The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-08-09

congressman from Los Angeles i
dead at the age of 76 years.
Inc financial stringency still con
tlnues, but IL Is not as bad as a few
weeks ago. Among the big bank
that have failed recently is that o
Senator Mitchell OF Milwaukee, Wis
consin, one of the strongest in TIN
west. 1t will probably resume. Pend
Ing the action of congress on the tariff
question many large manufacturing
plants Of the east and west are CLOSING
down, with the result that thousand!
ofoperatives are thrown out ofemploy
Tnent and will probably be idle for
months. The war over the silver
question Is raging hotter each day
and the silver men are showing "a
much strength that it is conceded
they Will secure a substitute to the
Sherman law or prevent its repeal
The contest will doubtless be long
one, and in the meantime the country
will continue to suffer and money grow
scarcer. In the matter of wheat the
decrease in values has been some
thing Unprecedented in the history OF
the country. At the present time ii
is about Z cents per bushel in Chi
cago. September wheat has dropped
lOl cents per bushel in the past ten
days. In Denver, owing to the clos
ing of silver mines there are 5000 idle
men and public soup houses are being
established to feed them. There is
one good feature of the situation in
the fact that New York bankers are
beginning to bring gold back from
Europe in large amounts, and the
| gold reserve in the treasury is stead
lily growing.
| The great silver convention to con-
vene in Chicago today will be an i'm
mense gathering of thousands of sill
| yer enthusiasts. 1t is intended as an
object lesson for the administration
| and congress and some plan will be
devised and forwarded TO the law
makers in Washington.
Cholera still exists in many places
in Europe and the next few weeks
will decide whether it will become
epidemic and whether it Will pass the
barriers of England and the United
States. In Europe and this country
the greatest precautions are being
taken and it is hoped and believed
that the scourge will be kept in
check.
Three negroes who tortured and out
ragged a woman in South Carolina
were captured, and tortured to death
by q mob. The crime was one of the
most horrible in the history of the
South
The New York customs authorities
are charged with receiving brides to
admit Chinese unlawfnlly into this
country.
The claimants for the rewards of
fered for the capture of Evans and
Sontag are so numerous that the
courts will be called upon to settle
their rights.
The New York Erie and Western
railroad has gone into the hands of a
receiver. Poor business methods and
dishonesty were the causes of the
failure.
Mounted on the dock of the West
Point foundry at Cold Spring, New
York, is one of three fifteen-inch dyna-
mite aerial torpedo throwers which
are to be mounted for the defense of
San Francisco. There are two eight |
inch tubs in process of construction |
at the West Point foundry for the |
defense of the New York harbOr. The |
tube gun will not be ready for testing |
for month or six weeks.
The suspended banks in Denver are |
to resume business.
Adeline Patti will begin her Ameri-
can tour at New York on Nov. 9th.
She will come TO California.
The Standard Oil Company has
made another big hand and bought
out the Rocky Mountain Oil Com
pany for 81 100000.
1t is announced that arrangements
have been made for the construction
Of section l of the Guadalajara and
Western Railroad of Mexico, for
which concession was granted to l..
BeindOrff, William Dick and A. l..
Clark. The Cuadalajara and West
ern, starting at The city of Guadala-
ara, will extend west to the port of
IN m, tho pa..ifio coast nd aoSt
20 the town of San Luis Potosi. A
branch line will be built from Paso de
Flores to Ahualulco, Del Mercado
md EtZatlan. The work on section
will probably be commenced immedi-
ttely after the rainy season, about the
middle of October, and must be fin
shed within two years from the date
If the concession contract of May 3Oth.
The total length of the line will be
bout 1904 miles, and it is expected to
,e completed in about five years at
;ost of over S25,000,000.
Eastern electricians have discovered
system of telegraphy which threat
ms not only to supersede the tele-
,hone as at present, but to revolu-
ionize telegraphy in general. 1t is
he result of the joint efforts of several
Eastern inventors who thus produced
What they consider the masterpiece of
Ingenious mechanism.
In appearance the instrument re-
embles an ordinary typewriter, sur
Mounted by glass case containing
lectric machinery. II is operated by
imply pressing keys; every instru
nent is both a transmitter and re-
eiver. Each key when depressed sets
small ratchet-wheel in revolution,
nd each tooth of the wheel makes an
Electrical contact, causing the trans
mission of q current through the cir !
uit. The currents used alternate, and
ach wheel excites definite number. ,
Ut the receiving instrument similar
Wheel to that operated on responds to
10 other number. thus insuring accu- ,
acy in signaling.
A message struck off upon the keys
# the transmitter is printed upon
beet of paper by the receiver, and
his is done without necessitating the
presence of an operator at the receiv-
ng end. The receiving instrument :
nay, in fact, be in a locked box, if
rivacy be desired.
At Wichita, Kansas, two negroes
held up" a Pacific express wagon
nd secured $500, which they got ..
way with.
a row in a catholic church in Balti- /,