yearly expenditure per head of the population of £l2 Bs, and a consumption of twenty gallons of alcoholic liquors. In 1880 the consumption per head was only ten and a-haU" gallons. Taking all kinds of beverages, coffee heads the list, with beer second. The consumption of the latter for Ihe yen 1* KUKI is estimated ut 1,449,879,9f>2 gallons. Ten comes third on the list, with a total consumption 0/ £90,000,000, equivalent to 225,000,000 gallons.

The Blatisticb show that the amount of winu imported Into the States was much larger than the total for 1901, while the consumption of homo-made wine allowed a decrease.

ARNACHY IN COLORADO. NEW YORK, April 12.

An extraordinary wtatc of anarchy among the militia prevails In Colorado, as the result of a strike that has already lasted seven months among the 2000 gold diggers at the Tellunde Mines. Several non-union men wero amlAis>hud and killed on their way to the mines last year, and Governor Peabody mobilised the militia, and to all intents and purposes placed San Miguel County under, martial law, The millLia evicted from the county aoino hundreds of labour agitators, who appealed to Uu# Cuurtsi against being deported. -Mr Justice Stevens', in the District Court at Denver, yesterday .commanded the sheriff to produce In Court under a writ of hnbi'ag corpus l Mr lloyer, the Pnaidtmt of the Miners' Federation.

The sheriff refused to convey Moyur to tills Court, oil till# ground that. it would be too dangerous, as the militia had prohibited bin prosonco. Geueral Hell, who In in toiumand' of tiie militia, upon learning- the decree of tho Court, openly defied its orders, saying that the Court could only prooura tho custody oJ Moyer '-'over our dead bodies."

The Court In its order, said it was q'uestionablo whether tile strikers or the militia were in rebellion allium the State, and blamed the Governor. It further gave warning that it might ask President Roosevelt to send Federal troops because of tho Governor's threat to exterminate any troops the Court may send to carry out the Wilt.

A WEIRD CEREMONY. HONOLULU, -April 7. An unusual ceremony was witnessed Inst Friday night at the Nuuanu cemetery. Tho remains of tile various members of the Kalakaua dynasty, together Willi the supposed n*mains of Knmehameha the Great, were removed to their last resting place in tho royal mausoleum. The removal of the caskets, numbering fourteen In all, was done in the presence of Prince Pnvid Kawauanakoa and several high chioftans and chieftainesses of the Hawaiian race.

The last Legislature appropriated 15,000d01, l'or the repaiiin;; of the mausoleum. The caskets oniainiiig tho remains of the Kalakaua dynasty were removed to temporal.v quarters. 'file repairs were completed last week, and tho final transfer of tiie bodies occurred.

As the caskets were borne one l y one to their respective places In the mausoleum weird chants of the ancient Hawaiiami wore sung by the old retainers of Kalakaua, AN ANARCHIST SURRENDERS. NEW YORK, April 12. William MacCluecli, the English anarchist leader, surrendered himself to tho police to-day for tho purpose of serving a sentence of five years' imprisonment imposed on him for incitiligto riot the silk weavers of Patterson, Now Jersey. MacQueon escaped from America while lie was on trial, and returned to England. The police have been unablo to locate him, and they were greatly surprised when bo appeared at) headquarters to-day anil gave himself up. Ho hail arrived from Southampton on the American liner St. Paul, coining to this country of his own accord, in order to bo imprisoned. MncQnoen, in his statement to the authorities, said he had done nothing oi which lie himself was tashnmod, he had reconsidered his determination to keep within the reach of the law, and was willing to suffer for hi# conscientious Anarchist beliefs, if tlw United Stales wauled to make a martyr of him.

UKItMAXY'S FAlLimrc. URIILIX, April 12. days aeem to bo in store for the Colonial Department of the Foreign OJlice as soon as the Colonial Estimates como on for discussion. All parties in the House seem atg'rejod that there is something rotten in the state of South-West Africa, Mid that radical chants must he effected in the country. Though half as large ajgain as the entire (Jerman Empire, the country contains only 200,000 natives, with only 50,<)<)() head of cattle —that is to say, these natives have been reduced to a ntale of almost incredible poverty. The white population, including soldiers and oflicials, numbers only lli<H), of ,wllom only Ki.'tl are ni>t in the' Government service, and of these latter only JKM are farmers or -planters. Tho general dissatisfaction at the failure of th© Government. to make Sout/h-West Africa a. success Is increased by the statement that, the Government intend to n.sk for 2,000,000 marks to compensate thoso who have snffered from the Ilerrero rising. Recent events have, of course, put a stop (o an emigration to South-West Africa.

JIAIiCIIANIVS WSSIU NATION 7 . PAWS, April 12. The report that Colonel Jlnrchami had thrown up his commission as an oflicer of the. i'Yendi Army is confirmed at the ministry of Wnr, and hits caused considerable svnsatum. The news is on every tongue, ami the papers are full of it. Marchand, who has the proud distinction of living in a street hearing his own name, when Ire comes to Paris, declines to l>o drawn, but his friends Hay that his determination is fixed. The most probahlle explanation of Colonel Uarciiami's action is that he was lirst oil the active list, of colonels, and was momentarily expecting to receive orders to return to his post in China, he preferred to resign, in order to be free to remain in I'ranee, in view of bis approaching marriage. Moreover, this is not the first time that. Colonel Marchand has tendered his resignation, but on previous occasions it has alwavs been withdrawn nt the rajlucsl of his friends 1 . The Covernment is now, however, determined to nccept. his decision, ami the matter will lie nettled liv the Cabinet, as the resignation of a superior ollicer must be 'accepted simultaneously by the Minister of Wnr and the President of the itepublic.