The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-02-24

Both. The present service is excellent,
and a return to the Old-time passenger
train mail service would be draw
back.
men declare that if beaten, they will
resume operations in Mexico.
There was great jack rabbit drive
at Fresno, Cal, on the 18th instant.
A body of land embracing twenty
square miles was surrounded by
mounted men and boys, and the
rabbits were driven gradually into an
enclosure in the centre of the tract. |
No dogs were allowed in the chase. |
1t is estimated that between 1900 |
and $1,000 rabbits were killed with |
clubs in the enclosure.
A New York man has suggested |
that all the silver now in the United |
States Treasury be utilized in the con- |
struction of an immense silver palace
at the Chicago Worlds Fair. It could
be made 300 by 400 feet in dimensions,
and would be worth S4OO,OO0,O00.
Sir Edwin Arnold is ell route to San
Francisco to the East. He is going to
make another japanese trip.
A solar spot at least 100000 by
1900 miles in size has been dis
covered. 1t is so large as TO be easily
| seen through Il smoked glass, occupy
ing, as it does, One-seVenth of the
SUMS diameter. There has been a
magnificent auroral display through
out the East, simultaneously with the
appearance of the spot.
Lenhiman's Hotel and an entire
block of business houses in Memphis,
Tenn, were destroyed by fire on the
8th. Loss, $l,O0O,0OO.
Foreign News.
Count Won Burcher, who married an
American girl and then deserted her
because his family cut his income
down to $50 per month, is dead from
grip. His wife was suing him for di-
vOrce at the time
A London dispatch says that the
trial of the Sims Edison torpedo has
proved success. The torpedo was
launched in Stokes Bay, from the
steamer Drudge, which was loaned
for the purpose by the Armstrong;,
who are interested in the invention.
Mr.. Sims personally operated the tor
pedO. 1t was sent out distance of n
mile and quarter, and was under
such perfect control that the manipu-
latOr turned it at will in any direction,
while the Drudge was steaming along
more than mile away. The English
government will probably buy it.
During the elections in Guatemala,
Mex, on January II, a fight occurred
over the ballot boxes, and in the
melee with the troops sixty people
were killed and one hundred wounded.
Several fatal riots have occurred in
Argentine. Many people We're killed
and six hundred soldiers and civilians
were imprisoned for participation in
| the fracaSSeS.
Reports from Mexico show that the
revOlutiOnistS are still gaining
strength and are defeating the regular
troops. The lower classes are taking
part with the rebels and it is feared
that a general revolution is impend-
ing. General CARA, the leader, has
written to President Harrison defend
ing his acts, and asking the United
States government not to interfere
with him when his troops cross the
border
Fruits are being successfully shipped
from South Africa to London, where
peaches sell for ST. for three dozen.
Miss Matte Mitchell, daughter oil
Senator Mitchell, of Oregon, has been
married to the Due de Ia RochefOu-
, | cauld, of France.
At Madrid, Spain, on February 10
| |
leaders of the anarchists and the exc
eution was nothing short of butchery
1t required the Government troops tC
prevent the mob from killing the exc
. cutioner.
France, Italy and Sweden will be
) asked to arbitrate the seal fisherie,
: question.
Nj. De Lesseps, the famous civil Ell
gineer of France is reported to b,
dying.
Reports have been received from
: DahOmey confirming the report tina
the King has been making slave raid
in order to supply the Belgians on tn,
Congo and the Germans in the Cam
eroons. 1t is said 4 German named
: Richleu has settled at Whydah, an,
has engaged the King to supply 400
: negroes at G12 each.
Prince George is to be given tn
title of "Duke of London"
: Horses and donkeys are now il
> great demand as food in France, OWN,
Il to the high price of beef. The horse
and mules slaughtered represent owe
! One-third of the whole quantity @
meat consumed. Fillet of horse o
e donkey is retailed at 10d per pound
d steak at I'd and inferior parts at 20
Worn out animals are rising in value
and are being bought up everywher
within a radius of 800 miles of Paris.
+ Admiral Sir Provo Wallis, X. {
IL b., aged over hundred years, Senio
Admiral of the British Navy, is deaC
l. In 1872 he was appointed to the Shar
: non, which captured the Unite
States frigate Chesapeake off BostO
u harbor in June, 1913, when the ga
II liant Captain Lawrence lost his life
II Wallis was Second Lieutenant on TIL
l occasion, and his Captain, BrOk,
= having been terribly wounded and tn
&c First Lieutenant killed, the comman
;, devolved on him.
L DIR. William Junker, the Africa
e traveller and naturalist. is dead.
y Shipping.
II The steamer Humboldt, which pile
L between this port and Eureka, an
u which was not heard of for weel
II has arrived in port. She was abOI
u given up for lost, and two of the be.
tugs in the city were sent to look fl
her. She was found by the tug Wi
ard in a disabled condition, trying |
r make Roadway with a jury rudder.
he The Pacific Mail Steamship Colin
of has had her trial trip since bein
OF altered to meet the requirements
of the mail subsidy bill. She succeede
in developing speed of 1854 kno
ed per hour.
or The new schooner-rigged revenr
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