The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-03-23


The Government is working on an
air ship, the invention of Professor
Langley, of the Smithsonian Institute,
which is endorsed by the faculty of
that institution, and promises to be
success. 1t is made of steel, allu-
| minimum and silk.
Despite his protest, the friends of
| Governor Mckinley have raised a
fund by subscription, sufficient to
| clear him of debt.
Herr William II. Munderloh. the
| accredited representative of Emperor
William in the Canadian Provinces.
is dead his wife has gone mad from
| the shock, and two children are await
ing death at their home, and there is
son barely able to stand the thrice
terrible blow. These are the pitiable
settings of real life tragedy enacted at
| the Great Northern Hotel in Chicago.
The important matters agreed to by
the congressional conferees on the
naval bill are the appropriation of
100000 for building a submarine tor.
| pedo boat and conducting experiments
| Herewith, and 100000 for the ex-
| penses of an international naval rem
| devious and review. The agreement
in regard to light draft gunboats is in
| the nature of compromise. The
House provided for one, and the
| Senate added three more. The reports
| show that the committee agreed upon
| three altogether. These boats are to
| be protected, of about 100 tons dis
| placement, and 20 cost, exclusive of
armament, not more than $780, coo
each.
Clark Moore, the man who aided
| the bandits, Evans and Sontag, to
escape, has been tried and acquitted.
The Crow Indians have gone on the
warpath, and threaten tc exterminate
| the whites in Montana, on account of
| the aggressions of the latter with
respect to public lands. The troops
| have been called out, and war is i'm
| minent.
The work of placing the exhibits in
| the Worlds Fair is progressing rapid
| ly and the great show will doubtless
| be in good shape on the opening day.
"Jim" Keene, the great SPECTATOR,
| is trying to make a corner in wheat,
and stands to win or lose $4,000, 600.
He now controls 2O,OO0,O00 bushels
| and it looks as though he would sue
| coed.
Ex-President Harrison says he is
glad to retire to private life and is
tired of magnificence. During next
winter he will write book. He says
it will relate specially to a number of
! important matters connected with his
administration that the public have
not fully understood. They are, he
says, of such q nature that notwith-
standing their Importance they will
not become matters of history, and it
is his intention by this means to make
clear certain things of which the pub
lie is now in ignorance on account of
misapprehension. What these SUBJ
jects were Harrison did not at this
time care to indicate.
Miss Julia Force of Atlanta, Geor-
gia, who murdered her sister and was
declared insane, has been shown to be
sane and must stand trial. Her con-
viction is certain.
Georgia has been swept by great
cyclone and the result is the loss of
fifty lives and an immense amount of
property. The victims are homeless,
without food or shelter in biting win
ter weather. Appeals for help have
been sent out and are promptly re-
sponded to. One town of 1000 inhab
itants was swept entirely from the
face of the earth.
Russell Sage the great financier says
concerning the Sherman Silver Bill:
ga decision has apparently been ar
rived at by the treasury officials to
use the S100,000,000 reserve. 1t is an
eXpedient that will prove temporary
palliative, but will not tend to allay
all the fears on the monetary question.
"The cause of the trouble will not
be removed until the Sherman bill is
repealed, and Europe will not buy our
stocks or bonds with any confidence
until this measure is entirely out of
the way.
81 think that the election of S. III.
III. Clark to the presidency of the Mis-
souri, Pacific will be gratifying to ev-
erybody concerned. His resignation
from the Union Pacific does not mean
anything, because he will still remain
director of that company and the re-
lations between the companies will
continue friendly
Several acres of the finest business
blocks in Boston were destroyed by
: fire on March 1st and twenty lives
lost. The damage was s., 100000. Sew
eral of the buildings were supposed to
be fireproof, but the fire department
could not control the flames for tire,
hours.
The Standard Oil Trust is being as
sailed in the courts to declare it a pub
lie menace and restriction of the laws
of trade. The fight will be bitter
one.
The strain on the national treasury
by the withdrawal of gold for export
has been relieved by the sending Of
several millions to the treasury from
banks in Chicago and Denver. Cali
fornia has a glut of gold and can re-
lieve the strain at any time.
General Thomas L. Eckert has been
elected president of the Western I'm
ion Telegraph Company, vice DR..
Norvin Green, deceased.
the construction of a State building
Houses and doubtless will become a
law.
Principally owing to the attacks of
has passed joint resolution to remove
Jose, Cal. The matter will be sub.
mitted to the people at the next gen.
eral election and it is believed the re-
mova1 scheme will succeed. San Jose
offers to donate ten acres of land and
Sl,000,000 to the State.
Robert Sherwood, the we'll known
merchant and importer, of Sherwood
& Sherwood, is dead, at the age of &c.
Buffalo City wants the Corbett-
Mitchell fight and offers purse of
$4,000.
Foreign News.
The Panama Canal scandal is still
shaking the French republic to its
foundations, and it now looks as
| h.