The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-04-17

1t Is reported 1rOm MoAAOO U.
probable deal will be made with Jay
Gould for the Chamlia Railroad:
The report is doubted, as the railroad
is now in the hands OF
European syndicate. Another rumor
has it that Gould will establish
steamship line from the United
States to the Mexican and Centrai
and South American ports.
The Morrow Chinese Enumeration
bill which provides for the enumera-
ton of ali Chinese at the coming
census is being met with serious OPP
position from the religious sects IN
the East. The New York Chamber
of Commerce also sent in memorial
against it.
The House Committee on Railways
and Canals has ordered favorable
report on the bill providing for the
construction by the United States OF
q ship canal around Niagara Falls.
A million dollars are appropriated TO
begin the work under the direction
of the Secretary of War, and the
total cost is to be $40, 100000.
The Olympic Club has given ). >.
Corbett, who is now in New York,
permission to box John l.. Sullivan
for four rounds. A match is ex-
pected.
The racing and baseball seasons
are now in full swing.
The man-of-war Charleston Is
down from the Mare Island Navy
Yard, and is ready for cruise. She
will first go to Honolulu.
A dispatch from Boston says that
q company is being organized there
to build twenty American steamships
for the foreign trade as soon as the
Farquhar Tonnage Bill passes Con-
gress. The steamers will fly the
American flag, and some will engage
in the South American trade.
Foreign News.
With regard to the new conspiracy
discoveries in Russia, three hundred
excited university students assem-
bled on the I'd inst, intending to
march to the Ministry of Public In
struction, but the police intervened
and arrested IT'S of them. Some
three hundred students of the Tech
biological Institute and many pupils
of the School of Forestry and the
Academy of Medicine have been
arrested for taking part in seditious
meetings.. At Moscow fifteen sttld-
ents have been arrested and will be
tried on a charge of being political
revolutionists. Forty two have been
expelled from the university. Forty
four will be subjected to minor pun
ishments, and the remainder will be
released. The disorder is considered
sign of revolutionary plans in con-
nection with the agitation in foreign
countries regarding the treatment of
political prisoners in Siberia. It is
not thought that the movement has
the slightest prospect Of success.
Sixty-seven students at Charkoff
University have been arrested and
eleven expelled. The Gar is re-
ported to be ill, but it is said that
| another attempt has been made on
his life. Poisoning is thought to be
the method employed.
A French company has contracted
with the Guatemalan Government to
build road from the Atlantic to the
Pacific.
A colony of $500 Mormons is
about to move from Utah into the
Canadian Northwest Territory.
Eyraud, the murderer of Gouffe,
is reported captured in Mexico. The
report has not been verified
France is experimenting with
smokeless powder, and has found
that for military purposes it cannot
be excelled.
DIR. Knappe, German ex-Consul at
Samoa, has been pensioned by his
Government, and retired from the
diplomatic service.
A dispatch from London, dated
April 9Th says; The barbarous muir.
der of Helena Montana, q disreput-
able woman at Hobersthal, near AK
la Chapelle, has created great excite
ment. The woman was killed in q
mysterious manner in the open
street. Her throat was cut from ear
to ear, and the body disemboweled
and otherwise mutilated after the
fashion of Jack the Ripper. The
woman had been drinking with q
Chinaman all the afternoon in low
den. The pair had parted appar-
emily on friendly terms, and it is
supposed that the Chinaman subse-
/ quently lay in wait for and muir
dered her. When the body was
found at midnight the blood lay in
stagnant pools on the pavement all
around it. No outcry was heard by
those living in the vicinity. None
of the neighbors could throw a par
ticle of light on the mystery. The
police arrested thirty Chinese on
suspicion of being accessory.
The Princess Of Wales is very
feeble and almost stone deaf. Her
illness is causing much anxiety.
Marked changes are about to be
made in the uniform of the German
army. Conspicuous among them
will be the abolition of the famous
Prussian military cap and the adop-
ton of one made on the American
pattern. The stand-up collar is also
doomed. These and other innova.
tons are to follow the introduction
of smokeless powder, and are intend
ed to add still further to the invisi.
bility of soldiers in action.
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