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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-12-19

A Model Plant Is not complete with
out Electric Power, thus dispensing
with small engines.
Why not generate your po"er froLa
one CENTRAL station? One Gener-
ator en- furnish power TO your Hum1,
Centrifugals, Elevators, Flows, Rail-
ways and HOSTS; also, furnish light
and power for a radius OF from is tc
80 miles
Electric Power being used, saves the
labor OF hauling coal in your field, also
water, and does away with high-pricst
engineers, and only have one engine 70
look after in your mill.
Where water power is available IL
costs nothing 10 generate Electric
Power.
THE HAWAIIAN ELECTRIC CON
PANY is now ready to furnish Electric
Plants and Generators OF all descrip-
ticns at short notice, and also has o.
hand a large stock OF Wire, Chande-
Tiers and Electrical Goods.
All orders will be given prompt At
tention. and estimates furnished for
Lighting and Power Plants; also, 1t
tention is given 10 House and Marine
Wiring.
THEo. HOFFMAN. Manager.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-12-19

THAT TIRED FEELING SO common
in this enervating climate, can be re-
Ieved at once by rubbing the head
thoroughly with small quantity of
the Pacheco Dandruff Killer. While
this preparation is unequalled for the
eradication Of dandruff, it also pos
sesses remarkable stimulating proper
ties which not only affect the scalp but
through that medium the whole sys-
tenn. Try one application of
PACHECO'S DANDRUFF KILLER.
For sale by all druggists and at the
Union Barber Shop. Telephone sos.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-12-19
j. LHNDO
0UTFlTTER AND FURNISH R
FORT STREE. NEAR KING.

Depot for the
BOSS OF THE ROAD OVERALLS.
JUMPERS, BLOUSES.
CARPENTERS, COOKS and WATT
ERS' STANDARD SHIRTS in Great
Varieties; NIGHTSHIRTS and PAJA-
MAS, CREPE SHIRTS, BOYS STAR
and MOTHERS FRIEND SHIRT
WAISTS, MEN and BOYS CLOTH
ING, HATS and CAPS. WOOL and
. COTTON UNDERWEAR, TIES.
CUFFS, COLLARS. at Prices 10 Suit
You.
/. o. o. r. BLDG. FORT near KING.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-10-06

The German government has paid into
the Spanish treasury 25,000,oo0 pesetas,
the price of the Caroline islands,
The schooner Edna, of Baltimore,
was wrecked Off st. Pierre, N. F., and
her crew of seven lost their lives.
A telegram received at the Harvard
college observatory states that new
comet has been discovered by Jacobini
at Nice.
Advices from South Africa say the
Beers continue to concentrate between
Utrecht and Volksrust, where their ar
tillery is known to have moved, and
threaten Laing's Mex Large commands
have also assembled on the western
frontier of the Transvaal near Kim
berley.
Fourteen American prisoners, all en-
listed soldiers, were delivered up by
the Filipinos at Angeles. The insur-
gent commissioners called upon Gen.
Otis with fresh proposals from Aguin-
aldo. Gen. Garcia, leader of the insur-
gents in the eastern part of the island
of Mindanao, has offered to surrender
the arms of his followers and has asked
the American authorities to send gar
rison to take full control of the country.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-10-06
LATER.

1t is estimated that the Indian gov
ernment must spend 100000 rupees
to relieve famine in the central prov
inces and that the local chiefs must
eXpend at least one-third OF this
amount in addition.
Vessels built in the United States
and officially numbered during the
quarter ended September 30. 1917,
were 296, of 1920 gross tons, com
pared with 3o1, of S3,191 gross tons,
for the corresponding quarter Of the
previcvs fiscal year. The wooden
tonnage was only 6,951 gross tons,
compared with 25,113 for the CORE
spending quarter in 1898.
At Brockton, Mass, on the Cd Ben
Munroe, of Memphis, and Charles Me-
Carthy, of ST. Louis, broke the ma
tional professional tandem paced rec
ord for a mile in 1887 3-5. Previous
record, held by Butler brothers, was
1:45.
Katayama, imperial architect of
Japan, who has been in Pittsburg for
some time, has placed an order with
the Carnegies for 1900 tons of struc-
tural iron and steel to be used in the
building of palace for the crown
prince of Japan at Toxic. The pal
ace will be three stories high. 1t
will be constructed especially to
withstand earthquakes as well as pos
sible and will be seven years in build
ing, at cost of from $5,000,00O to
81, 100000.
The most serious strike in the his
tory of Webster county has begun at
the coal mines near Fort Dodge, la.
Every mine in the district is closed
down, with 400 workers idle. One
serious result of the labor trouble is
The local schools are closed, and all
factories are running short of fuel and
may have to shut down.
The British government has placed
large order for canned meat and
timed fruit with some of Chicago's
large packing concerns, with which
10 supply the army while in the
Transvaal.
At Racine, Wis, Manager Beggs, Of
the Milwaukee electric railway, has
caused warrants. to be issued for 30
of Racine's prominent citizens, who
refused To pay fares except when col
lected by the motorman. The cause
of the trouble has been in making the
duties of the motorman so onerous
that life and limb have been placed
in deadly peril through the rotorman
not being able to properly look ont
for pedestrians and teams. Refusal
to pay fares unless collected was the
means to compel the officials of the
road to put on conductors or lessen
the labor of the motorman.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-10-06
N E WIS OF OHIO.
Gathered by Telegraph From AL
Parts of the State.
Interesting Statistics.

Columbus, Oct. 3.--Statistics COM
piled by the secretary of state Off
last year show that the tax inquisi-
tors added $42, ,414,393 to the tax dupli-
Gates of the counties, compared with
$13,076,753, the year before. The
added valuation produced S1,130,626 of
taxes. The total remuneration of
the inquisitors was $143,663. The
Cuyahoga inquisitors got $6,OOo,o00 of
property on the duplicate; Hamilton
S3,0OO,OO0; Franklin $2.500,000, and
Lucas S2,0O0,000. The INDECENT sol
dier relief in the state amounted TO
$3l7, 7,405. as compared with $31s,53S for
the previous year. The total paid
as attorneys fees by the state in
criminal cases was $35,127, as COM
pared with S41 ,23S in 1898.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-10-06
FOREIGN,

A Manila dispatch says that a gen
eral advance of the American troops
against Porac has commenced, Gems.
Macarthur and Wheeler moving from
Santa Rita and Gen. Wheaton from An
geles.
An American bank will be opened in
the City of Mexico January 1 with a
capital of 100000.
The decision of the Orange FREE State
to join with the Transvaal in the event
of hostilities is the leading news and
will, naturally, stiffen the Beers in
dependent attitude.
The Spanish cabinet has resigned as
the result of irreconcilable differences
among the ministers regarding pro-
posals for national defense.
cablegram from Manila says that
Gen. Macarthur entered porac after
half an hours fighting. The Ameri-
can loss was five killed and the insur-
gent loss is not known. The enemy
fled northward.
In an accident on the Mexican Cen
trail railroad near Tampico, Mexico, five
men were killed.
The Dominion liner Scotsman was
wrecked south of Change island and
ten of her passengers were drowned.
The little two-masted Herald of the
Morning was overwhelmed in the At
lantic off the entrance to the st. Johns
river and Capt. Hollis and five of the
crew were drowned.
By the burning of the steamer Mon
toya on the Magdalena river in Central
America 80 lives were lost, including
that of Gen. Julio Rengrifo, minister
to the United States.
The American authorities in Manila
were arranging the details of the de-
livery of the American prisoners at An
geles.
1t was reported that Castro, the in
surgent leader in Venezuela, had es-
tablished "A provisional government at
Valencia.
The Transvaal's reply to the last Brit
ish dispatch says the South African re-
public adheres strictly to the London
convention of 1884. Boer forces were
hurrying to the frontier from all sides
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-10-06
Monnctt Regins an Custer Suit.

Toledo, Sept. 2o.-ln it's effort to ap-
propriate public thoroughfarc--
Water street-to it's own use, the
Manufacturers Railway Co. has en-
countered the greatest obstacle it has
yet met with Attorney General Mon
nett is after the street railway pro-
moters. In common pleas court yes
terday Mr.. Monnett instituted pro-
ceedings against the Manufacturers
railway, asking the court to oust the
company and exclude it from use of it's
franchise and right of way, because
by non-use of it the concern has legal.
ly forfeited all of its rights and priv.
ilepeS in the matter
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-10-06
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

1t took 20 years to build the statue of
| Victor Emmanuel, recently unveiled at
| Turin.
The khedive of Egypt draws salary
ten times as great as that of the presi-
dent of the United States.
William Margrave has been a justice
of the peace at Fort Scott since 1854.
He is the oldest Office holder in Kansas.
Rudyard Kipling has been officially
recognized as a man of letters by hav-
ing an Ohio post Office named after
him.
Ex-Secretary Sherman and wife, of
Mansfield, o., have gone to their Wash
ington home, where they will spend
the winter.
The Young Peoples Temperance
union, recently organized at Chicago,
has prefixed the word american" to it's
official title.
Fred I. Moore, the absconding as
sistant paying teller of the National
Bank of Commerce of Boston, has been
captured in Chill.
The London Daily Mail says that Mrs.
Langtry (Mrs. Hugo Gerald de Bathe)
is writing her "reminiscences, which will
be published about Christmas.
A movement is on foot to form a COM
bination of Pittsburgh (Pa.) hotels,
with a capital of $5,OOO,OOO. 1t is pro-
posed to take in all the large hotels.
A fund is being collected in Eng
land to raise monument to John New
bury, the first man to collect and pub
lish the immortal melodies of Mother
Goose
John Livingstone, who recently died
in Tfstowle Ont, was a brother of the
African explorer, was two years his
senior and was the last survivor of the
family.
There is official authority for stating
that the passenger business of the
Pennsylvania lines east has this year
actually exceeded that of 1898, worlds
fair year.
The secretary of the interior has au-
thorized the agent of the Cherokee In
dians to remove from the reservation
of that tribe all persons who refuse to
pay their taxes under the tribal laws.
The prison congress, in session in
Hartford, Conn, elected S. W. Me-
Claughey, of Illinois; Rev. DIR. Hender-
son, of Chicago; Rev. ]. Milligan, Penn
sylvania; Gen. r. Brinkerhoff, Ohio.
and the president, Edward S. Wright,
delegates to the international congress
in Brussels.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-10-06
Personal AND POLITICAL.

Mrs. Susan Lewis, aged 1O1 years, died
in Madison, Ind.
Amos L. Allen, formerly private sec
retary to Thomas B. Reed, has been
nominated for congress by the repub-
licans of the First Maine district, and
the democrats have nominated Luther
Mckinney.
Thomas B. Allen, a veteran of three
wars and the oldest person in West
Virginia, died in Grafton, aged 1Os
years.
Gen. A. j. Vaughn died in Indianapo-
lis, Ind. He was one of the few surviv-
ing major generals of the confederate
army.
William Griffenstein, the founder of
Wichita, Kan, died at Shawnee, 1T.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-10-06
Two Children Cremated,

Trimhle, Oct. 3.-The house of Fred
EXenhammer, three miles north of
here, burned Sunday night, and two
children, the only occupants of the
house, were burned to death. EXen,
hammer and his wife had gone to
spend the evening with neighbor,
and the children, being sleepy, We're
taken home and the family returned
to complete the visit. In few min
utes the house was discovered in
flames, and the children perished be-
fore they could be rescued
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-10-06

CRocoDILEs. like ostriches, swallow
pebbles and small stones, which serve
the purpose OF grinding their food.
The natives assert that it is possible to
tell the age of crocodile by the num-
ber of stones in its stomach, for they
swallow one each year. In point of
fact, Is stones have been found in the
stomach of a crocodile IL feet long,
whereas the number for younger ones
varies between four and eight. So says
MIR. Voltkow, who has been studying
this matter for several wears.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-10-06
Street railroads Consolidate.

Columbus, Oct. 3.-The consolida-
tion of all the street railway lines of
Columbus was completed last night.
The property of the Columbus Street
Railway Co., the Crosstown Street
Railway Go. and the Columbus Cen
trail were transferred to the new CO.
lumbus Railway Co. The new COM
pany then executed a mortgage for
S7O0O,C0O TO the Union Savings Bank
and Trust Co., of New York.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-10-06
Great Fire In Cincinnati.

Cincinnati, Sept 3O.-Early this
morning fire was discovered in the Big
Four warehouse, occupying a block
bounded by Central avenue, Pearl,
Plum and Second streets. A general
alarm called the whole department. to
the scene, as the fire rapidly spread to
other railway buildings. including the
freight sheds where 40 loaded freight
cars We're burned and 80 that were not
loaded. Some passenger coaches
we're also badly damaged in the yards.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-10-06

AT Boscowen, n. H., recently nine
bronze tablets marking historic sites
within the town limits were dedicated.
These were the birthplaces of Gen.
John A. Dix, William Pitt Fessenden,
ex-Gov. Moody Currier and Charles
Sargent Coffin; the first law office of
Daniel Webster; the residence occu-
pied by him and afterward by his
brother Ezekiel; the sites of the old
fort built for protection against the
Indians; of the first church in town
and of the first pastors residence.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-10-06
PHILADELPHIA can boast of the lone.

PHILADELPHIA can boast of the long.
est asphalted street in the world.
Broad street has that unique distinc-
ton. First, as already stated, it is the
longest asphalted street in the world;
secondly, it is the on y street which is
of even width for eleven miles, and this
width is the greatest ever attained by
any street for course of eleven miles.
1t is also the straightest street, for from
League Island to the county line it does
not vary an inch. except once.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-10-06
Judge Nash,s Dates.

Columbus, Oct. 1.-THE following
additional speaking dates are an
nounced for Judge Nash: Springfield,
Oct. 9, evening; Conneaut, morning,
Painesville, Oct. 10; Bowling Green,
Oct. II, and. Toledo, evening of the
same day; Wauseon, Oct. 12; Bryan,
Oct. 13, afternoon. and Antwerp, even
ing; Van Vert, Oct. Il.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-10-06

IT is now only matter of time when
all the principal countries of Europe
will be connected by telephone Ar
rangements were completed short
time ago for the building of two sepa-
rate lines between Berlin and Paris,
and now it is understood that steps
have been taken for uniting the tele-
phone systems of France and Italy,
and for constructing telephone lines
between Genoa, Nice, Turin and Lyons.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-10-06

THE government of Venezuela has
placed an order with the Carnegie steel
company for 700 tons of structural steel
for the erection of barracks at Cara
cas-, the capital of Venezuela, which
will accommodate 5000 soldiers. The
total amount of material required for
the completion and fitting out of the
barracks will be about 5000 tons, most
of which will be procured in Pitts
burrh
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-10-06

In Great Britain some ten labor bu-
reaus are established that in 1895 pro-
cured employment free of charge for
nearly $1,000 persons. In Paris the
same good work is being done, the
slate of 1898 showing that work with
out cost was found for &c, 97O persons.
In the United States agencies of this
kind, some fully equipped and others
in skeleton shape, have been of excel
lent and inestimable service to the un-
employed. There are five agencies in
Ohio, one in California, three were re-
Gently opened in Chicago and the good
work is likely to go on in many other
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-10-06

OVER TO- 100000 tons of poultry and
nearly 10000 600 dozen of eggs, pro-
duced in Missouri, were handled by
transportation companies lastyear, the
aggregate cash returns for which were
ss,29s, 2S2. The gross value of the ship
ments exceeded the value of the COM
bined shipments of wheat, corn, oats
and hay, and the combined value of the
shipments of lumber, logs, cross ties,
piling, cooperage and cordwood.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-10-06

Fire starting in the Palace hotel at
Grants Pass, Ore, destroyed 16 busi-
ness houses, eight warehouses and a
number of small residences.
w. c. Linn, first cousin of President
Mckinley, was killed in his cabin in the
yalena mining district in South Dakota
by an explosion of powder.
All the Americans in southern Cuba
| joined in spirit with their countrymen
in the United States and paid a tribute
to Admiral Dewey.
The transports Nelson, Glenogle and
Sheridan left San Francisco for Manila
with over $500 men.
Gen. Wood, commanding the depart
ment of Santiago, in his annual report
says the water supply in Santiago de
Cuba has been doubled, the streets inn
proved, modern sewerage and waste
systems introduced and the death rate
reduced one-half.
Snow fell to the depth of over an inch
Throughout upper Michigan.
The Big Four freight depot and ware
house in Cincinnati was ruined by fire,
the loss being probably S1,o00,000.
Will +. McGaughey, son of Sheriff R.
o. McGaughey, died in Muscatine, Ia,
from injuries sustained while playing
football.
Walter Clyatt, plumber, killed his
wife and himself at Albina, Ore. Jeal-
ousy was the cause.
The percentages of the baseball clubs
-. Co., . L.
ing on the 1st were: Brooklyn, .6S4;
Philadelphia, .622; Boston, .621 Bal
timore, .594; ST. Louis, 500; Cincin-
natl, .547; Chicago, .504; Pittsburgh,
493; Louisville, .4s0; New York, ALB;
Washington, .34s; Cleveland, ,135.
Alexander Wustlich, an aged and
wealthy German, was killed at Stock
dale, Pa, and his wife fatally wounded
by burglars.
Fred Pelton, a negro who assaulted
six women, was sentenced in Little
Rock, Ark, to lis years Imprisonment.
The Halliday Milling company's new
elevator, containing 250,000 busels of
wheat, was burned at Cairo, ILL.,, the loss
being 100000.
The plant of the Illinois Cereal COM
pany near Bloomington was burned,
causing loss of $250,0O0, and Melvin
Penn and Burt King perished in the
flames.
Joseph Burns was killed in football
game at Belvidere, Ill.
Capt. Oberlin NJ. Carter, of the United
States army engineers, was convicted of
malfeasance in office, discharged from
the army and sentenced to five years
Imprisonment in the military prison at
Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
Municipal elections will be held
throughout Porto Rico on the goth inst.
The Australian system is to be used and
the officers elected will hold Office un-
til November 1900.
S. B. Remsen, county surveyor, claims
to have witnessed the outbreak of a vol
cano 20 miles from Creede, Col.
New York wound up her official re-
ception to Admiral George Dewey with
the presentation of loving cup, valued
at $4,000, and a great land parade.
In the evening the crews of the Olympia
and other vessels of the fleet were en-
tertained at smoker at the Waldorf
Astoria hotel.
Thirty-two business houses and res
licences in Nebo, ILL.,, town of 500 in
habitants, were destroyed by fire.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-10-06

Col. JOHN SoBIEsKI, who is living un-
pretentiously in Neosho, Mo-, is the
sixth lineal descendant of King Sobie-
ski, of Poland, the hero, who became
Christianity's champion when the Mo-
hammedans were at the gates of Wen
ma. The colonel worked his passage to
New York at the age of IL, served in
the civil war and got his present rank
in the Mexican army. His father led
the revolt of 1876.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-10-06
A strike settled.

Cleveland, Sept. 3O.-The strike
among the linemen and electricians of
the Cuyahoga Telephone Co. and the
Western Reserve Construction Co. has
been settled and the men will go to
work at once. The agreement was
reached Friday after several confer
ences between the two electrical work
ers' unions. The strike was begun
July 90 and until this time the men
have solidly stood their ground.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-10-06

IT is asserted that liquid air has 90
times the explosive force of dynamite.
During experiments at Vienna, in the
firing of cannon, the liquid air was
exploded by an electric spark, and the
results were extremely satisfactory.
No heat was developed in the guns,
and the range of the projectiles was
much increased
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-10-06

LAKE TANeANYIKA, in Africa, offers
a unique field for scientific exploration.
This region, like Australia, is one of
the few localities where animals still
live that have become extinct else
where, certain whelklike mollusks of
this lake appearing to have been driv-
en- from the ocean and to be identified
with fossil forms of old Jurassic seas
in Europe
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-10-06
VIII Sell to a syndicate.

Toledo, October 3.-The stockhol-
ders of the Toledo Gas, Light and
Coke Co. have signed an agreement
appointing committee which it is
understood will sell the plant to an
eastern syndicate. The value of the
franchise and plant is over 81 200, 800.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-10-06
A Fatal Blaze.

Ashtabula, Oct. 3.--Fire broke out
early Monday morning in row OF
wooden buildings on the north side
of Bridge street, adjoining the Ashta.
bula river. John Goggin's saloon.
Millspaugh & Straight's restaurant
and Henry Adamson's saloon were
consumed. Tug" Wilson, an old
ferryman, was sleeping in the restau.
rant and was suffocated
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-10-06

The time required for a journey
around the world by man walking
day and night without resting, would
be 42s days; an express train, 40 days;
sound, at a medium temperature, S21l
hours; n cannon ball, 2194 hours; light,
little over one-tenth of a second, and
electricity, passing over a copcer wire,
little over one-tenth of second.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-10-06

MANIToU, Col, boasts of the fact that
as per cent of it's population are exiles
from their homes, who have found in
Manitou health and strength. Its high
altitude, its ozone, its persistent sun
shine and it's mineral waters are it's
proudest possessions. Among it's
adopted children are people from al
most every state and territory.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-10-06
Petition Bears $1,000 Names.

Toledo, Oct. 3.-The Jones governor.
ship petition was taken to Columbus
yesterday with about 1900 sigma
lures attached. The Jones managers
fear an attempt of some kind to in
validate the petition and claim to
have in reserve sufficient names for
two supplementary petitions. They
claim $4,000 names, about half of
which are now in their possession.