Word: kalakaua
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Married. David Kalakaua Kawamanakoa, second cousin of Hawaii's last male ruler, King Kalakaua, son of Princess David Kawamanakoa, Republican National Committeewoman; to Eileen Hutchins, student at the University of Hawaii, daughter of Captain Charles T. Hutchins, U.S.N.; in Honolulu...
...educated at Oahu College, and then went to Williams College. He received his law training in Boston and returned again to the Islands, but still the great 200, 300, 400 Ib. monarchs, begarlanded, strutted on their way ?an illustrious dynasty, Kamehameha III, Kamehameha IV, Kamehameha V, Lunalilo, Kalakaua. A Mormon colony settled there; an adventurer came up from Sumatra, Walter Murray Gibson, and became Minister; prohobition was abolished; Chinese settlers came, Spaniards, Japanese, Portuguese. A lottery was chartered, medicine men and opium venders were licensed...
...long-suffering people revolted and King Kalakaua granted the insurgents what was known as the "Bayonet Constitution." It came about at that time that Sanford B. Dole, who had been working with the reform party in the legislature, was made Judge of the Hawaiian Supreme Court. In 1890 the King died in California and his sister, Mrs. Lydia Dominis (styled Liliuokalani), the regent, was crowned. She soon showed herself reactionary. Another revolt was led by the "sons of the missionaries." The Queen was forced to abdicate. Sanford B. Dole was declared President of the Republic of Hawaii pending annexation...
...principal naval powers of the world will send war ships to Honolulu. at the coronation of King Kalakaua. It is rumored that a revolution may result from his again assuming power in the islands...