The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-02-25
A BUDGET OF INTERESTING NEWS FROM
THE UNITED STATES.

The S. 5. Alameda, Captain Morse,
a arrived in harbor yesterday, after one
of her usually quick passages from
S an Francisco, bringing us our usual
budget of news. From our American
exchanges we compile the following
summary:
The passengers and crews OF the
ice boats crossing the NOrthumber-
land Straits, between Prince Edwards
Island and the mainland, had a mar
row escape from freezing to death
early in February. They were forced
to return after suffering great hard
ships oil the ice, and were ultimately
rescued by persons who saw them
from the shore. Several of the suffer
ers will lose the use of their limbs.
There is a deadlock in the Oregon
Legislature on the election of
United States Senator. a similar
state of things will probably happen
in the Illinois Legislature, the two
parties being equally divided.
The Sarosta (Florida) Assassination
Society, having committed several
atrocious murders, will be suppressed
by the authorities. Several of the
gang are in prison charged with muir
der. Unlike most organizations of
the kind its members were drawn
from the leading men in the district.
There were twenty members III all.
One of them, Alfred Bidwell, was
formerly q reputable farmer near AL
bany, New York.
a Dublin dispatch in O'Donovan
Rossa's newspaper, states that $4,000
is the price put upon the head of the
Prince of Wales. His assassin is to
receive that sum of money if he
comes forward to claim it.
An attempt to blow up dry goods
store in New with dynamite was re-
Gently made. Striking clerks are sup
posed to be the perpetrators of the
outrage.
The public debt was reduced by
SO, 42O, 600 last January. Cash in the
United States Treasury on February
1st, $3.50, 341 ,8O4.
Secretary McCulloch has got him
self in hot water owing to his instruc'
lions regarding the terms upon which
Chinese may be admitted. He took
upon himself to nullify the Restric-
ton Act, and has been asked for ar
explanation by the House of Repre-
sentatives, which be has sent in tC
that body. Tt is too late to take &C
ton upon it this session.
The iron workers in the various
| branches Of that trade in San Fran
cisco have struck. Owing to the dull
times the employers reduced wage:
Is per cent all round. The men re-
fused to acquiesce and went out
This strike will seriously affect bust
mess.
Congress has agreed to the Presi
dents suggestion to return the war
ship Alert to Great Britain with The
thanks of the country. The Aler
was employed on the Greeley relic
expedition.
Two negro train Wreckers were re
Gently killed on the San Antonio anc
Harrisburg Railroad, Texas. They
were shot in the act.
There was an unusually heavy fal
of snow in the Western States early
in February, which delayed the mai
two days, and thus prevented the
Australia sailing from San francisco
! for the Colonies before Monday, the
10Th instant.
James D. Egan was shot and killed
at Daggett, in Southern California
| by William Curry, when engaged il
an act of burglary on the latter
premises.
The centennial of the cotton trade
was celebrated at the New Orlean!
Exposition on the 18th of February
One hundred years before, the frs
bale of cotton was shipped from New
Orleans for England.
The Social Labor party held meet
ing in Concordia Hall, New York, Oh
the 18th, and unanimously adopted
resolutions favoring the dynamite
policy for Irishmen.
A special from Boise, Idaho, say!
the Republican newspaper Office wa:
Quilted and sacked on the 18th, and al
attempt made to fire the Democratic
newspaper, the result of bitter politi
cal fight.
a Brownsville, Texas, special says
The bodies of three dead men, Iyins
face downward, were found near Zaca
tecas. They had been shot from am
| bush by unknown murderers.
H. Blood, aged %, was shot anC
killed on the 9th by VIM. McKuan, {
barkeeper, at the Quebec mine, nea
North Bloomfield, Nevada county
| California.
Three men were killed, nine seri
ously inj ured and forty-two hurt by 4;
gas explosion in a coal mine nea
Savanna, Indian Territory, on the Sd o
February. An explosion of natura
gas in Pittsburg on the same night
l entaiIed considerable loss of property