The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-10-28
FOREIGN NEWS NOTES.

FOREIGN NEWS NOTES.
The japanese Government will be
+. forced TO go abroad TO float a public
industrial loan. Out of $1,000, 900 yen.
only 100000 was subscribed in Japan.
The negotiations in the revised
| treaty between Japan and Australia
have been resumed. The chief diff
Guilty has been regarding the customs
tariff.
It is rumored in China that the next
budget of the Hong Kong Government
will increase the taxation 90 per cent
per annum.
BUENOS AYRES, October 19.-The
Government, it is said in official cir
cles, intends TO increase the export
| bounty on sugar.
MADRID, October ia dispatch
from Corunna says that Marshal Blan-
| co, the newly-appointed Governor
General Of Cuba, sailed for Havana to-
| day. r-
| WASHINGTON, October 20.-The
Legation of Guatemala has received
the following official dispatch: Rev
olution subdued; order restored all
over the country"
| CHICAGO, H., October 19.-George
NJ Pullman, the palace-car magnate,
died at his residence, Eighteenth street
"a irin IN, aif
O'Clock this morning.
BERLIN, October 1S.-The Lokal
Anzeiger says that Count Tolstoi, the
Russian author and social reformer, is
suffering from an illness which will
necessitate the performance of a seri-
GUS operation.
WASHINGTON, October 1S.-Ad-
miral John L. Worden, retired, died
in this city today. Pneumonia was the
Immediate cause of Worden's death.
He was so years of age, and up to last
Saturday was in very good health.
LIVERPOOL, October 16.-The Gu
nard Line steamer Lucania, Captain
Mckay, which sailed from this port fol
New York today, has on board among
her passengers DR.. hansen, the Arctic
explorer; William K Vanderbilt and
Bishop Perry of Iowa.
MENTOR, Ohio, October 20. = Eel
Rodolph, father of Mrs. James A. Gar
field, widow of the late President, died
this evening at Lawnfield, the Garfield
home, of old age. He was "a years OF
age and had been in feeble health fol-
some time. Two children besides Mrs
Garfield survive him.
LONDON, October 16.-The Daily
Graphic says that it hears that the re.
cent reported illness of Cecil Rhodes
at Inyanga was due to the shock from
injuries received at the hands of hos
tile natives beyond Salisbury. 1t ap
pears that Rhodes lost his way and hat
narrow escape from death.
1t is rumored in Hong Kong that 16,
600 rifles have been shipped to the
Philippine rebels from there to Shang
hal. AS the rebels have kept up a sor
of guerrilla warfare for some month:
past, and recently fought two desper
ate battles with the Spaniards, the
statement is generally given credence
DENVER, Colo. October IA spe
cial to the Republican from Crested
Butte, Colo, says: A snow storm
struck this locality sc hours ago, which
has broken all records here for thi:
time of year. In addition to SO hours
continuous downfall it is still snow
ing, with no indication whatever of {
let-up
LONDON, October 16-It is under
stood that for the poem which is to bt
written for the first number of Litera
ture, which is to be issued under thu
auspices of the London Times, Rud
yard Kipling will be paid 81 a word
It is entitled white Horses is in II
stanzas Of eight lines and is appropri
ate for Trafalgar day, but without {
word of politics in it.
LONDON, October 19.-Cavendish
the nephew of the Duke of Devonshire
who with a companion, Lieutenant An
drews, has been exploring Somaliland
East Africa, at the head of an eXpedi
ton composed of 80 Ascaris, and who
with his party, was reported to have
been massacred by the natives, has ar
: rived safely in London from Zanzibar
. LOUISVILLE, KY, October 20.-K
P. Sheedy, the high diver, leaped from
the Louisville and Jeffersonville bridge
into the Ohio river yesterday, a dis
lance of 10S feet. He made the jumI
at the request of number of friends
He. was not injured in the least, and
when pulled into boat that was wait
ing said he would leap from the tall
! aSt tower on tho hridpa Saturday