The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-09-08

thought that no ship will be sent |
to Samoa just at present, there
being an English vessel in those
waters now. If that ship leaves,
and this country is called upon,
one of the BehEing Sea fleet or a
ship from the China station will be
sent. The Boston will remain at
Honolulu.
The Cholera.
The dreadful cholera scourge is
making steady advance in Europe,
and daily increases its field of
action. Within the past week it
has crossed the channel, and is
now in England, isolated cases
being reported from many cities,
including London. The disease is
so we'll established that the London
authorities are hopeless of stamp
ing it out before cold weather
comes. The scourge has also APP
peared in Bremen and along the
Danube. Wealthy citizens are
fleeing from Hamburg and other
infested places. The scare at Ber-
lin is Quoted down. The fatality
at Hamburg is great, $50 deaths
occurring in one day out of 416
new cases.
The efforts to check the spread
of the cholera seems to be of little
avail, and the question of keeping
the scourge from entering the
United States is agitating this
Government. A national quaran-
tine now exists, and will be kept
up as long as the disease exists
abroad. The great danger lies in
it's possible admission through mail
matter, but this may be avoided
by fumigation. 1t is thought that
San Francisco has a good chance
to escape the plague, at least this
year.
American News.
L. B. McWhirter, a prominent
lawyer and politician of Fresno
CAL, was assassinated in his own
yard on the night of August 29th
1t is supposed to have been due te
politics, but there is no clue to the
murderers save that there were two
of them. The merchants and others
of Fresno have raised purse Of
$4,000 for the detection of the
; fiends who did the deed.
In the great Borden murder case
at Fall River, Mass, in which the
daughter is accused of killing her
father and mother, the prosecution
have thus far failed to bring out
any evidence against the woman
1t is one of the criminal mysteries
of the day.
At the meeting of the Transcon-
tinental Association, in New York
on August 26, it was decided tc
continue the payment of the Paci
fic Mail subsidy two more months
1t may be discontinued then.
It is EumeEs SAI that a.,t the oRP a Fsnav
its exclusive contract with tn,
Pacific Mail Steamship Company
but will encourage the establish
ment of a new line to compete
This would be the death of higl
rates between here and the eastern
seaboard.
By the sinking of steam plea
| sure Yacht in Lake Michigan. O,
. August 26, Hiram w. Libby, tn,
millionaire of Rochester, N. Y, hi
wife, son and daughter, also TIVE
young ladies, Miss M. B. Pond ant
Miss F. M. Durham, of Rochester, tn
; crew, consisting of James Eldridge
captain Walter Henry, engineer
and Jerome O'Hare, deck hand
: all lost their lives.
The beautiful Metropolitan Oper
House in New York was burned OF
: August 81. Loss, 100000.
= Lieutenant Charles A. L. Totter
. of the United States Army, lat
+ Professor of Military Science il
I Yale, is out in another warnin
message, couched, if possible, i
I more ominous terms than ever
! The Professor says he is fnall
t convinced that during jubilee yea
e of 1856, reckoning from the Seq
f TENDER equinox, the clouds no1
. gathering on all sides will GU
n inmate. "This year." ne says, Il
4 the central one Of the seven wit
n which Gentle times close" TIL
4 Professor says he looks upon tn
i. period in an odd and strangel
+ significant way. With respect
the pestilences now raging abroad
= Lieutenant Totten conjures tn
h powers that be to spare no vigil
4 ance. His warning is: ENTER int
thy ports and close thy gates abou
!. thee, until the indication
q passed"
n The telegraphers have organize
g a national union for protection.
d Railroad circles are excited owe
the official announcement that tn
Great Northern Railway will with
, draw from the Trans-Continents
- Association, to take effect Januar
le 1, 1893. This means the death
II the Association, and a war of rate