The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-10-01

sent, and the following year the nrst
! strong cable was laid Mr. Charles
Wollaston, one of the party that iaid
I the first wire, is still alive and says
4 that the first message sent under the
sea was to his wife, and said All rlght
at Grisnez, home about ten.
| Judge o. w. Powers has been ap-
poiuted Senator from Utah by Demo-
cratic trick. The Republican Governor
and Secretary of State had gone over
/ the line to meet Roosevelt. and the
Democratic acting Governor made the
4 appointment. Powers will fight to hold
on.
An aesthetic English Vicar at Wem-
! bley will not allow the word died to be
put on the tombstone of people buried
in the cemetery. He insists on phrases
\ like departed from life, or passed
away or entered into rest" and says
I that died Is denial of the Christian
| teaching of Immortality.
| The Japanese War Office has received
the following from General Yamaguchi.
\ dated Picking, September 10th: Prince
Ching has sent to Ii Hung Chang this
telegram to await him at Tien-Tsin
/ Received your telegram. You will be
protected by the foreign powers. There
fore proceed to Picking Immediately
| The Northern Pacific offers 81, zoo re-
ward for the arrest of a lone highway
man who held up the west-bound train
near Athol, Idaho, and got away with
$500 and jewelry from Pullman passen-
gers. The bandit was pursued to q
place thirty-five miles away, where he
held up a rancher, stole horse and
/ escaped.
The London Times correspondent In
Peking reports that the American mis-
sionaries at Fen Chau Flu, south of Tai
| Yuen Flu, including Mr.. Atwater, his
wife and two children, and Mr.. Price
his wife and children, were butchered
by soldiers of Yu Huan as recently as
August 18th in circumstances of revolt
ing treachery.
Bonneville in Normandy, In spite of
tPlanquette's opera, never had a chime
! of bells. Subscriptions have been re-
ceived from all parts of the world,
however, and peal of twelve bells will
be set up in the village church at the
bend of this month. Each bell will bear
the name of country: one is Lam
I ericaine" and another La Canadienne."
! Feldmarschall Graf Won Waldersee
has taken precautions against being
burnt up. He is taking with him a
portable asbestos slate house. packed in
4 sections, that contains seven large
rooms when set up. The house has ex-
lcited an interest in Europe second only
to the question whether the Feldmar-
schall Will reach China in time to make
use of 1t In the field.
One Paris grand dame" is bound
! that France shall not be depopuated
The Vicomtesse de Rochemaille is
! twenty-five years of age, has been mar
) ried five years, and is the mother of
eleven boys, of whom the eldest are
not quite four years of age. She pre-
D sented her husband with four pairs of
twins in succession. and has just topped
. off with triplets. The children are ali
{ sound and healthy.
Notes have been sent to the powers
s clearly defining the course the United
= states Government has determined to
pursue in the Chinese situation The
a chinese Government must be prompt
s re-established and enter into new trea-
ties with adequate provision for repa.
o ration and guarantees for the future
t Most of the United States troops are tC
be Withdrawn from China Immediately
i China will be compelled to punish hel
z own eulprits.
Methuen completely routed a Boel
: convoy at Hart river, west of Klerks
Al dorp, and recaptured a 15-pounder los
at Colenso. He also captured &c wag
Is ons, 5000 cattle, 1000 sheep, 30 90
81 rounds of ammunition and % prisoners
Hildyard occupied Vreyhoid, Septembe
IT 18th. turning out the Beers from
n strong position. Clery captured a Hol
land -American belonging to Theron
In scouts, who confirms the reports O
ID Theron's death
Dr. Tristram, chancellor of the dio
J. cese of Chichester. having decided tina
n the ritualistic ornaments of the Churc
or the Annunciation at Brighton mus
Of be removed, has drawn up a list of tn
H. specific objects, namely: Fourteen sta
tons OF the cross, three confessions
to boxes, one article of furniture used 10
g. receiving confession, two water scoop
FOR holding holy water, two tabernacle
ID set up for the reception Of the reserve
IN sacrament, crucifixes, images of tn
Is. GOOD Shepherd and the Virgin Mar,
IN images at the side of the holy table.
We IlShted blue lamp, curtain with cano
ne py and some vases of flowers
+. Charles Murphy, a New York un
ne dertaker. and son of Felix Murphy. ex
Id assemblyman of the Second Distric
t New York. has been wandering aim
lessly over the country since early I
"a July. On September q he appeared a
I'd police headquarters in Denver attired /
overalls and jumper, his hands callous
ed from hard work, and asked to hay
n ms wife communicated with and toll
ne or his condition. He remembered moth
Mt ing since the Fourth of July. which h
spent in New York, until he suddenI
T. reaiized while strolling along IN
at streets of Denver that he was I'm
ne strange city. He attributed his rnenta
lapse to excessive use of patent bitter
ne prescribed by a physician as a tonic
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