The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-01-27
MINOR NEWS NOTES.

LONDON, Jan. 15.-Large premises
Mt Kings Cross, occupied by Joseph
Thorley as a manufacturer of cattle
food, were burned yesterday. Loss,
10000.
DRESDEN, Jan. 15.-The Diet, by
vote of sixty to fourteen, has rejected
a motion of the socialists for univer-
sal and equal suffrage at Diet cleo
tions.
VIENNA, Jan. 15.-Dispatches from
towns in SarOs country, Hungary, say
that thousands of peasants there are
on the verge of starvation.
LONDON, Jan. ia dispatch from
Warsaw says that the postal officials
i'm PrasZka, as well as in Rudinki,
were arrested for forwarding Nihilist
circulars which emanated from the
students revolutionary society In
Warsaw gIany citizens of warsaw
and PrasZki who have been comprom-
ised are said to have fled to escape
arrest.
VANCoUvER, Jan. 16.-There is no
truth in the report that company OF
volunteers is being formed here TO aid
Oueen Iiliuokalaui regain the throne.
An ex-Reil rebellion officer advertised
for volunteers for Hawaii and 200 pre-
scented themselves, but no money
being in sight the affair fell through.
Interested parties in Seattle and San
Francisco were telegraphed to for
funds, but no financial encouragement
was offered.
NEW YORK, Dec. 15.-Commander
William Henry Whiting, US. N, ana
his Hawaiian bride are at the fntn
Avenue Hotel. They arrived oil sat
urday aud will remain in this city for
some time. Commander Whiting and
Miss Along were married In Homo
lulu on December 4. Commander
Whiting refused yesterday to talk
about Hawaiian matters.
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, Jan. IL.
President VasqueZ yesterday order
ed his troops to advance towards the
position lately occupied by the Mica
rapua allies of the Honduras rebels,
but from which they had fallen back.
This movement was followed IN the
EVENING" by an attack on the left flank
of the enemy, who were repulsed
with twenty killed. New arms have
arrived from the United States, and
battery of artillery has already been
sent to the front. The Nicaraguans
have had the advantage in the mat
ter of artillery, but the arrival OF
Hotchkiss and Calling guns Will
soon change the aspect OF the affairs.
CHICAGO, Jan. 13.-Extraordinary
measures are to be taken by the Mayor
and Superintendent OF Police 10 pre-
vent a demonstration of the unem-
ployed or Monday night next, and
Tommy Morgan, the rampant social
ist. who saws the unemployed Will
assemble at the City Hall on Monday
night, whether the police want thef1
to or not, has been Informed that II
ANYTHING occurs he will be held res
ponsible. The Chief of Police has sent
word to Morgan that if anything hap
mems i'm the way of bloOdshed or VIC
ience. the police will see he is hanged
Excitement throughout the city is in
tense, and the Mayor today, to allay
it as much as possible, announced tina
the city would speedily give work t.
25OO men, while 5000 more would b'
provided for in 4 short time.
DYNAMITE in New York.
NEW YORK, Jan. 12.-An attemp
IN blow uD with two bombs tene
ment house at No. 54 Avenue ID wa
made last night. y tailor shop on tin
first floor had been locked up over
month, owing to hard times. AT II
O'clock there was a terrific explosion
in the tailor shop, and an alarm O
fire was promptly turned in. Tn
whole front of the house had beef
blown out by the explosion. All tn
glass in the building was shattered
and the shock aroused the Who'll
neighborhood. The firemen found
gas meter had exploded, and discov
cred a trail of Kerosene which lie
from the meter to the cellar. The
found a quantity of cotton battin
soaked in kerosene and bomb MAD
of lead pipe, to which half-burne
fuse was attached. a later examine
ton showed that the bomb was nile
with enough powder to blow the er
tire house into fragments. The fir
department office claim bomb e2
ploded a few minutes after the ga
meter explosion. y great deal
mystery surrounds the matter, an
while the police department are yer
reticent they are making careful II