The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-01-28
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Felix Faure hss been elected presi-
dent Of France.
Lord Brassey has been appointed
governor Of Australia.
William Frye has been reelected
u. 3. senator for Maine.
Arctic voyagers believe the Mansen
party has come to grief.
Employees at Homestead, Pa, are
again forming associations.
Secretary Herbert favors building
warships on the Pacific coast.
Shelby III. Cullom succeeds himself
as y. s. senator from Illinois.
Mitchell wants to have another
match with champion Corbett.
About 12,OOO Persians persisted in
q recent earthquake ut KuchAn.
VIM. e. Chandler has been declar-
cd u. 8. senator from New Hamp-
shire.
Spain is now anxious for friendly
trade relations with the United
States.
Fifty.fve people were, killed in the
recent mine explosion ut Butte,
Montana.
Mexico announces that she will
brook no interference in dealing with
Guatemala
Elk mayor Hugh j. Grant will
probably be the next leader Of Tam
many Hall.
The grand jury at Syracuse, n. Y.
has indicted Bob Fitzsimmons for
granddaughter.
Nine persons received severe in
juries from a train wreck near Calf,
Cal, on the 18th.
Severe snow storms are prevailing
in the mountains between Colfax
and Eureka, Cal.
Judge Augustus j. Kicks, Of Cleve-
land, Ohio, will be impeached for
malfeasance In office.
President Cleveland has. declared
against silver further than the coin
age OF the seigniorags.
An effort is being made in the q.
s. senate to do away with the Hawai-
ian treaty sugar clause.
Zimmerman, the famous profess
sional bicycle rider, announces that
he is going to Australia.
Elk Chancellor of Germany Bis
marck has joined the Dentscher
VereIn Of San Francisco.
The Brooklyn, N. Y. street car
strike is still on. Serious disorders
have resulted therefrom.
The constitutionality Of the in
come tax law is being contested in
the courts at Washington.
Col. b. q. W;ntersmith, q. 8.
Treasury inspector at Colon, Col
ambia, has been fined for assault.
Grave accusations have been made
against General Workman Sovereign
and Hayes Of the Knights OF Labsr.
John L. Sullivan says he will re-
enter the prize ring next year and be
prepared to redeem his lost laurels.
Miss Mary Stevenson, eldest
daughter Of Vice-president Steven
son, died at AshVille, n. @. on the
18th.
Nose A. Gunst recently appointed
police Commissioners Of San Francis
60 has been removed by Governor
Budd.
The q. 8. Supreme Court has de-
eided the Oakland, California, water
front case in favor Of the Southern
Pacific railway.
Ex-secretary John W. Foster, who
was appointed to act in an advisory
capacity to the Chinese peace ENJOYS,
has arrived at Yokohama.
Mrs. j. Coleman Drayton, against
whom her husband has brought an
action for divorce on statutory
grounds has sailed from Liverpool
for New York.
Hermann Oelrichs says New York
is growing too goody goody for men
with large lungs, big muscles and
bass voices. He will reside perman-
emily In San Francisco.
Reports OF Japan atrocities at
Port Arthur first sent ont by CORES
pondent Creelman, have been veri-
fed by Frederick Velliers, the Lon
don Graphic and Standard represen-
tative.
Acknowledgement Onley has devils
ed and presented to Congress q sub
stitute labor arbitration plan for the
one framed by Labor Commissioner
Wright, in regard to tho Chicago
strike.
The Vanderbilt family troubles
have not been settled. Mrs. VIM. e.
Vanderbilt Is to receive from her
husband an annual income Of $780,
600 for the rest Of her life, and the
use OF Fifth avenue and Newport
houses during the minority of her
children.
A Shanghai dispatch OF the 10th
says: 1t is reported on good author
ity that part OF the Japanese fleet
IN bombarding Ting Chow, a short
distance from Che Foo, to the west.
No details have yet been received.
The British warship Daphne and the
American warship Yorktown are in
the vicinity Of Ting Chow.