The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-03-11

contract has been awarded them for
over S2,000000 worth Of heavy srmOr-
plate. the entire contract being So
100000 The Carnegie Works at
PIttsburg secured the rest Of the
contract.
Tie strike Of railroad men IN
Chicago l. growing more serIOus,and
not only axe trains being derailed.
but the non union men assaulted.
The military will probably be called
out to protect property and lives.
Truxton Beale, q Californian. has
been appointed Minister to Rou-
mania. Servia and Greece.
Foreign News.
\ despatch from St. Petersburg
shows that cholera is not the only
pest that Europe will have to deal
with this year. III Russia the Gov
eminent is now having struggle
with an epidemic Of what is common
/ IL called the BLACK DEATH" which
| has recently appeared in the Cauca-
sus. Thence it has spread with
| frightful rapidity all over Southern
| Russia. The number of deaths is
| increasing daily, and all measures to
/ check the frighttul calamity have so
far proved useless. Whether the au-
/ thorities will be able to suppress the
! plague or not remains to be seen.
It is said that the Ribot Gov
eminent in France is about to col
lapse. and bring on another crisis in
the affairs OF the nation. The Royal
lists and Socialists are hard at work
to bring about anarchy, and it Is
alleged that England is engaged,
through secret agents, in attempting
to embroil the Republic.
DIR. Cornelius Herr, the man most
seriously implicated of all in To"
Panama scandals, is still i'll at the
hotel at B0urnemouth, which he has
bought up entirely for himself. An
English detective sits beside his door
in the house and two French detec
tives hover in the distance outside,
but are not allowed within the hotel.
A reporter managed to get into the
hotel, and to have brief talk with
Mrs. Herr and few words with DIR.
Herr. Curiously enough both seem
ed more disturbed about the charges
of being a spy than about anything
else. He is afraid that the Chamber
will resort to extreme measures IN
dealing with him.
Another revolving crime has been
committed by Siciian bandits near
Palermo, Italy. Eleven of the viii
lains have been sentenced to penal
servitude for life. The crime for
which these men were arrested was
most atrocious, although it has had
many parallels in Sicily. In August
last they captured a wealthy land
owner named Billotto and demanded
!, for his release the sum of 100000
lire. In letters written from his
place of captivity, Billotto called
upon the members of his family to
forward the money to his captors,
stating that If it was not sent the
brigand5 they intended to kill him
This money was raised, but it failed
, to reach the robbers at the time they
had set for its delivery to them, and
they therefore proceeded TO put their
threats to kill Biiiotto into execution
and the testimony showed that he
was tortured and then burned at the
: stake.
! l The Tribunal OF Arbitration on the
Behring Sea question met in Paris
on February %, and adjourned tC
March %. They will decide the case
E between England and the United
! States.
! NJ. Jules Ferry has triumphed
= over his enemies and is again presi
dent of the French senate. He wa!
we'll received
. Another duel has been fought il
. France in consequence of the Pana
ma scandal, in which one was wound
. ed in the side.
!, The editor of the London Time
. the "Thunderer," has been calle'
: before the bar of the House to apollo
= gize for comments upon the HON
Rule bill.
The newspapers are again figurin!
Q out the amount Of the Queen
y wealth, and the sum is placed at be
. tween 100000 aud f5,000,000, e1
= elusive Of landed property. 1t
u publicly predicted that by the term
Il of Her Majesty's will her privat
property will not 60 to the Prince c
2 Wales, the Duke of Edinburgh o
/ the German Empress, but that tn
lie bulk will be divided between her fay
y orite SOD, the Duke Of Connaugh
5, and her favorite daughter, the Prin
o cess Beatrice.
d. The jubilee mass of Pope Lee
9r on February 10Th, was held in 81
er Peters at Rome. There were 5000
5, pilgrims and as many local Catho
Ii lies in the vast edifice to witness tn
n ceremonies as performed by Hi
II Highness. Forty thousand peopl
were turned from the doors. Tn
e affair was one of the most brillian
IA of the kind in the history of tn
OF world.
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