The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-04-08

The cOunterfeiters escaped in their boat
10 the shore and fled into the tules
leaving IA trail of blood behind them.
Two large pO, es attempted to find
the men but failed and ii is believed
they were drowned.
Another bank on the Kansas border
has been robbed in broad daylight
The two highwaymen captured seven
men in the bank, locked them up and
rode away with $500. The deed was
even more daring than the boldest
act of the late Dalton gang.
The latest is a typewriter trust with
a capital Of $4,000, 900. Among the
companies interested are the Reming-
ton, Yost, Caligraph, Hammond and
American.
A. G.. Paulsell, ex-HarboF Commits
sioner of San Francisco, died at his
home in Stockton on the Goth March.
Officers discovered a gang of coun-
terfeiters in Spokane, Washington,
who are making spurious coins that
defy every ordinary test.
The New York Times has been sold
to a syndicate for S950,000.
Several friends of silver coinage in
the Senate claim to have positive as
surances from President Cleveland
that he will send delegation to Brus-
sells in May to represent the United
States at the International Monetary
Conference, and that he has already
taken steps to notify the various ma
tons taking part that our Govern
ment would be pleased to have them
again represented. Allison and Teller
are reported to have received these
assurances.
Foreign News.
A fire in Montreal on the 9th of
March destroyed the Daily Herald
plant, etc. Loss $4,000.
A bill incorporating the North
American Canal Company was passed
in the Canadian Parliament on the
9th. The company will construct a
canal from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario;
deepen the st. Lawrence Canal and
cut the canal from the Lake st. Fran
els to Lake Champlain and thence to
the Hudson river, in order to provide
a new waterway to New York.
The French Canadian promoters of
annexation to the United States in
tend to organize regular committees
in all the French Canadian centers in
the United States, with a view to In
ducing the Canadians there to CORES
pond regularly with their friends and
relatives in Canada, impressing upon
them the advantages to be derived
from living under the Star and Stripes.
A London dispatch says: William
Waldorf Astor, who recently purchas-
ed the Pail Mall Gazette and converted
it from a Liberal into a Conservative
organ, appears to have developed a
liking for journalism. 1t is announced
that he will start the Pail Mall Maya
zine on May 1st as q complement to
the Pail Mall Gazette and the Pail
Mall Budget. The latter is weekly
edition of the Pail Mall Gazette. The
Pail Mall Mazazine will be published
in London and New York and will be
sold for shilling. Particular care
will be taken in the art department,
and illustrations will be q leading
feature. Lord Frederick Spencer
Hamilton, formerly in the British
diplomatic service, now a member of
Parliament, and eX-Judge Sir Dou-
glass Straight will conduct the maya
zine. Swinburne will furnish a poem
for the initial number.
The French are enjoying another
government crisis. The Ministry have
handed their designations to President
CarnOt, to take effect in thirty days.
The cause was the refusal of the Depu-
ties to vote the budget demanded by
the Ministry.
Shipping.
The steamer Haytien Republic has
been found in the Chinese smuggling
business on Puget Sound, and it is
announced that her opium smuggling
operations have been enormous. A
great scandal is promised in which
high customs officials are involved.
The North American Navigation
Co. have chartered the Keweenau to
follow the Mexico on the Panama
line. The Mexico was offered more
freight than she could carry.
A dispatch from Montevideo says
the German steamer Tanis arrived
there yesterday from the Falkland
islands to land the captain and his
wife and the crew of the British ship
Templemore. The Templemore was
crushed between two icebergs north
of the Falkland islands on March Sd.
The captain, his wife and crew got off
in small boats as the vessel was going
down. They had been afloat five
days and were nearly dead from
hunger and exposure when they were
picked up by the ship DunbOyne and
taken to the Falkland islands. They
were brought to Montevideo by the
Tanis.
The steamer Alexander is reported
to be in Behring sea engaged in SELL
ing whisky to the natives, and raid
ing the seal rookeries. The govern
ment will take hand in the matter.
The barkentine Modoc which start
ed from Port Blakely for Shanghai,
with a cargo of lumber, has put into
this port with leaking condition for
repairs. She will discharge and 60
on the dry dock.
The tug Fearless which went in
search of the derelict Houresfeldt,
2500 miles west of Panama, has re-
turned without seeing the wreck. The
Fearless steamed 5000 miles in rough
weather without recoaling.
A Nanaimo dispatch of the Goth
inst. says that an attempt to wreck
the Bawnmore on her up trip with an
Internal machine, was frustrated.
The bomb contained II pounds oil
dynamite, and it seems miracle
that it did not explode before it was
found. The Seaman's Union is &C.
credited with the work.