The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-02-18

in London has come to
the surface in Belfast. Twelve
youths have been arrested.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe has /
much improved in health and
strength. She is neither insane nor
imbecile, as has been stated, but has
reached the stage of second child |
hood.
The total debt of Australasia is |
f167 .S16,401, or an average per head |
of the population of t45, Us Cd.
Most of this great debt was incurred
for constructing railroads, which are
owned by the colonies.
Herr Sormits, editor of the Col
ogne Gazette, has been sentenced to
one months Imprisonment in the
fortress for publishing calumnies
against the Empress Frederick, the
mother of Emperor William.
February 5th Flint Morris of Jer-
sey City was expelled, and Perry
Taylor of Schoharie, n. Y. and Al
bert Wells of Dedham, Mass, sus-
pended for six and two weeks respec-
lively for stealing the clapper of
Rutgers College bell. All are sophie
mOres.
Admiral Krantz, Minister Of M
rine, proposes important additions to
the French navy for the year 1891.
His plans include the construction
of seventy-eight new craft. of which
ten are to be heavy ironclads and
fifty four torpedo-boats of various
classes.
The London Tines Vienna dis
patch reports that at Sofia the most
vigilant military precautions are
taken. On February 9Th Prince
Ferdinand offered to abdicate if it
was thought best for the benefit of
the country, but the Ministers una
nimously opposed.
Prince Antonio Marie Philippi
Louis d'Orleans, Duke of Montpen-
sier, died suddenly February 4th, at
San Lucas de Barramanda. He was
in the sixty sixth year of his age.
The Duke Of Montpensier was the
fifth and youngest son Of King Louis
Philippe of France.
The work of removing the bodies
of the miners who lost their lives by
the explosion III the colliery at Aber-
sychan, February 6, is being carried
on as rapidly as possible. One hun
dred and seventy bodies have been
taken from the pit. It is believed
that the number killed will reach
100.
Alfred Thomas. a Home Ruler
will at the next session of ParIia.
ment move an amendment to the
address in reply to the Queens
speech at the opening of Parlia
ment that the affairs of Wales ought
to be administered by special de-
partment, presided over by a Min
lister acquainted with Welsh nationa
affairs.
The Daily Telegraph says that the
report of the Parnell Commission
will be published during the first
week of the session of Parliament
It is precise and vigorous in dealing
with the forgeries, but finds it i'm
p >ssible to exonerate Parnell from
lis failure to separate politica
organizations from organization!
that were openly criminal.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bradley Martin, OF
February Z, gave the most gorgeou:
private entertainment ever given IL
, New York. The occasion was din
ner, followed by cotillion, given t.
274 of their friends and as farewell
to New York FOR some months. TIL,
| affair cost $4,000. Delmonico's wa
, hung with tapestries worth full,
$4,000, and nearly $4,000 was spen
in orchids alone.
Two shocking accidents occurred
February 5th at Roebling's wir
mill. Trenton, n. j. Chas. Cheattle
: aged II years, was pierced through
: the body and for an instant sus
!, pended in the air on red-hot 70,
about three inches in diameter
Young Cheattle was what is know
| as "hooker-up'' in the mill. Mar
Molesky, drawer of fine wire in tn
same mill, was pierced in the stomacl
about midnight. He was new ma
j, and did not understand how to al
/ range his wire.
There is now no doubt that Mar
Anderson is engaged to marry Al
> tonic de Navarro of New York. 1
, fact she has admitted. The pros
pective husband of the beautiful act
t ress was christened, about 80 year
r ago, Antonio Fernando de Navarro
and be is the elder son of Jose +.
n Navarro, the wealthy Spanish-Amer
: can who projected the magnificer
; Spanish flats in Fifty-eighth an
! Forty-ninth streets. These houses
n the Cordova, Madrid, Lisbon, GreI
5 ada and others, cost about S2,0OO,00'
e Antonio, like Miss Anderson, is
: devout Roman Catholic. and for SCI
r, eral years they have been very clos
u friends.
d The Illinois State Supreme Cou1
It granted writ of error to the Unite
$ States Supreme Court in the case
s of Neebe. Fielder and Schwab, tt
IS anarchists, who are now in til
Il State Penitentiary. The WI
u was granted on the claim that IL
@ prisoners were deprived of their col
n stitutional rights by not being pc
It mitted to be present when til
Y Court passed sentence upon then
n This is point not heretofore d
< cided by the Federal Supreme Cour
IT and if sustained, will not only r