The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-08-26


Geary Act is to be made by Eastern
pro Chinese advocates at the present
session of congress.
Whitecaps tried TO drive Samuel
and William Conrad from Harrison
county, Indiana, on the 9th. The
Conrads gave the Intruders battle
and wcrsted them, killing five raid
ers.
Astronomers are discussing the
question whether one of the spots on
the sun recently observed was a
comet and not an ordinary sun spot.
The steamer Annie Faxon blew up
near The Dalles, Ore, on the 14th.
Eight lives were lost
The Northern Pacific railway has
gone into the hands of T. F. Cakes,
ii. W. Payne and Henry Cranse as
receivers.
Over a million dollars worth of
property was destroyed IN a lumber
| ire at Minneapolis on the 18th.
Standard Oil checks are being re-
| fused by New York and other banks.
! Scarcity of currency is the cause.
Riots are believed to be imminent
! In several eastern cities, where there
| are thousands OF unemployed men.
New York had such riot on the
] 18th.
Congressman W. G. Z. Brecken-
ridge is defendant in breach OF
promise suit, the complainant being
Miss MadelaiGe B. Pollard.
An operation for appendicitis was
successfully performed in New York
on John w Mackay, on the Sth.
Meacham's gang of outlaws was
wiped ont by the sheriff of Clark
County, Ala, on the 18th. Thirteen
men were killed in the pitched battle
which ended as stated.
L. L. Neal, silver man, has been
nominated for governor by the Ohio
democrats. TO make the race against
Mckinley.
Foreien News.
A treaty of peace has been agreed |
upon by the warning factions in |
Nicaragua.
Siam having conceded everything |
to France, the Siamece trouble has |
passed into history. 1t is reported |
on good authority that when the re-
lations of England and Siam were
most strained, the emperor of Ger
many rubbed his hands and said: |
''All right now The dance will be-
gin"
The reported marriage of the duke
of York to an English woman at
Malta prior to hts recent wedding is
being canvassed by the gossips. The
belief is general that such a wedding
was solemnizsd.
Religious riots, which the police
and British Troops were for the time
powerless to qnell, broke out in Bonn
bay on the 18th and 10Th. The city
was in the hands of mob on the
18th. The Hiudoos attacked the
Mohammedans wherever they could
be found, burning and sacking
mosques, dwellings, etc. The dis
turbances were finally ended by the
troops.
Russia and Germany are engaged
in a retalitory tariff struggle, which
is greatly aggravating the i'll feeling
already existing.
Elections are soon to begin in
France and the feeling runs high.
Several duels are promised, of course.
4. 3. Spreckels' great mare Hulda,
by Guy Wilkes dam by Bull Pup,
trotted mile in 2:0S5 at Buffalo on
the 3rd This is the fastest mile
made this year And after Martha
Wilkes POS is the fastest mile ever
made in race.
All the horses of the Palo Alto
stock farm are to be offered for sale
shortly. It IS believed that about
200 of the best will be reserved for
breeding.
Havey won the American cham
pionship at tennis in Chicago on the
9Th, defeating Neel, the Californian,
in the final.
Alec Greggai-s, middleweight, was
defeated by Dan Creedon, of Aus
traIia, in ID rounds at Roby. Ind, on
the 14th.
Jack Dempsey, middleweight
champion, is matched to fight Jim
Burge, of Australia, but will probably
never appear in the ring, as it is
thought he is becoming insane
4 man named McClusky, of
Boston, took shot at John L.
Sullivan In a New York bar room
him. He fed precipitately
from McClosky once the shooting
began.
George Dixon defeated Eddy
Pierce IN three rounds at Coney
Island on the 7th. Dixon will fight
Solly Smith at the same place next
month.
Corbett has decided that Mitchell
must fight him at Coney Island or
not all If Mitchell fails Jackson
will be taken on.
Shipping.
The new triple screw cruiser
was launched at Cramps
yard on the 18th. She has a dis
OF 1850 tons and must
make Il knots an hour on her trial
1t is expected that the battleship
Oregon viii be launched at the Union
Iron Works on the 9th of September.
The American ship Frederick Bill
lings was burned at Taltal, Chile, in
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