The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-08-04
FOREIGN NEWS.
Is DYING.

IN LONDON a man cook Tor q dHHSI parry
charges two guineas-
The approach of peace in Peru, laggard IS 1t
is, is being hailed with delight.
Another tale of shocking barbarities p~racticed
on the Jews comes from Russia.
Syracuse negro has sued two white men for
alternating the affections vi his wife.
The Queen Of Italy eats under the eye Of &
doctor, who tells her what not to eat.
The Russian gold mines last year produced
$50, 500, 900 worth of the precious ore.
Severe storms have passed over portions Of
the Eastern States, i~nficting much damage.
Near Reno a freight train broke in two, the
sections afterward colIiding. Several persons
were injured.
A great Bd-isstructive series of cyclones
PzSsgd along the Missouri river doing much
damage.
Paris paper is Offering. not chromOs, but in
surance policies to getters up Of clubs Of sub
scribers.
The Empress Of Germany has given 1000
marks for the relief Of sufferers by the overflow
in Silesia.
The brigands calling themselves followers of
horrible excuses.
Archie Ragland near San Buenaventura, was
caught in a threshing machine, and died from
the injuries received.
The Central Pacific Railroad Company has
been sued for s35. 900 damages for charging ez-
orbitaEt rates on freight.
A symmetrical specimen Of the Eucalyptus
Amydaeina 43O feet high was lately discovered
in Victoria, Australia.
A loss Of over 5000, 900 aorins was incurred
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dock yard and o man-of-war.
Important strategic points in Eastern Germa-
ny are being strongly fortified to form a barrier
against a Russian march on Berlin.
Intelligence has been received of the loss Of
the bark Pampoe, bound 10 Fayal from Boston.
A number Of lives were lost.
Gladstone's agreement with De Lesseps re-
specting the second Suez canal is c~ondemned
without stint throughout England.
The steamship Niagara, of the New York and
Cuba line, was burned at sea on the 18th. Pas
sengers, crew, mail and treasure saved.
The residence Of the late Cornelius J. Wander
bilt at Hartford, which cost 1926, 900, was sold
at auction a few days ago, for S1O,3OO. to W. H..
SPooner.
Advices recently received from Kimberley,
South Africa, state that a mining company of
Dutoitspan has found a yellow diamond weigh
ing 273Z carats.
Putney bridge, near London, the last and per-
haps most picturesque of the quaint timber struc-
lures that used to bridge the Thames in many
places, is 20 be demolished.
The Duke of Connaught has become Colonel
Of the Scots Greys. He will not, however, pro-
coed to India with the regiment.
There are grave fears in Canada Of a financial
crisis, arising from undue expansion and lavish
railroad building during the past two years.
The detectives have exhumed at Imehiggaggin
Ireland, 200 dynamite cartridges, part of the
proceeds Of the dynamite robbery in Cork two
years ago.
According to advices from Beherea, Egypt, the
cattle plague has ended with the death of all the
cattle in that district. The cotton worm is now
great damage there.
Provisions have given out at Damietta, and the
people are starving. \ number of European
made an attempt to break the
Gordon around the town, and several were
At Austin, New. Frank Kessel, aged thirteen
years, while on horseback, was caught under the
chin by q clothesline, and SO thrown that his
head struck upon a stump. He died in a few
minutes.
In the absence Of her husband, a druggist
Of Cambria, San Luis Obispo county, Mrs. Max
Fisher suddenly became violently insane and
killed her eight months old baby by strangling
it with a cord.
At the Sligo assizes Rogerson, Tanzy, Kelly
aud Houshtou, implicated in the murder con-
have been found guilty. Informers
stated that they were to receive $500 to blow up
the Weston House at Galway.
Hidden away in various boxes aud closets in
John Browns room in Windsor Castle have been
considerable sums of money. 1t now ap-
pears that he sold large quantities of plate and
given him by royal guests.
-Four hundred citizens of Nashville have been
examined as jurors in the Polk embezzlement
case. and only three have been accepted. 1t is
believed that two thousand men will have to be
summoned before a jury is obtained.
The Amity House in McMinnvfIIe, YamhiII
and a brick dwelling opposite, were
totally destroyed by FIRE to-day at eleven o'clock.
Loss, $500; partially insured. 1t is known to
have been the work Of ONE incendiary.
The royal family is much vexed at the failure
Of the marriage of a deceased wife's sister bill,
which puts the intended marriage of Princess
to her widowed brother-inlaw as far off
as ever, that project being said to explain the
warm advocacy of the bill by the Prince of
Wales and his brother.
Hurricane IN WiscOnsin-Four men killed by
q boiler explosion at Huntsville, Texas-Death
of Archbishop Purcell of Cincinnati-The state
debt of Iowa paid in ull-Failure OF a Chicago
provision house-Yellow fever at Pensacola
Strike OF 10, 900 iron workers in StaffordshIre,
England-Hotel burned az sprague W. T.-Dis-
astrous storm in New England-Flour mill
burned at Dalles City. Or.-Serious accident in
4 stone quarry at Joliet. Illinois; several persons