Show A TEAPOT TEMPEST A Attempt to Overthrow the Hawaiian Government FALL FROM A BURSTED BALLOON The Fate of an Aeronaut Hungarians Blot i Ing In the Connellrille Eeclon Earthquake Earth-quake In New YorkA Smash Up SAX FRANCISCO Aug 10Tho steamer Alameda that arrived Friday evening from Australia brings news of a daring though futile insurrection in Honolulu on July 3 Two halfbreed Hawaiians Robert W Wilcox and Robert Boyd who had been sent at government expense to be educated at the Ifcilian military school have been plotting the insurrection for some time but the rumors were little heeded until the mo 1ent when they culminated in an armed bad of about one hundred and thirty native na-tive Hawaiians marching from Palamatwo miles and seizing an entrance t the palace rounds in Honolulu All was quiet during the night although in most of the native houses lights were seen burning at midnight mid-night About 1 am an unusual number of natives and Chinamen were seen on the mtves streets as if something very uncommon was about to happen but while the people weal to bed as usual the rebel rioters formed at Palama and about am Tuesday marched from that suburb to the city arriving at the Muka gate of the palace at 4 am They knocked at this gate and demanded admittance ad-mittance when after some parleying they entered the grounds unopposed Tho Palama rioters were joined by other squads from other localities and at one time i thor tho-r labels upon the palace o Jsn must have numbered about two hundred and fifty The King was absentjfrom the palace at the I time the alarm was sent to him by telephone F tele-phone The royal party then hastened t the Kings boathouse where they remained during the day guarded by a dozen household house-hold troops Meanwhile the rebels summoned Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Parker to surrender the palace but that officer refused to surrender although cpeated demands were made by Wilcox to do so A general alarm was spread throughout the city by means of telephone and the Honolulu Rifles were immediately ordered to report at their armory There was a great deal of excitement A number of families fled to tho top of the hill others took refuge at the American legation where a corps of marines from the United States steamship Adams was stationed A cabinet council was held and with tho three ministers present were convened the American British French and Portugese commissioners also Captain Woodward of United States steamship Adams The cabinet decided to demand the surrender of Wilcox S M Damon was appointed carry out the command but h mission proved t be unsuccessful Several shots had been now exchanged J on both sides By 1 a m the rioters had < 1 taken shelter in a house termed the Bungalow situated in the palace grounds while the Honolulu Rifles had secured se-cured a splendid position commanding this Shots were fired from both sides at intervals inter-vals Finally a corps of government volunteers vol-unteers began hurling giant power bombs at the Bungalow About this time thirty or more rioters surrendered one of whom had been fatally shot early in the skirmish Robert Boyd chief lieutenant of Wilcox was severely wounded in two places I is stated that Wilcox shot two of his men whom he noticed were about to desert While this bombardment against the Bungalow lasted sharp shooters from the I opera house kept up a steady and furious usiladc until finally after hours of bombardment bombard-ment the rioters rushed from their building vaving a whit sheet upon a pole and shout mtr peace surrender The gates were thrown open and a force of volunteers entered en-tered and took the whole of the rioters prisoners Firing ceased about 7 p m and Wilcox was marched to the station house at715 p m his comrade prisoners arriv tog at the lockup a few minutes later Among those opposed to the rioters the only casualty was a wound in the shoulder received by Lieutenant Parker and it is rc o supposed it was from a shot fred by Wilcox cox On the side of the rioters there were seven natives killed and twelve wounded natves kle several seriously An armed patrol was organized to watch the city during tho 1 tight and afterwards compased of the p Honolulu Rifles blue jackets and mariners r from the United States steamship Adams and citizen volunteersas special constables besides the whole patrol force There were however no attempts at incen diarism There were plans The programme is aid t have been formed by WIlcox One report was t the effect that he intended to secure the person of King Kalakuaka and compel him t abdicate in favor of his sister Lilinokalana heir apparent and demand de-mand a new constitution and a new cabinet Honolulu papers state that this was probably prob-ably the plan proposed either in whole or ji a modified form but matters were kept so very secret that the exact reasons are yet unknown Commenting on the insurrection the Honolulu Commercial Advertiser says The insurrection although long premeditated and planned was one of tho most silly and hopeless attempts to overturn the Hawaiian government that could be attempted and nothing but gross ignorance of the situation situa-tion could have prompted any such attempt and had the rioters been white men a lunatic lu-natic asylum or the hempen cravat would have been the most suitable punishment that could have been meted out to them The opera house palace government buildings and many private dwellings were more or less damaged by the bombs An inquest was in progress on the bodies of thosokilled in the riot when the steamer lamed Honolulu August 2 A cabinet cabi-net meeting was held but the officers declined de-clined t state the result of their confer coner enc a regards the probable fate of the instigators in-stigators of the riot stgtrs rot From remarks of passengers on the Australia it seems that it had been arranged ar-ranged to have four hunlred or five hundred more persons participate in the insurrection among them some of the best standing both among the whites and natives Letters were taken from Wilcox which led t the arrest of several well known people among them it Is said being J E Brown editor of a Hawaiian newspaper news-paper The general impression is that the leaders of the riot will never be convicted a they will demand a jury trial by the natives and amajority of those are in sympathy sym-pathy with the movement sy |