The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-10-02

| $4,000 and i've years In the penlten-
tiary.
The Emperor of China has refused to
ratify the new treaty with the United
| States. and the Restriction Bill, just
| passed by Congress, is in the Presidents
| hands awaiting mis- signature.
Yellow Fever Ravages.
Prof. Richard A Proctor, the astron-
! omer, died in New York of yellow fever
| in its most virulent form. He had just
! arrived there from Florida and was sick
| only for twenty-four hours. The dis
ease has been increasing and spreading,
| fully 1000 cases having been reported.
| Cases have occurred at Louisville and in
South Carolina. Congress has voted
! 5000, 900 to prevent the spread of the
| disease and 5000 for the relief of the
| sufferers In Florida all attempt at
| quarantine has been abandoned. Doctors
and nurses are in great demand, some
| have offered their services from Cali
| fornia, and they 60 about distributing
medicine to everybody. Cases have
occurred also in Missouri, and wherever
| they appear people rush TO the banks,
| draw their money and leave the State.
! All trains from the infected districts are
being stopped, and shotgun quarantine
| has been instituted in some places. The
| suffering is intense and fully 1000 are
| being provided with food.
Floods and Storms.
At the foods in Gifu, Japan, 80 lives
were lost, 200 houses destroyed and $500
persons are destitute. In Spain the
| rivers KENT, Guadelfer and Granada
! have overlooked their banks, destroying
| villages and drowning many persons.
| Twelve cOrpses have been recovered. In
| Austria three-fourths of Trieste is sub
merged with loss to life and property.
| In the Tyrol all travel is suspended.
| The valley of Adigois huge lake. Hun
! dreds of villages were submerged and
! the waters surrounded Innsbruck. In
! Switzerland $4,000 acres of inhabited
and populated land were covered with
water, all crops, granaries, barns and
| houses being washed away and the peo-
| pie fleeing for their lives. The City OF
| Mexico has been flooded, the water
pouring into the city from the lakes,
when 5000 soldiers were set to work
! building dykes. The price of food in
| creased, as there was but little produce
| in the city. Typhus and other epidemic
fevers are following all these floods.
At Savannah, Ga, the rice plantations
| have been flooded and the crop is al
most a total loss. At Pittsburg four peo-
pie were killed by lightning and hail
stones destroyed every bit of fruit and
| foliage on the trees, besides smashing
| the windows. Augusta, Ga, was flooded
| by the Savannah river, small steamboats,
| being able to navigate the streets. The
| loss is estimated at 81 .000,0
The total number of deaths caused by
the cyclone in Cuba is upwards of 900.
| Women and children, and sometimes
whole families, persisted by the dozen.
Whole towns were wiped out, and large
stone buildings in the principal cities
were demolished. Large areas of fertile
land, planted with sugar, tobacco, fruit
and vegetables were destroyed, crops
and plantation machinery were also
ruined.
Some Other Disasters.
The explosion of threshing machine
at Ciron, France, killed and injured fif-
teen people. At Baltimore two oil
trains collided, with the usual result,
loss $50, 900, bat no lives. The powder
| magazine at Esquimalt Harbor exploded,
| and was felt at Victoria. An express
train ran into freight train at CIeve-
land, o., killing four and wounding
thirty-tWo people. The melanite factory
at ST. Omer, France, exploded, carrying
burning debris for three hundred yards
and burning six factories and two houses.
Foreign Affairs.
A famine is feared in India.
The young Emperor of COrea will as
sumo full sway after his marriage in
January.
The Mayor, an old volcano in the
Philippines, is in a violent state of
eruption three villages have disap-
peared near Libog and one hundred peo-
pie are missing.
In coal bunker fire on the steamer
Pembroke Castle sixteen men were
smOthered to death, but the fire did not
reach other parts of the ship.
A famine is feared IN Egypt, and hopes
of further rise in the Nile are aban-
doned.
Near cara, Dalmatia, an amphitheatre,
temples and catacomb, thousands of
coins of the DiOcletian period, and rare
specimens of Grecian and Roman sculp-
ture have been unearthed.
The Ameer of Afghan defeated the
rebels under Ishak Khan and captured
Kamard.
A society has been formed in Paris for
the abolition of negro slavery in Africa,
and French gunboats have been ordered
to the West Coast to pursue vessels en-
gagged in the business.
Captain Beaker has started from Brus-
sells with 200 men to explore the North
east regions of the Congo State. The
Germans killed $50 rebels at Zanzibar.
The bakers of st. Denis, France, closed
their shops in consequence of NUM-
cipal decree lowering the price of bread
The working people plundered the shops.
Another of the mysterious murders has
occurred in London.
1t is believed that Prince Bismarck
will retire in consequence of disagree
ments with Emperor William II. over
army matters.
The Irish inmates Of the Emigrants'
Home in Glasgow, broke out in a riot
and wrecked the Home. The police
broke twenty batons in quelling the dis
turhance and arrested sixty-five inmates.
Several Greek warships have been
ordered to nrncaeh To Turkish matnrS