The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-09-19

| 100 towns l4S h6puDllCdHS nave peer
elected, and the Senate is sOlidlY Repub
| lican, a gain of three members since
1884.
A published telegram stated that the
Chinese Government refused to ratify
the new American treaty restricting i'm.
migration. The President thereup0n, tC
make political capital, had a new bill
hastily prepared and introduced in the
House by Scott of Pennsylvania. 1t re-
stricts exclusively all Chinese Iaborers
whether they have been here before OF
not, from entering the United States
and if those who are now here should
leave they cannot return. All certif-
Gates that have been issued are declared
void. This bill was promptly passed by
both House and Senate, and it now
transpires that the Emperor of China
has not refused to sign the new treaty,
but merely postponed consideration.
There are reports OF an attack having
been made upon the American Minis
ter's official residence at Canton.
At Melbourne a Chinese immigrant
sued the Government for damages for
not being permitted to land. The case
was test one, heard before the full
bench of judges, a majority of whom de-
cided in favor OF the Chinaman.
storms and Floods
Terrible storms and floods have been
experienced at New York and New Bed
ford, where the damage resulted from
enormous hailstones. At Little Rock
Ark, there was a huge WaterSpOut which,
like a tidal wave, swept everything be
fore it. In Missouri and Louisiana %
per cent, of the cotton crop has been
destroyed. At Charleston the large iron
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road was carried away. In Delaware
bay several schOoners were sunk. At
Columbia the cotton fields have been
inundated for ten days, the cotton rot
ting in the pod.
At Budwei', in Bohemia, IL, 900 people
have been flooded out and taken refuge
in the hills; in the POprad valley, near
Pesth, six villages have been submerged.
The Mexican Central railroad track
has been flooded and partly washed out,
and all business is suspended.
Cuba has also suffered, a gunboat
laundering and drowning the captain
and all of the crew. AT Sagua fifty
people lost their lives and the village of
Pueblo Neuvo was wiped out. Every
vessel at BatabaDO, Cuba, was sunk. At
Matanzas several tug boats were lost,
and at Cardenas even the stone build,
ings were demolished. The loss of pro-
perty, houses, crops, wharves, shipping
and furniture will amount to millions OF
dollars, and it is impossible to ascertain
the loss OF life.
Disasters by Fire.
AT the large Hamburg fire the total
loss reached $25 ,000,0 900. Immense
quantities of cotton, rice and saltpeter,
and 5000 tons of beets, quarter of
L. - I,
were destroyed, besides twenty persons
being burned to death.
At Tarnobrzez, Galicia, $50 houses
were destroyed and 200 families rendered
homeless, the loss being :, 900, 900 marks.
At the village of PinOgana on the
Isthmus of Panama, forty-eight houses
were burned.
At Cygnet, Ohio, % 900 barrels of oil
caught fire and eight persons were burned
to death.
At Baltimore there shas been as p
600, 900 fire with the loss of eight
lives, the places destroyed being all bus
mess houses.
San Diego has been visited by $780,
900 fire in the business portion of the
town, and the same occurred at Baker
City, Oregon, where the loss amounts to
$780, 900.
But it remained for San Francisco to
beat the worlds record on the afternoon
of Sunday, Sept. 9th. The fire com
menced at l 80 p. m. and it was not till
5 80 p. M. that the department had the
fire under control. 1t originated on the
west side of Main street, between How
ard and Mission, the flames spreading in
every direction. 1t swept across Spear
street and down to East street, almost
out the whole blocks, and doing
the same across Mission to Howard
street. In all there were nearly five
blocks consumed, building being left
here and there in the middle of the
ruins. Some of the shipping was in great
danger, one vessel catching fire. The
buildings destroyed were mostly old
wooden structures used as factories, iron
works, hay, wood and coal yards, and
other such intlammable material. Tne
loss is placed at 100000, with COM
paratively little insurance owing to the
high rate of premium. Among the suf-
ferers are Moore and Smith, Columbia
and National Iron Works, Eureka Boiler
Works, Geo. +. Smith, George Fritz,
Dutton & Co., Beyth & Frott, and VI
Springer. Several thousand men are
thrown out of work.
Disasters at Sea.
The S. S. Bratzburg, coal laden, went
ashore at Ste. Flavie near Quebec, and
smashed to pieces during a storm, fif-
teen out u crew of seventeen being
drowned. A hurricane at Algoa Bay,
South Africa. wrecked number OF yes
sells, including the British Bark Jane
Harvey and the Swedish bark Natal.
A collision occurred near Tarifa be-
tween the S. S. Cairo, from Cardiff, and
the S. S. Snaresbrook, from Odessa, the
latter sinking and ten of the crew being
drowned. The Allan line S. S. Prussian
collided with and sunk the S. S. Memling
in the Clyde. The S. S. Nevada broke
her shaft when 800 miles from Sandy
Hook but was picked up and towed into
New York by the S. S. Lawrence and
the S. S. Polaria.
The French fishing feet at Iceland has
been almost totally destroyed, seven yes
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