The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-11-15

damaged by water, the State Board of 0
Trade exhibit was cleaned out, and the n
roof burned off nearly the entire build
ing The total loss is $3.50 900, and every !,
one in the building suffered some loss.
The entire structure IS SO badly damaged I
that it will have 10 come down
\ commission of United States officers :
has examined the Benecia arsenal, with
a view to locating a factory for the manu-
facture Of heavy ordnance there.
On the Ist inst. John Bowen WAS
killed by &c. Beck in saloon row over
ten cents The murder was committed
in cold blood.
Reports that the Santa Fe road is to
build to San Francisco through TETON
pass are continually being heard.
The town OF Truckee has been de-
stroved by incendiaries. Loss 800, 900.
James McCudden, the Mare Island
navy ward contractor and political boss,
has been indicted by the United States
Grand Jury for making fraudulent coal
deliveries.
Alvan Clark & Sons of Boston have |
begun work on the forty-inch glass Tor |
the telescope to be built on Mount Wilson |
| in Southern California. The glass Will |
| be four inches larger than the Lick lens.
| Florence Blythe has been allowed
! 81 900 a month from the Blythe estate.
| Flood and Mackay are about to develop
their newly acquired coal fields in Men
docino county.
J A brush fire swept over Goat Island
| recently, destroying the storehouses OF
the lighthouse service, and doing several
thousand dollars worth OF damage.
By fire in navy storehouse at Mare
Island on the oath ult. damage to the
amount of $50 900 was done.
Up to June 30th $4,2l0, 403 had been
spent on the new City Hall. The
building will cost $4,000 when I'm
ished.
Alvinza Hayward has sold all his in
terests in the Comstock mines.
Morgenthau's candle works have been
DESTROYED by fire. Loss 100000.
DIR. Henry Ferrer, the we'll known
occulst, died recently at Santa Barbara
from cancer of the kidneys. He was
one of the leading occulists of America.
American News.
h, Stanley is in New York, and is about
t to start lecturing. He has but little to
V say regarding the controversy recently
), started over the death OF Major Bartolet.
: The New York Times has created a
C scare by announcing that new forts and
}, coaling stations are to be established al
C Bermuda and in the West Indies against
n the United States.
e English capitalists have bought all the
e iron works in the Mahoning Valley Ohio
Of at cost OF 81 10000
l. The Brotherhood of American Tele
n graphers is accredited with making pre-
e parations for general strike in 1892
j. Strikes recently occurred In st. Lou
a and st. Paul.
ID Tom Voolfolk, who killed nine mem
o. bers of his family, was hanged at Perry
he Ga, on the Doth ultimo. he got rel
lg gion.
n Eight men were drowned during tn
I'd burning of the steamer Anne Young, a
a. Port Huron, Mich i, on the Goth ultimo.
It was rumored recently that judy
be Walter @. Gresham had been appointe
is to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Coul
,r- Bench, caused by the death of Justie
IL Miller. The rumor was finally traced
re gentleman who said that judy
ng Gresham had received dispatch froI
he Washington asking him if he would
III willing to accept the office, and saying
ey would be given him if he desire'
a Gresham is said to be the one to be a
IN appointed.
or, b. w. Bonynge, of San Francisco, al
on some Eastern capitalists are about
Law a new transatlantic cable from Ne
York to Valencia Bay, Ireland, at co
g of 100000.
10 The ''Angelos," by Millet, has bee
~ sold to the French Government +
to $50 900 francs. 1t was purchased la
nd by an American company for $500
tor francs.
or- The engagement between Mimi
fnr Davis, daughter of Jefferson Davis, al
ha Alfred Wilkinson, has been broken OFT
do. Twenty blocks of buildings we
1ht burned at Mobile, Ala, on the rs
Flo instant. The loss is $4,000.
inn. Blaine has officially approved t
ma. course of Minister Miner in the b.
ION runda case.
n na,a The New York Herald charges jc
;n berry and corruption in the DISTRIBUTE
'7 of the Johnstown Relief Fund. i
FOL afflicted persons received s2,225 8;
=, :, and the sum of 81 ABS, 40 was otEerwi
sitv expended.
,na The statement telegraphed fro
~ Canada upon the authority OF Britt
,;ns member of Parliament that 1t has be
- 30 resolved to arbitrate the Behrlng :
Ill fisheries dispute is premature, so TAR
'oe it NAV be taken to apply to any co
anI pleted agreement on the part OF be
- Governments 1t is learned that C
zoe respondence on the subject Is still
" progress, but there are hopeful sig
H. that a satisfactory settlement will
ton reaGleu d. d coiii pa. -I. 20
VI $500 900 were burned at East Pepper'
the Mass , on the oath ultlmo
~ The United States Government v
go hereafter employ nickel-steel alloy
IL armoring the war-ships. A mill
'o'" dollars was appropriated by Congr
loo for the purchase of nickel.
'oo. The New York Herald questions
oIas legality of the Mckinley Bill because
ato' the omission of certain regulations
g. , garding the internal revenue tax
this tobacco.
t tnDa Johnny Hope, the son OF Jimmy Ho
,sas the famous bank burglar, has been T
nail doned from Sing Sing prison, where
was serving a twenty-year senten
Jimmy Hope gave up the S3,W0,OO
=, bonds, which were stolen from the Nj
the haitian Bank, in return tor Johr
ions Homes pardon. Johnny Hope is to
ana to South America to live.
oted Bv a collision the Kansas city Me
nan phis and Birmingham railroad at !
mingham, Ala, on the 22d ultlmo, +
cree people were killed.
the
tho Foreign News.
New Burchelll is to be hanged at Wo
in stock. Ont, next week. He has writ
a biography, for which James Gore
this Bennett. of the New York Herald, p
to $3.50. Efforts are being made TO s.
the his neck.
-ess, Reports by the latest steamer Jal
1rts shoOc that the cholera is diving out.