The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-04-21

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aP't UU0ii'tou Id sketches of
battle. s
Russia continues hesES - O
military preparations wie en- t
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Admiral Shestakof has oissh. =, /
and the Black seas. Y 70
Torpedoes have just been sunk J.
the canal binding st. Petersburg wiz
the sea. Cronstadt, st. Petersburg
and the palace at Krasnoe-Selo are
now connected by telephone, so that
the Gear will be informed of every
movement in case of attack by the
English feet. The Russian fleet has
been in thorough state of readiness
since the I'd of April.
Komaroff's brother, editor of the
Russian journal SVet, announces that
Russia intends to send 100000 men to
Herat as 5000 as the English advance
to Pischin.
The Journal de 81. Petersburg,
speaking evidently by official inspira-
ton, says the comments upon the re-
cent Government utterances in tbs
British Parliament upon the Penjdeh
| incident are premature. 1t also says
it thinks it would be preferable for
| the English members to have sus-
| pended judgment until the receipt of
more complete information. They
should have acted on the suppositiOn
that it was unlikely that Russian
Generals, acquainted with the inten-
tons of the Russian Government.
should have acted without good rea-
son. They should have borne in
mind that collisions such as that
| which occurred on the Kushk river
are always possible in the presence
of the violent and uudisciplined
Asiatic population. "The Penjdeh
Incident" concludes the Journal,
"was certainly an untOward event,
because it may adversely affect the
negotiations pending between Russia
and England, which still justify
hope for peace"
| War Between Mexico amt Guatemala
| Probable,
/ President Diaz Is collecting u large
| army at the City of Mexico for ser
vice against Guatemala. Twelve
thousand troops had arrived on April
18th, and a grand review will be held
by Diaz OF May 9th, preparatory to
| sending the army TO the southern
frontier }Pena will probably be in
command of one column. 1t is stated
that General MOnastereo has been
ordered to Acapulco to take charge of
| Mexican gunbOat at that port.
Eight thousand more rifles were sent
to the frontier, in the State Of Chiapas,
on "Wednesday.
Guatemala is said to be making ex-
tensive preparations to OverwhelA
San Salvador and Nicaragua, and
news of a decisive conflict, which it
is supposed has recently taken place.
since the death of President Barrios,
is looked for daily and even hourly.
The Successor of BarriOs.
News has been received that the
Congress of Guatemala merely de-
clared General Manuel LizandrO Bar
rillos Provisional President until a
general election can be held. Bar
rillos was an intimate friend of the
late President, Barrios, and for many
years they were partners in business
matters. 1t is believed that he will
endeavor to carry out the policy of
his late ambitious partner. General
Barrundier, Minister of War of the
deceased dictator, continues to act in
the same capacity to President Bar
rillos, and is pushing war prepare
tions with the greatest speed and
energy. He is supplying arms to all
who ask for them. The country is in
a great fever of excitement over the
tragic death of Barrios and his son.
The resolve to avenge BarriOs has be-
come a national cry, and all late in
formation from Guatemala indicates
that the people will make most de-
termined struggle to carry out the
| purposes of Barrios and unity Central
| America.
General Grants Condition.
The San Francisco Chronicle of the
18th April states General Grants
condition seems to be worse than it
was in one respect-his inability to
endure the pain of his disease with
out the liberal use of opiates. There
can be no such thing as even tempo
rary recovery when the system has
come to depend SO completely upon
anodynes, which kill pain and soothe
the nerves, only to render the patient
a slave to their use. Despite what
sanguine observers say, the convic-
ton is forced upon one that the Gen
eral cannot last many days longer,
and that death will be a relief to his
long suffering, which even his stOicism
will welcome after his long endur-
ance of an incurable disease"
An Order tor Fast Cruisers.
| PHILADELPHIA, April 11th.- An
order for six fast iron cruisers of the
| Esmeralda pattern was received in