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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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ainindefinitely as governor of Puerto Rico. Asthe President said, he is to set up the machin-ery and turn on the steam ; and if he gets thenew government and the new order of thingswell established within a year, as seems prac-ticable, he may then return. If PresidentMcKinley is reelected, Mr. Allen will probablybe called to take office in Washington again ;and, if Secretary Long retires from the NavyDepartment, Mr. Allen will probably succeedhim as secretary of the navy. GovernorAllen has a charming wife and two attract-ive daugliters, one of them manied ; and hehas a little grandson, wlio is the pride of hisheart. Mr. and Mrs. Allen did not keep housein Washington, but entertained a good deal intheir apartment at the Portland, and they willshow a gracious hospitality in the governors Palace at San Juan de Puerto Rico, which,with its appurtenances, is to be their official resi-dence, and on the naval yacht Mayflower, whichthe President has ordered to Puerto Rico for thegovernors use.
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FIRE OF JANUARY 20 BEYOND CONTROL. (Fugitives fleeing away to tlie right.) THE BUBONIC PLAGUE IN HONOLULU. BY REUBEN D. SILLIMAN. DECEMBER Ilth last, a street rumor—oneof those so characteristic of the place—was circulated about Honolulu, telling of the dis-covery of a cas(? of ijubonic plague. In a short time the essential facts were gener-ally known. The Chinese bookkeeper of anOriental merchandise importing firm had beenstricken down with a severe fever, and death hadfollowed quickly. The man had been attended,toward the clos(», by one of the prominent phy-sicians, who liad, without hesitation, pronouncedthe case to be a clear one of plague. The phy-sician, moreover, had expressed it as his opinionthat a number of sudden deaths which had oc-curred a short time prior to that, under suspi-cious circumstances, may have been due to thesame dread disease. The council of state and board of health wereconvened; a guard, to keep the curious Chineseaway from the body of their deceased

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