The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-05-03
LATER NEWS.
Foreign Intelligence mp to April a4th,
Inclusive.


all points to the oath April, inclusive.
The following summary is compiled from
our Coast exchanges:
Five hundred employees of the Mis-
souri, Car and Foundry Company have
stopped work.
The President has sent message on
the labor troubles. Jay Gould testified
before the Congressional Labor Investi-
eating Committee
Senator Morgan introduced a bill pro-
viding for an indemnity to the Chinese
sufferers at Rock Springs.
General Miles has issued some sensi-
bic orders for the pursuit of hostile
Apaches in Arizona and New Mexico.
A band of Mexican bandits made an UNI
successful attempt to capture the Dolores
silver mines in the State of Nueva Leon.
A break in the levee below Helena,
Ark, caused the flooding of nearly 900
900 acres of land.
The plasterers at San Antonio, Texas,
have struck for So per day of eight hours,
or 81 for day OF ten hours.
w. S. Curtis, OF Boston, a special stu
dent of Harvard College, was caught in
the act of stealing a gold watch from an
open locker in the gyInna stun while the
owner was bathing. He has committed
other thefts Being rich and well-con-
nected he will not be prosecuted, but
may probably be expelled.
A fire on Crosby street, New York,
April 22d, destroyed $780, worth of
property.
The second volume of General Grants
Memoirs will be published May 10th.
1t will be 100 pages larger than the first
volume
At free fight at Monte Carlo, begun
by three women, nearly every person
present at the gaming tables were more
or less injured. Two men and woman
were conveyed to the hospital. Nearly
all had their clothes torn off their backs.
The assassin of the Bishop of Madrid
has been interviewed. 'My line of de-
fense," he said, "will be to say what 1
have suffered-the bare truth" He
eats, drinks and sleeps we'll Consist
emily, he says 81 would do it again"
He is believed to be insane.
There is great distress prevailing in
the Western districts of Mayo, Ireland
DIR. Bowers, who has been on trial at
San Francisco for a considerable time
past on charge of numbering his third
wife to secure the insurance upon her
life, was found guilty of murder in the
first degree by the trial jury, April 22d.
This is believed to be the third crime OF
the kind committed by Bowers, who was
a well known "sOciety man" on the
Coast
DIR. Frisch, who was sent by the Aus
trian Government to Paris to investigate
and report upon Pasteur's system of
treatment of the hydrophohio disease, in
a public lecture has advised the medical
profession of the empire to adopt the
French savant's method.
The trustees of the extensive Symes
estates, near Westport, have offered to
turn over the lands in full to the tenants
at sums eaualling, in case of each hold
ing, twelve years rent, The offer as
created a sensation in ireland.
The Spanish Sanitary Council has au-
thorized the practice of inocculation dis
covered by DIR. Ferrau in the event of
the reoccurrence of cholera in Spain.
George Hosmer, of Boston, has been
selected to meet Hanlan for the three
mile sculling race at Lake st. Joseph,
Quebec, June oath.
The Sugar Makers strike,
HUNTERS PoIST Il. t., April 22d.-At
80 p. m. the strikers at Havemeyer's
sugar refinery works, at Greenpoint, be-
gan rioting The police were called out
i'll tull force and attacked the strikers,
using their clubs freely, hut the strikers
GERS, attacking them with slaves and
brickbats. Three policemen were seri-
ously injured and removed to the hospi
tai. One of the strikers was seriously
injured about the head by the police,
and was removed to the hospital also.
Several pistol shots were fired, but no one
was hit so far as known. After driving
the police from the works, the strikers |
captured several wagons loaded with |
sugar and dumped the contents on the |
street.
JERSEY CITY, April 23d.-Matthieson &
Weiohers Sugar Refinery Company an
nounced to-day an increase Of 10 per
cent on the wages of I 800 men employed |
by them, to take place May LIST. This is
10 head off strike.
to Blow up a Spanish Cr Irch
A Madrid dispatch states that an at
tempt was made ON Good Friday to de-
stroy the church of San Luis, Madrid.
An explosive was placed inside one of
the enormous hollow candles which stand
On either side the altar. The explosion
occurred before the people began to ar
rive. The edifce was wrecked. Two
sections who were in the building were
badly burned,
France and Germany.
The North German Gazette" Prince
organ, in a further article on
he possibility of war between France and
Germany, says it has no doubt that
France would take the first suitable OPP