The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-05-14
OUR SAN FRANCISCO LETTER.
Per y. >. Alameda, San Francisco, May
D. 1889.
(From Our Special Correspon dentD
Foreign Affairs.

Foreign Affairs.
Henri Rochefort's son committed
suicide at Bonn.
Lord Walter Campbell, third son
of the Duke of Argyle and brother
of the Marquis of Lorne, died OF
fever in South Africa.
The Marquis of Ormond is men
toned as the next Viceroy of Ire
land.
| Queen Natalie has announced her
intention of returning to Belgrade.
Carl Rosa, the famous violinist,
died in London of peritonitis.
Owing to the improvement in the
health of the King of Holland the
Dutch Parliament by a unanimous
vote passed a resolution restoring
his power.
The volcano of Vesuvius is in an
alarming state of eruption. Streams
of lava are coursing down the noun
tain on the Pompeii side.
The police of st. Petersburg be-
lieve that dynamite bombs secretly
manufactured at Zurich, Switzer-
land, have been conveyed to Russia
and that the plOtters are awaiting a
favorable opportunity to use them.
1t is reported that menacing let
tiers have been found on the Cars
table. In consequence of the com
promising discoveries affecting the
Chief of the secret police, NJ. Pauti
lir q, the head of that department.
a / several high officials have been
So issed
Ii is expected that the Spanish
Government will soon sell at public
auction $40000,000 worth of State
woodland, in order to cover the fin
ancial deficit, to build railroads.
canals and highways, and to estab
lish rural loan banks.
The United States Consul at Con
alves is authority for the statement
that Hyppolite had cut the army of
Legitime in two and had one sec
ton in a position where it was being
re iced by starvation. He con-
81 lers the speedy surrender of Legi-
OAiIC eau CHAOAS PAOOdOIS'
Six Russian men-Of-war have az
rived in Corean waters. Their OBJ
ject is to establish a coaling station
at Deersland, near Fusan.
The provincial authorities have
thwarted the efforts to secure the
opening of the Upper Yangtse XII
ang to steamers.
Business is at standstill at Pa |
mama, and a stream of ragged ex-
employees Of the canal is pouring out
of the country.
Chill Is having an ironclad built |
which is to be the most powerful in !
South American waters.
The st. Louis limited express on
the Grand Trunk Railroad jumped
the track and went over an embank-
ment few miles from Hamilton,
Ont. The train was going at the
rate of nearly mile a minute.
Eight coaches were wrecked and
burned and over twenty persons
killed. The train started from
Windsor bound for Suspension
Bridge and the East. Immediately
after leaving the track the train
plunged over the embankment. The
Daggage-car telescoped the smoker
and then both caught fire. Those
who were free tried to save the pas
sengers pinioned in the blazing
smoker, but without success. The
of the water tank cut off
5he supply of water. All that could
De obtained was dashed upon the
DANES by means of pals.
Advices from Massowah give the
letails of the recent death of King
John of Abyssinia. He died Of
wounds received in a battle when
lis army was defeated by the Der
fishes.
The American Duchess Of Marl- :
borough scored a success at the
Queens Drawing Room and kissed
Her Majesty.