The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-12-18

appointed police commissioner.
The Examiner is getting up
Christmas fund for the poor. There
is to be "doll congress-" at which
society will turn out en- masse.
A. E. Sparkes, an uphOlsterer, was
kicked to death by William Flaws in
a saloon row recently.
John White, eX-Business Manager
of the Call, has been on trial for en-
bezzlement; the jury disagreed.
The Internal Revenue officers are
raiding the opium factories almost
daily. The preparation of opium
now comes under the supervision OF
the Internal Revenue department..
The Census Office has issued a bull
letin on the whale fisheries. There
engaged, and the value of the prod
uct in 1889, was Sl,913,275.
The Pacific Mail intends to give the
Canadian Pacific a still harder bat
tie for trans-Pacific business.
Miss Alice Rideout, of this city, has
been awarded the contract for the
statuary to ornament the Moments
Building at the Worlds Fair.
American News.
The action of the National Com
mission of the Worlds Fair in asking
q loan of $3,OO0,O0O from the govern
ment, will be made the subject Of a
special message to Congress by Presi-
dent Harrison some time this month.
There is a great deal of talk in poll
teal circles regarding the candidacy
of J. G.. Blaine for the Presidency.
He is declared to be in the fight and
his friends assert that he will be
nominated without opposition. Blaine
is silent.
There is at present q big corner in
corn and it has thus far resulted in
the failure of several New York
brokers who were pinched. Their
liabilities are expected to reach
81, 100000.
A severe storm swept the great
lakes on November 9th and proved
to be the worst for many years. A
dozen schooners and other craft
were wrecked and a lot of valuable
cargoes lost.
The Democrats are talking of
Grover Cleveland and Governor Boies
of Iowa, for their Presidential ticket.
BOies is the famous anti-prOhibitiOn
leader in his State.
It is reported that in the landslide
on the Northern Pacific Railroad in
the latter part of November at Can
ton Station. in Washington twenty
five IaboreTs were buried alive.
Edward M. Field, son of Cyrus w.
Field, the supposed millionaire, has
been sent to an insane asylum. He
was the head of big brokerage con-
Germ in New York and through his
wild and dishonest speculatiOns he
not only wrecked the business but
squandered his fathers fortune and
disgraced his family. The crash may
cost Cyrus Field his life as he is pros
trated and in critical condition.
A railroad wreck near Toledo,
Ohio, on December Cd, resulted in
the death of seven people and the
serious injury of many others.
A plot of anarchists to destroy the
town of Landaval, ILL.,, by the use of
dynamite, has been discovered and
the leaders are under arrest They
have confessed to the conspiracy.
In the great football game between
the Yale and Princeton teams on
November Goth, the former were vic
torious. They had formerly defeated
Harvard.
Col. Douglas Gum, ex-mayor of
San Diego, was found dead in his
room on November 2Sth. Death had
evidently taken place several days
before.
The Apaches are reported to have
started on the war path in Arizona.
They have thus far killed one man
and wounded others.
Gen. Benz. F. Butler is seriously ill
at his home in Massachusetts,.
On November Goth, mob of 800
men attacked the Jail at Indianapolis
and attempted to lynch a murderer.
They reached his cell but were driven
back by the police.
The armored cruiser New York
was launched from the Cramp ship
building yard on December I'd. She
is the largest vessel in the navy and
will be able to whip anything of her
size aflOat.
Foreign News.
The English Admiralty, finding
that the naval force is too weak to be
depended upon in case of an emer-
gency, will begin the organization of
a volunteer marine corps.
Duke Gunther, brother of the Ger
man Empress, is in disgrace, owing
to his scandalOus relations with the
Archduke Henry, of Austria, died
on November 30th, of pneumonia.
His mOrganistic wife died the pre-
ceding day of the same disease.
The reports of the Russian famine
become more startling. It is now
stated that millions of people ar starv-
ing, and that thousands of deaths
have occurred from hunger. The
Government is distributing vast sums
of money and great quantities of food,
but it is not sufficient. Snow is pre-
venting the distribution of grain by
rail, and the situation is deplorable.
Owing to the failure of the late Rus
sian loan, the finances of the country
are in a serious condition, and the
outlook is said to be quite alarming.
The efforts of the new President of
Brazil, PeiXotto, to restore order have
been quite successful thus far. Yellow
fever is raging at Rio Janeiro.
A despatch from Melbourne says
that panic prevails in financial
circles. The smaller companies are
very uneasy, and the feeling of de-
preston is general. The Melbourne
Tramway Company has reduced sala-
ries and wages. The Melbourne Land
Credit Bank, which has a capital of
9250,000, has suspended payment ow-
ing to the heavy run upon it. In
Sydney trade is completely paralyzed.
The new tariff is, in several features,
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