The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-04-16
OUR SAN FRANCISCO LETTER.
Per II. NJ. :. ;. ZeaIandia. san Fran
cisco, April :, 1889.

cisco, April :, 1889
(From Our Special Correzpondent)
Foreign Affairs.
The Marquis of Ely is dead.
The great Eiffel Tower has been
opened.
Emperor Francis Joseph IS re
ported to be i'll.
Sheik E. Senoussi has approached
within a few hundred miles Of Khar-
tOum.
Emperor William went unexpec-
teddy to Posen, and paid visit to a
large number of persons made home
less by the food. His Majesty gave
a large sum to the committee for the
relief of sufferers by the food.
Sir Philip Henry Currie will sue
coed PauncefOte, the new British
Minister to the United States, as
permanent Under Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs.
One thousand dock workers struck
at Marseilles.
The King Of Holland is expected
to die any moment.
The House Of Commons voted
Ell, 100000 to increase the navy.
Countess Rodetzky, granddaughter
of the famous Field Marshal ROdetz-
ky, suicided, shooting herself to
avoid critical surgical operation.
The Russian newspapers have
been prohibited from publishing re
ports of the discovery of the illicit
manufacturing of bombs at Zurich.
1t is said the Gar is thoroughly
alarmed.
Many nihilists have been arrested
that the bombs discovered at Zurich
were intended to be used during the
Cars visit to Berlin.
COpious rains which have been Of
great benefit to the crops have fallen
throughout the Colony of Victoria
Extra precautions were taken for
the safety of the Prince Of Wales
while attending the races at Leices-
ter. This was on account Of an
anonymous letter warning the Mayor
that a plot was on foot to. shoot the
Prince.
The Russian Minister to Buch-
Arrest is instructed to demand an ex-
PLANTATION of the expulsion Of Rus
SLAMS from Roumania.
Sonnenburg, Russia, IS under
water; damage enormous; families
camping on high lands.
Murders are of daily occurrence
in Santiago, and assaults and rob-
berries frequent.
King John of Abyssinia is reported
dead from wounds received in battle.
Emil Treitel, grain dealer, Berlin,
has suspended with liabilities of
100000 marks. The failure affects
New York as well as European ex-
changes.
Emperor William visits England
the first week in July, proceeding
direct to Windsor to visit the Queen.
Emperor William, as a mark of
renewed confidence, has summoned
to Herrenhaus DR.. Won Puttkamer,
who was dismissed by Emperor
Frederick.
Irish distillers have formed a
trust with a capital of 100000.
Jameson stayed out.
Business on the Isthmus at Pana-
ma is almost at a standstill. Several
hundred Italian labOrers in Brazil
have appealed to the King Of Italy
to rescue them from virtual slavery.
Brig Mary +. Dana, with arms
and ammunition for Legitime in
Hayti, was abandoned at sea; crew
saved and taken to Glasgow. Fight
terror with unknown results.
Notes From Washington.
The President has appointed Jas.
n. Huston, of Indiana, to be Treas
urer of the United States; Ellis H.
Roberts, of New York, Assistant
Treasurer at New York; William
Wharton, OF Massachusetts,, First
Assistant Secretary of State; Corn
elius Vancott, Postmaster at New
York; Joel B. Erhardt, Collector Of
Customs for New York.
The POstOffice Department has is
sued a notice to senders of American
goods by parcels post to Hawaii, in
structing them to mark parcels of
such, Manufactured in the United
States" so as to get the benefit of
goods free of duty by treaty.
Secretary Blaine has been inform
ed by telegraph of the purchase, by
an American syndicate, Of the entire
Jamaica railway system.
Also, by the consul at Auckland,
of the wreck of the ship Red Cross,
of Richmond, Maine, at Rarotonga,
all hands saved, the ninety destitute
survivors being cared for by the
consul. The Red Cross, 1,236 tons,
Capt. Mcintyre, sailed from New
castle December 31st for San Fran
cisco.-ED. p G. A.
The Secretary of State has been
informed by the consul general at
Melbourne of a grand popular ova-
ton given the American flag, when
the representative of the United
States went forward in his order to
receive the awards to his country, at
the close Of the Centennial Exhibi-
ton, January 31st.
American Affairs.
Thirteen establishments were
burned at Attica, Ohio.
Natural gas in terrific force and
volume was struck near Palestine, /
Ohio, at a depth of 700 feet.
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