The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-06-11
From our special correspondentD

(From our special correspondent)
The Coroner's jury in the death of
w. l. Bishop, mind-reader, found
that the cause of death was coma;
that the doctors acted in good faith,
though hastily. The doctors were
then discharged.
The Corbett- Choynski prize fight
was begun on May Both in Marin
county. but stopped by the sherifts
after the fourth round. COrbett had
the best of the fight as far as it went,
Orlow w. Chapman of New York
has been appointed Sollcitor-Gen-
eral.
John G. Brandley, cashier of the
Merchants Bank at New Haven,
Conn, is under arrest. He is charged
with the embezzlement of between
$4,000 and $4,000.
The savings bank at Savannah,
Mo, made an assignment. The
bank had a capital of $4,000 real
estate worth $4,000, and its depos-
it's amounted to $500.
Chinese have made arrangements
to develope the Lower California
gold mines.
Congressman Gay, a Louisiana
sugar planter, is dead.
The observance of Memorial Day
| in San Francisco was lifting and I'M
pressive. The military demOnstra
! ton was one worthy of the occasion,
and the many Grand Army men
military and veterans of the Mexican
war in line made the parade one OF
more than usual interest.
w. r. Hearst, Of the 5. +. Exam
iner, has offered to pay the expenses
of one of the public school children
and a teacher or parent, to and from
the Paris Exhibition, the successful
pupil to remain there for one month
An examination will be held to de
eide upon the winner.
The Cunard steamship Servla
from New York for Liverpool, has
arrived at Liverpool on fire. The
flames were first noticed after th'
steamship had left Queenstown
where some fifty passengers left her
The fire was discovered in the fore
hold. in the cargo. which in that par
of the hold consisted mostly of bale
of cotton. The fire was kept unde
control until the steamship reached
Liverpool. The passengers wer
then hurried off and the fire ex
tinguished after much difficulty
without loss to life.
JohnstOwn, Pa, has been visited
bv the worst flood ever experienced
The reservoir above JohnstowI
which is the largest in America
bnrst it's banks. It is thought tina
1900 people must have been drowned
No trains are running on the Penn
sylvania Central and number
towns have been inundated.
While Gladstone was crossing Pl(
. cadilly street, at its junction wit
Berkeley he was knocked down by
cab.
A Madras cable says cholera
raging in a violent form In tn
Gangaw district. There were lOC
a, deaths in one week.
Several large warehouses
: Lubbock Harbor were burned an
100000 worth of cotton and fla
destroyed.
Serious rioting took place at Be
i grade. The trouble was due to tt
intense antagonism that prevail
toward the Progressist party.
- The village of Deuschmachen, nei
, Sagan, Prussia, was complete
= destroyed by fire. Not a house WE
It left standing. There was no l
ar surance.
- A confagration in the town
Podhaioe, Galicia, destroyed 81
d houses, q church and a synagOgu
" causing the loss of many live
Y Twelve corpses have been extlicat'
is from the ruins.
- The Earl of Zetland has accept
- the Viceroyship of Ireland.
As The Valkyrie won three mo
to races. beating the Irex and YaraI
ct all being with light winds and calm
~ In a fourth race the Valkyrie W
:. beaten by both vessels. The cOur
. was from Harwich to South En-
The Irex beat the Valkyrie abO
half an hour in run of three hOul
Severe storms prevail throughO
France. Great damage was done
ty the departments of the Seine-t
or Marine, Aube, Yonne, Haute-Soa
nv and Ardennes. In some places t
= country is almost devastated.
III A hurricane extending over 10,
at range of the coast, has prevail
10 four days in New South Wall
he The rainfall has never before be
- equalled. Railway traffic has be
Ao suspended and many landslides ha
by occurred. A number of lives ha
he also been lost. A private dispat
ar states that twenty inches of rs
Of fell in four days and it was 81
- raining on May Both.
III Heavy storms have been ragi
IN. three days in China. Immense da
lin age has been done.
IN A cable dispatch has been receiv
a. from General Hypolite, the ms
u' gent leader in Hayti, saying that
he has defeated President Legitin
ny captured Port-au-Prince, and has
in clared himself Provisional Preside