The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-10-18

body, il will be remembered, was dis
membered and thrown into the bay.
Harrison r. Thornton, q mission
airy, was murdered by natives neal
Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska, las
summer. His assassins were caught
and lynched.
Wells, Fargo q Co.'S express con
tract with the railroad company ex
pires before the 1st of January next
and the Adams Express Company has
decided to bid for the privilege.
a 500 package of gold-dust is miss
ing from the registry department. oi
the post office, and George ;. Hay
man, delivery clerk, is under suspen-
sion pending investigation.
convention in the city to secure
needed congressional legislation on
their behalf in the way of titles, and
concerning hydraulic mining.
&. r. Bennett, of the Society for the
Suppression of Vice, has resigned.
He could not stand the pressure OF
public opinion against him, generated
by the exposure OF the fact that he
ruined young lady in Oakland.
1t is stated that the consolidation OF
nearly all the principal street railway
lines in the city is about completed.
Goodall, Perkins IL Co. will here
after not recognize the Seamen's
Union on account OF the Curtin dyna-
mite outrage.
American News.
Secretary Carlisle is trying TO scare
congress into repeating the Geary eX-
clusiOn act. He has sent to the house
n, IN, fOI, ha fos ha
would require $4,000 900 TO deport tie
Jet to deportation.
The Hamburg steamer Russia has
arrived in New York having had five
deaths on board. The disease Is suS-
piciously like cholera, and the vessel
is in quarantine.
The Wizard Edison is out with q
novel idea on money matters. He
proposes that the government make
its money out of wheat and compress
a bushel into the size of a dollar, CIV
ing it the value of a gold dollar. He
says it could then be used either for
money or food.
A bottle has been found on the
coast of Natal, Brazil, in which was
a paper, dated September 1st, 1898 in
which it was stated that the lost
steamer c''foundered rapidly in
the north Atlantic, after being in col
lision with an iceberg"
Musselman a r. Webb has opened
headquarters in New York, where he
proposes to spread the gospel of the
faith of Mohammed. Webb is an Eng
lishman converted to Islamism.
The fishing schooner Carrie w. Bah
son has returned from Greenland and
reports having discovered the remains
OF "a prehistoric race of puny men.
The Nevada Southern r. r. Co. has
decided to complete its line to Los
Angeles. This well give that city
t.! ee competing overland roads.
Chicago day at the Worlds Fair,
the greatest peace festival known to
the annalists of the worlds civiliZa-
ton. Over 700,O 900 persons paid to en-
ter Jackson park, and fully $4,000
others gained Abundance on passes of
various kinds. The'events which the
day commemorated and the manner
and circums tances of their commem-
Grafton combined to give to the cele
bration at once the elements of great
ness and of Immortality. No other
event or combination of events within
the range of conception can displace
the great day as the Growing
triumph in the series of triumpGs of
the fair. 1t far surpassed the greatest
day at the Paris exposition, aud will
never be eX elled. The
crush was something terrible, and in
several cases there were stampedes
and panics that resulted in the serious
injury of several people, while four
deaths We're caused by cable cars and
other accidents. The wonder is that
more lives were not sacrificed. The
fair is now out of debt, and it may
finally prove money-making sue
cess.
The last of the four Northern Paci-
fic railroad train robbers has been
captured. Three were wounded and
one killed before they were taken.
Foreign News.
News from Rio de Janeiro is mea-
gre. 1t appears that the government
have been battered some
what by the bombardment of the IN
sugent fleet, but the cannonading is
over as the German, American, Eng
Iish and Portuguese warships have in
and say they will not permit
the destruction of the city. The IN
are receiving news of upris
ing in the northern part of Brazil in
their favor, while President PeiXotto
has ordered torpedo boats from Eu-
rope.
October Sth, the anniversary of the
death of Charles Stewart Paruell, was
observed with appropriate ceremonies
over his grave.
Cholera M crobes have been found in
The water of the Elba near Hamburg.
Bismarck has left Kissengen for
FREDERICKSBURG much improved in
health. At one time it was thought
hat the old chancellor would die.
A. HOncherenko, a Russian exile In
San Francisco, claims to have received
Information from Siberia that by an
imperial ukase some $4,000 Jews must
soon be compelled to leave Siberia.
The fetes in honor of the visit of the
Russian fleet to ToulOn will begin this
week.
n dispatch from Manangua, Nicara-
qua, says: "Ou the canal proposition
he government takes the ground that
he present canal company should be
allowed to finish the work, or at least
continue until something shows that