Unluckily for the conspirators, their first capture was that of some whiskey, and inspired by this they began celebrating their victory in advance.  Yelling and shooting on Sunday afternoon alarmed the authorities and suspicion of something wrong was aroused.  An attempt to search a suspected house for arms led to a fight in which one man was killed and others wounded.  News of the insurrection were taken to the church and whispered to the members of the National Guard and the government, who slipped quietly out.  The pastor, oblivious to this circumstance, went on with his sermon, but uneasiness arose in the congregation, and when at last the clatter of cavalry and the roll of artillery were heard passing the church all order was at an end.  The worshippers rushed into the street in a mass, the preacher following.  Within ten minutes a state of peace had been changed into one of war.

The most intense excitement prevailed.  No one knew anything of the numbers or location of the enemy.  They were at length found, in large force, in the hollow basin or crater of Diamond Head, so strongly posted that they could not be dislodged from the side of the land.  A tug was therefore sent, with a howitzer, to shell them from the sea, while a fierce land attack was kept up, and before night on Monday they were driven out of their stronghold and in full flight.

Another fight took place at Punchbowl Hill, in the rear of Honolulu, lasting an hour, though with little loss.  Tuesday was spent in searching for the enemy and on Wednesday another sharp fight took place, they being again defeated.  Before the end of the week the affair was at an end, and the ex-queen arrested as one of the conspirators.  Her premises were found to be a regular magazine of arms and artillery.

Lilioukalani now found Hawaii too hot to hold her and sought a new home in the United States, and the republic went on peaceably until 1898, when, the war with Spain then being in progress and a new President in the chair, a new and successful effort for its annexation was made.  The bill for its admission was signed by President McKinley on July 7, and the Hawaiian group became an outlying possession of the United States.  It was made an American Territory in 1900.

Theend.