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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-04-08
Sole Deposit Boxes

We HAVE A FEW MORE BOXES
in our Safe Deposit Vault which are
not yet rented. There are four sizes,
varying in price from $12 to $50 per
year. Any private papers left in
these boxes are perfectly safe, as the
vaults are fire. proof and are fitted with
time locks, which makes them sbso-
lutely burglar-proof There are two
keys to each box, both of which are
given to the party renting box, and
should these keys be stolen they
would be useless to bearer as be could
not open the box without our master
key being first inserted.
Parties leaving the Islands for their
summer vacations will find it con-
venient place to leave any valuables.
Boxes can be rented by the month
or year as desired. Apply to
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-04-08
Harry Cannon
Hotel Street

Wishes to inform the residents of Palama
the sole manager of the PALAMA GROCERY,
opposite the railway depot, which estab-
lishment will be run as a frst-class subur-
ban store.
Fresh supplies of Groceries and Ice
House Goods will constantly be received
from the Coast.
MIR. Andrews of Waianae will supply the
store with very superior quality of Island
Butter, which we are selling at 35 cents per
pound. Besides California Roll, we are
selling really good table Butter at %
cents per pound.
Our pure Kona Coffee is second to none,
being handled by an expert coffee rooster,
while our mixed tea, which We are selling
at 80 cents per pound, is spoken very high
" of by all who have tried it, being a
blend OF high grade Ceylon Black and a
superior quality OF green tea. Call and get
a free sample.
An extra quality of salt, fat Salmon con-
stantly on hand.
We also have a vegetable stall annexed
to the store, so that customers ordering
groceries through telephone can be sup
piled with fresh vegetable at the same time :;
in fact, we shall endeavor to prove the
truth OF the old saying that nimble six
pence is better than lazy half crown. A
little saved on every article consumed in
The way of Groceries means something
considerable al the end Of the month, the
truth OF which will be realized by consult
ing our prices.
From date, the store will be kept opened
till clock, Saturday nights.
Goods delivered to all parts of the city
and suburbs.
Just arrived per Miowera-Salmon Tip
Bits, Salmon Bellies and Oolachans.
H. CANNON,
Palama Grocery opposite Railway Depot.
TELEPHONE 755.
4249-In
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-04-08

made that will make it superior to the
last. The proceeds of this performance
will go to the minstrels, and it is hoped
that the public will fill the house so
that the pro rata will be large.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-04-08
Gold WATER

Adapted for Dwellings, Offices and Public
DWELLINGS, or any other place where
KALSOMINE is used. 1t will not rub,
disco.or or scale of.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-04-08

The pub. q are invited % caiI at.t 5s-pvst
consisting ut
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-01-03
A MANAGES DEED.
Dr.. A. A. Young, OF Buffalo, II. D.,
is Murdered.
The Maniac Beat Out His Victims Brains
With an Indian Club-It is Thought
That He Has Murdered
Another Man.

Fargo, N. D., Dec. 30.-The village of
Buffalo, 40 miles west of here, was
thrown into great excitement Saturday
afternoon by the discovery OF the dead
body of DR.. A. A. Young, on the Peter
son farm, three miles south of the city.
About 2 o'clock in the afternoon a hired
man employed by c. A. Peterson, COM
monty known as Gus, came to the viii
lage and stated that Peterson had gone
crazy, and wanted DIR. Young to go out
and prescribe for him. The doctor
agreed, if the hired man would return
to the village and procure assistance if
Peterson was found to be dangerous.
Two hours passed, and neither the doc
tor nor the hired man returned His
friends finally became impatient, and
a posse was formed. When the Peter
son place was reached. DIR. Young was
found lying in the front yard, dead.
His head was literally pounded to a
Jelly, and in the back, where the skull
was crushed, the brains were oozing
out. Near the body was large Indian
club. covered with blood and hair,
which told how the crime was commit
ted.
Peterson was found on the inside Of
the house. a raving maniac, and it re-
quired considerable struggle to over
power him The hired man who came
to Buffalo after the doctor was no.
where to be found, and it is feared
that he, too, has been murdered and
the body hidden away. Peterson was
taken to Winsloe's bank, and was held
under heavy guard, awaiting the
sheriff, who brought the prisoner to
the Fargo Jail.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-01-03
Could BE Floated In Germany.
ACCIDENT 70 row BOAT.
Life Crushed Out and Valuable Propert,
Destroyed on Ohio River Channel.

Life Crushed Out and Valuable Property
Destroyed on Ohio River Channel.
Pittsburgh, Pa, Dec. 3d. Early
Monday morning the towboat Harry
Brown, owned by w. H. Browns Sons,
met with disaster in the Ohio river
channel at the foot of Brunos island.
A human life was crushed out, man
badly injured and thousands of dol
lars worth of property destroyed and
more jeopardized. Navigation is COM
pletely blocked by the wreck. The man
killed was deck hand known only as
Whitley" He was 40 years. of age.
When the crash came Whitley" and
Jonathan Wood were out on the fleet,
when heavy cable parted, the ends
of which struck Whitley" and Wood.
Both were hurled an almost incredible
distance. Whitley" died almost i'm
1tely after being picked up.
Wood is badly bruised, but his injuries
are not considered fatal
Two coal boats and barge are at the
bottom of the river and are total
loss, as it will be necessary to blow up
the wreck with dynamite in order to
clear the channel.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-01-03
WANTS MILLIONS.
Clara Barton, of the Red Gross, Tells
What Is Needed.
Must Leave Shortly for Constantine
ple-Appea' Issued by National
Armenian Relief Committee.

Boston, Dec. 30.-Miss Clara Barton,
the founder and head of the Red Cross
society, arrived at nine o'clock Sunday
night on the New York train. She
was accompanied by Mr.. George II.
Pullman, of Indiana, coadjutor in the
Red Cross work. They were met
by Mr.. Hagop Bogigian and escorted
to the Barton house. It is Miss Bar
TONS desire to secure pledges for SIS ,oO0,-
900 to insure her all the necessary sup
port in her Armenian work. She will
speak in few cities, but will be I'M
able to visit many places in the interest
of the cause, for it is her intention to
sail soon for Armenia.
4 Miss Barton does not entertain the
least fear that the Turks will in any
way modest her or her assistants in
their mission.
An Appeal for Armenia.
New York, Dec. 30.-The national
Armenian relief committee appeals to
the people of the United States for i'm
mediate and generous contributions to
relieve the needs of $4,000 Armenians
who are destitute.
Justice Brewer, of the supreme court
of the United States, is chairman of this
committee, which includes Archbishop
Corrigan, Chauncey NJ. Depew, John S.
Kennedy, Alexander Z. Orr, Bishop
Potter, Jacob Schiff, Everett P. Wheeler
and Spencer Trask.
The committee announces that the
immediate need is for money, which
should be sent to the treasurers, Brown
Bros. & Co., Philadelphia and Boston.
The only supplies that can be used are
grain, coarse cotton and wooden goods
in the piece, but no such contributions
should be forwarded without previous
communication with the committee.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-01-03
RUMORS RIFE.
Continued Talk of Bond Issue
in New York.
1t Is Thought That the President Will
Ask For Subscriptions for $780,
100000 Four Per Cents.

New York, Dec. 3O.-The usual
rumors about bond issue were current
again Monday, but it is impossible to
obtain anything of an official character.
The street now thinks that the presi-
dent may ask for subscriptions for
500, 100000 four per cents. after three
O'clock Tuesday. 1t also believes that
contract has been made with New
York bankers for the purpose of pro-
curing the gold for which the bonds
ore to be sold. Very little confidence
is placed in Unpopular theory and none
TT all In the report current last week
that syndicate would take all the
bonds left after the closing of the
popular subscription books. In the
meantime the picking up of gold con-
5tinues and bullion brokers are obtain
ing small premium for metal which
is being taken by bankers and others
who are getting ready for the new gov.
eminent loan.
Could BE Floated In Germany.
Berlin, Dec. 3O.-Through inquiry
among the Berlin bankers it is learned
that nothing definite is known in re-
gard to German negotiations looking to
the taking of an American loan here.
The Bleichroders informed the re-
porter that they understood that Ger
man financiers had been sounded in the
matter and that the general feeling
was favorable to placing the loan in
Germany, but all of the bankers de-
clined to express an opinion upon any
phase of such transaction until they
should be in possession of further in
formation
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-01-03
\ survey, EIElnS; national banks, Mantic;
| to investigate trespass on Indian lands.

survey, GiklnS; national banks, MAntlej
to investigate trespass on Indian lands,
Baker.
Consuls to Ezeroum and Harpoot.
Washington, Dec. 3O.--The president
sent to congress Monday report from
the secretary of state in response to the
resolutions adopted by the senate last
week calling for statement about the
refusal of the Turkish government to
grant eNequateurs to two United States
consular officers. Information was
asked as to whether the exequateurs
OF the American vice consuls only ap-
pointed to the consulatcs Of Erzeroum
end Harpoot have been withheld or re-
fused by the Turkish government,
while eNequateurs were granted to tho
consuls of other nations at the same
points"
The secretary of state in reply states
that no foreign consular representa-
ton of any kind exist at Harpoot, and
that at Erzeroum consulates are main
tanned by Persia and Russia and vice
consulates by France and Italy.
Cultivate Gets an appointment.
The president Monday sent to the
senate the following nominations: j.
II. Cultivate, of Ohio, to be a member
of the board of ordnance and fortifica-
ton, also the nominations of many
poStmaSterS,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-01-03
WILL RUN IN RUSSIA.
Big Consignment of Baldwin Locomotives
Shipped Abroad.

Big Consignment of Baldwin Locomotives
Shipped Abroad.
Philadelphia, Dec. 30.-Twenty Bald
win oil-burning locomotives have been
loaded on the British steamer Turret
Bay, end she will steam away to-day
on her long voyage to Noyorossisk, a
Russian seaport on the Black sea. The
engines are among the largest ever
built by the Baldwin Locomotive works,
weighing 81 tons each, and have spe-
cial fire boxes for burning petroleum.
The tenders hold oil instead of wood
and coal. The locomotives, which are
the first built in this country in many
years for Russia, are for the Trans
Caucasian railroad, and are peculiarly
adapted to mountainous countries. The
balance of the order--2O engines-will
be shipped in January. Half of the To-
comotives are for passenger service and
half for freight.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-01-03
Train WIN Carry a Fortune.

Denver, Col, Dec. 8O.-A large party
Of prominent Colorado business men
will act as an escort to Mr.. Porter, of
this city, who has been chosen presi-
dent of the New York mining stock ex-
change. when he goes to that city to
fill the office. The party will travel in
special train OF unique character. 1t
will carry $1,oOO,OOO worth of ore, be-
sides big load of pure gold, protected
by armed guards. The party will at
tend the first call on the NewYork ex-
change.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-01-03
Isl ACQUITTED.

Postmaster Pace Declared to Have Killed
DR.. Taylor In Self-Defense.
Weldon, ILL.,, Dec. 3O.-Postmastcr
John A. Pace, who shot and killed Dr.
w. H. Taylor, member of the Illinois
legislature, in the post office here be-
cause of family troubles, was acquitted
Sunday morning by coroner's jury.
The ground for acquittal was self-de-
Tense. 1t was necessary to impanel a
second jury; the first one, after being
in session all night and failing to
aQree. was discharged.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-01-03
JOKE PROVED FATAL.
Woman Drops Dead on Being Told Tina
Her Husband Was Killed.

Woman Drops Dead on Being Told That
Her Husband Was Killed.
Double Springs, Ala, Dec. ac.-Archie
Fletcher and his cousin, Joseph
Wheeler, went hunting Saturday. Re
turning at dinner time to Fletcher's
house without Fletcher, Wheeler was
asked by Mrs. Fletcher where her hus-
band was. Jokingly, Wheeler pointed
to his gun and said: at went off ac-
cidentally and killed Cousin Archie"
Mrs. Fletcher screamed and fell to the
floor. In u moment her heart ceased to
beat and doctor hastily summoned
pronounce her dead. Fletcher. who had
merely tarried at a neighbours on the
way home, returned shortly afterwards.
He is now looking for Wheeler, who has
fled for parts unknown,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-01-03
debts Repudiated bx ina WIG.

Webster City, Ia, Dec. 3O.-Mrs. Ben
son, the daughter of Landlord Sage, of
the Park hotel, has developed pro-
nounced type of the new woman. She
has just had published in the local
papers card warning the public
against giving her husband credit on
her account, as he has left the bed and
board provided by her father.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-01-03

London, Dec. 3o.-The body of Ser
gius Stepniak, the Russian nihilist and
refugee, who was killed by being struck
by railway train at Cheswick, on De-
cember %, was cremated at Wokinp
Saturday in thepresence Of concourse
OF withstand socialist refugees. Many
women carrying wreaths were in the
cortege which marched to the creama-
o,.v
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-01-03
A SMALL DEBT.
Forces the Penny Press Into tho Hands Of
a Receiver.

Forces the Penny Press Into tho Hands of
Receiver.
Minneapolis, Dec. 3O.-The Penny
Press Publishing Company is in the
hands of receiver. Judge Belden
Saturday appointed the Northern Trust
Company to take charge of the business
of the concern in the interests of its
creditors. The application was made
by c. p. Werner, compositor for the
penny Press" to whom the company
yesterday confessed judgement in the
amount of $225O
In an affidavit filed with the deed,
the officers of the company place the
liabilities at $4,000, but no itemized
schedule has been prepared This in
clndes $4,000 as the purchase price of
the press. no part of which has been
paid. and a large number of bills pay
able for supplies, etc. IT does not in
clude the notes held by the Nicollet
National bank, on which suit has been
brought. nor does it include the $780,
600 in bonds held by various persons,
but principally by the Irish-A merical
bank and Peter Sutherland.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-01-03
Mysterious Shooting Scrane IN Na,y ,
Fear Trouble In Transvaal.

Pretoria, Dec. 30.-The Transvaal gov.
eminent has ordered the Boer burghers
10 hold themselves in readiness to be
called upon to suppress rebellion. The
trouble between the foreign residents
of the Transvaal and the Boer govern
ment is increasing in intensity. The
leading mines are closing and the price
of breadstuffs in johannesburg has
risen greatly. Trains leaving here are
filled with refugees,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-01-03
InndeInitx Asked

London, Dec. 3o.-A dispatch from
Constantinople to the Central News
says that the United States has de-
manded from the porte the payment OF
large indemnity for the losses sus-
tanned by American missionaries
through the action of the mobs in Asia
Minor
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-01-03
Brooklyn Bridge Paws Well.

New York, Dec. 3o.-Over Al 100000
tickets have been sold on the New York
and Brooklyn bridge during the year
1895. In round numbers, 10000 per-
sons use the railroad on the bridge
daily. The total receipts from the traf-
fic of the great structure amount to
about SO, 500 every day.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-01-03
BELIEVE IT'S THE SAME GANG.

Post ONCE Vault at Highland Park, Ill.
Robbed.
Chicago, Dec. 3o.-The vault of the
Highland Park post office was blown
open with dynamite by burglars at an
carly hour Monday morning and $500
In cash and $1,7OO worth of stamps
stolen. A number of letters were also
broken open and rifled of their contents
by the thieves. There is no clew to the
perpetrators, but they are thought to
be the same gang who robbed the post
Office at Harvey last week.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-01-03
No One to Blame But Themselves.

Baltimore, Nd, Dec. 3O.-An inquest
over the victims of the Front Street
theater disaster was held Sunday and
the coroner's jury found that no one
was to blame except the people in the
audience, who lost their heads and
brought on the panic.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-01-03
Retaliation Threatened.

Buenos Ayres, Dec. 3O.--ltis said that
the senate has decided to impose high
duties on all American products
brought into Argentina if the United
States reimposes tariff duty on wool.
Congress has passed bill authorizing
an issue of government bonds for the
purpose of paying the railroad guar
anteeS
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-01-03
zinc Trust Formed.

st. Louis, Dec. 3o.-The biggest dea.
in the history of zinc mining in Mis-
souri, will be closed by January /. 1t
will unite all the zinc smelters of the
country except four under one man
agement, practically, and the result
will be, the promoters claim, better
prices for zinc in all branches and q
general revival of the industry. Thu
money involved is about $4,000
which is to be furnished by New York
and Connecticut capitalists.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-01-03
Boys Engage ia a Fatal F,pbt,

Washington, Ind, Dec. 3o.-While
attending country church Sunday
night Cass Holt and William Lamb
got into a fight with Louis Doane.
Lamb shot Doane twice through the abb
domen, infiicting fatal wound. Holt
and Lamb escaped. All the parties
are about II years old.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-01-03
BELL TELEPHONE CASE.

Decision Whereby tho Drawbaugh Evil
dence Is Admitted.
Boston, Dec. 3o-Judge Colt Monday,
in the Bell telephone case, gave the gov
eminent until May 81, 1896, to take evil
dcnce in rebuttal, but refused the Bell
company's request to limit the United
States in taking evidence to the ques-
ton of fraud raised. This decision let's
in the Drawbaugh evidence.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-01-03
Disabled at Sea.

Montreal, Can, Dec. 3O.-A dispatch
from Halifax states that the British
steamer Massapaqua, Capt. Jenkins,
from Rotterdam for New York, was
towed into that port Monday, disabled,
by the German steamer Washington,
from Hamburg for New York.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-01-03
EFF TALK.
ely to Open Up the
Question in Senate.
.,ndments to Present Law
: Be ofFered-House

N, Dec, 30.-The tariff bill
lie house promises to be q
will open wide the doors of
henate. Already there are
.iraong senators whose con-
lie been neglected in the
az will be a wonder If the
n,,estion is not opened up
The amendments al
~ Senator'S Burrows and
at those tariff experts be-
oeof the house too narrow.
iof Oregon, is already Of
ar amendment providing
,Is.ctment of the Mckinley
:, in toto. Mr.. Thurston,
y. mindful of the interests
ugar growers of his state,
amendment intended to re-
Jar bounty-a proposition
the republicans themselves
and to which the demo-
! declared their undying
mother Scheme.
mt senator from one of the
has a scheme in contem-
vever, that will bring at
front the whole subject of
of the tariff along republic
he argument has been made
Mnley rates We're too high,
.blicans agreeing that this
vas sound. The amendment,
,e offered will strike out all
nacting clause of the house
enact the Mckinley bill en-
the exception of the sugar
ut with this modification,
nat the rates levied shall be
). Of the duties named in the
act. Such an amendment
the free list to the dutiable
hing transferred by the Will
changes all duties from ad
specific, and would have the
'enacting the reciprocity Sec
old law. The only schedule
ched would be that relating
eme meets the objection to
ates in some cases in the Nc
It, and would, it's author
viate the necessity of an e2-
bate. There would be, for
reason, no need of hearings,
hole ground has been gone
e author of this proposed
t has been quietly investi-
matter, and finds that he
a very considerable number
ans with him from the start.
he position that as much is
' as there was in 1890 on the
ion, and debate would be I'M
unless INDUCED in by those
TO filibuster. His PROPOSE
ieves, can be passed through
as speedily as could be the
lme from the house. At all
senate will be confronted
mendment.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-01-03
Making Spurious Gold Coin.

Carlyle, III, Dec. 5O.-Counterfcit
five dollar gold pieces have made their
appearance in Bond county, north of
here. 1t is reported that $500 of the
spurious coin has been discovered. Off
GERS are on the trail of the men sus-
pected of running the mill.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-01-03
Gladstone Is SO.

London, Dec. ao.-Suntlay was the
seth anniversary of the birth of Mr..
Gladstone. Many of the liberal clubs
throughout the United Kingdom tele-
graphed congratulations to Hawarden
castle, Mr.. Gladstone's residence in
Chester, from which place the mes
sages were forwarded to Biarritz,
France, where Mr.. Gladstone has gone
for the benefit of his health.