The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-13
The Car is convalescing.

Maurice Thompson, the author, Is
dangerously i'll at MS home in Indiana
George Won l.. Meyer of Massachusetts
may be the next ambassador to Italy.
The Alameda, which left sydney on
December s. is bringing 9300,000 in spe-
Gle.
All in all s1.OO0,OOO have been sent
from America TO India for famine re-
lief.
TWO men lost their lives in wreck
on the Northern Pacific at Rocker,
Mont.
The Canal Commission makes an en-
phatic Endorsement of the Nicaragua
route.
Galveston is threatened with "a ty
Iphoid epidemic owing to insanitary' con-
ditions.
The Dewey Arch Committee has dis
banded and will return money to sub
scribers.
An American syndicate will spend
millions in London building electric
railways
Is. N, retired, is seriously i'll at 4on-
kers, N. Y.
In a Southern Pacific collision near
Suisun. Cal, seven were killed and
many hurt.
Columbia University will give the de-
gree of B. 5. TO students, who qualify
in pedagogy.
were guests of President Mckinley on
/ their return.
The summers cleanup of the Cariboo
mines, British Columbia, are over a
third of a million.
The House Military Committee will
make a strong anti-canteen amendment
To Roots Army bill.
Senator Clay of Georgia has introduc-
led bill to admit free of duty articles
controlled by trusts.
| Miss Alta Rockefeller is growing new
ear drums under the care of the most
famous doctor in Vienna.
| Missionaries and others who went
through the siege protest against leni-
lent treatment of China.
| Zella Nicolaus, who sued George
Gould for $1,000, is now suing her
husband for a separation.
| Gov. Pingree of Michigan has pardon
ed Generals White and Marsh upon the
payment of s., ,000 fine each.
! The twentieth annual convention OF
the American Federation of Labor Is
| in session at Louisville, ky.
| Five masked men robbed the office of
the Western Lumber Co. at Portland.
Ore. and got away with $4,000.
In Los Angeles the Democrats elect
ed the Mayor but the Republicans got
Iseven of the nine Councilmen.
Gen. Tung Flu Hsiang has been de-
Iprived of his rank by imperial edict but
left in command of his troops.
Millionaire j. Sloat Fassett of l,ew
York has gone to Mexico to develop his
mining and railway interests there.
The Columbia University football
team will not go to California for want
of cash guarantee from Berkeley.
| In a duel at Williamson, w. ", a
clergyman. Rev. Dr. Wohl, shot David
Stokes, a lawyer, and was himself kill
ed.
Flu lost twenty killed and many wound
ed. They were attacked by $500 Box
ers.
| Telegraphers on the Gulf. Colorado &.
Santa Fe Railroad are out on a strike.
Beckham's plurality in Kentucky is
| 1859.
The Pacific Steam Navigation Com
pany and the Compania Sud Americana
de Vapores are now connections of the
Panama Railroad
! A big strike of gold has been made on
Yellow river, tributary of the Yukon
{ Bandits are holding up Vancouver cit
izens in broad daylight
Lord Rosebery will resume the lead
ership of the Liberal party, but Har-
court and Morley will not pledge them
selves to support his policy.
Bishop Potter's anti-vice crusade in
New York has brought quick results.
Scores of women have left the red-light
I'iStiiCl anu gone 10 toner cities.
Rulers of Austria and Italy will not
receive Kruger. The Car may meet
MIN in France. The Partisan press crit
lclZes the refusal OF Emperor William.
John Armstrong Chanler, ex-husband
OF Amelie Rives and great great grand
son of the first John Jacob Astor, has
escaped from an insane asylum and is
at large.
A resolution, expressing sympathy
with the mission of ex-President krue-
ger, mas been introduced in the House
py Representative Fitzgerald of Massa-
chusetts
Mrs. Ernest Schilling, formerly Vic
toria Morosini, daughter of the mil
honaire partner of Jay Gould, who mar
RED her fathers coachman, is now a
m entail wreck
Inc III o'clock closing ordinance is af-
nrmed by the Supreme Court of Massa-
chusetts and a great legislative battle
until midnight. iiN0'
Nellie Neustretter, a co-respondent
IN the Vanderbilt divorce case. has mar
,,eu the discarded private secretary of
.le Duke of Manchester He is a cous
IN OF Lord Angelsey.
me steamer Portland will run he
P,, San francisco and the Isthmus.
. burglars using dynamite wrecked the
o.l nn at SilVerton, Ore, but were driv
en- OF without booty
ri: n Rogers is likely to succeed
Marcus W DAILY as manager and president
ol tne anaconda Copper Mining Com
Pany he was once a newsbov hut is
now ulti-millionaire.
,Captain chester and five officers of
the Dattleship Kentucky are at Con
stantinople, where they NAV make
some representation to the Porte about
the American mission claimsN
James G. Stow, United Statasa Cor,,
General at Cape Town, saws Roar nriSi
oners are anxious for peace. denies the
stories Of wholesale burning of farms
by Britons. and predicts that the war
viii end within four months.
Tang Wang Huang, author of the
Paoting fu outrages on missionaries
was taken to Tien-Tsin, paraded in
cart by German guard and handed
over to the Provisional Government for
decapitation.
Chinese are being smuggled into New
York from the Canadian border over
the Lehigh Valley Railroad. Arrests
have been made at Jersey City and the
entries will be stopped. Many Chinese
got in before the trick was discovered