The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-02-21

ing. \ dispatch says that the
| people have been ruined by the
damage and many lives were lost.
\ correspondent of the World
cables an alarming report regard
ing the coming Of the cholera
| plague this year:
From St. Petersburg comes the
news that ten persons died of
cholera with the cessation of the
frost. The Marseilles people are
| trying hard to cover up the dead
and quiet the fears of the living.
But worst of all, as directly
affecting America, is the news
from Hamburg, in the suburbs of
Altoona. A prisoner in the Jail has
just died and FIVE other cases are
being closely watched. The port
of Hamburg itself was not allowed
| to escape. On board the steamers
Ecso and Australia four sailors
were stricken with the disease.
The weather is moderating all over
the continent and the warm sun
shine is bringing back to life the
cholera germs.
Meanwhile Vienna is sending
invitations to all nations to an In
ternational Health Congress to
formulate some plan of fighting
the common foe, and in England
and Southampton the people are
begging Parliament to vote money
to keep up a rigid quarantine.
MARsEHLEs, Feb. 12.-Between
6 o'clock last evening and 2 o'clock
this afternoon eight persons died
of the cholera epidemic and several
fresh cases were taken to the hos
pital. The patients were discharg-
ed as cured from the hospital.
The Swedish Consul has refused
to issue clean bills to vessels sail
ing for Swedish ports. A five days
quarantine has been established
by the Greek Government for all
arrivals from this port.
The reports from Argentina state
that the country is on the verge of
a revolution. In the Humboldt col
ony 5000 colonists, nearly all for
eigners, are in arms to force the
government to reduce the excess
sive export tax on wheat. The
government is condemned on all
sides and general uprising is i'm
minent.
A London dispatch says that the
scramble for gold is now regarded
as one of the gravest signs of the
times in Europe. It is one of the
causes of a widespread but i'll
defined feeling in political circles
that European peace is soon to be
broken. Gold in large amounts is
being locked up, not only in the
imperial treasury of Russia, but in
the storehouses of other continental
governments. The abnormal move
ment Of the precious metal is now
well understood in financial circles
and the baneful effects of the stu
alton are foreseen.
The Statist has this significant
Utterance "Not only do the mill
tary preparations on the continent
threaten US with the most terrible
war the world has ever seen, with
the greatest waste of life and wealth
and with q complete breakup Of
the political systems Of the contin-
ent, but they actually put prohi-
bition on new enterprises elsewhere.
Nobody can be sure for week to-
gether Of what may happen or how
the money markets of the world
may he thrown into confusion and
Of how disastrous, therefore, every
undertaking may be made. The
injurious effect will continue even
if war itself is still postponed.
There is naturally very much I'M
easiness all over the continent and
in every war Office throughout the
world, yet there is hope at the same
time that the magnitude of the
risks viii deter shem all from be-
ginning the struggle"
The food in Brisbane proves to
have been the greatest disaster in
the history of Queensland. There
is water forty feet deep in the prin-
cipal streets of the city tonight and
in the suburbs it covered buildings
sixty feet high. Five hundred
houses have been demolished, hun
dreds Of families have lost their
homes and left the city in boats to
seek shelter on higher ground. All
the gas and water pipes have been
damaged or destroyed and the city
is in darkness.
The Governor came to the city
to-day in boat. He says all the
towns between Brisbane and Fps
wich are submerged.
Algernon Sartares, who married
Nellie, the daughter of General
Grant, is dead. He had not lived
with his wife for several years.
Deacon has secured a divorce
from his wife in Paris, on the ground
of her infdelity with Abeille, whom
Deacon killed. She retained the
custody of the youngest child.
The Canadian government is dis
missing from the public service all
officers who favor annexation to the
United States.
Frederick Jackson, F.R.G.S., of