The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-12-25
LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.
European Items.

European Items.
Prince Alexander of Hesse, uncle of
| the Grand Duke Ludwig, is dying.
A petition in favor of decimal coinage
in England has been signed by seventy
Members of Parliament.
The great horse Ormonde is seriously
| i'll. If he RECEIVERS he will be taken to
Newmarket, thence in June to America,
| where he has been sold to Senator
Hearst.
During target practice on board
| French ironclad, in the Cuff of Koran,
gun exploded and killed one officer and
five men.
A dispatch from ST. Petersburg says
the Rothscbilds have contracted to CON
struct at Batoum fifteen reservoirs for
storing kerosene with capacity of $780,
900 froods each. The Russians demand
that the Government restrict operations.
Persia has waived her objections to the
appointment of a Russian Consul at
Meshed.
M. Hammer has been elected Presi-
dent of Switzerland and NJ. Ruchonnet
Vice-President.
The authorities at Dublin have seized
thousands OF Zola's works, shipped from
England.
George Routledge, founder of the pub
fishing house, is dead, aged rs.
It is asserted that an American syndi-
cate with a capital of $4,000, 900 has
been formed to construct railroad in
Siberia, and that several former and
present American diplomatic consular
agents are interested in the undertaking.
Two members of the Republican So
ciety were arrested at Naples in an at
tempt to destroy the German Consulate
with a dynamite bomb. The bomb did
not explode.
Crisis In Spain.
It is rumored that Senior Pingcerver.
Minister of Finance in Spain, desired to
resign in consequence of the smallness
of the Government majority in the Bud
get Committee. 1t is announced that
several Cabinet Ministers have resigned
The crisis is due to the election OF eight
Conservatives and Protectionists as
members of the Budget Committee.
The Conservatives hope, with the help
of diffident Liberals, to force Premier
Sagasta to form a semi-ConSerVatiVe-
Protectionist Ministry.
The Belgian strikers.
The strike movement is increasing in
Belgium and the strikers are everywhere
becoming reckless. An attempt was
made to wreck train on the Halouvie
Rajuste Railway, dynamite cartridges
being placed on the track. Fortunately
the cartridges were discovered in time to
prevent disaster.
The men on strike in Belgium ex-
ploded dynamite cartridges in the vicin-
ity of the houses of obnoxious EMPLOYERS.
No one was injured. At several places
IN Belgium the strikers paraded the
streets bearing French flags, which they
cheered heartily. 1t is expected the
German Government will complain to
Belgium against such demonstrations.
Signor Ingma, Roman advocate who
died recently, left 100000 francs to the
Pope.
Two battalions of troops have been
ordered from Antwerp to Galonviere, the
center of the strikes and attempted
dynamite outrages. 4 large number of
strikers have been arrested.
English Society Affairs.
DR.. Sir William Jenner has resigned
from the British Medical Association.
An influential committee has addressed
protest to the Council OF the Associa-
ton against the publication by British
medical journals of the late Emperor
Frederick's note to Dr. Mackenzie, DR..
10 lAAO COlI0 RIiNSicIGu ana ms
withdrawal from the association reflects
the anger which the publication of the
note has caused at court.
The Duke Of Marlborough has been
taking revenge for the snubs offered his
new wife. When His Grace brought her
home to Blenheim, the vicar OF Wood
stock refused to have the church bells
rung in celebration of the event, holding
some queer notions in reference to d.
vorced men marrying again. His Grace
took umbrage and one of his first acts
has been to stop his annual subscription
OF 100 guineas a year to the parochial
schools in the district.
Valery Wiedmann, a German gov
erness, brought suit against Robert
Horace Walpole, heir presumptive to the
Earldom of Oxford, for G10, 900 damages
for breach of promise and libel. She al
legged that WDlpole met her in Bulgaria,
made her an offer OF marriage, betrayed
and discarded her and then repudiated
their child. The suit was brought TO a
close unexpectedly by plaintiff 8 refusing
to answer certain questions in regard to
the child the paternity of whom is
charged to Walpole. The Judge there |
upon ordered verdict for defendant