The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-09-12

very small.
1t is expected that the Naval
Board now selecting site for the
new heavy ordnance works will
select the Benicia Arsenal.
A proposition made by the Board
of Regents to move James Lick 5
body from under the great tele-
scope will be resisted by his survlv-
ing relatives and the Pioneer So
ciety.
w. w. Bishop, the attorney, is
dead.
Colonel z. P. Clark, secretary of
the Anglo-Nevada Assurance Cor
poration, is dead.
Seven thousand dollars worth of
smuggled opium has been seized in
Chinatown by two policemen, and
Louis Mattson, the smuggler, was
arrested.
The "Evening Post F" has in
creased to a six page daily, and is
now issued from its new office in
the old Chronicle " building.
r. L. Carroll, of the wholesale
liquor firm of Carroll & Carroll, was
shot and killed in his office on the
10Th ult. by John NJ. Chenoweth.
proprietor CT the Peerless " saloon.
Chenoweth then killed himself.
Business troubles prompted Cheno-
weth's act.
Nelson Morris, the Chicago pack
er, announces that he intends to
spend 100000 in establishing
slaughter houses and packing es.
adjustments here.
Clara Belle Mcdonald has COM
promised all her claims against R.
Fl. Mcdonald of the Pacific Bank
for $4,000.
Eastern American News.
Four men were killed at New
Orleans on the I'd by the collapse
of four story building.
The Louisville and Nashville
Cannonball train was held up by
masked robbers On the night of the
I'd at Pensacola Junction, Ala, and
the express car was rifed Of
500, 900.
Mrs. Woodwork, the evangelist
who drove several people of Oak
land to insanity is conducting re-
vival at st. Louis. She will be ex-
amined for insanity.
The sealing schooner Matte T.
Dyer was seized at Ounalaska on
the 18th for having liquor on board.
Congress has voted S260,0O0 for
Notifications at San Francisco.
The Canadians are despairing of
an enforcement of their Behring
Sea demands by Great Britain.
Representatives Wilson of Wash
ington and Beckwith of New Jer-
sey came to blows in the House on
the 9th. They were separated.
McVickers Theatre in Chicago
was burned by incendiaries on the
Goth inst.
Blaine has again declined to be-
come a Presidential candidate.
Foreign News.
Rioting continues in Valparaiso,
and advices from Panama are that
twelve men have been killed and
sixty wounded in the troubles.
Stanley and his wife are travel
ing in Switzerland.
The Gar and Emperor William
have had peace conference, which
does not seem to have been a sue
cess.
The death of Ismail Pasha, the
exiled former ruler of Egypt, is re-
ported at Constantinople. 1t is
thought that he was secretly poi
soned.
Sporting News.
Alabaster has established a new
four year old trotting stallion rec
ord, placing it at 2:15. The record
was made at independence, Iowa.
Roy Wilkes, the PAGER, made new
record of 2:084.
Potomac won the Futurity stakes
(worth S70,00O at Sheepshead Bay,
N. Y, on the 30th ult. The distance
was 4 of mile, and the time
liza 1-5.
Salvador ran a mile against time
at Monmouth Park on the 29th ult.,
and got over the distance in 1851,
establishing a new record which
will stand for many a day. This is
81 seconds better than Raveloe's
1891, and Al better than Ten
Broeck's 1:39a, which stood for ten
years.
Sullivan has gone on the stage as
star in Duncan Harrison's "Hon-
est Hearts and Willing Hands"
Tenney ran mile against time
at Brighton Beach on the 25th ult.
but only made 1:404.
Isaac Murphy the famous col
ored jockey has been suspended
for drunkenness.
Harry NJ. Johnson the sprinter
died in San Francisco on the 23d
ult. His record for 100 yards was
8 4-5 seconds.
Axtell, the phenomenal trotting
stallion, record PIP, has been re-
tired from the turf.