The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-09-19

people, was fearful, and the property
loss up in the millions. Around Beau
fort aud Port Royal islands 400 bodies
were found drowned, and nearly all
We're buried without Identification.
I he havoc was caused by reason of
the lOWuess of the islands, which were
swept clean by the enormous seas. At
Port Royal 1000 destitute negroes are
gathered, and their distress i so great
that they have fought for bread for
their families. In these conflicts sew
eTal lives have been sacrificed.
Florence Pullman, daughter Of the
palace car millionaire Will not be
princess or wear a foreign title pur-
chased by her money. She proposes to
wed the well-known physician DR..
Arnold Gilmore of Chicago.
The falling of q train through a
bridge near Springfield, Mass, result
ed in the killing OF fifteen persons.
Chicago had a scare ten days ago
| owing to the rioting of large body of
idle foreign labOrers. The mob at
tempted to seize the guns in the state
| armory, but were unsuccessful. At
one time il looked as though the city
| would, by reason of the efforts of the
anarchist agitatOrs, be given over to
Iillage. They are now under control,
and peace reigns.
Bartholdi, of statue fame, is visiting
the World Fair.
DIR. Graves, the famous Denver
| murderer, under sentence of death for
the poisoning of Mrs. Barnaby, COM
mitted suicide in his cell on Septem-
Der Sd, rather than stand another
trial. He left letters declaring his in
| nocence, and charging the district
attorney with bounding him to the
gallows. Graves is still believed to
have been guilty.
\ train near Oswego, Kansas, was
stopped by bandits on the Sd. The ex
press messenger was killed and the
passengers robbed. The robbers es-
| capped.
Cincinnati has had a horrible cleo
trio street car accident in which eight
| passengers were killed outright, six
mortally injured and nearly forty
more or less hurt. The accident was
the worst of the kind on record, and
| was due to the failure of the brakes
on steep hill, collision with a tele-
graph pole and the crashing of the
car into a building.
Pierre LorrilIard, the tobacco king
and great horseman, is coming to
California to make his home, in an
| endeavOr to recover his health.
Another band of outlaws, supposed
| to belong to the Dalton gang, has
come to grief. They have been oper-
| ating in oklahoma territory for some
| time, but were surrounded by posse
on the % inst. \ fight ensued, and
when the smoke OF battle cleared,
| three of the bandits were dead and
| another surrendered.
The silver battle in the United
| States senate still goes on, and the
| latest reports from Washington are
| that vote on the Voorhees, bill will
| hardly be taken before the beginning
of October. Cleveland is announced
| as demanding absolute repeal with no
promise for compromise measure.
| Whether he can force the gold STAN
| dard on the country remains to be
| seen.
Cleveland's surgical operation
| proves TO have been the removal of
/ two moiars that were giving him
| trouble. He is now well.
Jerome Bonaparte died at his sum-
mer home, Pride's Crossing, in Bever-
| ~, Mass, on September 1. His
brother, Charles j. BOnaparte was
| with him.
Bank robbing in Colorado is becom-
| ing unhealthy. On September eth
three bandits entered the bank of
| Delta, Colorado, ordered the cashier
| to hand out the cash, and on his re-
! few hundred dollars and fed. bat a
brave merchant with good Winches-
ter rifle took n hand in the matter and
killed two of the murderers before
they could leave town. The other es-
capped.
Hamilton Fish, one of the greatest
statesmen of the generation, died on
September 9TH ut ripe old age.
There was n collision on the railroad
| near Chicago between passenger and
| milk trains, in which eleven passen-
| gers were killed and many injured.
1t is reported that President Cleve-
land and the vice president have had
row. Stevenson recommended a
friend for an office and was snubbed
| by Grover and requested to keep his
hands off the preserves. The vice
president resented the insult and gave
his superior a severe tOngue-lashing,
in which he declared that he had as
much right to recommend a man for
Office as the president.
Mrs. Cleveland has presented hel
spouse with a new girl baby, and the
mother is doing well. The yoIngster
was born at the White House GA Sep
TENDER 9th and weighs 81 pounds. II
will be named Florence or Rose.
Foreign News.
The revolt in Brazil still continues
but those of the revolters in the navy
are in hard straits. They are not al
lowed by foreign gunbOats to lombard
Rio JaneirO, and are now hemmed III
the harbor by the guns of the govern
ment forts. 1t is expected that they
will be compelled to surrender short
ly. The trouble in the country has
not been settled, but the government
seems to hold the winning hand. The
president has been asked to resign
but declines to do so while the cOun-
try is in such q condition.
1t is reported that there is n great
plot in Russia among the nihilists to
murder the ear, aud that many ar.
rests of suspected persons have been
made.
The home rule bill passed the house
of commons on the 2d by a majority
of thirty four. 1t was called up in the
house of lords on the Sth inst. and
beaten by vote of 42S to 10. What
the next move of GladstOne's will be
remains to be seen.
y dispatch to the London. Time:
from Bangkok says that Great Britain
has lost her prestige in the east be-
| cause of her DaSSiVeneSS in con