The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-03-10
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Retreat Of British Forces in
the Soudan -Goldstream
Guards in Egypt.
THE RESERVES ORDERED OUT.
Defeat of the Vote of Censure
Against Gladstone.
THE HOUSE OF LORDS CONDEMN
THE MINISTRY.
Disquieting News From
Central Asia.
ITALY TO SEND AN ARMY
CORPS TO SOUDAN.
Strained Relations Between Eng.
land, France and Russia.
DEATH OF GORDON AND STEWART.
Dynamiters' Convention Fires, Ship
wrecks, Railway Accidents
A Disabled TrOOp-ship.
VoFTDT IN mYnN M n0pOONIc DTcp ATnpNQ
Death OF GORDON AND STEWART.
Dynamiters' Convention Fires, Ship
wrecks, Railway Accidents
A Disabled TrOOp-ship.
PUBLICATION OF GORDON's DISPATCHES.
The Pacific Mail Subsidy Passed - COntinus'
tion Of the Sharon Mclaughlin In
Honslulu-Dsath Of ]. o. Eldridgs.-
Patti Opera Season.
February ISLn.

The mining town of Bisbee, A. l.. ha9
been totally destroyed by fire.-Lake Mich
igan is entirely frozen over The Aurora
Watch Company of Chicago is alleged to
have been swindled out of $500, 900 by
Maurice Wendell, its Secretary and Treas
urer.-General Stewart is not expected to
recover from the effects of his wound
The Committee on Naval Affairs reports
that the charges that DIR. Collins of the
Jeanette expedition was inhumanly treat
ed are not sustained.-Three men were Sc
nously injured by a powder explosion at
Gibraltar Wallace Ross, oarsman, will
soon open liquor saloon in New York
Queen Victoria is better, but remains in
doors The sales of real estate in New
York last week aggregated upwards OF ST.
OOO, 900 In fifty parcels. This Is about $780,
900 in excess of the total sold during the
corresponding six days of last year Dur
ing q performance at the Haymarket Thea
ter, London, the scenery caught fire, al
most causing a panic. The fire was soon
0uenched and the nIav nrNoNsd"d
The Mahdi did not enter Knaltoum until
three days after its fall. He inspected the
place and returned to OmdurnaD, where he
remains. After Gordon fell the Arabs kill
ed his clerk and nine others with spears.
The rest of the garrison escaped. with
the exception of this attack there vas no
ARhtinR at Khartoum. All the Europeans
and most of the notab!cs T.. XII; d. The
inhabitants joined the RIB Is. n ''o:n Il or
children were killed. All who submitted
gave I'D their valuables and were allowed
to depart unframed. 1t Is reported that
the Mahdi hanged Pasha Furego. The
rebels plundered the town and killed all the
Greeks in the arsenal All the prisoners
were freed except the italian Consul, Nj
cola, and the doctor. The Mahdi, has
1000 good fighting men, who, however,
have been frightened by the result Of the
battles at Abou Klea, Gubat and habbab-
ish The sheiks report much sickness and
disaffection among the Mahdps troops, who
are tired of war and desire English protec-
ton. The natives respond slowly to the
Mahdi's levies 1t is reported that Lord
WolseIey lately received a long communica-
lion of nearly 1000 words from Gordon,
and not of such a nature as made the au-
Shorities desire its publication. Another
account of Gordon's death says that he
rushed toward the magazine, intending to
explode it, and thus prevent the ammunl-
ton, of which there was several tons, from
falling into the hands of the enemy. The
Arabs quickly realized his intention and
shot him dead. Dispatches from Kort
state that the Arabs are deserving from
Nstemneh In large numbers and entering
the British camp at Gubat.
February 10th.
The railway loss, by the late storms in
khs East, is estimated at from two to three
million dollsrs.-John Chaffee's Sons, cot
ton factors of New Orleans, are embarrass'
ed and have asked for an extension of two
or three years to make their payments
TIE propeller Michigan has been locked IN
the ice which was crossed by seventeen 1T
hAR cHsw Who Tsacsed S2pLn aaven n1Hn.
RcAsEGa6BfE SUGhAs
III. G. Blake was appointed referee, by
consent in the Sharon case, to determine
the common property involved.
at the assembling of Parliament, defended
the policy ef the Government regarding the
Soudan Snd disclaimed responsibility for
GordUn's death. "A revolt of Russian exiles
at Irkutsk was quelled after 80 persons had
been kilIed.-Jesse D. Carr wants to be
Collector of the port of San Francisco -
The silver men in the House claim to be
strong enough to prevent the suspension of
silver coinage.-Ben Butler is said to be
drifting into dotage.-The bark Minnie
Gray,n from Wilmington for London, was
wrecked; the captain and crew were saved.
A railway collision occurred near Alex
andria on the Virginia Midland line; two
engineers, a conductor and fireman were
killed and 80 cars loaded with petroleum
were burned.-An extensive fire occurred
on Chestnut street, Philadelphia; the loss
of $3.50, 900 falls upon 20 business firms
The Chinese are exasperated over the treat
ment by the French of Chinese prisoners at
KeIung. The feeling of the Chinese is ex-
tended to the English for allowing Hong
kong to be used as base of such opera
tions.-The strike of the i.0nworkrrs in
San Francisco has ended, the men return
ing to work at their old rate of wages
The wife of James Russell Lowell died and
was buried in London.-The Ministry will
introduce bill in the House of Lords to