The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-03-07
LATE FOREIGN NEWS.
The Brig Wm. Il. Irwin brings dates
from san Francisco to February 18th.

The Brig wm. Il. irwin brings dates
from san Francisco to February 10Th.
The Dundee Dock strike ended Feb
ruary 18th. The demands OF the men
have been complied with and they have
resumed work.
The Ragged Ball." at Vienna Feb
ruary l4th, in which the guests dressed
themselves in rags, Melted s., 900 for the
poor.
Advices from Shanghai report that
the Governor Of Formosa has been cap
tured and beheaded with the remaining
rebel chiefs.
There is a smallpox epidemic at Glad
bach, Germany. The disease was
brought from Nerviers by school chill
| dren.
There are number OF people who be-
| ieve that there will be bloodshed at the
Republican primary soon to be held IN
| Sacramento.
France, as was expected, has de-
! clined the invitation oil Germany to the
| International Labor Convention, having
| already accepted the Swiss invitation to
labor conference to be held in May.
| Secretary Tracy has decided To present
silver service to Chief Parrish of the
| Fire Department and gold watches to
| Policeman Cattell and Fireman Wright
| for their heroic action at the Tracy fire.
Aninfernal machine containing powder
and gun cotton was sent through the
| mails to John Nj. Mcbride of Philadel-
| phia February l4th, but owing to its
| faulty construction it failed to explode.
T.
| from the San Francisco Board of Trade
| the L. s. Postoffice Department at WASH
| ington February 10th, ordered that all
the mails between San Francisco and
| Portland should be carried by the regular
| coastwise steamers between those points
until further orders.
| In the mail received at Washington
| February Sth, by Senator Ingalls, there
was a small pink-wrapped box. Upon
being opened the box was found to con-
| tain cartridge, with the following in
scription in black ink:
| ELECTION pills for Old Cuff or for In
| gals, from Jackson, Miss. Come to see
us, old Nutgalls "
Senator Ingalls, was not alarmed at the
contents, but both he and his secretary
| thought it prudent to lay the cartridge
|
| that it might be more destructive than
an ordinary cartridge. On examination,
| however, it proved to be buckshot cart
ridge containing nine large buckshot and
charge of powder.
Reports have just been received of a
| terrible experience of two Mormon elders
in Marion county. Alabama. The elders
were engaged iii their work of making up
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to leave. They paid no heed to the no.
tice and that night they were called out
by party of men who came openly
without masks. Taking the elders into
the woods they gave them fifty lashes
| to their gaping wounds and then
the tar was set on fire and the
elders turned loose. They ran to a
creek a few yards distant and jumped in,
| which was the last seen of them 1t is
not known whether the injuries are fatal
or not.
Miss Sarah Phelps Stokes, daughter of
Banker Allison Phelps Stokes, was mar
red at New York, February Is, to Baron
Hugh Colin Gustav Halkett, member OF
the London banking house of Roths-
child & Co. The ceremony occurred in
.
Potter officiating. The church was
crowded with a fashionable throng
| The interior was massed with palms,
lilies, roses and azalias.
Captain Giovanni Davesi, member OF
of noble Italian family, who married a
wealthy American woman, persuaded
her to sign notes for $50, COO. The notes
were in Italian, which she did not under
stand, and he told her that her signature
was a mere matter OF form. Subsequent
~ he brought suit in New York to recov-
er the value of the notes, and the case is
now on trial
The Acknowledgement at Washington
received the following telegram February
10 from United States Marshal John r.
Mizell, Jacksonville, Florida: CIV. B.
Saunders, one OF my bravest and most
efficient regular deputies, was brutally
assassinated at Quincy, Gadsden county,
Florida, yesterday afternoon about 8
o'clock, where he had gone with myseli
and other deputies on official business. -
A dispatch from Paris dated Feb
ruary 18th says: The Duke of Orleans,
eldest son of the Count Of Paris and heir
to the throne of France, was condemned
this afternoon to two years imprison-
ment and to pay the costs OF the trial.
He may be pardoned and set at liberty
on the other side OF the frontier within a
few hours. He may, on the other hand,
be at once taken to one OF the central
prisons, either at Clairvaux, Gallon Or
Melun, and LETT there in durance vile
until 1892. The courtroom was crowded
with spectators when the Duke OF
Orleans was arraigned, and when he
was brought to the bar the crowd
cheered for the army, the Duke of Or
leans and the Republic. The demon
tration was so uproarious that the gen.