The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-08-24
Great Brffafn's Seizures.

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Great Brffafn's Seizures.
p The news that the Champion has
seized Johnson Island has attract
ed great attention in Washington.
1t is understood there that the
State Department will make for
NAL statement Of the facts az they
are, and a demand that the British
claim be relinquished.
According TO the Auckland Even
ing Star, the Champion is not the
only British warship that is en-
gagged in the work of annexing
islands in the Pacific Ocean for
Queen Victoria. The Star SAYS
that news from FIJI by the steamer
Oyalau states that the British war
ship Curacao has returned to Fiji
from cruise in the Pacific, during
which she annexed the islands Of
Gardiner, Danger and Nassau.
The ship then proceeded to the
island Of Tutuila, and after landing
Land Commissioner Hazard re-
turned to Pago Page harbor and
there took possession of a piece of
land to be used as a coaling station
for the British feet.
The Star says this place was for
merly used by the Americans for
coaling station, but after the hur-
ricane of 1889, in which the Ameri-
can ships were lost, the Americans
have abandoned it. The harbor Of
Pago Pago was forever coded to the
United States by the Samoan Gov
eminent through their envoy in
1875.
American Politics.
The two old parties are taking
matters very easy now, waiting for
the weather to cool down and at
the same time digging up cam
paign lies for use when the contest
opens. The Peoples Party, how
ever, is making a great deal of
noise and predicting that they will
sweep the country and elect the
President. Gen. Jos. B. Weaver,
the Presidential candidate of that
party, accompanied by Mrs. Lease,
the woman orator who defeated ex-
Senator ingalls,, has been in this
city On campaigning tour. He
declares that there will be a poll
teal upheaval this fall that will
astonish the world and place
Weaver in the White House, and
there are many people who believe
that If he can succeed in throwing
the election into the House of
Representatives he will be elected.
Weaver is now in Oregon.
Prominent Democrats in Wash
ington admit that the outlook for
their party in Alabama and
Carolina is extremely discourage
ing. One of the United States
Senators from Alabama, speaking
not for publication, remarked to a |
well-known politician from North
Carolina to-day that unless extra
ordinary efforts were made in both
States Democratic success there
would be a thing of the past.
The Kolb fight in Alabama is
regarded here as by no means set.
tied. Kolb is a political sleuth-
hound. He openly charges that
he has been defrauded of the Gov
ernorship and in manifesto
serves notice that he will make
fight. He claims the State by
10000 majority. 1t looks as
though he had been 'jobbed" for
his opponents majority has dwin-
died down from $4,000 to 5000
majority. Kolb is an Alliance
candidate and his followers have
political knives in their boots for
the Democratic party. Hence the
fear that the Democracy is in a
bad way.
The six new States with the ex-
ception of Montana and New Mex
leo are said to be safe for Harri-
son.
Cleveland is still at Gray Gables
fishing,
Anarchy in Buffalo.
BUFFALO, Aug. 15.-The strike of
switchmen on the Erie, Buffalo
Creek & Lehigh Valley roads,
to q strike on the COM
bined Reading system in this part
OF the country, is no longer a sim
pie demand by body of organized
workmen. Freight trains and pas
senger trains have been thrown
from the tracks, switchmen's
houses have been burned, coal
trains have been started down the
immense trestles of the Lehigh and
Reading roads, and have been {
crushed at the bottom of the in
cline into a twisted and broken
mass, and for two nights the cas-
ern sky has been red with incendi-
airy flies, while hundreds of freight
and refrigerator cars have been j
destroyed by the torch of the fire.
bug.
San Francisco News. :
The State Militia have returned O
from a successful camp of a week S
ut Santa Cru, ri