The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-05-26
News of Coast Files Abbreviated for
Quick Reading.

The Government steamer John r.
Hugo has been burned at Omaha.
Gen. Lew Wallace has received $780,
900 royalty on the play of Ben Hur."
The gasoline boat Monterey, loaded
with lumber, was wrecked at Coos Bay.
Chicago brewers refuse to pay the
$500 license fee and will test the law
May 18th, (aftarnoon), sugar, raw
irm; fair refining 3 1850; refined
steady.
Inc German government denies that
/ gunDoat is to De kept in West Indian
waters.
Mccoy worsted Creedon in six rounds
when Creedon's seconds threw up the
sponge.
The bill appointing thirty dental
surgeons in the Army has been report
ed favOrably.
t1,zslmmons, the prize fighter, was
bitten by a pet lion and his hand is
BADLY swollen.
Inc boston Grand Jury has indicted
Francis Truth for misuse of mails Oh
twenty counts.
cargo VIII not be insured for Cape
Nome unless the vessels carrying Ii
LASS inspection.
The Methodist General Conference
will not modify the church discipline
= egaralng amusements.
Fifteen young women of the Con-
AecucuL State Normal school have been
suspended for flirting.
Inc headquarters OF the American
1heOsopnIs.s has been formally estaD-
iished at Point Iona, Cal.
Over 400 athletes have entered the
games or the western intercollegiate
Amateur Athletic Association.
The games between Berkeley and
Pennsylvania, set for May 10Th, were
postponed ON account of ram.
A native proclamation circulated at
Manila dlscredits the Civil Commission
and counse.s further resistance.
The United States offices at Ihe
French Exposition have been robbed OF
considerable money by a clever thief
The American Cabinet has announced
that there Will be no intervention in
the Boer war unless asked for by both
sides.
The Colombia government claims to
have won battle in the Vetas district,
capturing 1900 prisoners and killing
many.
Vessels bound for Nome are unable
to go North of Dutch harbor on s.c-
count of ice. Passengers are suffering
greatly.
The House has voted to repay Lees
Confederate soldiers for property taken
from them in violation OF the terms CT
surrender.
Billy Manning, the ex-pugilist, has
become wealthy owing to Oil well and
gold mine investments in Southern
California.
cabinet crisis exists in Peru over
the proposed appointment of young
Amadeus Pierola as director of the
post office.
The Boer delegates got an enthusiast
tic reception at Washington and, in
their private capacity, will be present
ed to Mckinley.
VIM. H. Hunt Of Montana will be
Secretary of State for the island of
Porto Rico. He is a son of the late
Secretary Hunt.
Mexico is to throw open her archives
for the settlement of Spanish grant
litigation in California, especially that
over the Alpodones ranch.
Two stages on the Yosemite road
were held up on May 18th and the pas
sengers robbed. The job was done az
ter the fashion set by Black Bart.
Eugene Martin, son of Henry Martin,
San Diego poor farm. The father re-
fused to meet the burial expenses.
Military cables and telegraphs are
rapidly connecting all points in the
Philippines with Manila. There are
100 hrst-ciass telegraph offices on Luz
Zon.
The Duke of Orleans has left the St.
James and Marlborough clubs but will
not comply with the demand to quit
the Bachelors Club which he says is
"unbecoming"
Elghty OF Eloff's patrol were killed
ana the Irlsh-American brigade were
greatly cut up at KroonsLadt The
BoerS are turning against their French
and German recruits.
Fourteen of the Sultans wives have
Deen Drutually logged and nine eXiIed
LOT completely in a political intrigue.
Inc H0Sged women were afterwards
put on the list of palace meniais.
IN resentment over the course of
canal corporations in barring Nicara-
guam construction, Senator Morgan has
called for a searching inquiry INFO
their objects and will begin a ,eglsla-
tive war upon them.
Secretary Long has relieved Com
mander G.. c. Todd from duty as hy-
u oSIdpher or the Navy and put him
under suspension. He is accused OF
trying to influence public opinion
against the transfer of his work TO the
Coast and Geodetic survey.
Following is the latest ballot for
BISHOP at the Methodist General Con-
terence: j. F. Berry 357; H. Spell
meyer, S45; D. H. Moore, 293; ]. w.
Hamilton, 25S; I. B. Neeey, 80; C. J.
Little, 10. Others from one to seven
votes. Necessary to choice, 400.
The Cape Nome rush from Seattle
mas begun. The Senator will carry 500
passengers; the Cleveland 1876; the Al
nance 250; the Lakme 200; the Oregon
600. The whalers Alexander. VIM,
Bal llaiss, Belvidere, Be.oga and the
parkentine Pitcairn are at Unalaska.
Members of st. Paui's CONGREGATIONAL
Church at Chicago broke ground for a
new edlhce week ago TODAY with
their own hands. All the members
TOOK hold of rope, drawing a plow
across the site and afterwards began
the labor of excavation with picks and
shovels.
A Louisville dispatch says: Charles
Head Smith of Chicago, owner of Lion