The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-12-10
Kitchener is in complete control IN


over $40, 0O0, 900 on hand
Women of Oakland, California, are |
being held up by robbers.
The United States transport Huford
vas at Port Said on November 30.
The city of Decatur, Iowa. has 235
cases of smallpox in and around l.
Orientals have been given the fran
chise and may vote in Canadian cleo
lions.
The torpedo boat destroyer Goldsboro
had her trial trip in Seattle Novem-
Der 20.
A ferry-boat capsized in the Spokane
river Washington, and four men were
drowned
There was small fire in the Treas
ury Department at Washington on No
vember 80.
The Rogers Locomotive Works at
Paterson, n. D., on November 80, closed
down finally.
Idaho's population is now 1917 an
increase during the decade of 1887, or
9i.7 per cent.
| The Bancroft library has been bought
By an Fastener and will be lost to the
Pacific Coast.
The British view of the Chinese crisis
is that the Celestials have triurlphed
over the allies.
Thomas Baldwin, the famous Boston
bandmaster, died November 80, from
blood poisoning.
herself because from affluence she had
come down to poverty.
Finley p. Dunno, author of the boo.
Hey" papers, was dangerously i'll in Chi
lcago on the 1st instant
Mrs. Anna j. Pronk recovered 81 200
from the Potter estate in San Francisco
for her services as nurse
| Marcelona Martinez of San Jose died
November 80, aged los years.
Elsie Tyson, heir to $13, 600 900. does
not know how to spend so much money.
James c. Sullings died in Alameda,
November 80, of tobacco chewing. He
was poisoned by the nicotine
A hurricane blew the warehouse Dor
ton of the Anglo-British Columbia
Packing Company's cannery into the
| sea.
! Chief of Police John w. Campbell of
II. Louis has been offered the position
OF Chief of Police of Manila and has ac-
copied.
Lieutenant Colonel Russell B. Harri-
son, son of former President Harrison.
was dropped from the Army Decerl-
| beI LIST t5's
Charles H. Tweed of New York has
been elected a member of the executive
committee of the Baltimore & Ohio
Company.
The officials of the United States En-
bassy at London deny they have re-
iceived any instructions for freeing Mrs
Maybrick.
Colonel Yorck Of the German army
died in China November 80 in conse-
lquence of inhaling fumes from a store
in his bedroom.
Naval Constructor Francis T. I3oWIes.
who will be made an Admiral by Presi-
dent Mckinley, will be the youngest Of
Ihcer to hold that title.
| The Supreme Court of Vancouver r
e. has awarded $4,000 to James Lang
ley against NJ. Conner of Grand Forks.
for assault and battery.
Inc cramps have received no official
iconflrmation of the story that a cruiser
: will be ordered by Turkey, although
negotiations are pending.
1t is stated by the New York Herald
In a Washington dispatch that Senator
Lodge Will, in all probability. take he
late Senator Davis place.
Joshua Brotherton,a former American
Methodist minister. was forced in Lon
oon' on November 80, to give back $500
pounds which were i'll gotten
The lawsuit on trial before 1r4ro
Welis at Martinez, for possession of q
valuable ranch, had its equity tide de-
pendent on one word in a letter
The copper shipments from the White
Horse mines aggregate % to % per cent
IN copper, when separated from the
!. gold. The claims cover 5000 acres
There Is open rupture between the
Paclhc Mall and the Panama Railro;.d
Company and the railroad proposes t.
run its own steamers to the Isthmus.
Inc Government has approved the ar
rangementS for the new mail service
between San Francisco. Auckland and
Sy dney, commencing with this month.
A rising of Moldavian easants
against the new tax on prune spirits
has taken place. The military saot
twenty men and made many prisoners.
The Constantinople correspondent Of
the Daily Chronicle says: An imperial
Trade orders the immediate signature of
a contract for the construction OF y fast
cruiser at the Cramps at Philadelphia -
The House Committee on Military At
fairs began consideration of the Army
cill November 80, having as a basis the
measure prepared in the War DeLart-
ment.
The typhoon at Tourane caused pc
tween 1,5O0 and 1900 casualties and the
remaining population, number 4S0G are
without food. The desolation extends
for miles.
English business men interested in
the ocean carrying trade are raising a
fund to be used in an effort to o,efeat
the ship subsidy bill in the United
States Congress-
Next summer people will be able to
travel from Chicago to San Francisco
and return for $50 on the occasion Of
the Epworth League Convention in tie
! quantity Of dynamite at the bottom
OF one of the coal mines at Apichp.
france, exploded from an unXrowl
cause. Killing twelve, injuring eight and
leaving eighteen unaccounted for
Il. G. Carlton, n Chicago merchant
and Miss NJ. e. Davies. also from Chi
cago, met on a train and in the course,
OF an eight-hour run decided to wei
which they did on arrival at East ST.
Louis
Count Tantierri, an Italian nobleman,
lea the Montana Cattle Queen" Mrs.
Nellie Mckay HUMPHREYS. to the altar
In Seattle for the second time. They
mad previously been married in Nome
Alaska.
| The Thanksgiving dinner given I'M
der the auspices of the American So
ciety in London, had many of Eng
lands most distinguished men as
guests.
Frank Elsingere e. Jones. of Chi
cago, is dazzling ST. Louis with his ar
ray OF clothes. He is at the Planters
Hotel, and makes an entire change of