The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-08-25
LATE FOREIGN NEWS
Per Consuelo," From San
Francisco.

COAST.
The will of the late Frank Stewart, the Stockton
grain merchant, was filed yesterday in the Supe-
rior Court of San Joaquin county.
A Chinaman was killed on Thursday night at
Minturn Station, Fresno county.
At MADEIRA, Fresno county, Robert McHenry, a
sheep herder. committed suicide by taking poison.
James Van, who killed one Anglen at Charles
ton. A. T.. has been discharged, on the ground
that he acted in self-defense.
Constable Jones of Rio Vista, who shot and
killed a fisherman, has been exonerated by a
Coroner's jury.
James r. Page was hanged at Placerville yester-
day.
One Tarbell and Others, at Phoenix, A. t., have
been held to answer for an attempt to steal a guam
tity of Government barley from General Crooks
camp. Further frauds of that character are being
investiga ted at Fort Huachaca.
A social scandal affecting residents VI San Fran
cisco comes from Eureka, New, being published by
the Sentinel.
A Knight Templar in Salt Lake is out about
81, 900 by carelessly leaving his poeketbook where
some one got it.
At Frisco. Utah, yesterday, Charles Morrison
was shot and wounded by Haines.
A storm at Frisco, Utah, yesterday, did great
damage.
There are fears of an outbreak at the Ouray Re =
ervation.
The Eureka New Typographical Union has
passed resolutions of sympathy for the printers
locked out from the San Francisco Call and
Bulletin.
One of the suspended indianapolis Banks has
resumed. The other still keeps its doors closed.
The Vanderbilt railroad system is 20 be extended
from st. Louis to Omaha.
Forty children have been taken to the country
for a two-weeks' stay by the New York Tribune
Fresh Air Fund.
An Omaha man died yesterday from d sting in
Aicted by a spider.
The Iron and Steel Workers Convention is still
in session at Philadelphia.
The epidemic at Milton Junction, Ia. is sub
siding.
As regards the situation of the striking tele-
graphers, it is stated that the wires were again cut
en- one of the Northern lines. 1t is also reported
that an agreement is being made with the Balti-
more and Ohio Company. Many of the railroad
operators have struck.
Crop reports of wheat, cotton, and barley are
not quite so favorable as expected.
The smallpox prevails in Alaska county, Min
nesota.
Arthur and his party are now enjoying the de-
lights Of mountain travel.
The railroads from all quarters of the United
SNotNS NAN oNAS0obAShS vi AOA1
plar, bound for the Conclave, to be held in this
city.
Duke, who killed Captain Mutt, after defaming
the ~latter's daughter, and was afterWard killed,
has left q document which gives an account of the
trouble.
A great oil excitement prevails in the vicinity
of Rich Hill, Missouri.
The reunion on the battlefield of Wilson's
Greek, Missouri, commenced yesterday. The for
mer wearers of the blue and te gray fraternized
with the kindliest feelings.
A boxing match between John l.. Sullivan and
Herbert A. Slade, came off at Madison Square
Gardens, New York city, August 9th. Slade was
knocked out in three rounds.
Keller, the pilot of one of the steamers which
came into collision on the Ohio, in which so
many lives were lost, was tried in the United
States Court but the jury disagreed. The trial
occupied a month.
The Canadian Government, has, it is alleged,
precise information that all attempt is to be made
to injure the Welland Canal by dynamiters.
A colossal system of emigration from the Uni
ted Kingdom to the Colonies is being discussed
in London.
The health of British troops in Egypt is bet
ter.
Revolts more or less serious are breaking out
in various portions of Spain and the country is
in a critical condition.
The number of daily victims carried off by the
cholera in Egypt is slightly decreasing,
Serious riots broke out in Vienna yesterday.
In Alexandria the natives got up a cry that the
English doctors were poisoning them. A riot
followed which had to be suppressed by force.
The French complain that the Chinese are al
lowed to buy arms in America.
At Ekateriposlave in q collision between a
moi and the troops. one hundred persons were
killed.
Spain complains that France is not interested
in the result of the revolts in the peni nsula.