The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-08-29

Hanover, Germany.
American Notes.
Seventeen bombs were accidentally
discovered in pile of scrap iron at the
Newport Steel Mills, Cincinnati. They
had evidently been made for long time,
and. if not found, would have been
thrown into the retort to be melted and
worked over into new iron.
A case of leprosy has been discovered
at Chicago, the victim being a Dane who
has been in this country for eighteen
years.
the head of the United States forces.
Charles Crocker, one of the California
railroad kings, died on August 10th, at
Monterey. He was SO years and II
months old at the time of his death, the
immediate cause of which was diabetes
and pleurisy Mrs. Croker was in the
East at the time her husband was taken
i'll, and hurried out in a special train,
arriving only at Chicago on the day OF
his death. The deceased was buried on
August Goth.
A resolution has been introduced in
Congress for the appointment of a COM
mission to examine into the practicable
itv of the pneumatic tube system in con-
nection with the postoftice department.
Efforts are being made to supplant
Chinese labor, in the vineyards and
orchards of California, by boys who re-
ceive a dollar day and their board.
Yellow fever and smallpox are re-
ported from Cuba, while the yellow
fever in Florida is still prevalent.
Hanlan's son, while playing with
matches, set fire to his clothes and was
burned to death.
The race between Teemer and O'COn-
nor, for the championship of America,
will be rOwed on September goth.
A system of wholesale robbery has
been discovered in connection with the
Chicago pOstOffice. Tens of thousands
of letters have been stolen with enclO-
sures of drafts, checks, money orders
and other negotiable documents. The
aggregate value of the property stolen
will be 81 100000, a quarter OF
which has been traced and discovered.
Two men, named Frederick Won Ober-
kampf and Thomas j. Mack, are in
custody, and the former has confessed
his guilt.
The Chinese restriction bill has unan-
imOusly passed the House.
Miscellaneous.
The business portion of the city of
CAYENNE, British Guiana, has been
The Japanese Government has de-
cided to spend 10000, 900 in five years
for the purpose of purchasing men-Of-
war.
In October the Barring Bros. will issue
the stock of a company, with capital
of ten million pounds sterling, to work
for a concession to supply BuenOs AyreS
with water.
There has been a successful revolution
at Port-au-Prince, the Government be-
ing overthrow and the President taking
refuge on an English man-Of-war. Adj
mira1 Luce has been directed to proceed
there Immediately in the U. S. S. Ca
lena, as the presence OF an American
man-Of-war is needed.
Prince Joseph of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
has died of inflammation of the lungs.
Thirty cOnVictS, Ell route to Siberia,
made a desperate effort TO escape.
Eleven were killed, ten wounded and
six escaped.
The Lipari volcano is again in state
of eruption. Two severe shocks of earth
quake were felt in Maine on the morning
of August 18th.
The London Board of Trade returns
Show a decrease in both the import and
export trade with Canada, but a rapid
increase in her trade with other colonies.
4IeIC Has DCCIl q GCl1llIC SJbILu III
Austria Lightning set fire to twenty
houses in the Isci district; crops and or
chards are damaged, and the ground is
covered with dead cattle and birds. |
From Montreal come similar reports of
houses being set on fire, people killed |
and property destroyed. The storm Oc-
Cured on August 18th.
Sweeping changes are being made in !
the command OF the German army, and |
there is great activity in every depart |
ment. The EmperOr's anger has been |
melted by the Russian Government, and |
the situation is more threatening than
ever it was. The Emperor galloped to |
the barracks at POtsdam at a. M,
turning all the troops out to check pre-
tended invasion of the enemy from Span
deau. Superior officers who were slow
in turning out have been punished.
The coal miners in Australia 90 out on
a general strike this week and the fight
is expected to be bitter one. 1t will
probably tie up all shipping besides pre-
venting any exports OF coal.
Shipping Record.
The following is the latest shipping
news
SAN Francisco - Arrivals: August
10Th, schr. Golden Fleece, 81 days from
Hilo; August 18th, Haw. bark w. B.
Godfrey, 81 days from Honolulu.
Departures: August 18th, bktne. S. N.
Castle for Honolulu.
The bark Alex. Mcneil, Capt Friis,
sailed for Sydney on August 10th.
The bark w. B. Godfrey had her bow
smashed in, and her rigging and forward
deck damaged by being run into by the
ship Ivanhoe.
Some of the sailors of the Ferris S.
Thompson were arrested for refusing to
obey orders and INSTRUMENTATION on their
last trip from Honolulu AS their Of
lenses had not been entered, at the time,
in the log, nor read to the men, the
charges against them were dismissed.
New YORK, August 16th-Ivy sailed