The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-08-18


lish syndicate.
1t is announced that the Cali
fornia and Nevada narrow gauge
read will soon put on an independ
ent ferry line to Oakland.
Another effort is to be made to
raise funds with which to increase
the Fire Department.
William Brown, an old Alaska
resident, arrived on the steamer
Umatiila from Victoria, on the 1st
INST, with = native boy whom he
rescued from one of the tribes
which intended burning him at the
| stake as a witch.
Father McGlynn has been de-
livering course of lectures IN the
Metropolitan Temple.
The political fight is not yet well
warmed up. Morrow and Mark
ham are having a great battle for
the Republican gubernatorial NOM
nation, and locally the only fea
ture worthy of note is the indie
pendent Democratic movement to
GUST Buckley, who rules the party
with a rod of iron.
a syndicate, including Phil
Armour and Cudahy of Chicago,
Peter Her of Omaha and many
local capitalists, has purchased
5000 acres of land near Baden in
San Mateo County, and will erect
thereon q million dollar packing
and Strengthening establishment.
They will reach out for trade in
every Pacific port, including Homo
lulu, on fresh and preserved meat.
There is also a rumor that the At
Gibson Company is in the deal and
will place the yards of It's San
Francisco terminus there, when it
builds into this city.
Judge Shafter has dismissed a
new suit of Sarah Althea Terry
against the Sharon estate, based ON
the same grounds as the old suits.
Eastern American News.
1t is reported that an English
company has secured control of all
the table glass ware establishments
in the country for S3,300,0O0
The net public debt of the United
States on July LIST was s976,399, 113.
General J. G.. Fremont's will has
been discovered in the archives of
Surrogate Random's New York
office. 1t was executed on August
10, 1854, and was deposited in the
Surrogate's office two days later In
a sealed envelope. He gives his
entire estate to his widow.
Third Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral Hazen has forbidden Count
Tolstois latest work 'The Kreutzer
Sonata" transmission through the
mails on the ground that it is an
indecent publication.
There is genuine case of lep
rosy in New York. The victim is
Manuel Garutia, twenty years old
and the scion of noble family in
Spain who has been attending the
military academy at Chester. Pa
For week he stopped at a Span
ish-American clearinghouse, max
ing liable to his loathsome contagi.
Gus disease numerous boarders.
The demand for silver has in
creased enormously since the pas
sage of the Silver bill and the price
is constantly going up.
The business portion of the town
of Wallace, Idaho, was wiped out
by fire on the 29th ult. Loss $780,.
900. Traver and Red Bluff, Cal
each had a $4,000 fire during the
past week.
Fire at East Saginaw, Mich, or
the Goth ult. destroyed lumber
mills and salt works valued al
S250,000.
Foreign News.
"Bradstreet' Auckland CORE.
spondent states that an effort W i'll
soon be made to induce population
to flow thither.
A despatch from Sydney, dated
the 31st, says: The steamer Lubbock
from Apia, brings rumors of dis.
: orders in1the Samoan villages. In
the opinion of Europeans, these
disorders point out the necessity Of
,, the treaty powers of England, Ger.
many and the United States forming
/, proper government for Samoa.
Archduchess Marie Valerie
daughter of the Emperor Francis
Joseph of Austria, was married tc
the archduke Francis Salvador on
the 31st ult.
t Cholera is reported at Nagasaki
and much uneasiness is felt.
The Gar has issued ukase
which practically banishes the
100000 Jews now resident in Rus
STA. A large proportion are ex-
> pected to come to America.
5 Lady Dunlo, who before hel
) marriage to Viscount Dunlo was
t Belle Billion, the concert hall singer
5 has baked suit to obtain divorce
, from her.
{ Victoria, Vancouver and Esqui
| mault are to be still more heavily
, fortified.
Continued fighting is reported il
Armenia between the Turks anC
Armenians, and the latter have
asked for Russian interference.
Sporting News.
. Raveloe a California bred horse
ran mile in 1871 at Monmouth
DorI- n | ~ 40 o1rt bao+;,,1. ID Z.