The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-06-09
AMERICAN NEWS.

Politicians are beginning to talk about
possible Presidential candidates in 1892.
Senator Wolcott, of Colorado, says that
Harrison cannot secure denomination
as "all the great West is out for Jas. q.
Blaine, and will accept no other candi-
date" 1t is generally believed that
Cleveland will be the Democratic NOM
inee.
At present Mr.. Blaine is very i'll and
has been for some time past, and it is
feared that he may never recover or that
his constitution, if he rallies, will be SO
broken as to retire him from public lite.
His loss would be a great blow to this
country, and particularly to the Repub-
Hcan party.
Judge Alphonso Taft, ex-Secretary of
War, and ex-Minister to Russia and
Austria, died at his home in San Diego
May p.
The decrease in the surplus in the
q. S. Treasury since Jan. 1st has been
$50 100000.
The test of the pneumatic guns of the
u. s. dynamite cruiser Vesuvius has
proved a success. Shots were fired at
a target at distance of mile and effect
i've work done.
A tornado swept through northern
Missouri on May 20, killing three per-
sons and seriously injuring many others.
This is the first storm of the kind for the
season.
The gathering of the farmers repre-
senting the agricultural classes in all
| parts of the country, at Cincinnati this
| week has resulted in the birth of new
| political organization to be known in the
| future as the Peoples Party. An at
| tempt to insert prohibition plank in
the platform was defeated by large
majority. The new party is expected to
develop into great power during the
next general election.
Postmaster General Wannamaker on
his return to Washington from this
coast said that the West had been ne
| elected by congress and the postal auth
| critics, and that San Francisco had
had been most shamefuliy treated by
being compelled to use the post Office
building.
The United States Supreme Court has
sustained the laws passed by prohibition
Kansas to prevent the introduction o
liquor into its borders under Government
protection as Original package"
|
who has been in retirement for severa
street, and is bulling st. Paul stock, al
few years ago.
| Jesse Pomeroy, the notorious boy mur
derer, who was sentenced to life impris
onment at the age of Is, made an almos
successful attempt to escape few day
since. He has been in prison fifteel
years, and is known as the "boy with tn
white eye"
The United States naval authorize
are seeking to secure site for a nava
station in the West Indies.
The drain OF gold from this countr
to Europe which began about the frs
of the year still continues and blocks G
millions go over on nearly every bi
| steamer. Russia is the greatest absorbe
of the yellow metal, and is absorbing
from all quarters, wherever it is to
attained.
HI. Jay Hanchette, Secretary of tn
Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, an
who managed the recent successfr
orange carnival at Chicago, suddenl
disappeared at the close of the exhlt
ition, and all efforts of the detectiv
force of the whole country have failed t
find trace of him after he left the Ell
position Building. A reward is offere
for his return.
The granite cutters of San Francisc
to the number OF 200 have struck agains
an order orbidding smoking in the stor
yards. The bench and mill hands ar
still out Both strikes are expected
fall as flat as the molders strike.
The San Francisco police think the
have completely disorganized the higf
binders by the constant raids on thei
headquarters. The Chinese merchant
are not SO sanguine that such resu
has been attained.
The law requiring all legal execution
!; to be held on the State Prison at Sa
Quentin, CAL, will be contested on legs
technicalities. McMilty, the San Frar
. cisco murderer will get new lease {
life in consequence of the legal contes