The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-11-29
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Brief Abstracts and Chronicles OF
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Duse. the French actress, is critica
ly ILL.,
Miss Josephine Drexler is TO becom
a nun.
The steamer Patria is being towe
10 port.
Speaker Henderson will adopt tn
Reed rules.
Lady Salisbury, wife of the Prem
Ter, is dead.
CALIFORNIA; crop OF raisins will brin
over 100000.
Hobson recommends a drydock TO
the Philippines.
The British wounded are being vel
treated by the Beers.
More than $4,000 men will serve a.
census enumeratorS.
The British are now confident tina
Ladysmith will hold out.
There is great demand for facilities
for reaching Cape Nome.
The remains OF Major John A. Lo,
! gan will be shipped TO Ohio.
Senator Thurston of Nebraska has
been married at Washington
Director General Davis of the Co
lum bian Worlds Fair is dying.
Californians are organizing to fight
the Jamaican reciprocity treaty.
The German people are not pleased
with the Kaiser's visit to England
The resignation of Chief Justice
Chambers of Samoa has been accepted.
Amelie Rives, the American author
will establish a literary salon in Paris.
Cannon ordered by the Beers in
France have been sold to the British.
Evangelist Moody, who has been
suffering from heart trouble, is bet
ter.
The Spanish cruiser Emperador Car
prison.
Paul Deroulede goes to prison for
three months for insulting President
Loubet.
Chaplain Shields, T. S. A., is to be
courtmartialed for using Intoxicating
liquors.
The Government of the Netherlands
is trying to negotiate peace in the
Transvaal.
The Union Iron Works will build one
of the new cruisers. Contracts have
been let for six.
The Beers have captured three fe-
them to Pretoria.
The Queen is bestirring herself to
provide Christmas presents for every
soldier in the field.
VIM. j. Bryan will go to the Senate
from Nebraska in the event of Sena-
tor Hayward's death.
The London Daily Mail has obtained
100000 for the Kipling absent
Minded Beggar" fund.
The Democratic National Commit
tee will make its campaign against
trusts and imperialism.
The Queen is showing exceptional
vigor, the war seeming to have given
her new lease of life.
Des Moines has passed a curfew law
under which adults are fined if out late
having no good excuse.
1t is denied that the headquarters OF
the Pacific Coast Steamship Company
will be removed to Seattle.
Mrs James Brown Potter's tea con-
cert for the benefit of the American
hospital ship Maine Melted $1,000.
A skull has been found near San Di-
ego which is believed to be that Of
Durham, the San Jose murderer.
C. P. Huntington has failed to get
control Of the Tehuantepec road
which has been leased to an English
contractor.
The Kaiserin has rebuked the Berlin
Municipal Council because of irrelig-
ious sentiments expressed by Jew
ish member.
The art historian and expert, Dr.
Ludwig Jellinek, asserts that the cele-
brated Sistine Madonna in the ORES
den gallery, the most famous work at
tributed to Raphael, is a copy.
The ex-Empress Carlotta is rapidly
declining. She no longer has lucid
moments but grieves for her husband,
the late Emperor Macmillan. Her
shrieks are often heard far out in the
country.
Arnold White, the lecturer at Elton
College on naval matters, declared
during the week that the present
greatness of the British navy is di-
rectly attributable to Rear Admiral
Lord Charles Beresford and Captain
Mahan.
A match between Jim Jeffries, the
champion pugilist, and Jim Corbett,
ex-champion, was arranged today be-
tween Corbett personally and w. A.
Brady for Jeffries. The articles will
be signed next Tuesday. Jeffries will
have the fixing of the date Of the
bout.