The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-01-13

| The big harness store Of Main &
Winchester was Quilted by fire this
week. Loss, $4,000.
Footpads attempted in broad
daylight to rob James Butler, trea
surer of the United Workman.
Shoe Factory. He had u sack Of
coin to pay off the men, and the
robbers attempted to take it from
him, but were prevented by the
approach of police.
The Catholics are prepared to
erect an immense theological semi
nary at Palo Alto. 1t will be one
| the finest institutions of the kind in
| the world.
American News.
The menace Of cholera is beeom
ing greater every day by reason of
the fact that the disease is spread
ing rapidly in Hamburg, notwith-
standing the winter season. 1t is
now generally believed that the
disease will ravage Europe with
the beginning of spring. The
United States Government will
doubtless adopt stringent measures
to prevent the introduction of the
scourge into this country.
The Pacific Coast has been visit
ed by another severe storm which
caused considerable damage on
land and sea. In the north it was
in the shape of snow, the fall at
Olympia, the capital of Washing
ton, being five feet on the level.
Buildings were crushed, traffic sus-
pended, and a freight train wreck
ed by an avalanche which buried
it forty feet deep and killed a
brakeman.
Mrs. Judge Orison- Brunson, of
Los Angeles, Cal, who sued her
husband for divorce on the grounds
of improper relations with the wife
of General Stoneman, has been
granted her prayer by default of
the defendant.
A call has been made for a con-
gress of Catholics at the Worlds
Fair.
A bill has been introduced into
Congress making hypnotism, mes
merism, etc, capital offense.
The Worlds Fair will be opened
by President Cleveland by a
speech, and he will start the ma
chinery in motion.
The Chicago and Northwestern
railroad is to be extended to Ogden,
and it is thought it will finally
come to San Francisco.
1t is reported that the entrance
to San Diego harbor is shoal-
ing rapidly, and that big ships will
soon be shut out. The contracts
for dredging Oakland harbor have
been let.
Senator Carlisle says Congress
is sure to do something with the
silver question. He favors the re-
peal of the Sherman law, and the
renewal of the Bland measure.
Congressman are taking deep in
terest in the question.
The recent heavy storms in the
interior of California have caused
excessive floods in San Joaquin
and Sacramento valleys, and great
damage has been done by the
breaking of leyees. Nearly 100000
acres of crops have been destroyed,
and there has been much suffering
among settlers who were surround
ed by the waters.
George W. Vanderbilt has pre-
scented the American Fine Art So
ciety with his private gallery,
valued at 100000.
J. G.. Blaine is recovering slowly,
and the doctors think he may pos
sibly escape death at present.
President-elect Cleveland is in
vesting heavily in street car prop
erty in New York and st. Louis.
1t is announced that the English
The British government has de-
cided that the big guns of the
navy are impracticable and they
will be abandoned. Sixty tonners
will be the rule.
A train on the Santa Fe road in
Colorado went off bridge and fell
fifty feet, killing two and severely
injuring several other passengers.
An old shipowner, who has in
spected the three Canadian cruis-
ers built at Owen Sound, about
which there has been so much talk,
says that they are not such form
liable war vessels as represented,
but are really what they pretend
to be-revenue cutters. On the
other hand, he declares that within
a month past there have been
launched at Toledo two 2500-ton
vessels purporting to be for the
lake trade which can be converted
within q few hours into men-of-war
capable OF knocking the Canadian
cruisers into cooked hat.
In order to protect United States
railroads from unjust competition
and discrimination President Har-
rison, it is said, will suspend the
operation of the rule which permits
the Canadian Pacific railroad to
transport goods in bond through
United States territory without
being subject to duty. This will
throw great deal of business back
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