The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-12-01


advice from that quarter. Now that
am President, il is my intention TO
be the head of this nation in reality,
and will not permit any dictation
as to my future actions"
In the course of the same conference
Cleveland set his face resOlutely
against an extra session of Congress,
! saying there need be no haste about
revising the tariff before the regular
session, which would begin in Deem
Der, 1898.
Judge Shilbarn. Republican candi-
date for Congress in the Third Dis
tfict of California, was elected oy a
plurality of twenty-five votes over
Warren English, Democrat.
The country has settled down after
the election and business is going
| along as if nothing had occurred. The
fears of Democratic assault on the
Mckinley bill and general upset.
ting of business have been allayed
and the promised tariff upheaval is
not looked for.
The official count of votes in Cali
fOrnia is not complete and the vote is
so close, that it is not yet known
whether Cleveland or Harrison will
carry it. The legislature will be
Democratic.
1t is asserted that Mrs Mary Lease,
the woman who defeated ingalls, for
the Senate in Kansas, will be a candi-
dete for the United States Senate.
The Democrats in Ohio secured one
e'ector, instead of carrying the State
as was claimed.
American News
The smallpox is now we'll spread
throughout western Washington, but
the cases are kept isolated, and there
is little fear of an epidemic.
1t is said that Rear-Admiral Irwin
will succeed Admiral Brown in the
command Of the Pacific Squadron, L.
5. n.
The Peoples party of Minnesota,
which cast ~ 900 votes at the recent
election, is in the throes of dissolution
and the members are going back to
their old parties.
James @. Blaine is again i'll and
confined to his bed.
Some weeks ago Captain w. P.
Mooney, a Democrat, and James G..
McCabe, Republican, of Dobbin,
West Virginia, agreed that should
Harrison carry the county the Demo-
crat should eat live rat in the Town
HALL, and in the event of Cleveland
winning, the Republican should
undertake the job. By consent of
McCabe it was subsequently agreed
that the rat should be cooked. The
county went Republican, and the
Town Hall was filled with spectators,
who witnessed the payment of the
novel bet.
Charlie Reed, the famous minstrel
and comedian, died of heart disease
on the 10Th at Boston.
The recent storms in the Pacific
northwest resulted in several deaths,
and the destruction of millions of
dollars worth of property.
a train wreck on the Atlantic and
Pacific railroad in Arizona injured
many people and killed William Y.
Walker, of Trenton, Mo. The train
went through 50-foOt trestle.
General Spaulding, of the Treasury
Department, says that unless steerage
emigrants are kept out of this country,
there will be cholera epidemic next
year.
A fight occurred on the streets of
Homestead on the 18th between col
ored workmen and strikers, in which
three white men were shot and sew
eral negroes hurt.
The case of the United States
against England on the Behring Sea
question has been greatly weakened
by the discovery of the fact that Pet
rolf, the government agent, falsified
his returns to aid this country.
The first trial of strikers for MUIR
der, in the Homestead riot, has be-
gun.
The great storm in the Northwest
last week FRUSTRATED all the telegraph
wires and caused great deal of dam
age. There were three distinct tor
nadoes. Red Bud in Illinois was
partly wiped out and many people
were killed or wounded. AT Chester
a family of four were killed.
Foreign News.
Thomas Neill, alias Cream, the
murderer Of Matilda Glover and sew
eral girls, was hanged at London on
the 18th inst. He died without a
tremor. He was a medical graduate
and was a skillful practitioner. Form
erly he practiced in Chicago.
a revolution is believed To be inn
minent in Hayti. y strong conspi-
racy is said tn be forming in the
northern part OF the island.
a dispatch from st. Petersburg
the 18th says: The cholera continues
TO increase in virulence and the PEG.
pie are alarmed at the fresh outbreak.
1t is urged that the most stringent
measures be adopted to prevent the
spread of the disease.
The Nansen Arctic Expedition will
leave Norway for Nova Zembla in
June, and will then enter the ice pack
to be carried northerly by the cur.
rents. Nansen expects to go to the
pole by drifting there.
English manufacturers are gener-
ally in more hopeful condition on
| account OF the election in this coun'
| try.
The Duke Of Marlborough is dead
after along career of debauchery. His
American widow has been disposses-
sed of the Blenheim estates, but she
gets the dukes life insurance, which
amounted to over S1,000,000.
The widow of Charles Stewart Par
nell is in the bankruptcy court in
England.