The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-09-19

Ohio, 70 people dying IN d rev udy0 OAO
of population of 1,S0O. A schooner has
arrived at Philadelphia, from Havana,
with yellow fever on board, several OF
the crew dying on the voyage. Yellow
fever has been increasing at Jackson
vile, there having been over 600 cases TO
date. People are leaving the city, and
fully 1000 negroes have to be supported,
subscriptions for their relief having been
opened in Eastern cities. A few cases OF
smallpox have occurred in San Fran
cisco originating from Chinatown.
At st. Petersburg nihilistic plot has
been discovered, the headquarters being
near the Imperial Palace. The Post OF
fee at Cutter, Ind, was blown to pieces
by dynamite for the fourth time, and at
Chicago more dynamite bomb discOv-
cries have been made.
Sporting Matters.
Jackson and Godfrey, the two colored
pugiIistS, are to give boxing exhibitions
! in the principal cities throughout the
United States. Conley and McAuliffe
are TO fight in San Francisco on October
10Th for purse of s., 900. George john
son, an old Harlem river oarsman, is at
tempting to row shell from New York to
Boston He expects to row about 30
miles a day. In a three-mile single scull
race on Lake Keuka, Teemer beat Hamm
and Eyck, time 20 minutes and sec
! OnGs Teemer is unable to find hacker
! for 81 900, so O'COnnOr claims the cham
| piOnship of America. Johnson, the Eng
| lIsh champion swimmer, beat Leary, OF
| Pittsburg, in five mile swim at COney |
Island for $500 Wind and tide were
| against the swimmers and the time was |
| l hour 2212 minutes.
| On and OFF the Rail.
Besides the accident to the overland |
train on which Claus Spreckels was |
| travelling West, there have been others !
OF a more serious nature. Near Dion, in |
France, two express trains going at full |
speed collided, killing over thirty people, |
and injuring ffty-siX more.
At ST. Joseph, Mo, two freight trains |
collided, both being loaded with mer-
chandise valued at 100000, all OF which
was lost. At Wilkesbarre, Pa, a freight |
train jumped the track and Is cars were
derailed and burned, two of them con-
tanning cattle. Loss, $2O,0 900.
At Cincinnati the rear part Of Robin
sons circus train was run into, five per-
sons being killed. Loss, $50, 900.
The new overland time table has gone
into effect the time from New \ Ork to
San Francisco now being five days.
Terrestrial TremOrs.
Besides a surfeit of other calamities,
quakes which began at New Zealand on
the I'd inst There were five severe
shocks lasting for half an hour, when
terror and destruction ensued. At Auck-
land the spire of Christchurch Cathedral
fell and many other buildings were partly
demolished. The damage amounted to
several hundred thousand dollars, but
there was no loss of life.
On the 9th inst, one of the heaviest
xl,l Of 4l,,
City of Mexico. Houses swayed, walls
cracked and the people rushed into the
streets to pray.
On the 10th inst, two shocks occurred
at Vostizza, on the Corinthian gulf, de-
strOying most of the place. Tents and
provisions have been forwarded to the
homeless and destitute.
Personal.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe is dying. |
Lester Wallack, the actor, has died of |
apoplexy.
There has been considerable laughter
over an interview in the Examiner with |
George Macfarlane, the &c Hawaiian cap
italist." George states that he has
made friends with the Spreckels, and
this union of capital will doubtless work
wonders in the London loan market
The depOsed King OF Samoa and two |
chiefs have been released at Berlin, and
will Immediately return to Apia.
Claus SpreckelS has arrived from the
East in excellent health and spirits. He !
had very narrow escape on the journey |
as the train on which he was travelling
went off the rails, every car rolling over
a bank at Kimball, Neb., except the
private car in which were the Spreckels |
family and which was the last one on
the train.
Mind-reader Bishop has been gradu- !!
ally exposing himself as an unprineipled
humbug, and man who would never |
pay his debts. After being sued here he
skipped off to Mexico accompanied by {
Miss Mabel Taber who has been his
associate since his return from Honolulu,
where the lady is said to have repulsed
the advances of young bloods, preferring
the more sedate society of Bishop. He :
pleaded poverty as an excuse for the
non-payment of his debts, and it is be- !,
lieved that Miss Taber has secured the
whole of Bishops Doodle and now finds (
the funds for his trip to Mexico.
Odds and Ends.
The rivers hi and Akasaka in China
have overfowed, washing away people
and property. A fire at Kandacho des-
troyed 500 houses.
A bloody reign of terror exists at
Buenos Ayres, murders being frequent
Four fearful murders have occurred in
London, the victims being women whose
bodies had been butchered and cut to
shreds.
The Star and Garter Hotel at Rich
mond, on the Thames, has been partly
burned.
The German gunboat Moewe shelled
the village OF Tanga in Zanzibar. A
mutiny has broken out among the SOL
diers at Lorenzo Harquez in Africa.
There has been revolt in Afghan with
fighting, OF which contradictory reports
are given.
At Bolton. ENGLAND. 1-2ln sninners