The Hawaiian gazette., 1889-02-26
LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.
San Francisco. February IL, per 5.
Alameda.

San Francisco. February II, per 5.
Alameda.
= Anheiser, Busch & Co.'S malt-ele
Yator was destroyed by fire at st
Louis. Loss, 100000,
The Green Nail Works, lately
started at Tifin. Ohio, was destroyed
by fire. Loss, $4,000; no insur-
ance
The Northern Ohio Blanket Mill
was destroyed by fire. The loss is
estimated at 100000, with $4,000
insurance.
A special from Steelville, Mo,
says a large fire has been raging
there, and that eleven business
houses have been consumed.
Six persons were instantly killed
and many injured by the falling of
three buildings at Omaha. A ter
rife wind-storm from the northwest
struck the city.
The British bark Roseneath, from
Dublin, while being towed to Clyde,
broke adrift during a violent gale
and was wrecked. The mate, his
wife and five seamen were drowned.
The British steamer Huntington
was wrecked at Ilfracombe, county
Devon. Before the rescue of those
aboard, the steamer rolled on its
side and sank. Ten persons were
drowned.
]. V. Knapp. banker. suspended at
Marquette, Mich, and the bank is in
the hands of receiver. The sus-
pension was caused by hard collec-
lions and large draft which could
not be met. The liabilities are about
$4,000
J. and c. Johnston, dry goods
merchants at New York. have as
signed. The assignment caused
general establishment, as they
claimed year ago that their assets
were 100000 against liabilities
amounting to $360,000
A terrible railroad accident &C.
CURED about a mile from Springfield,
Mo-, when a freight engine on the
st. Louis and San Francisco road
jumped the track at a steep embank-
ment, down which it plunged, carry
ing with it ten men, three of whom
We're killed instantly and five others
injured, four fatally.
The steamship Glencoe from Liy- |
erpool to London was sunk by the
bark Largo Bay. Her crew Of forty |
four was drowned. She had no pas
sengers. A tempest was raging at /
the time of the accident, and the
snow was falling so thickly it was
for the lookout on either
vessel to see the lights of the other.
The Glencoe tried to cross the Largo
Bays bow. Failing in this she
struck the bark while going at full
speed. The water-tight sections of
the Largo Bay saved her from going
down. The bark could not render
any assistance, all the boats being
smashed. A boy was carried over
board from the bark. The Glencoe
was a three-masted iron screw
steamer of 1901 tons, built at elias
gov IN 1873, and was rated 100 AL at
British Lloyds. The force OF the
was such that the foremost
IF the Largo Bay was pulled out and
Tell across her deck-house crushing it.
Some Horrible Murders.
-Four murders have been committed
it Pont a-Mousson in the South of
France, by the same criminal, who is
Unknown. The first, a shop-keeper,
md next. his wife, were killed with
IN AK while at the table; the third. a
1ch widow named Ferry, had her
lead cut off with an ak. and the
ourth, widow named Francois. was
in a similar manner. There
5 no clew.
At Managua, in Nicaragua, the
,eople have been greatly aroused by
ix of the most atrocious murders
yer committed The murderer or
nurderers have vanished as quickly
S Jack the Ripper" and left no
races of Identification. All the vic
inns were women of the character /
Who met a horrible fate at the hands /!
J the London murderer. They have
cen found murdered just as mys- I
the evidence pointing al
lost to identical methods. Two
1ere butchered so that all recogni-
ion was impossible, even their faces
aving been horribly slashed.
All the other persons were fright Il
lilly disfgured. They have been :
'und at out-of the-way places, three n
| the suburbs, the others in dark
lleys and corners. All the victims
ere in the last stages of shabbiness
nd besottedness. All the murders
,curred within less than ten DAYS 2