The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-02-08

as placing pictures in each pack. The |
cost OF cigarettes will not be advanced,
however.
An explosion OF natural gas at Pitts |
burg on the 22d inst. completely wrecked
three-story frame dwelling. Two pee
pie were killed and eight wounded.
Miss Nelly Bly, won the race around
the world. She arrived at San Francisco
on the 22d and went by special train to
New York over tine santa te line, reach
Ing her destination on the Goth. Miss
Bisland, her competitor, arrived at New
York Oh the 30th. Miss Blys time was
- days, 10 hours, ii minutes; Miss Bis
lands rs days, 10 hours, As minutes.
The -four miilers of Milwaukee have
| formed combination to checkmate the
plans OF the English syndicate which has
purchased the Minneapolis mills. The
new combination has an actual capital OF
| about 50 900 900, and the mills produce
nearly l 100000 barrels OF -four ANIMAL,
! No tidings have yet been received OF
| the National line steamer Erin which lett
! New York for London nearly a month
ago. The agents hope she will put into
the Azores under sail but the general
opinion is that she will never be heard
from.
cIdChtT TRUST, 10 Dt CdiicU TIC A>SW
York Biscuit Company, and TO include
nearly all the companies east OF the Allie
ghanies, is being formed.
Mexico is rous, d by the recent at
tempt on the part OF Congressman Van
dever to open negotiations for the pur-
chase of Lower California. Secretary
Blaine has had to assure the Mexicans
that the United States Government has
taken no cognizance of the scheme.
Sir William Gull, the eminent British
physician, is dead.
Lord Napier, OF Magdala, died in Lon
don, January 20. He left two sons,
twins, Robert and George. After much
discussion among the doctors and nurses
as to which entered the world first, the
family decided that Robert should in
herit the title. George protested. AS a
compromise the family counsel propose
to give George a handsome annuity and
one or two titles. There is no parallel
case in the history of the British peerage
Miss Amy Fowler, Il native of Bath,
England, about So years of age, arrived
in New York, January so, on her way
out to the Hawaiian Islands to nurse the
lepers at Molokai. She is known az
Sister Rose Gertrude.
: Adam Forepaugh, the famous Amer
can Snowman, is dead.
Foreign News.
Major Wissman, the German explorer
: has telegraphed the German government
t that DR.. Peters who was reported massa
cred by the natives in the interior O
Africa, is safe
Portugal i quietirg down after the
recent bullying by England. The boy
: cott on English goods is still maintained
2 bv Portuguese merchants, and American
commercial houses are being greatly
2 benefited i'll consequence.
Buffalo Bill is to give his "Wild West
show in the COLOSSEUM. One would
5 think the old gladiators would want t.
{ rise in their graves and resent the IN
e lyuSOn.
e The news from Brazil is not encOurag
n ing for the Provisional Government. Ii
S December forty sailors went ashore iron
a man-of-war at Rio de ,Janeiro and while
e drunk shouted for Dom Pedro. The,
y were all executed for their enthusiasm
e While much discomfort is felt with tn
:. Provisional Government, the Imperial
= lists are too weak to attempt to resea
l. Dom Pedro.
/. The Indians of the San Bias coast
II United States of Colombia, who have
n large trade with the United States, hav
e attempted to annex themselves to tn
g United States by raising the American
n flag and defFlng the Colombian authori
e ties.
% Shipping News.
Ma or Blakeney has concluded his in
n vestigation into the Life Saving Servic
Y on this coast. A report is to be mad
" and whltewash is expected.
San Francisco shipping merchants ar
s preparing to purchase vessels in England
g provided Congress does nothing at thi
d session to encourage American shi
/. building. The vessels which are bough
Y will be placed under the Hawaiian flae
y which is not an altogether new way
Of get around the American shipping laws
s United States sea-going torpedo-boa
No. was successfully launched at Bris
s toll, r. L., or the 23d, from the shipyar
n of the Herreshoff Manufacturing Com
n pany. The boat was christened tn
g Gushing. Steam was raised in thirty
S three minutes, the auxiliary machiner
d was started and the boat saluted hersel
l. with her own whistle.
d Bids have been opened at Wash
ingtOn for the construction of two 90
S ton steel gunboats and practice vesse
e of 800 tons. The lowest bidders wer
:. S. l.. Moore Sons Company who bi,
SS0S, 200 for three vessels