The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-20

The funeral OF King HumDert was
celebrated August 9Th In Rome with
great pomp.
The Piper will case, which has agi-
tated San Francisco, has been settled
out of court.
G. F. N. Medley, accused of Cuban
postal frauds Will be extradited and
tried in Cuba. ,ff - - ) q.
General Joe Wheeler made stirring
address in Chicago In favor of large
standing army.
Princeton has secured the highest
award in the collegiate department Of
the Exposition.
President Kruger denies that he will
surrender. and says the war will last
long time yet.
Sir Charles Warren has completed
the pacification of the western districts
of Cape Colony.
The Santa he Company is after the
China basin at San Francisco, and may
get IL very cheap.
Bryan and Stevenson were formally
notified of their nomination in Indian
apolis on August 8.
Two young men and a young woman
have been arrested in Chicago for
raising" bank notes.
1t is not likely that an extra session
of Congress will be called to consider
the situation in China
Mrs. C. G.. Holdridge of Fresno, Cal.
fell into Devils Canyon while photo
graphing, and may die.
Jeffries will probably have another
go at Fitzsimmons as a result of the
Rubin FitZsimmons fight.
The bench claims in Nome are pam
ming out well, $1,100 having been taken
out of one in a single day.
j. s. Smith, who introduced the
bromidia habit in Denver, committed
suicide by taking chloroform.
The bodies of two white men and ar
Indian have been found in the Man
zano mountains, New Mexico.
The Duke of Manchester is reported
to be engaged to Miss Helen thinner
man, an heiress of Cincinnati.
The population of Chicago will not be
more than 1857 900, and over this the
Windy Cityites are lamenting.
Fred Hines, a thirteen-year-old Fres-
no, Cal. boy, is accused of poisoning
his father to get his property.
Baron Russell of Killowen, Lore
Chief Justice of England, died suddenly
on August 10, of gastric catarrh.
Beers say they have killed anC
wounded 500, British in a battle be-
tween Lydenburg and Middleburg.
temperature of ninety degrees oil
more has prevailed for a week in Chi
cage, and there is much suffering.
The Chinese complain that at Yang
their troops. This refers to lyddite.
The allotment of G5,000,000 of the
100000 of the British war loan tC
America is much criticized in London
When Minister Conger has been res
cued with the other Americans, the
American soldiers may be withdrawn
Ex-senator Lee Mantle, a leading
light of the Silver party in Montana
has gone over to the Republican party
Senator Heitfeld of Idaho will try t,
compose the differences among tn,
nti-administration factions In tina
State.
Count Won Waldersee, who wa
scheduled to command the German
army In China, may come through Ho
nolulu.
| A witness has been found in the Goe
/ bel murder case who has proven tina
Caleb Powers could not have kille,
Goebel.
| Conditions at Nome are improving a
cheap steamer rates south have ena
bled many of the less desirable settler
to leave.
There is an alleged attempt on tn
part of the Navy Department to avoi
the responsibility of the Oregon
grounding.
Emil Marquart of Phoenix, Ariz.. wa
arrested for shooting an Indian and at
tempted to dash out his brains agains
his cell door.
The body of King Humbert of Ital
has arrived at Rome in state. Owe
10000 foreigners are In the city to at
tend the funeral.
The board of engineers who hav
been surveying for a naval dry doc
at the Columbia river mouth, have re
ported against it.
Precautions are being taken in tn
states to guard against the introduc
ton of plague in rugs from Smyrna
where Ii is raging.
Sir Claude Mcdonald. British Min
ister In Picking, wired on August 3 (
London in cipher that the legation
were still under fire.
The Eighth Infantry recently order
ed to Fort Smelling, Mimi, after a yea
In Cuba, has received orders for Ma
Mia, and may go to China.
Gus" Rubin was knocked out in tn
sixth round by Fitzsimmons at Madi
son Square Garden, August 10. J
dow on the solar plexus nearly kille
him.
Lieutenant Commander w 6
Hughes. y. S. N, and Miss Rose Card
J Wen Fitch of Oregon, were Marie
land. -
The originals of the recent telegram
I. received from the Ministers in Pekin
win pe sent from that city to the Con
suls at Shanghai for the purposes q
verification.
A depraved Mexican in Bakersfield
was killed by Superintendent Caffre
OF the San Emidio ranch for an at
tempted assault on Caffrey's eleven
year-old daughter
The presents at the wedding of Mr.,
Mamie Stewart Worthington and viii
liam B. Leeds. former vice presiden
OF the American Tin Plate Compan,
aggregated in value over $500, 900.
In an engagement or August whic
preceded the occupancy of Pei Tsan
by the allies, the Russians lost sc
Killed, and the British so. The figh
was over before the Americans arrived
Mr.. and Mrs. Harland of Santa RIOS:
discovered an old bear and thre
young ones near their home. The AM
mails climbed a tree, but Mrs. Harlan
shot the big one, which weighed AZ
pounds, and helped her husband XII
the rest.
Scott Keown. the young blood VIII
married Miss Daisy Studebaker in Sa