The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-04-15
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ROME, April Sit is announced
that Baron Fava, late Italian Min.
lster to the United States, will sal
for home on April 18th.
A special from Rome, printed in
the Examiner of the TIN inst. saws
the arrival of the text of Fava's
first note showed that the misun.
derstanding was due to BIaine's
interpreting the demand for a trial
as demand for conviction. The
Ministry is indisposed to push the
matter beyond the demand for a
recognition of the principles of in.
ternatlonal justice. The excite
ment has entirely subsidized.
A cable message received by q
business house in New York from
Santiago, Chile, states that an ex,
ira session of Congress assemblies
on the 18th inst, and that Balma-
ceda is not willing to withdraw.
A London dispatch of April 5th
to the San Francisco Examiner,
says: 1t is stated that the German
Government has sent instructions
to the United States Minister to
ascertain what, if any, guarantee of
protection the American Govern
ment gives to German subjects re-
siding IN the United States
The present controversy between
America and Italy is viewed with
no little satisfaction at Berlin, and
the worst possible form given to it
by the German press generally.
The motive is not so much unfriend-
illness to the United States as to
put a stop to German immigration,
which is already making itself
severely felt in the lack of laborers
for agriculture.
Newfoundland attempts to get
even with Canadian interference in
her treaty proposed with the
United States, by the refusal to
sell bait to Canadian fishermen
which privilege she extends to
Americans.
Ten dollar gold-bearing quartz is
said to have been discovered in
quarry by the Honsatonic Water
Company, Connecticut. This dis
covery is located in a country ira
versed by outlying ridges of the
great Appalachian Range, along
which, from Georgia to Canada,
minor developments of gold bearing
quartz and gravel have been made
from time to time.
The Canadians propose to in
crease the efficiency of their mill
tia and new defenses are being
constructed at Halifax. The latter
may be considered general meas
ure OF imperial policy, but the mi
iitia movement can refer to no.
thing but possible complications
with the United States. The
new plans will raise the
Canadian force to about two-ffths
of our own organized militia. The
unorganized militia of the United
States is about double the entire
population of Canada, men, women
and children.
New YORK, April g. The Her.
AIDS Washington correspondent
says: "I have exclusive informa
ton to-day that three vessels of the
squadron of evolution have recent
ly been grounded and their bot
toms SO badly damaged that Rear
Admiral Walker has recommended
to the department that they be Or
dered to Norfolk at once for dock
ing and repairs. The Chicago, Bos-
ton ard Atlanta are the vessels. |
The Boston, it is reported, was
grounded no less than three times.
How serious the damage is will
not be definitely known until the
vessels are locked. Divers were
sent below and on the strength OF
their. statement recommendation
for docking the vessels were made
New ORLEANS, April 3.-The
Grand Jury has found three in
dictments in bank, two against
Seligman and Borsen for bribery,
and three against o. MalIey for con-
spring to bride. d. c. O'Malley,
the notorious detective, charged |
with having attempted to pack the
jury in the Hennessy case, and
who mysteriously disappeared,
created a sensation this morning
by surrendering himself He was
admitted to bail. He says he will !
make a statement. He would not
tell whether be left the city or not.
A friend of his says he b as been
here all the time.
New YORK, April 3.-Nineteen
Italians who arrived on the steam
ships Initiative and Burgundia on
Wednesday and who, under the old
law, would have been permitted to
land, were returned to day to the
custody of the masters of those
vessels by order of Colonel Weber.
Four of them were debarred be-
cause they had consumption. I'M
migrants thus afflicted are pro-
under the new law. Eleven
were declared by DR.. Guiteras t.
have "loathsome disease" an
affection of the scalp due to un-
cleanliness; the other four were
excluded because they were, in the
Judgment of the inspectors who ex-
amlned them likely to become