The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-10-16

L. J. Diez, Jr, cashier OF the
Panama Railroad and recently act
ing manager of the company, has |
just arrived in the city. He says |
that the prospects for resumption
on the canal under the new con-
tract with the Colombian Govern
ment, are excellent.
San Francisco News.
The Central Pacific Company has
added a dining-car service to all Its
lines.
1t has been discovered that Mrs.
Jessie Benton Fremont, widow Of
the late General John G. Fremont,
and daughter of the late Senator
Thomas Renton, has been living in
comparative want in Los Angeles.
A relief subscription has been
started, and Congress has given
her pension of $4,000 year.
An immense field of coal, owned
by Flood and Mackey, has been
discovered in Mendocina county,
$50 miles from San Francisco.
Samuel Goldburg was shot and
killed by Mile Panhorst, girl of
20, in her house, on the goth inst.
He wanted to marry her, and she
objected.
J. NJ. Mcdonald has been nomin-
ated for Mayor by the anti-Buckley
Democrats.
Rain fell in most parts of the
State on the oath. and the grape
and raisin crop is jeopardized in
consequence.
The University Regents have
given up the idea of moving the
remains of James Lick from under
the great telescope at Mount
Hamilton.
A sensational story is afloat to
the effect that Senator Stanford Is
to retire from the Southern Pacific
Company and join the Vanderbilts
and the Union Pacific in building
a competing road into Califor-
MIA. 1t has been denied by every
one except Senator Stanford.
Captain J. w. Smith has finally
organized his ferry company, which
is to be run between Oakland and
San Francisco in connection with
the California and Nevada Rail
road. The company is known AZ
the Pacific Development and Inn
provement Company, and }. w
Smith is President, G. King Secre
tary, and Abner Doble Treasurer
The capital stock will be offered
to the citizens of Oakland very
shortly.
American News.
G.. G.. Stevenson, Governor of Ne
vada, died at Carson City, on the
21st, aged ga years.
Two Knights of Labor, named
Cane and Buell., have been arrest
ed for attempting to wreck New
York Central trains during the
great strike. They have confessed
and implicate Master Workman
Lee.
Burchell, the murderer of Ben
we'll, is on trial at Woodstock, Ont
The evidence against him thus fal
is very strong. His wife has no
been indicted though her case wa
considered by Canadian CRANE
jury.
Six shocks of earthquake wer'
felt at Columbus, S. c., on the 23rt
inst.
The shipping bills, both mai
subsidy and for bounty. have no
been passed by the House, it beins
impossible to get quorum.
President MILFORD Woodruff, o
the Mormon Church, has issued ;
manifesto to the Mormon people OIL
the polygamy question, reviewin:
it in it's relations to the laws. Tn
manifesto concludes with the fol
lowing sentence: " | now public.
!. declare that my advice to the Lat
ter Day Saints is to refrain from
contracting any marriage forbidden
by the law of the land"
, w. D. Howells, the novelist ha
l come to the defense of Tolstoi'
L" Kreutzer Sonata" the sale O
which has been forbidden by th
Car of Russia, and which has beel
forbidden transportation througI
> the mails by Postmaster Genera
,, Wanamaker.
Foreign News.
A cablegram from CONSTANT
nople states that the Sultan l
greatly agitated over the exlstenc
of a revolutionary movement t,
,, reform the Turkish Government
). The revolutionists are working be
yond the reach of the Sultan, ant
! are said to be exciting great dea
= of feeling Their demands are TO
a reduction of the Sultan's budgets
honest administration in all depart
, ments, and common justice TO ever,
subject of the Porte, to the EN-
that the Ottoman Empire may b
saved from threatened dissolution
Emperor William will go to Sly
ria with Emperor Francis JOSEPH
: for a few days shooting in tn
! fine part of October. Press dis
patches Indicate that famil,
quarrel between these autocrats
and the Car may precipitat
a war which will be for the pur
pose of making marked changes il
} the map of Europe. Russia want
5 to get into the Balkan Peninsula
and proposes to do so while Ger
5 many and Austria will make i