The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-09-01

which eleven bodies were taken |
out. The escaping steam and smoke |
from the engine instantly filed the |
car.
American News.
Nearly twenty-five lives were
lost in cyclone near Wilkesbarre,
Pa, on the 10Th inst
Silver is still advancing on ac-
count of the governmental pur-
chases.
Some efforts are to be made to
stop further immigration of Nor
mon converts at Castle Garden.
The New York Central strike
has not been settled, and the
knights OF Labor contemplate
ordering a general strike on all
roads leading into New York.
There was trouble between the
Pinkerton police and the strikers
in Albany on the 18th inst, and
twenty people more or less injured
The New York Sun confirms
the fact that John D. Rockefeller
will give $4,000, 900 for the estab-
lishment of Baptist University in
New York. and hints that Professor
Harper of Yale will be its first
President.
The coffee merchants of Balti-
more are very much interested
over the rumored formation of a
coffee syndicate with a capital of
100000. One dealer who has
relations with both Rio and Santos,
says the syndicate is for the pur-
pose of doing away with the middle
man, who Is an importer in the
coffee trade. The syndicate will
buy up all the coffee it can from
planters, regulate the prices, and
ship to an agency in the United
States, instead of to the importer
The Missouri Pacific Express
train was held up by masked men
near Upton, Mo-, on the 18th inst,
and 100000 was stolen.
Money is unusually stringent in
New York, and the treasury de-
partment will endeavor to release
the stress by buying more bonds.
Plans have been made for new
Herald building on Broadway, be-
tween Sixty-ffth and Sixty sixth
streets, New York. The paper is
to occupy the building within SIX
months. The outside walls be-
tween the ground and the first
floors are to be constructed of iron
pillars and plate glass, so that the
people can see the workings of the
pressroom from the street.
The population of the new State
of Washington is 343,5 In 1880
it was 1916. Seattle has 1924
people and Tacoma 1888.
Foreign News.
A dispatch from the City of
Mexico, August Fl, says: "The
treaty between Guatemala and
Salvador was signed August 18th,
Guatemala reservlng five days in
which to ratify the convention.
The conditions of the agreement
are the retirement of Ezeta from
the Presidency; that Ayala take
possession of the Presidency and
order an election for President, and
that the state of affairs existing be-
fore June I'D be re-established."
A dispatch from Melbourne says:
The union officers on many vessels
here have been replaced by non
union men, and the seamen have
declined to work with them after
the expiration of the time set in the
notice that has been served upon
the vessel owners. 1t is expected
the shipping trade will be COM
pletely stopped before Saturday.
The funeral services over the late
Cardinal Newman were conducted
at the Oratory ct Edgebaston, near
Birmingham, Eng, on the 18th
inst.
La Canadien of Quebec appeals
to the leaders of the Ottawa and
Quebec governments to provide
work for the inhabitants of the
counties below Quebec, whose crops
are total failure. Thousands OF
families are preparing to leave the
country, and unless the projected
Matane railway is pushed ahead, il
order to provide these families with
bread an emigration will take place
which will be ruinous to the Do
minion.
John Ruskin is rapidly sinking
He is almost continuously delirious
and during these irresponsible mo-
ments he attempted suicide with 8
razor. The strictest watch is kept
over him, but despite this he has
twice made this effort upon his life
! An investigation has proved that
there is no leprosy on the island Of
Anticosti.
Advices state that 5000 miners
in the Borinage district, Belgium
have struck. Socialist leaders are
fomenting the discomfort among
the men, and it is expected that the
movement will spread.
Cholera has reached England.
DIR. Grancher, the most cherished
of Pasteur's pupils, has, as pre-
viously announced IN the Herald,
read before the Academy of Sci
ences a report of experiment:
which, in conjunction with NJ. ID
Martin, he has been making with
view to the discovery of remedy
for that fell disease, which ha:
hitherto completely batfied medica
| snianno Ho holieves in PasteEr'.