The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-10-25
NEWS OF WORLD
CONDENSED

King George Of Greece Is visiting
Paris.
The Pope favors American rule In the
Philippines.
The torpedo-boat Holland mas gone
into commission.
Sir Henry Acland, the British schoiar
and physician. Is dead.
Maya Indians are harassing the ad-
vancing Indian troops.
Chairman Hanna is speaking to the
farmers of the Northwest.
President Mckinley used his influence
to compose the coal strike.
Regular troops will be transferred
from Porto Rico to Manila.
DIR. Jordan of Stanford will go to
Japan to classify the fishes.
German manufacturers are accused
Of using American trademarks.
Gerald Balfour may not be reappolnt-
ed as chief secretary for Ireland.
There are great registration gains In
the Republican wards of Chicago
Yellow fever promises to increase In
Havana when the streets are opened.
Miss Lena Ashwell, a young English
actress, has achieved great triumph.
Nothing will be done for several
weeks towards filling Huntington's
place.
No trace of Schneider. the defaulter.
can be found at European gaming re-
sorts.
Baroness Won Ketteler has arrived at
Victoria en- route to Detroit, her former
home.
The famous old elms of New Haven
will be removed, as they are beginning
to fall.
English financiers are watching the
American market for pointers on the
election.
Engineer Abbott says the Panama
canal will be built under any circum-
4 stances.
The fuel problem at Nome has been
solved by the finding of bituminous coal
in Siberia
! Charles T. Yerkes considers his Lon
don underground franchise deal his
masterpiece.
Electricity may take the place of
steam on the Escanaba and Lake SUI
perior Railway.
The Colby mine at Bessemer, Mich,
out OF employment.
J Baron Sternberg, German charge
d'affaires at Washington, becomes Con-
sui General at Calcutta.
midas wheat crop has been sold In
advance to reporters, thus increasing
the danger of another famine.
Simmons. a millionaire hardware man
of St. Louis. outbid the Shah for the
famous Tiffany pearl and emerald
brooch.
Moses Fowler Chase, an insane young
American millionaire. has escaped from
a private asylum in Paris. and is now
at large.
A punitive expedition of ECO men,
either French or English, Is believed
to have been massacred on the Abyssln-
Man border
Four Women students of the Univer-
sity of Chicago will try to pay their
way by becoming hairdressers to their
fellow students.
The night shift men Of the Rockdale
plant of the American Steel and Wire
Company have been laid off Indefinite
lly. About 400 men are affected
The Wall Street betting odds upon
mckinley are now squarely to /. A bet
was made that Mckinley would carry
New York State by 1oo. 900 plurality.
The President will recommend to Con-
gress the payment of an indemnity to
the families of the four Italians who
were the victims of a mob at Tallulah
La.
McNear's storage warehouse. a,
Roth's Spur, Cal, was RACED by flames
and its contents destroyed. The loss
amounts to a hundred thousand dol
lars.
An earthquake at Kadiak, Alaska
continued for six hours and did great
damage to property. There were TWEEN.
ty-seven distinct shocks and continuous
trembling.
LondonVanity Fair says it is believed
that Lord Curzon will resign as Vice
roy to India, owing to the i'll health OF
MS wife, who was formerly Miss Lei
ter of Chicago
Francis l.. Terbob, of Peoria. Ill.
wagers his wife against a thousand.
acre farm owned by Horace Wade, OF
Upton, ind, that Mckinley will be re.
elected next MONTH
/, Long stretches of tho Japapasa ooo.
nave peen devastated by typhoons. Al
Numadzu 200 fishermen were blown ON
10 sea and perhaps drowned. Hundred.
OF dwellings were DESTROYED I'm Tokyo
Inc Will OF j. b. Clayton, an English
man, leaves his two daughters a for.
: tune conditional upon their not marry
ing before the age of thirty-fiye. eithe,
, Jew or citizen Of the United States
Leading business men OF Ardmore. I
l., nave formed a league to oppose tn,
payment OF Indian tribal taxes The,
. question the validity Of the taxes. ant
VIII hight the measure to the bite,
end.s
The Chicago managing committee n
/, the Commercial Mckinley Club No. I
mas decided to hold a commercial in
dustrial and sound-money parade OF
saturday. October q. Over 100, 900 me,
Will be In line.
The bodies OF two Americans hay,
oeen found on the desert some distanc,
east OF Campo. and several miles from
any commonly followed trail across tn
; bleak waste Of sand. They are believe.
to have been prospectors.
Tacoma reports a rich strike ON Taa
lima river. Thousands OF dollars hay,
been secured by the crudest methods
The strike Is said to be marvellous. ant
the Government geologist says II will
rival the greatest mines of the world
The first days registration for all tn,
boroughs In Greater New York far ex
ceeds that OF last year, and Of the las
presidential year. 1896. The total regis
tration for Manhattan and the Bron,
was 144.026. making q gain over 1896 O