The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-09-07
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A flibustering expedition is said to
have sailed for Cuba from Key West.
Two policemen were found murdered
in the streets of Geneva, Illinois.
A British man-of-war has left here to
occupy Ambo, situated on Tajourah bay,
East Africa. The object is to anticipate
the occupation Of the place by France.
Farquharson, the defaulting manager
of the Munster Bank, has been traced to
Spain. He has written letters to nu-
merous friends in Dublin.
Gladstone states that his cruise to
Norway and his travels through that
country have greatly benefited him in
health. He pronounces Norway admira-
BILE and says it's inhabitants are very
hospitable
The London STANDARD" says several
thousand unemployed workingmen as
sembled at Hackney last evening and
adopted a resolution demanding that the
Government assist them to emigrate.
Irish agricultural statistics show that
there are 100000 acres of land under
crops in Ireland, an increase of 81, 900
over the acreage of 1884 there are 1O,-
250, 900 acres of grass land, a decrease of
100000 acres, while bog, barren and
mountain land has increased 27 900 acres.
The British ship Cilurnum, Captain
Beadle, from Newcastle, England, FOR
San Francisco, has been burned Her
crew is at Pernambuco.
The manufacturing establishment of
S. Nav & Son and of S. Nav, Son &
Thompson, London makers of surgeons
instruments, was burned; loss, $3.50, 900.
-Four hundred men are thrown out of
work
Russia and Turkey.
A dispatch from Constantinople states
that Russia is making overtures for an
alliance with Turkey, and holds out as
an inducement the prospect of Turkeys
recovering possession OF the Balkin
passes and fortresses. The Turkish
Ministers are divided as to the accept
ance of the proposals.
The SpanisE-Germanic Trouble.
+ All Spanish officers, on Through, have
been ordered to return to their regi-
ments. Several large Spanish mercan-
tile houses have been canceling all their
outstanding orders for German goods 1t
is stated that Emperor William of Ger
many, through feeling of sympathy
with King Alfonso, has made a personal
interference in order to obtain a settle
ment of the Caroline Islands affair
avorable to Spain.
A 100000 Libel Suit Against M HI.
De Young.
G.. w Mack has sued M H. De Young
to recover 100000 damages for libel.
The complaint sets forth that on August
20, 1884, the Chronicle" of which the
defendant is proprietor, published
libel against the plaintiff, headed GA
husband in name-the revelations of a
Marin Court. An employer and his hand
marrying another mans mistress and
fathering another's offspring" The article !
contained statement that certain suit
for damages in the Superior Court of
Marin county would make public big
scandal The title of the suit in question
is Christian VS.. Mack. 1t appears that
Christian was an employee of Mack's at
his country house on an island on the
coast of Marin county. At the house
were Mack's wife and children and a
handsome domestic servant Mack and
the servant were on too close terms of
intimacy, the "Chronicle" stated, and
the latter became enceinte. Mack, it is
charged, compelled Christian to marry
her, and six weeks after child was
born. Mack, in the complaint for libel,
denies the whole story.
Rescued from the Ice. :.
The steamer Nova Scotia, which ar
rived at st. John, N. F., on the 18th of |
August, brought Captain Seablossom and |
twenty-one men of the crew of the Amer
lean whaling brig Isabella, which was
lost in the ice on Hudson Strait. The
Isabella sailed from New Bedford May
%, 1884, and entered the ice pack July
18th. She was crushed In the ice on the
goth of the same month, twenty miles
north of North Bluff All of the crew,
twenty-three in number, and a stow
away, were saved. They wandered about
on the ice for four days, suffering in
tensely from the cold, and finally reached
a settlement called Acaher, and remained
there until September 9th, when the
whaler Ezra arrived off the place, and
they were all taken ON board and kindly
cared for. Nwing to the scarcity OF food
on the Ezra, both crews had to be put on
short allowance. While on board the
Ezra one of the Isabella's crew, Swede,
named Francis Pemro, died of scurvy.
The rest of the men are all in good
health.