The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-07-23

It is announced that the illness of
Secretary Blaine is not serious, and is in
the nature of nervous proStratiOn caused
by overwork and worry. He is improv-
ing
Reports come from Arizona that the
Navajoe Indians are becoming defiant
and threatening to go on the warpath.
An accident which resulted in the Kill
ling of thirty people and the injury of
over fifty, was caused by the spreading
of the railroad track near Charleston
West Virginia.
The wonderful natural gas wells of
Ohio, which were thought to be mex
haustable, are failing rapidly and caus
ing great financial loss to manufacturers.
Edward Burgess, the noted designer of
the yacht Volunteer, died on July II, of
typhoid fever, at the age of 43 years.
In wreck on the Colorado Midland
Railroad, at Aspen Junction, on July IL,
seven people were scalded to death In a
collision.
The Farmers Alliance has developed
another crazy scheme, in which it Is
proposed that the 100000 members
combine to corner the wheat market of
the United States by refusing to sell till
they get their price. They also pro-
pose to stop all dealing in futures and
the gambling of produce exchanges.
Such move would, if well managed,
paralize the business of the country.
A British syndicate has purchased the
plant of the Chicago Cold Storage Com
pany and will enlarge it to great proper
tons. The purchase price was 81, $780,
600.
of 50 Mod q
Blavotsky, the world of Theosophists
have been looking for a leader. One
has been found in the person of WIN. D..
Judge of New York.
The Hebrews of Baltimore are taking
active steps to promote the immigration
of Jews from Russia to this country and
at a meeting on July 9Th it WAS pre-
dicted that they would succeed in bring
ing 100000 of those people to this coun-
try during the next two years.
A dispatch from New York says Four
Samoan warriors who were brought to
this city under contract by Robert A.
Cunningham. Snowman. and kept here
as slaves, will leave New York for Samoa
by way of San Francisco on Tuesday,
July 14th. The story of the sufferings
and privations of the little band, origin
ally nine in number, but reduced by
disease and death, has been fully told
Manogi, the chief, is i'll with ccnsump-
ton in Bellevue Hospital, but he will be
strong enough to start on his long jour
ney by Tuesday. After reaching San
Francisco the party will rest for day or
two. The steamer will sail from the
Golden Gate on the 23d.
An English syndicate has been organ
lied to open direct communication for
freight and passenger business between
Chicago and Great Britain via the great
lakes. The capital subscribed is So ,000,-
600.
A dispatch from st. Louis says that a
lineman of that city received an electric
shock of 5000 volts and survived the
ordeal. This is twice the force used to
execute the New York murderers.
Foreign News.
Mrs. John Mackay, wife of San Fran.
cisco's Bonanza King, on July 4th gave
the most magnificent entertainment thai
has ever been given by an American II
was social success, being attended by
several members of the royal family.
Englishmen in London are agilatine
the question of securing laws prohibit
1IlS uL0lSTdGlOn.
The Catholic world is excited over the
fact that 100000 of Peters Pence
Fund at Rome has disappeared. 1t was
lost through speculation by admins
traitor Falchi, who has resigned.
On July 18th one white woman and
forty Indians were killed by an avail
anche at the North Pacific cannery, OF
the Skeena river in Alaska.
Sir Charles Russell, the eminen
London barrister, is to come to Sal
Francisco to visit his sister who is thu
Sister Superior of the order of Catholi,
Nuns in this city.
| An official dispatch from Santiago
Chilli, says: The revolution is station
airy. Famine prevails at Tarapaco anc
Antofagasta. There is no disciplin,
among the rebel forces. Balmaceda, Al
the cost of the State, sent all politica
prisoners on board the steamer Bolivia
bound for Iquique, where they will be a
liberty to act as they please. A plot ha
been discovered to destroy the govern
ment squadron at Valparaiso. Ali tn
conspirators were seized excepting one
who hanged himself. A reconnoiterin,
force from Coquimbo temporarily occu
pied Huasco and Vallenar, where food i
scarce. Complete order prevails.
President Diaz of Mexico in a recen
interview stated that Mexico would b
glad to enter into treaty of reciprocit
with the United States to limited de
gree.
The Guatemala Government has sen
instructions to its Minister at Washing
ton to arrange for treaty of reciprocit
with the United States.
Shipping.
The Columbia River and Pu get Scum
Navigation Company is building 8
steamer that is designed to wear tn
broom over anything on the Coast. Sh
is l78 feet long, by 20.10 beam and l.
depth of hold, outside of her engines
which come from Philadelphia, she vii
be entirely Pacific Coast built an
modelled. The engines are triple expan
sion-21, 33 and 54-inch cylinders
capable of generating 2,lO0 horse power
which will be communicated with
30-inch stroke to a propeller 1917 feet il
diameter, with Is inch pitch. Twenty
five miles an hour is the advance calcu
lation of her speed.
The scow schooner Louisa West wen
on the mudflat in the bay near Alamed
recently and stuck there five DAYS befor
she was discovered. The master ant
crew nearly starved before being discov
cred.
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