The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-11-25

LILY PACIFIC CONN
Brazilian fighting ship FL Sid has
been placed in position, aud the vesses
will soon sail away in search Of the
rebel Mello.
In the election for mayor, pro tenn,
to succeed Carter Harrison at Chicago,
the republicans were successful.
4 dispatch from Reno, Nevada, No
vember ;, says that Thos. +. Bolsse-
lieT, claiming TO be a chemist for Claus
Spreckels, at his sugar refinery on the
Hawaiian Islands, was taken of the
west bound passenger train this morn
ing on account OF his crazy actions.
He declared that he had been unjustly
convicted at some trial and threatened
several times to throw himself of the
the train. He is in jail there under
the care Of the county physician. who
thinks that his insanity was caused
by excessive drinking. He is anxious
to catch the next steamer for the ISL
ands, but will be held until his bro
Their, who has been telegraphed at
Boston, is heard from.
The five Russian cOnvicts who es-
capped to this port and were landed,
got positions in the museums as curl
Osities. Later they were arrested by
the authorities upon dispatch from
Washington, and will probably be
sent back 10 their country. Convlcts
are not needed here.
The order to Commodore Skerrett to
prepare for examination for promotion
will not affect his assignment to the
command of the Chinese station in
place of Admiral Irwin, who takes
Skerret's former station at Honolulu.
Commodore Skerrett will have his
physical examination at Mare Island,
Cal, and the rest of his examination
will be made in Washington from his
record.
Francis Parkman, the eminent
American historian, died at Boston
on the 9th inst.
Bishop Coke, of Buffalo, has writ
ten an open letter to Satolli, the papal
legate, in which he declares that the
representative of the Pope is not quail
fed to interpret the constitution of the
United States to the American people.
Foreign News.
The rebellion in Brazil goes on as
before, with more or less waste of
powder and destruction of property.
MellO, the rebel leader, asked recog-
milton from the United States as
belligerent, but the government has
notified him that they regard him as
a plain ordinary rebel. After this
announcement Mello threw off his
mask and now floats the flag of the
Bourbons, and fights for the restora-
ton of the monarchy. He is pushing
the government very hard in hopes OF
a conquest before the newly purchas-
ed fighting ship arrive in Brazilian
waters. Martial law prevails in Rio.
The government of Honduras has
sent an apology to the United States
government for the act of firing on
the steamer Costa Rica sailing under
the American flag.
The anarchists of Spain are still
desperate and fiendish. On Novem-
Der 9th they exploded bomb in
theater in Barcelona in which there
were 1000 people. Fifteen were kill
ed on the spot and many fatally in
jured. A dreadful stampede occur
red in which men, women and chill
dren were trampled to death. The
anarchists were arrested.
A New York dispatch says: The
Herald's correspondent at st. Pierre,
Martinique, cables: The British bark
Mendoza from Baker, Senegal, drift
ed ashore at Van Giro on the south
east shore of the island the other day.
She was on her way to Barbados,
and was sailing short handed, having
lost her commander, Captain Martin,
and all of her crew of sixteen men eX-
cept four, from cholera. These men
are now isolated at the point where
their ship came ashore, and will be
taken care of by the health authori-
ties.
II ~ no
has brought a recurrence OF cholera
and fifty cases were reported in one
day.
The report that the African king,
Lobengula, had been captured was a
mistake. He is at large and full of
fight yet.
1T is announced that the cashier of
the Bank of England is short in his
accounts from 100000 to 81, OOO,COO
He has been discharged in disgrace
after being in the employment of the
institution twenty years. His short
age was due to bad investments in
trust companies. The fact has caused
great excitement in English financial
circles and there is great uneasiness as
to the probable effect of the disclos-
ures to come as to bad management of
such a great institution, The directors
are urged to publish statement of
facts and thus set the public mind at
rest, but they decline to do so.
Sporting.
Longfellow, the king stallion of the
turf, died at Lexington on the 9th
inst, at the age of %. He was the
projenitor of the most famous line of
race horses in the history of the coun-
try.
The proposed great race between
Directum and AliX has been declared
off on account of the lateness of the
season.
The question of whether or not Cor
bett and Mitchell will fight has not
been settled. The mayor of Jackson
Vile, Florida, has refused to permit
the contest in his city, where purse
of $4,000 was offered, but it is posi-
BILE that the fight will take place out
side the city limits.
Johnson added the worlds standing
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