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


Cured and many more are expected on
account of the loss of local and Coast
trade.
Joseph Saunders, formerly one of the
proprietors of the Russ House has mys-
teriously disappeared, and no trace of
him can be found.
Prince George of Greece is here on his
way home. He denies having had any
thing to do with saving the life of the
Czarewitz when he was recently attacked
by Japanese.
Sir William des Voeux, Governor of
Hongkong, and family, reached this city
on the Gaelic, bound for England.
1t is announced that the great Ana
conda Copper Mine at Helena, Montana,
has been sold to British syndicate for
| $25, OG0, 900. The mine was owned by
Lloyd Tevis and ]. B. Haggin of this
city.
The town of Hauford. in Tulare
County, was swept by fire on the 10th
| inst. Loss, 100000.
Vedal Mesa, woman of the town,
while escaping from two robbers who
were trying to murder her, sprang from
second story window, and will probably
die from her injuries
The Dewing Co., one of the biggest
book and stationery houses in the city is
in trouble and may go to pieces. The
concern owes $40, 600, one-half of which
is due here, and has offered fifty cents
on the dollar. The creditors are in
clined to accept.
A collision occurred between the Los
| Angeles express and a gravel train at
Port Costa, which resulted in the killing
of two and wounding several.
The Omitted States Court of Appeals"
has been inaugurated in this city. 1t is
for the purpose of relieving the Supreme
Court at Washington of much of the
business that goes there from this coast.
Justice Field presides.
Michael Davitt, the noted Irish leader
is now in the city. He declares that the
Home Rulers will win their cause.
Annie Laurie, the bright little woman
who has done such good work on the
Examiner of this city, and who accom-
panied Sister Gertrude to Honolulu, has
been married to Orrin S. Black also of
the Examiner staff.
Prince Kotabito of Japan is here on
| his way home from France where he
has been completing his military educa-
| ton.
Commander Ballington Booth, of the
| city for the purpose of holding REVEALS.
| They were given characteristic recep-
ton by the local salvatioEists.
| Mrs Leland Stanford has given $780,
| 600, in trust, to her five kindergarten
| is to be devoted to the support of them.
| The Canadian Pacific Railway Co. has
| made arrangements by which the time
4 tn 20 f1tc
| over that route is reduced twenty-four
| hours.
| st. Georges lighthouse, which is
being erected on the northwest Seal
| Rock near the Golden Gate, is to be in
| operation next year. There will be a
| fog signal station and the cost of both
will be $3.50,
| Gen. Russell A. Alger, Ex-Governor of
Michigan, is in town on tour of the
| coast.
Foreign News.
| A despatch from Guatemala says that
! great excitement prevails there over the
| discovery of the fact that Sc, 1000, 900 in
bonds were issued instead OF So, 0OO, 900,
as authorized tor the redemption of
treasury notes.
| 1t is reported that European powers
will take hand in the revolutionary
troubles of Hayti, and force the estab-
| ishment of peace. Ii such an attempt is
made it is probable that the United
States Government will strongly protest
against such Intervention.
| The agitation in England over the
effects of the Mckinley bill and the
reciprocity policy of the United States
still continues in England. Efforts are
being made to establish an imperial zol-
verein, to include the Colonies, but no
satisfactory progress has been made, as
England's Tree trade policy stands in the
| way and the British dare not return to
protection. They see the commercial
disaster which the prosperity of the
| United States is forcing upon them, but
know of no way to avert it.
| London advices state that war is
threatened in Asia between the French
| and the Siamese Anamites. The latter
are ravaging the territory claimed by the
French, and conflict OF arms has oc-
Cured.
It is announced that France is endeav-
| oring to learn what position Russia
would assume in case of war between
France and Germany.
| Mary Anderson Navarro, the famous
| tICC6t uaO uOC1uCQ W WTlJO d
| The annual message of President Pei
legrini of the Argentine Republic re-
views the financial crisis in that country
and says that the situation grows worse
daily. Paper money, of which there is
$3.50, 000. 900 in circulation, has sustained
loss of eighty per cent, and he esti-
mates the losses since the crisis at G2OO,-
100000 sterling. He advocates the silver
| standard.
At the naval exhibition in London the
model of a proposed steamer to be the
largest a1oat is shown 1t is calculated
to make 231a knots an hour, and to cross
| the Atlantic in five days. Her dimen-
sions are $50 feet length and 70 feet
beam, and she is calculated to carry
l 400 passengers.
| A dispatch from Guatemala to the CITY
| of Mexico says that plan has been dis
4 covered to annex Guatemala to the
/ United States, and that some of the
| most prominent officials and the princi-
pal coffee planters are interested.
| Peace between San Salvador and Qua
temala has been ratified by the Saliva
dorian congress.
The Prussian Governments expenses
for 1900 were 62,000,000 marks over the
estimates formerly made
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