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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-06-20

Mr.. P. Ketcham of Pike City, Cal,
says: During my brothers late sick
ness from sciatic rheumatism, Cham
berlain's Pain Balm was the only re-
medy that gave him any relief" Many
others have testified to the prompt re-
lief from pain which this iniment af-
fords. For sale by all druggists and
dealers. Benson, Smith e Co, Ltd,
wholesale agents for Hawaiian Islands.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-06-20

Chas. ]. Hustace, Jr., having resign
ed as guardian for Jas. and John Holt,
the Court appoints John S. Walker to
be guardian. Mr.. Hustace fled his
final report, which was approved.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-06-20
C. BREWER Z CO., Id.

AGENTS FOR
Hawaiian Agricultural Company, Ono
mea Sugar Company, Honomu Sugar
Company, Wailuku Sugar Company,
Waihee Sugar Company, Makee SUI
gar Company, Haleakala Ranch
Company, Kapapala Ranch.
Planters Line, San Francisco Packets,
Charles Brewer G. Co.'s Line to Bos-
ton Packets.
Agents Boston Board Of Underwrit-
ers.
Agents for Philadelphia Board of I'm
derwriters.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-06-20

LIST OF OFFICERS:
P. G. Jones, President; George H.
Robertson, Manager; E. F. Bishop,
Treasurer and Secretary; Col. w. F.
Allen, Auditor; c. M. Cooke, H. Water
house, G. r. Carter, Directors.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-06-20
ELECTION OF OFFICERS

Honolulu, June Is, 1898.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-01-19
Married on the Sly.

Bridgeport, Conn, Jan. "a great
deal of surprise was manifested in So
ciety circles when the announcement was
made that Stanley Y. Beach, son of
Frederick c. Beach. editor of the Scien-
tifc American, and Miss Ellen Birds
eye Curtis have been married for several
months. The summer residence of Mr..
Beach, ST., is located at Stratford, a
suburban town, and Stanley, who is 20
years of age, resides there during the
summer He is completing his educa-
ton at Yale and therefore has but little
time home in the winter. Miss Curtis is
the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred
Curtis, who came from good old New
En- gland stock
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-01-19
MR.. BUTTER WORTH DEAD.
missioner of Patents Does Not
Survive His Illness-Sketch
Of His Career.

Tbomasville, Ga, JAN 17.-Benjamin
Butterworth, commissioner of patents, who
has been i'll at the Piney Woods hotel in
this city for some weeks, died at
o'clock yesterday afternoon. He came
here three weeks ago, thinking to recuper-
ate from the effects Of a severe attack of
pneumonia which had exhausted his vital
ity and left him unfit for the performance
of his official duties. The first seven days
of his stay here showed marked improve
ment in his condition, and his friends be-
gan to hope that he would soon be himself.
but two weeks ago he was suddenly at
tackled with uraemic commissions. From
that relapse he never recovered His wife
and two sons were telegraphed for and
have been at his bedside ever since that
time.
Benjamin Butterworth was born in
Warren county, o., October %, 1922. His
father was Virginia planter, who was a
Quaker and who, Notwithstanding his
property interests, was SO devoted to the
cause of universal liberty that he freed
his slaves and removed with hiG family to
Ohio. In that state he became associated
with Levi Coffin in the underground rail
road and assisted fugitive slaves until
the close of the war.
Benjamin Butterworth was educated at
Ohio university, Athens, O., studied law
in Cincinnati and was admitted to practice
in that city in 1861. In 1870 he became
United States district attorney. In 1873
4 was a member of the state Senate, and
in 1873 was returned to Congress, being
reelected at the expiration of his term.
In 1888 President Arthur appointed him
a commissioner in examination of a part
of the Northern Pacific railway, and in
the same year he was retained by the gov
eminent to prosecute the South Carolina
election cases. In 1883 he was appointed
commissioner of patents, to succeed r. NJ.
Marble In the following year he was
again returned to Congress. During the
term of his first service in Congress Mr..
Butterworth was author Of the compul
sorry army retirement act.
He was made secretary of the Worlds
fair project early i'll the inception of that
great enterprise at Chicago during the
early '9Os and worked along in that ca
pacity with honor to himself and profit to
the company until its close.
A wife and four children survive him.
His wife was Miss Mary Schuyler of
Pennsylvania. The children are Mrs.
Howe of Washington, d. O., widow;
William, who married Il Miss Deere of
Moline. H.; young Ben, who was in
jured in a college game early in life, and
Frank, whose prowess as 81 football coach
and fullback is almost International.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-01-19
WHOLE FAMILY WIPED OUT
Man and Wife, Beset with Financial
Troubles, Kill Themselves
and Children

New York, Jan. 17.-John Matthews,
retail grocer, some time between last
Saturday night and this morning, muir
boy 10 years old and girl II, by hacking
them with knife. Matthews then COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself in the
head. Before dying, it is believed that
he turned on the gas with the intention
that asphyxiation should complete his
murderous work. The crime was COM
mitted in a small bedroom in the rear of
the store kept by Matthews. The wife
and her two children met death while
asleep. 1t is supposed that Matthews
had become despOndent from pecuniary
difficulties.
His wife, pretty little woman, had re-
Gently undergone a severe operation. 1t
was these things evidently that prompted
Matthews to write this letter which was
found open and unaddressed:
1T is a terrible thing l have to do to
keep my word. | promised that all shall
could only have died alone. | love my
wife and little children. l told them I
ought not to go in any business that my
mind was gone and / guess that my
nerve is all that is left. For five years
we have talked the thing over | always
wanted to go out In boat and acct
dentally capsize. / knew that otherwise
L would have a hard time of it,
From a letter left by Mrs. Matthews
TO friend, 1t was gathered that she was
a party to a suicide agreement Mrs
Matthews left instructions as to the
clothes in which the dead children should
be buried and signified the place of inter-
ment for the entire family as Highland,
n. \. Matthews was 40 years old.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-01-19
-Gogebic
Gross Tons.
OUR NAVY'S WEAKNESS.
Modern Guns Are Needed on Many of
the WarShips.

Washington, D. c., Jan. 17.-Secretary
of the Navy Long has sent recon-
mendation to Congress for an appropria-
ton of $4,000 for improvements in the
battery of the cruiser Chicago and ac-
companying it is strong report of AS
sistant Secretary Roosevelt, in which he
points out some of the weaknesses of the
navy. Mr.. Roosevelt says the Chicago is
being rebuilt at cost considera bly, great
er than was her original contract price
and says the department will be inexcus-
able if it turns out a new ship with old
defective guns for her main battery. 81
earnestly WISH" he says, 1--WE could as
soon as possible withdraw from active
service the cruisers fitted with slow-fre
guns and substitute ships with rapid
fire batteries. At present, the real fight
ing efficiency of ships like the Raleigh,
Cincinnati, Marblehead, Montgomery and
Olympia compared with foreign vessels
of the same nominal class stands high,
while the reverse is the case of ships
like the Baltimore, San Francisco and
Yorktown. | have just been talking with
Capt. Cotton, who commanded the Phila-
delphia when she lay side by side of the
japanese cruiser Naniwa at Hawaii In
event of fight, the Naniwa's possibility of
efficiency probably would nave been twice
as great"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-01-19
GOVERNMENT is FIRM.
Will Make No Concessions What
ever in Connection with the
Dreyfus Case.

Paris, Jan. ia semi-oficial note rela-
tive to the demand that the alleged con-
fession of Alfred Dreyfus to NJ. LIE Brun-
Renaud should be published. says: IF
the government conceded the demand it
would bring under discussion and appear
to place in doubt the authority of the
Dreyfus decision.
Moreover, the government does not
consider it has the right to make such q
communica ton for reasons analogous to
those to which determined the court-mar-
tial to try Dreyfus behind closed doors"
There was great excitement in the
Chamber of Deputies today when NJ.
Cavaignac (Rep.) demanded discussion
of the semi-official note, issued today, in
which the government declined to make
public the legal confession of Alfred Dey-
fus to NJ. LeBrun-Renaud. The premier,
NJ. Meline, in refusing to discuss the mat
ter, declared that if the chamber voted
its immediate discussion the cabinet
would resign.
The House then, by vote of 80 to
252, adopted a motion shelving the dis
cuSSion.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-01-19
GYPSY FAMILY'S FATE.
Child Falls Into a Fire, Mother is
Burned Too and Father
Commits Suicide.

Portland, Or. Jan. ia narrowing
tale of a triple tragedy in a gypsy camp
about ten miles south of McMinnville was
brought here by Frank Burroughs, a COM
mercial traveller.
A band of forty gypsies, bound for
California, camped on the scene of the
tragedy, intending to proceed on their
way the morning following. Sunday
forenoon a 2-year-old child of Andrew
Ostrander, the chief, fell into fiercely
raging fire built of fallen trees The
screams of the infant attracted the at
tention of its mother, who was only
dozen yards away
Crazed with excitement at seeing her
little one being devoured by the flames
the woman thoughtlessly leaped into the
fire, in which both she and the child were
burned to death in a few minutes
Ostrander's efforts to save his wife
who must have gone stark mad at wit
Messing the horrible fate Of her offspring
proving futile, he slashed his throat
with a razor, bleeding to death in a short
time.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-01-19
EVERY BONE BROKEN.
Chicago Man Throws Himself
Down Fourteen Stories in
Masonic Temple.

Chicago, Ill. Jan. ID. W. Stone
house, whose sign painting esta blishment
recently failed, committed suicide today
by jumping from the railing on the six
teenth floor of the Masonic temple. His
body struck the railing on the second
floor, smashing the iron and crashed
through the two-inch marble landing
Every bone in Stonehouse's body was
shattered. The corpse was picked up a
shapeless mass on the stair between the
first and second floors. Earlier in the day
from one of the upper floors Of the cham
Der Of commerce, but was frustrated.
Stonehouse, it is said, has made and
spent two moderate sized fortunes. A
son Of the suicide went to Colorado some
time ago and has not been heard from
since. Stonehouse is said to have brooded
over this and often expressed fear that
his son was dead.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-01-19
TOOK AN ICY BATH.
While DeleriouS, Miss Anderson,
Niece Of Mayor Van WyCk,
Attempts Suicide.

Tacoma, Wash, Jan. 17.-Miss Eliza
beth Van Wyck Anderson, niece Of
Mayor Van Wyck of New York and
daughter of Gen. Anderson, who was,
during his life, chief engineer of the
Northern Pacific and fled from her house
to the sound and plunged in. The dis
lance to the sound is fully two miles, and
when the young woman left the house
she was but thinly clad and bareheaded
How she succeeded in making her way
to the old town wharf without being in
tercepted is a mystery.
John Burns, a policeman, heard her
cries for help and jumped in and res
cued the young woman.
Miss Anderson is we'll known in Chi
cago and New York society circles.
The young woman is now at the hos
pital, and physicians have hopes that her
icy bath will not result fatally.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-01-19
LITTLE BEET SUGAR IMPORTED.
Statistics Which will Encourage Western
Farmers.

Washington, D. c., Jan. 17.-Detailed
figures from the bureau of statistics will
prove source of comfort to the beet
sugar farmers of the West, as they show
that the Dingley law has absolutely exter-
minated foreign competition. In May,
1896, the imports of raw sugar made
from beets amounted to the large sum
of $6,961 ,S74. Last November the only
importation of raw beet sugar was an in
significant one of $50 pounds, valued at
So, which came from Hong Kong, and
probably was started before the new tar
if law was passed. The drop from AGO.
100000 pounds in May to $50 pounds in
November is quite sufficient to explain the
furry in Europe caused by the Dingley
bill, with it's retaliatory duties against
bounty sugars.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-01-19
GUEST FROM HAWAII.
President Dole of the Island Re-
public Arrives at San
francisco.

San Francisco, Cad, Jan. 1T.-When
President Dole of Hawaii landed from
the steamship Perm this morning he was
not received with the ceremony beitting
the ruler of foreign country. The
Peru arrived shortly after o'clock last
night and the quarantine regulations were
not waived in favor of the visiting
President, so he remained on board all
night.
When the steamer locked this morning
President Dole was greeted by the Ha-
waian consul and few friends, but there
were no representatives of the United
States government to formally welcome
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-01-19
GEN. BOOTH ARRIVES.
Head of the Salvation Army is Civ
en- a Warm Welcome at
New York.

New York, Jan. 15.-Gen. William
Booth, the head of the Salvation army,
reached this city today on board the
steamer st. Paul from Southampton.
The general was met down the bay by
Commander Booth-Tucker. On the pier
a large delegation of headquarter Saliva
tonlsts were awaiting their chief. Gen.
Booth was given warm reception.
The general" said Commander Booth
Tucker, will stay at my house in Ford
ham until Monday, when he will leave
for Canada, where he will be met by his
daughter. Miss Eva Booth, who is in
charge of the Salvation army there. He
will remain three weeks in Canada, in
speeding the work of the army, and will
then return to the United States. He will
begin his American tour on February 10
IN Washington. After that he will visit
Pittsburg, Columbus, Cincinnati, st.
Louis, Kansas City, Denver, Los Angeles,
San Francisco. Portland, Seattle and Spo-
kane, at which last place he will be on
March II. Then the general will cross
again over into Canada and visit Victoria,
Vancouver and Winnipeg.
con March 10 he will reach Minneapo-
lis and then ST. Paul From March 20 to
81 he will be in Chicago. From then till
April IA he will visit successfully Cleve-
land, Buffalo, Boston and Philadelphia.
Gen. Booth will conclude his American
visit with a series of meetings and dem
onstrations in New York from April IA
TO 10. On April 20 he will sail for Eng
land.
"Gen Booths idea is not alone to look
over the work and progress of the Saliva
ton army in the United States and Can
ada, but in travelling through these coun-
tries he will confer with a number of citi-
zens of the leading cities concerning his
schemes for the assistance of the poor
Gen. Booth will inspect and suggest i'm
prOvements in the social institutions
which we have established in this coun-
try, which now have accommodation for
1000 DerSOnS"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-01-19
BIG FIRE IN CHICAGO.
Downtown Stores Sustain Losses
Aggregating About
100000.

Chicago, ILL.,, Jan. 17.-Eight firms with
stocks aggregating almost half million
dollars sustained heavy losses by a fire
that broke out at $50 this morning in
the building at the northwest corner of
Market and Quincy streets. They are:
L. G. Wachsmuth & Co., clothiers, loss
mostly by water: Adams Bros, dry goods,
loss complete; Taylor & Parrotte, whole
sale hatters loss by water; Worcester
Corset company, loss complete Fred
Kaufman & Co, tailors, loss complete;
Skinner Bros, wooden goods, loss COM
plete; Nikkerson & Co.. dry goods, loss
complete; Cluett, Coon & Co., collars and
cuffs, damage by fire and water; Sol.
Friedman, dry goods. loss complete; L..
Abt q Sons, jewelers., loss complete
Two 6remen were injured during the
progress of the fire, neither of them seri-
ously.
The total loss will approximate $780,
600, well covered by insurance.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-01-19
IRON ORE SHIPMENTS.
Lake Superior Region was
IL, 457,OO2 Tons

Cleveland, o., Jan. 17.-The Iron
Trade Review, which is recognized as an
authority on iron ore, has compiled its
annual statement of the shipments of
Lake Superior iron ore. The total for
1897 is 12,457.O02 gross tons. as COM
pared with 1884 ,446 tons in 1896. and
10, 429,O37 tons in 1895. This makes the
1897 output the greatest ever achieved,
by more than 100000 tons. There were
seventy eight shipping mines in 1897.
against eighty-four in 1896. eighty-siX in
1895, and sixty-seven in 1894.
The shipments by ranges were:
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-01-19
TROUBLE BLOWS OVER.
Officials at Washington Cease to
be Apprehensive About
Cuba.

Washington, d. c., Jan. 17.-The state
department and Senior Dupuy De LONE,
the Spanish minister both expressed the
opinion today that trouble at Havana has
blown over. No advices under today's
date had been received by either the de-
partment or the minister up to 11:3O
o'clock today.
Senior De LONE received two dispatches
last night, the first saying the day was
quiet, and the latter apparently sent at
later hour, announced that calm had
prevailed during the day. The state de-
partnent after o'clock received dis
patch from Consul General Lee saying
simply, "All quiet" The lateness of the
receipt Of advices yesterday, the minister
says, is due to the fact that the Havana
cable office on Sundays does not open
till o'clock at night
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-01-19
WHY HELEN KELIAR WITHDREW.
New Facts Touching Her Departure from
the Gilman school.

New Facts Touching Her Departure from
the Gilman school.
Boston, Mass, Jan. 15.-It is said by
her friends that the chief reason for Miss
Helen Kellar's withdrawal from the Gill
man school for girls in Cambridge, where
she was fitting for Radcliffe, was rival
~ for the honor of instructing her be-
tween Miss Sullivan, who has had charge
of her education for the last eleven years,
and Arthur Gilman, master of the school,
When Miss Kellar entered the school a
FIVE years course was laid out for her
She passed the preliminary examinations
for Radcliffe college in English, Latin,
German, French and history last June,
and took honors in English and German.
When she returned to the same school in
October a programme was made out for
two years more. She was retarded at
the opening of school by delay IN the ar
rival of special apparatus needed for her
work, but made up her deficiency. She
was i'll one day. and Miss Sullivan thought
It better for her to keep to her room.
This incident it is asserted, was made the
excuse on the part of Mr.. Gilman for
restoring the five-year course. Miss kel-
lar says of this change:
81 could scarcely endure my bitter hui
initiation. 1t seemed to me as if | had
been cheated out Of my proper share in
the school work knew that Miss Sui
livan's judgment had been flung aside as
of no value. and / knew, too, that she had
loved me and taken the best care of me
for nearly eleven years and no harm had
come to me while | was with her.
Miss Sullivan asserts that afterward
she accidentally discovered q plan was
under consideration to separate her from
Helen and to place Mr.. Gilman in com
plete control of Miss Kellars education,
by making him her guardian. The evil
dence on this point was placed before
Miss Kellar's mother and this caused the
withdrawal from the school,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-01-19
A LOST IDENTITY.
Strange Woman Has Lived Near Wauke-
gan for Twenty Years

Waukegan, Ill, Jan. 17.-[Special. i
This vicinity furnishes strange case of
lost identity. A woman has lived in
this vicinity for nearly twenty years and
her weak mind has furnished no clue as
to who she is and whence she came She
was found wandering ON Thomas Whal-
ems farm, several miles north of here, and
was taken in and cared for She has
never recovered her reason, but has been
able to work about the house, and there
she has staid all these years. Efforts
to get her to talk of her past life and
family have been unavailing and she
promises to die as she has long lived, a
mystery. At the time of her discovery
she bore traces of having but lately been
of sound mind and probably in comforta-
blo circum stances
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-01-19
CONGRESSMAN Beats Ills Wife.

Washington, D. c., Jan. 17.-Early
Sunday morning the occupants of one of
the large hotels were started by the
screams of the wife of an Ohio congress
man. The proprietor of the hotel was
called from his bed, and, breaking into the
room, found the member of Congress beat
ing his wife. With the assistance Of a
couple of porters the statesman was
dragged into another room, thrown upon
a bed and held until his anger had passed
away, and then left locked in the room.
Later in the day he received notice that
he must leave the hotel
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-01-19
Gains Liberty Only TO Meet Death.

Princeton, Ind, Jan. III. Y. Crouch,
an escaped convict, was killed while steal
ing a ride on a Louisville & ST. Louis
capped from the penitentiary at Chester,
III, and was trying to evade capture.
He boarded the train near Belleville and
was standing on box car when the
train passed. under an overhead bridge
His head struck the bridge with terrific
force, crushing his skull, and scattering
his brains along the track. He was
found dead by the side of the track and
taken to his home in Fairfield.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-01-19
Will be No Suffering.

Seattle, Wash, Jan. 1.-THE steam
sasaT and MD Dvea Alaska Among r bar
passengers were Hans Larson of Circle
City, who came out of Dyea with a dog
train by way Of Dawson City He says
there is plenty of food at Circle City. He
also confirms previous reports that there
will be no suffering at Dawson City this
winter from lack of provisions.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-01-19
AFRAID OF JOHN BULL.
Russian and French Ministers Pro-
test Against Proposed
Chinese Loan.

Pekin, Jan. 1.-THE French and Rus
sian ministers have protested against the
conditions upon which (as outlined in an
interview between Sir Claude Macdonald,
the British minister to China and the Chi
nese foreign Office on Saturday LAST Great
Britain is willing to assist China to liqui-
quidate the Japanese indemnity. Chang
Yenh Wau has been appointed governor of
Shan Tung.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-01-19
Tornado Killed Forty-five.

Fort Smith, Ark. Jan. 1.-two names
were added to the death list of victims of
Tuesday nights tornado. They were Ann
Savage and H. Il. Hunter. This makes
the total number now dead forty-fve. 1t
is believed at least two more bodies are
under the ruins of the Burgess hotel
The cook and man named Ennis are
missing
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-01-19
Mrs. James L.. Flood Dead.

lanes r. Flood. wife Of the miilionaira
mine owner, died Saturday as the result
of an operation recently performed at the
California Woman's hospital. The de-
ceased, who was only "a years of age.
was a native of Kansas City, whittier her
remains were taken for intermept.