The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-11-10

Fair.
T. D. Harp, a Democratic member
of the State Senate, has been indicted
by the new Grand Jury for ''bood-
ling" Harp has disappeared.
American News.
The will of Mrs. Hopkins Searles
has been admitted to probate. This
is the first victory for Searles as
against Tim Hopkins. The case will
now be fought in the Courts.
Governor Steele of Oklahoma has
been made Pension Commissioners, to
succeed Green B. Raum, who has
brought considerable scandal on the
administration.
Senator Rose has sold his stock on
his farm at Rosemeade. The prices
were not as good as expected.
A tower 1120 feet high, to cost $780,
00U, is proposed as one of the features
of the Worlds Fair at. Chicago.
Lieutenant Schwatka has returned
from his exploring trip in central AL
aska. He also measured Mt. st. Elias,
over the height of which there is so
much dispute. He made it nearly
$4,000 feet high, or the highest noun
tain on the continent.
General Schofield has made his an
nual report as head of the army. He
makes a plea for more coast defenses.
Edison, the inventor, has asked for
one:seventh of all the space in the
proposed Electrical Exposition Build
ing at Chicago. He proposes to make
the greatest exhibit of electrical APP
planes ever seen.
Eugene E. Garcia, paying teller of
the Louisiana National Bank at New
Orleans, is defaulter to the extent
of $4,000. His stealings ranged over
many years.
The Valley Forge farm, made ia
nous by WashingtOn's army winter
ing there in 1777, has been sold for $40
per acre at auction.
Anna Dodge, an almshouse inmate
at Butte, Mont, has fallen heiress to
an estate worth $S,O00,000 in England.
She is a distant relation of VIM L.
Coleman of San Francisco.
DR.. S. E. Sylvester of Bangor, Me-,
has announced new consumption
cure. Chloride of gold and manga
nese are the principal ingredients of
his injection.
There is trouble on the Mexican
border. G.. E. Cara, a Mexican BAN
dit, is at the head of an outbreak, and
President Diaz has offered $4,000 for
him, dead or alive.
Dougherty's mill, in the Santa Cruz
mountains, Cal, was burned on the
25th inst. The loss was $4,000.
There was q wreck on the Atlantic
& Pacific railroad near Flagstaff, Ari-
iona ON the Goth inst, and fifteen
people were injured.
Dire Cyrus Teed of San Francisco,
the "KOnshanite," who claims to be
Christ on his second coming, has Sc
cured the support of the Economics,
curious colony in Pennsylvania, re-
ported to be worth $3.50, 100000.
A new method of making cannons
and doing the work, fast has been in
vented by an Indiana man.
The New York Tribune has been
Unionized after being "rat" office
since 1877, excepting three months in
1888.
The campaign is about over in
Ohio, and the election will be held on
the Sd of November. 1t is believed
that Mckinley will be elected Cover
nor without a doubt.
By the bursting of box on the
wrecked steamer Ell Dorado, it was
discovered that several cases marked
" toWeling" really contained kid
gloves. They were sent to Stein
burger & Kalisher, of this city.
The Pan-American Railway Com
Texas. The company now controls
240 miles of road in Texas, but the
new charter is supposed to mark the
inception of an extensive enterprise.
It is commonly believed at Wash
ington that Stephen B. Elkins,
close friend of Blaine's, will accept
the position of Secretary of War,
vacated by Redfield Proctor.
The Redding and Weaverville (Cal.)
stage was robbed on the 23d instant,
for the third time within a week, and
the sixth time in three months. Two
highwaymen in masks did the work.
They got about $500 for their pains.
It is proposed to have water COM
municatiOn in the San Joaquin Val
ley, as far as Firebaugh's Ferry
by the construction of IOchs. A canal
of twelve miles from Firebaugh's
would take 1t to Fresno. Heavy rail-
road rates have driven the people to
do this.
LIZ 10 OClACfCO OI4c kOCllUO1 1dh0
will soon be thing of the past. No
more water is running in from the
Colorado and the opening is sitting
up. High water will not come for
four months yet by which time the
openings should be entirely closed.
Henry Willard, the railroad mag
nate, has predicted that in the near
future all railway trains will be oper-
ated by electricity.
Edward Arnold has returned to
New York from his japanese tour.
Blaine has resumed his duties in
Washington after a rest of many
months.
The contest over the escheated
property of the Mormon Church has
begun in the United States courts in
Utah. The Mormons want it re-
turned to them averring that they do
not now sanction polygamy while
the Gentiles want it sold and the
proceeds applied to the school funds.
Miss Alice Hecht committed sui
eide by jumping from the Washing
ton monument on the Goth inst. She
fell over 500 feet.