The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-04-19
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trifugals, SO degrees, 81 cents; granu.
lated firmer, 4 94-100 cents.
The local market has advanced J
cent in sympathy with the advance in
the East. Granulated is quoted at 81
cents. Receipts of Hawaiian con-
tinue to be large.
There is considerable talk of the
Democrats putting an ad valorem tax
on raw sugar at the next session of
Congress. Reports from Washington
indicate that the Democrats will re-
organize the entire tariff system on
a basis of an ad valorem tax, and it is
believed that for purposes of revenue
the tax on raw sugar will be placed so
as to yield about one cent per pound.
This, of course, will be direct benefit
to the Hawaiian planters.
Politics.
this State, is now in Washington MAX
ing fight to secure the appointment
as Governor of Alaska. AS there is
little demand fer this cold berth he is
liable to win.
The Democrats of Chicago have
showed under the Citizens Party and
elected their entire ticket with Carter
Harrison at the head with 10000 plu-
rality. 1t was the liveliest election
ever held in the city.
Ex-Lieutenant Governor Daggett of
California is after the SUPPLEMENTARY
of the San Francisco mint and John
P. Irish has good chance to be naval
officer.
The Cholera Sc0uree.
Dispatches from many parts of Eu-
rope show that the cholera is spread
ing and it is generally believed that
the epidemic will sweep the European
continent as soon as hot weather
comes. The following dispatches show
the situations:
ST. PETERSBURG, April 5.-NOw
scarcely a doubt is entertained by
those aware of the real situation that
Russia is to suffer again from the raw
ages of cholera. With the slightly
warmer weather the official reports,
incomplete as they are, show recur-
renee of the disease in nearly al! the
places in which it wrought such fright
full havoc last summer and autumn.
Official returns have been made pub
lie showing that from March 18th TO
March Goth there were sixty-five cases
of cholera and nineteen deaths from
the disease in the town of Orel. The
official figures place the number Of
cases reported from March 18th to
March 9th in the government of
Oofa at eighty-four and deaths at
twenty-nine. From March 22d to
March 10Th there were ten cases and
four deaths in the government of Yei-
isavetpol.
In addition, it is matter of COM
mon knowledge that the number of
cholera cases and deaths from the
scourge are far more Numerous in the
governments that are not included in
the returns. This is especially the
case in Podolia and SaratOff, which
were ravaged by cholera last year. 1t
is impossible, however, to obtain the
actual number of cases and deaths.
PARIS, April 4.-Seventy deaths
have been recorded at Torrent, near
Brest, during the last fortnight from
mild form of cholera. EOrient is
notorious as the hotbed of fever dis
eases, due to the utter absence of
drainage. A slight epidemic occurred
here last November. The mortality in
the garrison has been very heavy for
years.
The Government has hushed up the
present outbreak, but it is estimated
that 200 persons have been attacked.
The disease is still spreading.
LONDON, April 5.-Tne British Gov
eminent has sent circular to the
Post Offices in Great Britain and Ire
land notifying them that since March
22d there have been fifty-one deaths
from cholera in Torrent, in the De-
partment of Morbiham, France.
LONDON, April S.-If last years de-
vastations of the scourge were not
fresh in the public mind, Europe
would be already in cholera panic.
The disease probably exists to-day in
a larger number of towns than when
the epidemic was at its height in
Hamburg last summer. The criminal
policy of concealment is again being
pursued in many places. The most
outrageous are in towns on the north
ern coast of France, where it is known
that nearly a hundred deaths have oc-
Cured within fortnight. Russia ac-
knowledges several hundred deaths
over her vast extent of territory, and
it can only be guessed how much this
is short of the truth.
Strong appeals in the advertising
columns of the st. Petersburg news
papers for the services of doctors in
infected districts indicate how great
is the emergency. Not single medi-
cal or scientific advantage IS yet an
nounced as the result of the cholera
conference at Dresden. The object
there sought has been solely how to
mitigate the commercial evils of the
epidemic.
The early return of the scourge has
given lively impetus to sanitary pre-
cautions throughout Europe. A spring
housekeeping, such as the old world
never saw before, is in vigorous pro-
gress. The general sanitary condition
of Europe on May LIST will be the best
ever enjoyed.
BERLIN, April 10.-Dr. Haffkine
has written from India to the Russian
papers that he has conquered cholera
has inoculated hundreds of persons
with positive results and promises to
give his method to the world on his
return from India.
NEW YORK, April 6.-While Health
Officer Jenkins of this port is sublime
In his confidence, the sentiment of the
doctors attending the International
conference of Health Boards at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel is that cholera
Will surely visit the United States
this summer. Those who attended
the second days session represented
twenty-five States and Canada.
Dr. Jenkins, in an address to the
conference last evening, declared that