The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-12-15
LATEST FOREIG I NEWS.
UNITED STATES.
Trouble in the Grand Army.

Grand Army men in New York admit
that split in the organization is newt
able. Joseph A. Joel, editor of the
Grand Army Gazette, says the move
ment will be national in extent. He
says the Democratic members have al
ways been treated as more or less inter
lopers in the Grand Army of the Repub
lie. The order has always had politics
in it, and the Republicans have always
run it. The Democrats have been ostra-
cized and treated as traitors, even when
they had been manned in battling for
the Union.
Other G. A. R. men indorse these
statements and say the Democrats pro-
pose to form non-political and charit-
able organization, such as the G. A. K.
was originally intended to be. The new
order will be called by some such name
as " The Union Veterans Association, :"
and all Union veterans will he welcome.
1t is expected that many Republican ex-
soldiers who feel that the q. A. r. has
been run as a political machine will join
the new organization.
The Opium Smugg1ers.
Edwin A. Gardner, found guilty
recently of Opium-smuggling, in the
Oregon cases, was sentenced on three of
the counts in the Indictment to two
years in the Erie County Penitentiary
and to pay fine of $1,000 On three
other counts he was sentenced to two
years in the Erie County Penitentiary
and fined $1,000. In the conspiracy in
dictment Gardner was sentenced to two
years more in the same institution. The
total sentence is thus six years impris-
onment and $4,000 fine.
John g. Haines of Seattle, Wash, was
acquitted.
Fires and Explosions.
A false cry of fire in a Boston store
caused panic. Thousands of persons,
mostly women shoppers and shop girls,
made frantic rush for the stairways and
exits. Many were bruised and several
severely hurt, but none fatally.
Shortly after o'clock fire broke out
in the school at Long Island City, n. Y.
Nine hundred children, in panic, piled
upon and fought each other In frantic
effort to get out. They were piled on the
floor at the foot of the stairways in heaps.
Hundreds of them are badly bruised, but
none fatally hurt. The fire was an in
significant one.
The Jenney electric light plant at Fort
Wayne, Ind, was entirely destroyed by
fire. The loss is $3.50, 900; insurance,
$4,000. Three hundred workmen are
thrown out of employment.
The Calumet and Hecla copper mine,
Mich, caught fire and eight men were
imprisoned and lost their lives.
A fire at Eureka Springs, Ark, des-
stroyed the greater part of the city; loss
100000.
By an explosion of dynamite at Troy,
N. Y, near Schuylerville, Saratoga Co,
six men were blown up. Two were
killed and the other four are unconscious.
A man was unloading glycerine at
Pleasantville, Shenango county. He had
1,O4O pounds of it in his wagon. It ex-
ploded by some means, and Hoggerty
was literally annihilated. Parts of his
two horses were found hall mile away.
Some Severe Storms.
On November 25th there was violent
storm all along the Eastern coast doing
much damage to shipping. Twelve
barges, coal laden, sank at New York
At Boston small vessels were driven
ashore. The bark Moro Castle, with
cargo of coal for San Francisco, went to
pieces at Philadelphia. The ocean pa
vilion at Coney Island was carried out to
sea, and the Brighton Beach race track
was four feet under water. The loss on
the New Jersey coast was 100000 The
collier Allentown was wrecked at Boston
On GHS Observation-Disclosures coast gu vessels
were wrecked or badly damaged, and 26
lives were lost All the Atlantic steam
ers experienced very heavy weather.
The loss at Coney Island amounted to
5000. 900. The S. S. Grecian of the AL
Ian line was swept by sea after sea, and
almost foundered. The Etruria was al
most under water for nine hours, six sea-
men were seriously injured and pas
senger was knocked senseless. The new
steamer City of New York made good
passage of days and 20 hours to Queens
town in the storm. The S. S. Newburgh
of Leith foundered in the North Sea with
Is persons, also the ship Douglas, in the
same locality. Throughout England and
Scotland disasters occurred. The ship
Duncan was wrecked on Breakbank.
The Clyde overlooked it's banks and fac
tories were inundated, the female opera
tives being rescued through the windows.
In later gale off the English coast seve-
raj fishing smacks were lost with all
hands.
Railway Trust.
It is reported that the American rail