The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-12-04
GiSt of Several Pages
Presented.
Interesting Bits of Information from
Every Part of the World CuIled
from Late Exchanges.

southern California has again bee
soaked with rain.
Small pox is raging at Bowlin
Green, Kentucky.
The new turbine flyer, Viper, mad
thirtytwo knots.
General Otis is to be supplied witt
better field artillery
The New York Red Cross will Civ,
aid to wounded Beers.
Ex-senator Dubois says that silver
will be the issue in 1900
E. Berry Wall, ex-klng of the dude
in New York is bankrupt.
The Samoan settlement meets with
general approval in Germany
The Signal Corps is conducting ex-
periments in wireless biography
There is a lack of water at Mafeking
and fever is said to be prevalent
Colonel DENLY may be appointed
Civil Governor of the Philippines.
Admiral Dewey has accepted invita-
lions TO visit Chicago and Wheeling.
General Wood has gone to Washing
ton to consult on the affairs of Cuba.
Senator Hayward of Nebraska is
rapidly failing. His mind is now cloud
ed
France is trying to secure exclusive
patents for the Holland submarine
boat.
1t is rumored that some Americans
hold high command in Aguinado's
army.
Corbett and Jeffries have signed an
agreement 10 box. They may meet in
Paris
The Chicago Board of Trade has
adopted resolutions urging ship
canal.
Two prominent Russian officers have
gone to the Transvaal to serve with
Joubert.
Governor Brady, in his annual re-
port, makes strong plea for statehood
for Alaska.
The postage to Guam and the Philip
pines is going to be lowered to the
domestic rate.
1t is reported that the report OF The
Nicaragua Commission may not be
made for years.
NJ de White, Russia's Minister of
Finance, is in disgrace for manipulate
ing the Bourse.
The paper trade is threatened with a
famine, all grades and qualities becom
ing very scarce.
France demands the open door in
China. her policy being identical with
that of America.
Petitions are pouring into Congress
against seating Roberts the polygam-
Gus Congressman.
\ New York insurance company has
bought Russian bonds to the amount Of
g. 600, 900 roubles.
General Wyngate's Egyptian forces
have had an engagement with Der
wishes, killing 400.
Senator German is leading a move
ment to deprive Bryan of the Presi
Dental nomination.
The Atlantic liner Manchester En-
terprise has foundered at sea. All
hands were saved.
Two men were drowned and big
wharf destroyed by a tidal wave at
Mendocino County, Cal.
Official returns at Pretoria show that
80 Beers have been killed and 200
wounded so far in the war.
The steamer Laurada, famous as a
Cuban filibuster, has been wrecked on
St. George island, Alaska.
The Tennessee regiment has been dis
banded in San Francisco and will have
to pay their own fare home.
]. w. Mackay, the bonanza king, is
TO take the place of George Croker il |
the Southern Pacific directorate.
Marine Bill Anthony, one of the |
heroes of the Maine disaster, has COM
mitted suicide by taking poison.
Claims have been filed by American
on account of damage done in
the late war in the sum of $25 100000 |
President Kruger claims that Ameri-
cas- claims to neutrality are prejudice1 |
by Consul Macrum's friendship for the |
British
Cubans are impatient at the long de-
lay in getting self-government and say
they will not submit to diplomatic |
The Emperor and Empress Of Ger
many are being entertained at Blen-
helm Castle by the Duke and Duchess /
Of Marlborough.
The cruiser Charleston ran on the
reef by daylight. The bravery of the
engineer corps during the catastrophe
IS highly praised.
The Sacs and Foxes threaten to 90
On the warpath because of interference
with their marriage rites. Their re- |
is in Tama county. Iowa.
An agent of the British Government