Show 16 SEIZES AN ISLAND B tse united help to protest new york july 28 A special loabe herald from washington baya Oll loial information of the action of t ho government in takina possession 0 the island of palmyra in the pacific has been received at the elate department the information was embodied in a dispatch from san francisco it having been wired from that point by the die pitch agent of the department stationed there who had received it from minister bewail at evidently mr regarded the matter as af great importance for it li understood it wae the only subject wire the steamer which arrived at san o 0 cisco the latter parti 0 last week abe message from mr sewall merely contained the bare fact of the be island great britain ie taking faion of the island at following AS it does the saade eion of the annexation treaty the senate by the president is considered very significant by th authorities here whether it ie intended to complicate matters to stave off annexation or whether great britain deciree toi place naval island her action ia regarded ded aa of importance import ince ond further will 1 awaited with keen interest should righta to the territory be established it is proposed to bend to minister sewall directing bin 9 urge the dole au thorl lice to protest to great britain aga inether action ane united staica ks 1 ill of course uphold euch a protest and the believe that it will in the removal of the british flag up to the present time il is waa occupied a good reacy aeo by number ot hawaiian citizens who raised the hawaiian flag over the territory the beland was first die covered br the famous british navigator captain who afterward icet bis life in the hawaiian islands an american corpora fori known ae the phoenix guam company located on the abond bome years aeo and built sheds a abart and removed all the gianu deposits when depolite dep osite bad been exhausted the company hb audone I 1 the island leaving the sheds and wharf standing |