The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-01-23


study after it. He had hardly left the
room before the massive chandelier fell
smashing the very ottoman occupied by
him only few moments before. Or
examination it was found that the cen
trail beam of the ceiling was completely
rotten. Some days previous His Maj.
esty shot large bear during a great
hunt The animal made for the King,
! who shot it at distance of about twenty
yards.
| miscellaneous.
Berlin advices of January 9TH are to
| the effect that the loan of $50, 0O0, 900 foI
Mexico will be arranged before the
close of this month on terms favorable
to the country, and it is also stated that
the German Government approves OF
! placing German capital here, where the
Germans have built up large trade.
Prince Oscar, second son of King
Oscar of Sweden, will be married at
Bournemouth shortly, during his
mothers visit there, to Miss Ebba
Munckione, one of his mothers maids of
honor.
A dispatch from Massowah says: The
King of Abyssinia, accompanied by the
Queen of the Vallogallas and number
of troops, has arrived at Aksum. Two
columns, commanded by the son of
King John, are nearing Osmara.
A private dispatch from Valparaiso
says that the cholera has increased at
that port to an alarming extent, the
NUMBER of cases daily reaching 100, of
which about ninety prove fatal.
The Vienna 'fNeue Erie Presse'' says
that Russia recently proposed to Ger
many and Austria that Prince Peter
Karageorgvich be made ruler of Bulgaria.
Austria fatty refused to accede to the
proposition and Russia withdrew it.
Burglars broke into Taplow Court, the
residence of Henry Riversdale Green
fell, Director of the Bank of England,
January 18th, and decamped with
property and money valued at e6 700.
1t is reported that three Mayors in
Sardinia who signed the petition for the
restoration of the Pope's temporal
powers have been removed.
Berlin and Vienna financiers are dis
appointed because the Gar made no
speech at his New Years reception.
A police escort has been arranged for
every train which crosses the Isthmus of
Panama.
Edwin Arnold, for many years lead
ing editorial writer on the ''Daily Tel
egraph,' has received the order of
Knighthood and Commandership of
India by the Queen.
A Russian spy, with maps and COM
promising documents in his possession,
was arrested at Csarnewitz, an Austrian
town.
By order of the Russian Government
the statutes are to be modified and the
students have thus gained point in the
recent disturbances.
The Birmingham canal burst January
9TH at a point near Dudley. Hundreds
of families were rendered homeless by
the inundation.
The English steamer Maude foundered
in the Black sea January 5th, and twelve
persons were drowned.
Errard's piano factory at Paris was
burned January 9Th. Fifteen hundred |
pianos were destroyed. i
Baron Paul Sennyey, President of the
Oberhaus, is dead.
The King of Portugal has had an at
tack of pleurisy which has become
accute.
There are rumors of a plot against the
life of the German Crown Prince. The
of the Prince are favorable.
Queen Victoria is going to San Reno.
Many Russian students have been ar
rested on suspicion of being nihilists.
Prince Ferdinand refuses to abdicate.
Italy is taking measures to protect her
interests in Africa.
Tho mysterious disappearance of Miss
3lann, supplemented girl, has caused
sensation at Cleveland.
A fire at the Irving Public School at
chicago nearly caused panic January
4th.
A sub-tropical exhibition was opened
anuary 18th at Jacksonville, Fla.
A jury has decided that ex-senator
'latt must be ousted from his office of
quarantine Commissioner at New York.
Jem Smith failed to meet Sullivan
anuary 18th in London to arrange for a
aatch for the worlds championship.
ension of travel between Boulogne and {
NOlEaStOno and led To ocoido a,tc II, an, 1