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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-03-11
Pierce YOung's Rough Experience.
Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle.

Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle.
Gallant southern gentleman who
has secured CONSPICUOUS diplomatic
position in the vicinity of Siberia
wearied of the monotony of his win
ter post. He determined to journey to
Berlin Or Vienna and have jolly
good time. After travelling several
hundred miles he reached the German
frontier, and was halted by a squad Of
Cossacks, whose officer demanded his
passport. Our friend, we'll known to
Capt. Edge Eve and other martial
Georgians, assumed the dignity of his
Office and said: Passport be blessed !
I had to get one to enter your effect
monarchy, but did not know it was
necessary to procure one inside the
land. l have not got passport and
am in hurry, so please stand aside
and let me proceed on my trip I am
consul general, too, ssand don't want
any confounded red tape nonsense. !"
The Cossack officer did not compre
bend a word of what was said but
the suspicious and distinguished look
ing foreigner had no papers required
of him. So the consul was put in
charge of two grim and dirty Cossacks
hustled on train bound due north
pole, and conducted to his reputed
post. Carried to the Russian head
quarters, our luckless consul was aft
er some delay identified, Profuse
apologies were vouchsafed, but moth
ing further was done to make amends
for 1,400 miles of jaunting to no de-
lightful purpose. When the ice breaks
up on the Neva and Russian elders
put on white pantaloons to coax the
reluctant spring, no doubt our dash
ing, cavalier will, properly equipped
antly dart by the Cossack guard on
the Austrian confines, and by the Blue
Danube, in the ravishing capital OF
Franz Joseph's domain, Whirl the yell
low haired Gretchens in the intoxica-
ting waltz to the delirous strains of
Johann Strauss magical music.
"where the viol in the trick tongued
song salutes!n
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-03-11
Getting Even.
Detroit Free Press.

II have just been aching for a
chance to get even with the police,
and it came yesterday" said a young
fellow who was shivering Ia Jeffer-
son avenue hallway yesterday morn
ing.
"How was it,"
well, they've been threatening to
pull me in for vag, and I had my
mind made to get revenge if they did.
[ am no vag, mister. / don't wear
undershirts or overcoats, or 90 to the
barber, and don't always have $50 in
my wallet, but | was born a gentle
man and a scholar. Well, yesterday
an overfed policeman walked up to
me and gave me the collar. He said
I'd hung around SO long that the sight
of me gave him pain"
And you were taken down?"
'Of course. The sergeant aked my
name, age, occupation, birthplace,
and so on; I gave it to him straight.
But [ was laying for him. Pretty soon
he says:
Where was your father born?
II refused TO tell.
''He coaxed and threatened.
Il was firm. He skirnished all
around me for half an hour, but he
didn't get the information, and had to
lock me up without it. I'm going to
lay for 'em today
'How"
why, I'll probably be run in again
and the sergeant will ask me If my
mother is living. I won't tell him.
No, sir; I'll be hung first! When the
police tackle me they get hold of a
chap who will get even, or perish IN
the attempt"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-03-11
The Budding Spring,
New York Sun.

A big, swarthy man, with huge
Mexican sombrero pulled down aslant
over his brown face and limbs incased
IN the gaudy attire of a Mexican cab
alsero, walked into the Nassau street
office of Mr.. W. Irving Snyder, presi-
dent of the Franklin Bowling club, on
Saturday, and offered to sell him a
couple of bronco ponies. The man
with the sombrero said that he had
just brought on a cargo of the broncos
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-03-11

IT claimed that the new process
of electric smelling within the next
five or ten years is destined to revolu-
tionize the brass and bronze trade of
the world, as the Bessemer converter
has the iron and steel industry,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-03-11

Sunlight las been put to odd use at
Brussels. Falling on 8 small shaft
the rays cause an upward draught of
air which sets fan IN motion. and
that 10 turn starts machinery, that
winds clock.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-03-11

That energetic band. the Salvation
Army IN England. has an income of
$500, 600.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-02-22
The Late Mr.. Walton.

We regret exceedingly to learn of the
very sudden death of Mr.. Frank N Walton,
the Secretary of the Hawaiian Commercial
and Sugar Company and the Oceanic Steam
ship Company. Mr.. Walton's official posi-
ton had brought him into contact with the
leading business men of San Francisco and
the Hawaiian Islands, and there is not one
of them that can say he ever received any
but the most courteous and prompt atten-
ton at the hands of the deceased gentleman.
He was an honorable and upright man, a
favorite with all who knew him and de-
servedly respected His loss will be
severely felt by the Spreckels family, who
regarded Frank Walton more as a confdant
then an employee, especially as he was the
first gentleman in their employ whose un-
fortunate death has to be recorded.
Mr. Edward H. Sheldon, who has for
several years past occupied an important
position in the Office of the California Sugar
Refinery, will succeed the late Mr.. Walton.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-02-22
CHINESE EXCLUSION.
FELTON, 90 Prepare a Bin which VIII
Not InJure the China Trade.

The Mitchell bill is exciting considerable
discussion among the Californians in Wash
ington. Congressman FELTON,, who has
studied the question as much as any one
else in the delegation, says that the Nit
chell bill would destroy all communication
and trade between the United States and
China. He thinks that this would be an
evil that might very easily be avoided,
without diminishing the force of the strin-
gency of the exclusion clause. He favors
the abrogation of the Burlingame treaty and
then the enactment of a acknowledging
law prohibiting the immigration of Chinese
He favors the adoption of the old CONNER
cial treaty, which would permit Americans
to reside in treaty ports in China and
Chinese to live in certain designated Amer
lean ports, for the purpose of trade only.
He would forbid the Chinese engaging in
any other occupation than that of interna-
tional commerce.
FELTON, has not introduced bill on this
subject because the other members of the
delegation thought it might impair the
prospects of the Morrow bill, but now that
Mitchell has brought forward bill, which
FELTON, thinks has some bad features, he
has determined to embody his ideas in a
bill. The FELTON, bill stands midway be-
tween the Morrow measure, which may be
designated as preferring the present law,
and the Mitchell bill, which cuts off all
trade and practically all communication
between the two countries.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-02-22
February 18th.

The boycott has been formally lifted from
Sisson, Croker & Co. at Truckee.-Anti-
Chinese meetings were held in MERGED,
Los Gatos, Petaluma and other towns
Hugh S. Gowans, Joseph H. Session and
Herbert j. Foulger were convicted of I'M
lawful cohabitation at Salt Lake.-Senator
StanIord's friends say that he would resign
if Republican could be chosen to succeed
him.-The House Committee on Public
Lands agreed to forfeit most of the Northern
Pacific land grant.-The San Francisco
Postoffice bill was reported to the House.
In the Senate Mitchell of Oregon intro
duced stringent Chinese Restriction bill.
Fifty horses were burned to death
in Mullaly's livery stable at st. Louis
The strike of cigar-makers at New York has
virtually ended.-Quiet has been restored
in London.-Captain O'Shea was elected to
Parliament from Galway.-The German
Reichstag has adopted a resolution urging
new inquiry into the currency question.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-02-22
Oysters Enough for Once.

"I never had enough oysters at one
meal excepting on one occasion, remarked
a Denver gentleman, and that was just
after the war at Norfolk, Va. had been a
prisoner at Andersonville, and was one of
the very last to be released. was on my
way North, and you can imagine that
wasn't very rich or very fat. took my
time getting toward the North, and 30 I
stayed around Norfolk for some time wait
ing for health and money enough to pro-
coed on my journey. Two or three times
got pretty hungry on my way to Norfolk,
but I wasn't hungry after got there.
Early the first morning 1 went down to
cents in my pocket, and You know that
oysters are as cheap as mud there. saw
an old darby sitting on the side of an
oyster schooner and nobody else around.
at asked him how many oysters he
would sell me for the dime, and he said I
could have as many as wanted to eat. ]
gave him the money and got on board the
schooner. commenced to eat raw oysters
and throw the shells overheard.
"After a while I ate all the oysters above
the hold, and then l began to dig down
into the hollow part of the vessel. That
made the distance too far for me to throw
the shells overheard, so I just threw them
up on to the deck. was careless about it
though, and threw too many on one side.
and it was the side of the boat furthest
from the wharf, and long about noon the
weight got too much and the schooner cap
sized. Over she went. just as I had got
enough and was thinking it nearly time to
go up town and rustic around for a dinner,
as I'd spent all of my money. I got an
awful ducking, and I never came 80 near
getting drowned in all my life. IS. TO Len.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-02-22
February IItAR.

Several companies of United States
troops have arrived at Seattle. Everything
is quiet there, though the feeling against
the militia who fired on the mob is very
bitter-In the Perkins-Baldwin case some
of the witnesses for the defense made a
poor showing on discrimination Sena-
tor Dolph has introduced a bill permitting
victims of Indian wars to bring suit for
damages in the Court of Claims-Christo-
pher Franks has been nominated to be
United States Marshal for California Sec
rotary Lamar has postponed the hearing of
the Pacific Mail subsidy case until February
26th.-Steinitz again defeated Zukertort at
st. Louis Another match has been ar
ranged between Schaefer and Vignaux.-
The steamer Cambridge has been wrecked
off the Maine coast.-W. E. Forster, ex-
Chief Secretary for IIeland,i is seriously ILL.,
Servia has decided to purchase more arms
and ammunition-The Americans on the
island of Foehr have again been ordered to
leave.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-02-22
February I0GIl.

Troops have been ordered from VAN
couver to Seattle on account of the Chinese
riot.-The Chinese have to leave Santa
Rosa by March 1st;g 5JJ5b6, 600 for the pur-
the bill apr; Site for r a postoffice in San
cnnaaSSeelsco; also bill appropriating $780,
600 for custom house at Portland, Or
Senator Stanford made his first speech in
the Senate on the San Francisco postoffice
bill in reply to Riddleberger's objections
Lewis l.. Macarthur has been nominated to
be United States Attorney for the district of
Oregon. -Commissioner Sparks has appro-
priated ST, 500 for public surveys in Cali
fornia.--General j. G. Rowley died at Chi
cago.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-02-22
THE EUROPEAN TROUBLE.
greece and servIa stiII Spelling for n
Fight.

The cool and evasive reply of Servia to
the joint note of the Powers requesting her
to disarm, in which she simply acknowledged
the receipt of the note and said that she
would think about it, is explained by the
statement that just before sending the reply
Servia had received from Greece conf
Dental telegram of an important character.
It is surmised that Greece offered to join
Servia in resisting the demand to disarm,
as it is known that previous to the receipt
of the dispatch Servia had drafted adGse-
very different from the curt note 81
quently sent. .ustone's advice
Greece declines eYeFeason for suspecting
to discern. Therare not wholly united on
that the P2Ye'Russia has refused to take
tAfvan tile naval demonstration, and the
German ironclads are ordered to remain at
Malta.
A revolution is fomenting in Turkish
Armenia. The jails in the city OF Van are
fIIed with political prisoners and an extra
ordinary number of arrests are made every
day.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-02-22
February 9th.

A reward of $500 has been offered and
active efforts are being made at Salt Lake
City to secure the arrest of George Q.
Cannon for illegal cohabitation with a
number of wives" = The Chinese at
Windsor, Sonoma county, have agreed to
leave the place within ten days.-Henley
introduced a bill providing that settler
may have $40 acres of desert land, pro-
vided he irrigates and cultivates 1.-THE
striking coke-workers engaged in serious
riot near Bradford, Pa.-A railroad train
ran off the track in st. Louis and did con-
siderable damage to houses along the side
of the track.-Bismarck says that he has
no personal feelings against the Poles, but
that Prussia must be German.-The chess
game between Zukertort and Steinitz, OF
st. Louis, was draw.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-02-22
FOREIGN NEWS.
A Serious Chinese Riot
in Seattle.
DEATH OF HANCOCK.
The Grecian Trouble
Still Unsettled.
JAPANESE JoTTINcs.

The Outs, the Ins and the Irish.
Lord Salisbury and the other members of
the retiring Ministry were hooted at Ports
mouth while returning from Osborne,
whittier they had gone to deliver the seals
of Office to the Queen.
The two most popular appointments IN
the new British Government are Sir Farrer
HerscheI, Lord High Chancellor, and Lord
Roseberry, Foreign Secretary. The dlstrl-
button of the other offices Is almost eccen-
trie. Sir William Harcourt has his appren-
ticeship to finance to serve, while framing
a stupendous budget. Lord Rlpon Is
without experience in the Admiralty. Lord
Granville, as Colonial Secretary, reylves
the traditions of the neglect and alienation
of the colonies. Lord Kimberley Is not
more than respectable Secretary for India,
though familiar with the office. Ch1lders,
it is hoped, may make a passable Home
Secretary. Campbell Bannerman owes his
promotion to the War Office to the dearth
of Ministers of the first rank, but gave
evidence of sterling qualities while Irlsh
Secretary. Mundella las earned the Presl-
dency of the Board of Trade by hard and
good work. Altogether, the Cabinet, though
able, is a makeshift. It could not be other
wise when so many Liberal leaders hold
aloof. Lord Harrington and his friends
will support the Government where 1T Is
possible to do SO, but nobody ventures to
predict the result of a test vote IN the
present House on home rule.
The Parnellites express hope rather than
confidence. They will do what they can to
strengthen the Ministry by discouragng
outrages in Ireland and by moderate courses
in Parliament. The Liberal press in Eng
land discusses the whole -sA SUBJECT with ex-
treme osl5tiSSsSI Gladstone himself is IN the
highest spirits and full of confidence.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-02-22
THE dixie SCANDAL.
Disappearance OF the witnesses for
Crawford.

Sir Charles Dilke's friends are boastlng
that the Crawford divorce case, in which Sir
Charles is correspondent, will collapse when
it is called up for trial. Several OF the
most important witnesses upon whom MI.
Crawford relied to prove haison between
Mrs. Crawford and Dixie have mysterlously
dicanneared Aa most of these witnesses
were domestics, their voluntary exile cannot
have cost 1nuch cash, Mrs. Crawford her
self is very i'll. A number of unsigned
letters in the handwriting of Mrs. Crawford
and very strongly worded will be produced
TO show that she several times confessed
her misstep while laboring under remorse
produced by her shame at the discovery.
The defense will insist that these writings
were made by the lady while suffering from
hysteria.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-02-22

The appointment of MIR. Broadhurst as
Under Home Secretary has caused sensa-
ton in English political circles, that gentle
man being the first workingman that has
ever risen to the Ministry. The appoint
ment is taken as an indication that it is
Mr.. GIadstone's intention to rely upon the
masses against the influence. of the aris-
tocracv. The Liberal clubs are divided in
opinion on the subject, the Reform and
Devonshire disappearing of the appoint
ment and the National Liberal enthusias-
ticaIly approving. The hostility of the
Wings to Mr.. Gladstone IS intense. This
is shown in the difficulty experienced by
the Premier in filling the peeresses' posts
in the Queens household. The duchesses
of Bedford and Westminster have refused
appointments, and others will follow their
example.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-02-22
THE LONDON RIOT.
A Mob of 10000 Men Hold Possession
of the City for SIX Hours.

Colonel Henderson, head of the Metro
politan Police Force, has been In confer
ence with Childers, Home Secretary, In
relation to the riots. The various social
istic and labor reform societies threaten to
have a monster demonstration at Hyde
Park. to be attended by contingents of
laborers from the country. A mob assem-
bled at Deptford and marched five miles to
Southwick, where it finally dispersed. This
mob, on its way toward the Thames, swung
through Kent road and Newington cause
way They sacked several small shops
along the way They stopped at the man.
moth establishment of VIM. Tarn & Co.
This establishment covers the ground from
and including 5 to 81 ON Kent road and loo
to 173 on Newington causeway, and Is de-
voted to the trade in linen, silk, mems and
women's clothes, boots and shoes, carpets,
ironware, bedding, furniture, etc. The
building was under police protection, but
the mob overrun the officers, sacked the
store, and when they retired left the build
ing badly wrecked A crowd that num-
bered many thousands gathered In Cumber-
land Market. The lowest criminal classes
of London were represented by a strong
contingent, intent upon harassing and IN
sulting the police. Hyndman Williams and
other socialist leaders appeared and were
greeted with uproarious shouts Of welcome.
As the crowd slowly dispersed cheering for
the socialist leaders the disordeEly clement
again manifested itself. The police were
jeered at and stoned, but easily drove their
assailants from the ground. Three regl-
ments of the foot guards, two of cavalry
and battery of artillery were confined IN
their barracks all day in readiness to rally
at a moments notice. The scare is with
out parallel in the history of London.
Tens of thousands of desperate men were
gathered in the streets, and only needed
some one more reckless than themselves ia
lead them to commit the widest excuses.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-02-22
Japan.


His Majesty, the Mikado, has accepted
the resignation of Prince Sanjo Sanetomi,
President of the Court Council, who has
been allowed an annual pension of 5000
ven for lifes Sanjo Sanetomi occupied the
office of the Baijo Daijin for eighteen years,
and was founder of the Government after
the restoration. A revision of the press
law now in force is expected to be effected
shortly. In the present law the writer OF
any defamatory note or article In news
paper is punished, no matter whether his
note or article is founded on fact or not;
but in the expected revision he will be made
punishable only when he cannot prove the
truth of what he published. A new Office,
to be entitled the Emigration Bureau, will
be established af sRR ARe SEAT 81 the office
VIII be at Hakodate. The telegraph au-
thorities allow females to be employed at
the offices as operators. Experiments were
made with a submarine boat newly COM
pleted at Yokosuka. The boat is capable
of running at speed of 100 yards minute
under water at depth of four feet from
the surface. Lieutenant Ikebata has made
machine gun on q modification of the
Krupp and Armstrong guns with success.
On trial made Of the new gun it was
found that the range was very great and
the utmost precision could be secured.
According to a recent return of the Finance
Department the total amount of currency
in circulation on the 31st of December last
was SO, 345, 096 yen, showing a decrease of
5,035, 1877 yen compared with the amount
on the corresponding date of the previous
year.-Shinagawa was the scene of large
conhagration on January 7th. A strong
wind was blowing at the time of the out
break and the flames spread with alarming
rapidity. The fire was not subdued before
over three hundred houses had been con-
sumed.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-02-22
senator NTtTIer,s Sickness.

DR.. Pope made the statement that the
complication of maladies which affiict Sena-
tor Miller will, in the end, prove fatal. His
death may be deferred six months; he may
vet be able to ride out on a bright day; it
is quite possible that he may be helped into
the Senate, where hemay occupy his chair,
but his getting well or recovering strength
to perform the duties of his office, is out of
the question. A surgical operation was per-
formed on Senator Miller, by which three
quarts of water were drawn from the cavity
of the pleura. This water had oppressed
his breathing, and since its removal his
breath comes easier, but the operation will
afford only temporary relief.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-02-22
February. sth.

Richard Robert MAIDEN, the English auth
or is dead. - Earl Dufferin received an
ovation at Rangoon, especially from the
natives, who are grateful for Lady Duffer-
in,s efforts In behalf of the native women
= Sylvester Sans, who was bitten by a
rattlesnake near Jasper, Ga, two years ago:
has developed symptoms of rabies, except
that he makes rafting sound instead OF
barking. = About 200, 900 cattle We're lost
in the Texas panhandle country during the
recent storm. = Two of the leaders of the
Carthagena revolution will be executed, and
one will get ten years. imprisonment c. ca
John Gibbs, prominent merchant Oh OF.
Jobns n. F.. has fled after committing
several forgeries. - Chairman O'Nel, OF
the House Committee on Labor, is heartlly
in favor of excluding all Chinese and of put
ting an end to their competition with white
labor. - Ex-Minister John M. Francis
thinks American trade with AustrO-Hungary
in petroleum and other articles is threatened
by the Kelley episode.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-02-22
The FirhtIng Fever.

The following telegram was sent in ans
wer to John L. Sullivan's ultimatum to
Paddy Ryan:
{" To John L. SuHiUan, BoSton-H tele-
graphic report of your final challenge to
me this day is correct, will meet you in
private, with gloves, for $250O, time,
place and referee to be agreed upon here
after. PADDY RYAN,
Ryan's reply to Sullivan's challenge was
sent to Newport, where Sullivan is, and to-
night O reply came to Sullivan's brother
Mike saying: " That goes. Make it inside
of four weeks. Private: FIVE men on a
side. dempsey, in answer to circular
letter of George Leblanche, the Boston
middle-weight, explains how his efforts to to
arrange the fight failed, and says: =" will
meet Leblanche as soon as my hand gets
well, I am down to box Joe Ellingsworth
on the 22d and Pete Mccoy on the oath.
/ will not meet Ellingsworth and box only
Mccoy. Then will go for the Marine"