The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-03-31

arrived by 2 o'clock this afternoon. The
news from Europe reports tremendous
gales and snowsterms occurring.
A dispatch dated New York, March
18th, at a. M, states that the storm
had slightly moderated. Several fires
occurred during the previous day. The
hospitals all had busy time of it. Many
reports of casualties were coming in.
The New Emperor.
The Emperor Frederick arrived at
Berlin March 18th and took the oath
! with the second regiment of Guards. He
looked remarkably pale and worn, due
to the exciting events of the past three
| weeks.
0The question has arisen whether the
Landtag may accept Emperor Freder-
lexis written oath, instead of his per-
sonal oath, spoken in an audible voice,
as prescribed by the constitution. Fol
lowing is proclamation from the En-
peror Frederick:
To MY PEOPLE: The Emperor has ended
! his glorious life. In my much loved father
whom l bewail, whom my royal house
with me laments in deepest sorrow, the
faithful Prussian people have lost their
fame-crowned King; the German nation
the founder of it's unity and the newly
risen empire its first German Emperor.
His ilIustriOus name will remain 1nsep-
arably bound up with all the greatness of
the German Fatherland, in whose new
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sian people and princes have met with the
most splendid rewards.
While King William he raised the Prus-
sian army to nights of its earnest vocation
by never-tiring care; the nations father,
he laid sure foundation for the victories
which were afterwards gained by the Ger
man arms, under his leadership, and out
of which sprang the national unity.
He therefore secured to the empire po-
stion of power such as, up to that time,
every German heart had yearned for, but
had scarcely dared to hope for, and that
which he won for his people in honorable
death-bringing fight, he was destined to
strengthen and beneicially increase by the
long and peaceful toll OF his laborious years
of government.
Safely resting upon her own strength,
Germany stands forth esteemed in the
council of nations, and desires only to en-
joy in peaceful progress that which she has
won.
That this is so we have to thank En-
perOr William. In his never-wavering de-
votlon to duty, consecrated to the welfare
of the Fatherland, he was supported by his
reliance upon the self-sacrificing devotion
of which the Prussian people had given
unvarying proofs, and in which all German
races shared.
All the rights and duties which are con-
nected with the crown and my house, and
which for the time that, according to Gods
will, it may be allotted to me to rule, am
now passed to me.
Imbued with the greatness of my mis-
sion, shall make it my whole endeavor
to continue the fabric in the spirit in
which 1t was founded; to make Germany
the center of peace and to foster her well
fare.
To my faithful people, who have stood
by my house throughout the history of
this whole century in good as in evil days,
l express my unbounded confidence, for
am convinced that on the basis of the
unbreakable bond between the sover-
eIgn and the peuple, while indie
pendently of every change, is the life
of the state and forms the unalterable sup
port of the house of Hohenzollern, my
crown rests henceforward as securely as it
does upon the devotion of the country to
the Government of which 1 am now called
to the head, and of which l solemnly
promise to be faithful King, both in hap
piness and in sorrow.
May God grant me His blessing and
strength to carry out this work in which
my life shall henceforth be devoted.
FREDERICK.
Berlin, March II, 1888.
Sullivan and Mitchell.
A dispatch from Paris, March 18th,
says: Sullivan and Mitchell, weary,
lonely and much battered, spent very
disagreeable night in jail at Senlis, to
which they had been taken by gen.
darmes after their capture on the road
to Breil.
DIR. FARTHER, who was sent to exam
inc their bruises, told the "World" rep
resentative that Sullivan was very badly
damaged about the body, and that his
ears and upper lip were like jelly. Sui
Ivan had very gay time during the
first two or three hours in Jail. The sup
per provided consisted of beefsteaks,
bottles of claret and rum and some
cheese. He ate ravenously, and his con-
dition to-day showed that his drinking
was not at all moderate.
During the meal the pugilists were