The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-01-17
American Matters.

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American Matters.
The prospects for the Government
pier at Pago-Pago harbor are excel
lent. A change has come over the
authorities at Washington, and ap
preparations will undoubtedly be
made for the needful improvements.
A despatch from Washington,
dated the 4th, says g There Is every
prospect that q bill to reimburse
Samoa will soon be heard and passed
in the House. This Is the case of
the war ship Vandalia, which, after
the great hurricane at ADia, was pre-
scented TO the Samoan Government.
A contract was made with Wright
man Brothers, Of San Francisco, to
wreck the vessel and ship the wreck
age to the United States to be sold.
Contrary TO all calculations, the Col
lector of Customs at San Francisco
insisted that duties should be paid,
there being nothing in the law to
warrant the landing of the stuff duty
free. 1t was to restore the amount
thus coliected-about SS000-that
the bill was introduced"
The Panama Railroad.
Notwithstanding the order of the
Court enjoining the Panama Rail
road Company from doing business
with any line but the Pacific Mail,
the former has notified the Chilean
and English companies running up
the coast to Panama that after Feb
ruary 1st no goods to or from New
York will be granted through bills
of iading by way of the Pacific Mail
Line. This action benefits the Eng
lish lines through Magellan straits,
who expect to do largely increased
business by way of Liverpool.
The North American Company of
San Francisco will, it is said, be
ready to run steamers by February
LIST.
The Nicaragua Canal.
A despatch from Tallahassee, Fla,
says: Delegates from nearly every
county in Florida were present to-
day at the Nicaragua canal confer
ence called by Congressional dis
tricts, but afterward consolidated.
Elk Governor Fleming presided and
delivered the opening address. State
Senator James p. Wall of Tampa
presented resolutions which were
: unanimously adopted.
The resolutions declare that the
Government should control the canal;
that the canal is necessity and
demands the immediate attention of
Congress; that the bill now in the
Senate secured absolute control of
the canal to the United States; that
Florida's representatives at Wash
ington should do all in their power
to secure the Endorsement of the
$1OO,OOO,O00 in bonds necessary to
complete the canal, the bonds to be
controlled as designated in the bill
before the National Senate, and that
such a canal under the control of
the United States would be of inesti-
mable value to the country in case
of war.
High Toned Smueelers.
A Tacoma, Washington, dispatch
SAYS: A great sensation was caused
here and all along Puget Sound to
day by the visit of two customs in
spectors to the new manufacturing
town of Everett and the spicy devel
opments that followed their trip.
Mackenzie and Guptil, customs in
spectors, went there from Seattle this
morning, and it is reported on good
authority that they struck nest of
smugglers who had in their posses
sion $4,000 worth of silks and other
dress goods supposed to have been
Struggled in from British Columbia.
The central figure in this SNUG
Cling affair is Liable de la Croix de
Castries, retired Catholic priest.
The lady in the case is q niece Of
DE la Croix de Castries, named
Madame de Ia Chase. whose husband
is in business at San Francisco.
The goods were struggled in
eighty large trunks.
American News.
James g. Blaine is again on the
verge of death, and according to the
newspaper dispatches the end is a
matter of only few hours. Mr..
Blaine has had another relapse and
his family long since gave up hope.
The last relapse came on the Sth
inst.
One hundred coal barges were
destroyed on the Ohio river in and
about Cincinnati on the Sth inst. by
the breaking of series of gorges.
At Cincinnati alone forty five barges
and one tow boat were destroyed,
the loss being 100000.
New York has been visited by the
typhus fever of a mild type but it is
fortunately on the wane.
Brighton, little town near Sacra-
mento, has big murder mystery on
hand. The station keeper and tele-
graph operator, Miss E. o. Ayres,
was found murdered recently and an
attempt had been made to burn the
station. George B. Jeffries, an en-
gineer who kept company with her,
though married man, and whom
some claimed was married to her, is
under arrest on suspicion, but the
web of evidence cannot be wound
round him. 1t is believed that she
was assaulted at night by an IN
known Swede, who afterward muir
dered her.
A bitter war is imminent in the
Catholic Church 1t will be remem.
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