The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-04-16

to ask Congress to set apart hvG
acres on the east side OF Anger
Island in the bay, as a.site for ieper
and smallpox hospital:
The strike of the iron moulders
continues and is without speclai
feature.
The Governor has appointed LOUIS
Sloss, Jr., regent of the State uni
versity, vice J. S. Hager, deceased.
Horace Davis has resigned the pre-
sidency of the institution.
Ex-Postmaster S. w. Backus has
been Endorsed by the California dele
CATION in Congress for re-appolnt-
ment to the position of Postmaster.
Ex-Congressman J. A. Louttit has
been sued for $4,000 for breach OF
promise by Mrs. Emma Eastman.
Mrs. Xarifa J. Falling, who shot
and killed her husband for consort-
ing with another woman has been
acquitted by a jury in the Supreme
| Court.
An English Company has been
organized to bring English farmers
to America and locate them on Cali
fornia lands.
| American News.
Whitelaw Reid, the American
Minister to France, has returned for
q brief visit to America. He thinks
war is inevitable.
Kemmler the first man to be exc
cuted by electricity, has been SEN
fenced to die the week beginning
April 2Sth.
The Senate has passed special
Notifications bill which sets aside
$3,5OO,OOO for works at New York,
Boston and San Francisco, and $l,-
100000 for heavy ordnance factory
at Benicia, CAL. Rock Island, LII i,
or Indianapolis, Ind.
Vice Admiral Stephen G. Rowan,
u. S. n, retired, died on the 31st
ult., aged IS years.
Secretary Tracy approves the
proposed plan for review of the
navies of the world in New York
harbor in 1892.
Ex-Sheriff Flack of New York, has
been sentenced to two months in Jail
and to pay a fine of $500 for conspir-
ing to get divorce from his wife.
General D. E. Sickles has been made
sheriff.
The homestead of Horace Greeley
at Chappaqua, N. Y, was burned on
the Sd inst.
The Mississippi river is still ex-
ceedingly high and the levees are
broken in many places. Vast areas
of land are covered with water.
ns-Atlantic steamer fares are
to be advanced by all the companies
this summer.
Foreign News.
A new conspiracy has been discov-
cred among the students of the uni
versity at st. Petersburg and it and
the Institute of Technology as we'll
as all universities in the empire have
been closed by the Gar.
Emin Pasha has accepted the
proposals made to him by Mayor
Messman and has entered the Ger
man service.
The City of Paris has arrived at
Liverpool after detention of sew
veral days. While at sea an explo-
sion of one of her boilers occurred
partially disabling her. It was
feared at one time that she would
sink.
Stepnick the Nihilist exile is soon
to visit the United States.
A rupture between Servia and
Bulgaria is imminent. The trouble
is said to have been fomented by
Russia.
Great honors were paid to Bis
marck on the LIST inst. on his birth
day. Thousands of people called at
his residence at FREDERICKSBURG.
The periodical story about the
} abdication of Queen Victoria has
} appeared and has been denied.
} Sir Charles Dixie is shortly to re-
turn from his retirement and stand
for Parliament.
The new White Star liner Majestic
is expected to break the trans At
J lantie record on this trip. She will
probably arrive at New York to-
night.
Marine News.
The steamship China arrived at
Hongkong March 31st, 20 days from
San Francisco, the fastest trip on
record. It reduces the time days,
and is 8 days ahead of the steamers
, schedule time, she having been billed
to reach Hongkong on April 9Th.
The .. S. Government authorities
have decided to thoroughly overhaul
the Iroquois and fit her with new
boilers, pumps and other needed
machinery. When repaired and re-
fitted she will cruise to Honolulu
and thence to Apia, consuming
three months in the trip.