The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-12-19

" hlNh was pAOPOoCo III tiIO poot
office.
The second trial of NJ. B. Curtis
for numbering Policeman Alexan-
der Grant has been suddenly ended
by the death of one of the jurors,
P. A. Libbey. A new trial will
soon be set.
Samuel Mosgrove, the real estate
dealer, was asphyxiated by gas
recently at his home.
James Whitcomb Riley, the poet
and lecturer, is in the city on his
annual tour.
American News.
Jay Gould's will has been made
public. 1t forms the estate into a
family trust, gives George Gould
100000 over his regular share
and makes him absolute governor
over the estate in the interest of
the five other heirs. Not one dollar
was given to charity, although the
estate is worth in the neighborhood
of one hundred millions. His
stingyness is severely criticised by
the press.
Geo. w. Childs' Public Ledger
building has been destroyed by fire.
Loss, 100000.
Monsignor Satalli is out with an
address decrying the public school
system of this country, and calling
on Catholics to send their children
only to Parish schools.
A bill has been introduced in
the Senate, by Hill, providing for
the repeal of the silver purchase
bill.
Traffic in Kansas and Nebraska
is almost paralyzed by a blizzard.
The Secretary of War has sent
to Congress report on the respec-
tive advantages of Santa Monica
and San Pedro harbors, in Cali
fornia, in which the latter is the
favorite. The Board of Engineers
made estimates of the cost of build
ing a breakwater there, which
showed probable total expendi-
ture of little less than 100000.
Miss Emma Van Norden, the
daughter of a New York million
aire, has joined the Salvation Army
and is now in uniform.
The government will issue in
January a complete new set OF
postage stamps commemorative of
the 400th anniversary of the dis
covery of America.
Los Angeles, CAL, has scandal
in which Ex-Governor George Stone
man and his wife are badly mixed
up. The trouble was made public
through divorce suit filed by the
wife of Judge Arson Brunson, in
which Mrs. Governor Stoneman is
made a correspondent. She is sc
years of age, and declares the
charges to be false. Governor
Stoneman has dropped out of sight
and his wife declines to say where
he is. 1t is rumored that he is a
prisoner in his own house, also that
he has been sent to a private in
sane asylum. Judge Brunson also
denies having had improper rela'
tons with Mrs. Stoneman.
Daniel Mclaughlin successfully
made the leap from Brooklyn
bridge on Dec. 0th. He was I'm
conscious when picked up but re
covered at once.
The United States government
is now having surveys made to de
termine the practicability of an all
rail route to the Argentine Repuh
lie. So far as the survey has pre-
crossed the scheme is feasible
Such a road would open up an i'm
mense trade with the South Amer
lean countries and it is said tina
the road may be built within tn
next ten years.
, The expenditures for the World
, Fair have now reached owe
, $12,O0O,O0O. The receipts hav
been over $13, 000,0 900, and the mar
: ayers think they will get throug
all right.
, The Malta are at work again i
New Orleans, and have succeede
+ in assassinating two men and mo
tally wounding a third. The oil
q ject is unknown.
y A Frenchman in Cleveland hs
i begun a fifty days fast in the il
O terest of science.
# TIE great onyx quarries in Lowe
d California have been sold to syl
/ dictate for 100000. The mine
l. to be worked on a large scale, an
J. will supply the whole country.
J. Detroit, Michigan, has wei
n defined case of leprosy.
h Four murderers were hanged {
If one scaffold in Louisville, Ke
It lucky, on the 9th. The execute
e. was success.
~ Charles R. Moulton, of Seattl
Wash, shot and killed Mrs. MAJ
J. S. Storey and then suicided, b
is cause she refused to marry him.
" Fred. March, the counterfeitt
n who was at the head of the 81
Francisco gang, and who so su
cessfully evaded the detective
has been caught in Milwaukt
is Wisconsin. He was with his re
be tiyes who did not susDect his &C