The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-09-02
LATER EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN
NEWS.

By the barkentine Mary Winkleman,
Captain Backus, we have California dates |
Of August 18th, with two days. later dis I
patches from Europe.
St. Louis advices of the 18th state that
the body of Preller, murdered by Max |
well, had been exhumed for Identified
ton. The remains, which were en-
balmed before burial, were in excellent
looking better than when
The trial of Maxwell will take
place in October. The father and
brother of Preller deny the insurance
story and use of a medical subject to
cheat the insurance companies. The
deceased was in no pecuniary straits,
and had only one policy of $1,000 on his
life inEthe General Accident Insurance OF
London. He would have made more
than that upon the journey he was en-
gagged on He was only a steamer &C
ouaintance of Maxwell's, drawn to him
by his love of music.
At New Orleans on the 18th, Harry
Malten, an opera singer, walked on the
stage and cowhided the prima donna,
Miss Lizzie ST. Quentin. She was sing
ing at the time He struck her several
blows on the shoulder before the audi
ence, and followed her behind the scenes
and continued the castigation. He is
said to have been drunk. He blamed
the prima donna for cutting out a scene
in the T'Chimes of Normandy in which
he was to sing.
The American Irish National Conven-
ton has been postponed till January
next, at the suggestion of Mr.. Parnell.
This is after the general elections in
England, when it. is expected that Par
nell and several of his ieutenants will
be present. Agitation in the meantime
has been resolved upon. The objective
point is the restoration of Irish Parlia-
mentary independence.
The Grant Monument Fund amounts
to $4O,O 900, and the New York Evening
POST is at loss to account for the slow
way in which money is coming in.
The first edition of the personal
memoirs of General Grant will reach
200, 900 copies 1t will be published
in French, German, Spanish and
Italian. The General wrote the entire OF
the first volume and dictated the second.
Lord Chief Justice Coleridge was pri-
vately married at the brides house, Il
Victoria road, Kensington, London, tc
! Miss Amy Augusta Jackson Lawford
aged 80, an English lady and steamer
acquaintance The aged jurist did al
! his ove-making on the steamer between
| New York and London, on board which
| he met the lady. He wanted to droI
the acquaintance in London, but being
offered the alternative of breach o.
promise case or marriage by the lady's
mother, he chose the latter.
A seizure of tobacco and cigars is re-
ported at Hull, England. The contra
! band was concealed in followed beams
! of wood.
English statesmen and politicians are
enjoying their holidays in the country.
campaign.
The California State Board of Equal
ization has fixed the value of all the
railroads in the State at $49, O35, 75O
At MERGED, California, the thermom-
eter registered III in the shade on
August 18th. A thunder storm, accom-
panied by rain, took place in the after
noon.
Four hundred and seventy-fve thous-
and dollars railroad taxes in California is
going abegging. The railroads paid a
check for that amount to the Attorney
General to compromise the tax suits
the Controller General refused to accept
the money; the Courts enjoined the
railroads from recovering possession, and
now Mr.. Attorney General Marshall
says he might carry off the coin at any
time he pleased, as no one is in position
to dispute ownership.
The tea route of the future will be by
way of Tacoma, w. T., and the Northern
Pacific railroad. The distance between
China and Tacoma is seven hundred
miles shorter than from China to San
Francisco. Teas are being carried on
the new route by sailing vessels at half
the steamer freight.
The United States troops will be used
to drive the cattle men out of Indian
Territory. General Miles is in command.
The "cattle barons'' have grabbed
4,O00,0 900 acres of the territory, leaving
the Indian owners in their track only
100000 acres. The Government at
Washington is determined to put down
these fraudulent usurpations of land.
Mr.. Teller, Republican Secretary of the
Interior, was in the cattle ring; so were
several prominent Democratic Senators
and politicians. But the plot has been
burst wide open by the Democratic
Administration, thus averting an Indian
war.
Civil war has broken out at Khar-
toum, the Treasury has been sacked,
and the Mahdi's successor and other
officials have been killed.
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