The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-03-14
FOREIGN NEWS.
American Affairs.

under a mountain Of wreckage. The
ruined building was the OwingS
block, a beautiful Gothic structure,
fourteen stories high, situated at the
corner of Dearborn and Adams
streets, just opposite the post0ffice,
IN the center of the business district.
The ten lower stories fell in, one
after the other, leaving the walls,
the four upper floors and the roof
standing in a decidedly shaky condi-
ton.
The debut of Mrs. James G.
Blaine, Jr., In Washington next
season will be productive Of a GER
tain amount Of excitement IN the
theatrical and society circles of that
city. Mr.. Blaine, ST., has Just pur-
chased a house there, and intends to
permanently locate. His social pres
tige at present is strong, and should
he secure tbs portfolio Of State it
will be greatly increased. Meantime
Mr.. E'rOhman Is arranging dates for
a certain Washington Theatre, and
preparations for Mrs. Blaine's debut
go steadily on.
Mrs. Frank Leslie has sold to w
j. Arkell of Judge her weekly illus
trated papers. both English and Ger
man. Tie transfers are to be made
on May 1st. Mrs. Leslie will retain
and personally direct her other pub
locations. Arkeu says the policy of
the weekly will remain the same
aggressive and independent. The
present force will be retained and
new skill added. AIkell said he had
been negotiating for these papers
since 1883. The price paid was $780,
600 for the English edition and $780,
600 for the German edition.
Mayor Grant of New York has
given notice that all telegraph and
telephone wires in the city must be
buried, and ali poles removed within
thirty days. He says if the work is
not done then he will have it done
by the city.
There is rejoicing in the Office of
the Nicaragua Canal Construction
Company over President Cleveland's
action in signing the bill granting
the corporation charter. An officer
of the company said; eve will be-
gin work at once, and there will be
no diplomatic difficulties. Treaties
have been signed between Costa Rica
and Nicaragua and the United States
allowing the construction of the
canal. The distance from ocean TO
ocean at Nicaragua is 40 miles, only
% of which have to be dug. The es-
timated cost of the work IS 500, OO0,-
900. It is intended to have the canal
open for navigation in 1885"
DR.. D. w. Bliss, who attended
President Garfield in his last illness,
died from paralysis.
A terrible casualty occurred in the
city of Hartford, Conn, before day
light on the morning of February
18th. The boiler in the basement of
the Park Central Hotel exploded, so
it is believed, and wrecked the build
ing, which Immediately took fire.
There were about fifty people in the
hotel, and up to 1 o'clock in the
afternoon eighteen bodies were re
covered, while many persons We're
missing.
The senior class Of the female col
lege of Bordentown, New Jersey, re
Gently left the institution in a body,
owing to insulting language used to
them, under the guise of a lecture,
by Rev. William @. Bowen, the prin-
cipal and proprietor of the college.
Canadian Concerns.
In the House Of Commons at
Ottawa, Ont, Hon. Mr.. Laurier,
leader of the opposition, in a bril-
liant speech, moved a sweeping
resolution that Canada enter into
negotiations with the United States,
and that the modus vivendi in the
fisheries matter be continued.
Laurier went on to advocate the
mutual enlargement Of trade rela-
tions by both countries. The sym
pathy of Canada for the South in
the late war led to the abrogation of
the reciprocity treaty of 1854.
Laurier arraigned the Government
for its narrow Interpretation of the
treaty Of 1918, with all its harsh in
justices, and deplored the PROPOSE
tion of the Government to return to
this treaty.
Sir John Macdonald said the treaty
rejected last year was in itself a con
firmatiOn of Canada's contentious.
What Americans once considered
their right they will find they will
have to purchase. Canada does not
propose to make a treaty by surren-
ders. She will stand on her dignity.
Sir John denied that the Govern
ment favored the South in the late
war.
Under the new bill introduced in
the Dominion Parliament the extra
ditable offenses are murder, man
slaughter, cOunterfeiting or uttering
counterfeit money, larceny, embez
Element, obtaining money or goods or
valuable securities by false pretenses,
criminal assault, abduction, child
stealing, kidnapping, burglary,
house-breaking or shop-lifting, ar
son, robbery, threats by letter or
otherwise with intent to extOrt, per
jury or subornation of perjury,
piracy, criminal scuttling or destroy
ing a vessel at sea or on the great
lakes of North America; assault on
board a vessel at sea with intent to
destroy life or to do grieyous bodily
harm, revolt or conspiracy, to revolt
on board a vessel at sea.
The Canadian Governments plan
ming heavy Notifications for its Pa