The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-05-18

families from their homes. IHele
were many narrow escapes from
drowning.
Several hundred editors. dele
gates to the eighth annual conven-
ton of the National Editorial Asso-
citation, which will convene in San
Francisco on May oath, are now on
their way to this city. They are
taking in points of interest along
/ the route.
The cattle rustler war is still in
a bad way. The two wit
nesses to the principal kill
ing have been discharged on
habeas corpus, and. taken out of
the State by U. S. Marshal. 1t
is said they will never testify
against the cattle barons. Bad
feeling is so high that serious
bloodshed is looked for before the
case is settled. At the time of the
discharge of the witnesses hundreds
of pistols were drawn in the Court
room, and general shooting melee
was barely avoided.
The River and Harbor Bill has
passed Congress. 1t provides for
an appropriation of $21 100000 for
improving the rivers and harbors.
The people of San Diego are
making an effort to compel the
Pacific mail steamers calling there
to take passengers and freight.
They have taken their case to Con-
gress, and bill is before that body
to repeal the mail subsidy unless
the port is not Disseminated
against, as at present.
English Capital has grabbed up
six of the biggest meat-packing
houses in Chicago. They will be
amalgamated and have a capital
of 100000. The six concerns
have a capacity for slaughtering
and curing 10000 hogs day in
the summer and $4,000 in the win
; ter, with all the requisite improved
refrigerating plants and accessories.
Last year the combined plants
slaughtered ,250,O00 hogs, 10000
cattle and 10000 sheep and calves.
The armament of the coast de-
Tense vessel Monterey has been
completed at the Washington gun
shop, and will be shipped to San
Francisco in q few days. One OF
the Pinch guns is already noun
ted and the other has just passed
a most satisfactory test at Indian
Head, as have also her 10-inch
guns. These three guns, with their
mounts and equipments, are now
{ being prepared for transportation
: across the continent.
Rear-Admiral Harmony, com.
handing the Asiatic station, re-
ports the disposition of the vessels
of that squadron on April 4 as fol.
lows: Lancaster at Hongkong,
Marion at Yokohama, Alliance at
Hongkong Ito sail April 6 for Ma
gasaki), Monocacy at Shanghai
Alert en- route to Kobe, via Maya
saki, Petrol at Shanghai, Palo al
Teugketo, near Tientsin.
The formation of still another
big trust is announced. This time
it is the trunk manufacturers, who
will have a corporation with CAPT
tai of 100000. They will dis
charge a large number of employ
ees and raise the prices of goods.
A brutal murder was committed
in Calaveras County, Cal, on Apri
80. The Calaveras stage, contain
ing three lady passengers, drive
and express passenger, was free
l upon by a masked man. The
e charge was buckshot, a greater par
4 of which entered the body of the
young lady on the outside seat
/ killing her instantly. The drive
e was MORALLY wounded in the heat
and the messenger received a sho
t in the arm. The assassin escaped
e and no clue to his identity has beer
obtained. 1t is thought he intended
k to rob the stage of large treasur
It that was on board.
/ A mob in Nashville, Tennessee
/ on April 80, broke into the jail ant
e hanged a negro outrager. Tn
: lynching was done in broad day
# light and the officers made no re
|. sistance.
It The practice cruiser Bancroft
o has been successfully launched
/ The Bancroft, which is for the US
of the cadets at Annapolis, is :
steel screw propeller, barkentin,
rugged, 178 feet 6 inches in length
k an6 80 feet breadth of beam. He
t armament consists of four 4-incl
t rapidfre breech-loading guns ant
n an auxiliary of two 6-pounders, tw'
s 3-pounders, one 1-pounder, one 81
: rim revolving cannon and one gat
ling gun. She will be ready TO
i trial in three months.
:, A Washington dispatch says tina
# the Secretary of the Navy has is
: sued instructions to the naval ane
D revenue marine vessels assigned t.
: enforce the modus vivendi prohibit
e ing sealing in the Behring sea
t These instructions differ from those
of last year in three important par
: ticulars. First, any vessel founc