The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-03-17

A'ot Ito sshA 100 iCfCi NhiASA uP
With large Democratic majority in
the next House there is no possibility OF
the bill getting favorable consideration
for two years at least.
American News.
An English syndicate which has been
trying to purchase the Moline Plow
Works at Moline, Illinois, has brought
suit against the company for 1925 600 for
breach of contract. The company backed
out after the first deposit was made.
A Gutenberg bible formerly owned
by Brayton Ives has been sold to j. w.
Ellsworth for $4,000. The book was
printed in 1450 and is in Latin.
Ex-senator Pierce of North Dakota is
believed to be the one who will be ap-
pointed Minister to Central America to
succeed Miner.
Secretary Tracy has made the state
ment that the navy will need six to
nine more battleships of 10000 tons
each, four to six harbor defense vessels
and twelve torpedo boats. Then the
navy will be a better fighting one than
that of any country, not excepting Eng
land. The additional cost he places at
$65, 000, 600.
The Treasury Departments latest re-
port by Special Agents Golf Lavender.
Murray and Nettleton shows that the
number OF the fur seals on the Pribilov
islands has been reduced by rs per cent
in the last few years. If the destruction
continues there will be no seals left fol-
England and America to quarrel over.
c. S Bushnell Of New Haven has in
vented q new dynamite gun for use on
torpedo boats. 1t will destroy any net
ting around warship and the charge
will 60 $50 feet under water before ex-
ploding.
Annie E. Dickinson, the lecturer, is
insane.
The spring auctions of California horses
are in progress in New York. Stock
from Stanford's, Corbett's, Valensin's
and Roses farms has been sold at good
figures.
Nine members Of the Malta, the TIA
| liam highoinders society, are on trial in
New Orleans for the murder Of Chief OF
Police Hennessey. The evidence thus
| far adduced is very convincing.
Suit is to be brought by the heirs o.
the late John G. Fremont to recover
| Alcatraz island in the bay of San Fran
cisco.
Chicago is to have the tallest building
| in the world. 1t will be twenty-foul
stories high and will be built entirely o.
steel.
| Leonard Jerome one of the leaders o
the American turf died at New York OF
| the 4th inst after a short illness.
The Congressional Committee on Chi
| nese immigration has made a repor
favoring more rigid exclusion measures
than now in force.
| Twenty-eight thousand coal miners o
Western Pennsylvania have struck fo
higher wages. The River mines EN-
ployed $1,000 OF them, the Connellvillt
coking district 1900 more aid 1,00i
more worked about the coking furnaces
Many Mormons are moving from
Utah to their recently acquired lands il
the State of chihuahua, Mexico.
~ Foreign News.
4 complete statement of the result at
tanned by the use of koch's lymph il
the German hospitals has been pub
lished. Out OF LOCI patients with in
ternal tuberculosis Is were cured, Il
considerably improved, 1914 improved
$50 not improved and Is died. OF 70
with external tuberculosis 10 were cured
AS considerably improved, 237 i'm
proved, 29S not improved and 8 died.
The man. of-war Albatross has arrive,
at Panama and is about to investigat
the fishing grounds near the Galapag
Islands. The steamer found fine fishin
banks in the Gulf of California. Sh