The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-06-16
FOREIGN NEWS.

The French senate has passed a
bill to facilitate civil actions against
the Panama canal swindlers.
Bismarck is expected to come in
out of the wet and patch up truce
with the emperor.
The big antitrust convention,
with delegates from twenty-six
states, will meet in Chicago on
June 9Th.
A state convention of North Car
DINA liquor-dealers has been called
for June 21st. 1t will be the fret
such meeting ever held.
The crevasse at Lake Providence,
La, is $500 feet wide. Many peo-
pie are homeless and suffering.
Washington is to have an old
fashioned Fourth of July celebra-
ton. President Cleveland, so it is
announced, is to deliver the ora
ton.
About 100000 gold will be
brought to the United States by
European visitors to the Columbian
Fair, according to estimates made
by English financial papers.
The Salem, Mass, Register re-
Gently suspended publication. The
paper was go years old, the editor
80, and the sub editor had been in
the harness 40 years.
Chile has seal troubles, too. Two
American, three Argentine and four
English vessels are killing seals in
Magellan Straits, and there is
likely to be some shooting about
it.
The State of Michoacan, Mexico,
has repealed it's law which pro-
hibited bull-fghts in the State.
During the month of May $4,000
immigrants landed at New York.
Sixty-two members of the volun-
teer fire department of CONSTANT
nople, with two Turkish fre-en-
gines, have arrived at Chicago.
The chief claims that, with the en-
gines on their shoulders, his men
can make longer and quicker run
than Americans can with their
swift horses.
It has been discovered that the
new election law in Kansas prac-
tically DISTINGUISHES the Demo
Gratis.
It is rumored in New York that
the Goulds will have to pay taxes
on a personal estate of 100000.
1t will take forty expert clerks
two months and a half to count
and weigh the money in the United
States treasury.
Failure of capitalists to subscribe
the needed 81, 100000 will probably
kill the Chignecto, N. B., marine
canal project.
President Diaz, of Mexico, has
issued a decree which forbids the
importation of slaughtered hogs
into the city of Mexico.
The Worlds Fair Managers have
figured expenses down to $4,000
a day, whereas the daily average
revenue from admissions and con-
cessions is about $4,000.
DIR. Nansen's polar expedition,
I it is announced, will start from
Christiania on June Goth.
The Catholic priests of France
have been ordered to denounce
Freemasonary from their pulpits.
Queen Victoria used an elevator
for the first time in many years at
the opening of the Imperial Insti-
tute in London the other day
There is nothing of the kind in
any of the royal palaces.
A great stir has been made
among shipping people at Liver
pool by the notification that all
freight vessels and their crews
bound for the United States must
henceforth be inspected by the me
dical officer attached to the Amer.
lean Consulate before bills Of
health can be issued.
The total immigration to tho
United States during the ten
months ended April 80, 1898, was
334, S25, a decline of 1913 from
the immigration of the correspond
ing ten months Of the previous
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