The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-09-03

coast ports.
An ocean telegraph cable to Aus
tralia via the Pacific Islands.
The energetic construction of the
Nicaragua Canal as a means of ma
tional defense and commercial devel-
opment.
The encouragement of maritime
commerce and increased energy in
the construction of navy.
American Affairs.
-Four murderers of women, Patrick
Packenham, Jack Lewis (colored),
James Nolan and f. Carolan were
hanged in the yard of the Tombs,
New York on the 23d. Packenham
and Nolan were hanged on one scat
fold. They died easily being dead
eight minutes after they were jerke d
into the air. Lewis and Carolan
were hanged on another scaffold.
Their execution was a horribly bung-
ling job and they slowly strangled
to death, their bodies being horribly
contorted. These are probably ssthe
last executions in New York under
the old method, electricity having
been adopted as the mode hereafter.
An anti Chinese agitation has
started among the laundry en-
ployes of st. Louis. A parade of
$500 white girls is being arranged
Once fairly started, the agitation
will grow with the growth of Chinese
population.
At Devils Gate, about twelve
miles east of Ogden, Utah, on the
18th, a landslide occurred on the
Union Pacific Railroad, taking down
all railroad and commercial wires
and causing the wreckage of a pass
ing freight train. The accident is
due to the heavy rains the past few
days, which also caused the railroad
tracks in Northern Utah to suffer
somewhat.
It is reported that a book trust
will be organized with English CAPT
tai, the amount necessary being
$10,OO0,00O. The New York Sun
says the plan mapped out is that an
English syndicate shall buy outright
the business of the leading publish
ers of cheap novels in New York and
Chicago.
Jimmy Hope, the noted bank
burgler, has been released from the
Auburn, New York, penitentiary, land
has gone to New York city. Bank Off
Gals there have good reason to ex-
anime their safes and vaults.
It is announced that the South
Fork Fishing Club will reconstruct
the dam at the lake, head of Cone
maugh Valley. The people of Johns
town will resist to the end any such
scheme.
At the annual meeting at Niagara
Falls of the American Electric Light
Association, the fact was developed
that in the United States there are
in use 237 OF arc lamps and 2,704,768
incandescent lamps. The growth of
this industry is simply wonderful
It seems but couple of years since
Edison was engaged in perfecting
his incandescent lamp and hunting
through the entire field of nature for
suitable filament, and to day nearly
100000 lamps are in almost con
slant use.
The business portion Of Selma,
CAL, was burned out on the morning
of the 18th inst. The damage is
$4,000, and insurance $33, 900.
A collision occurred on the Balti-
more and Ohio road near Wheeling,
West Virginia, on the 23d. Six
people were killed and twenty-three
wounded.
Foreign Affairs.
The sentence of Mrs. Maybrick
the American woman convicted of
poisoning her husband in Liverpool
and sentenced to die, has been com
muted to Imprisonment for life. Mrs
Maybrick is sinking and cannot live
long.
The Grecians have failed to get
the consent of the Powers to their
acquisition of Crete. England will
probably get the island.
The betrothal is announced at
Berlin of the Duke of Nassau to
Princess Margaret, the yougest sister
of Emperor William of Germany.
Sir Edward Watkin proposes, if
ever he gets his channel tunnel cut
through, to run trains direct from
London to Gibraltar, transfer by
boat to Tangier, and thence along
the north coast of Africa, through
Egypt, down the Persian Gulf to
Kurrachee, and 80 on to Calcutta
without change of cars.
According to reports Haytian
affairs have taken another turn, and
Legitime is again in the ascendant.
A more important rumor is that
France is furnishing him with funds.
II he finally gets on top French in
fluence will be in the ascendant.
We may yet have to intervene in
Hayti in behalf of American inter
ests and humanity.
It is said that English capitalists
have, within the past two years, in
vested over 1920, 100000 of their sur
plus capital in foreign countries:
A large portion of it came to this
country; $122,OOO,OOO was sent to
RuonOs Avros