The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-09-24
NEWS OF WORLD
CONDENSED


Japanese.
The Beers may trek into German
East Africa.
Smallpox prevails at Chico and Ba-
kersfield, Cal.
The Republicans carried Maine by
Butler defeated the Beers at Spitzkop
with heavy loss.
Bettina Girard, the actress, will mar
ry again and star.
The foreign military attaches have
left the Transvaal
General Wheeler, ON September TO-
went on the retired list.
European wine growers are troubled
by shortage of barrels.
The population of Duluth is 81, 1863, an
increase of 59.9 per cent.
John Drews production of Richard
Carvel' is a great success.
The Mississippi has risen six feet and
/ flooded the country in Louisiana.
Hanna made a speech at Chicago urg-
/ ing Republicans to get in and work.
/ Henry Miller has been forced to stop
acting by an affection of the throat
/ Rev. Frank Gunsaulus has resigned
as president of the Armour Institute.
i The Tanana and Stewart river dis
tricts of Alaska report rich finds of
gold
/ The Democratic ticket of New York
lis headed by John Stancnfield of Che
mung.
British shipping circles are worried
by the great speed record of the
Deutschland.
/ Los Angeles telephone service is de-
moralized by an escaping current which
4 causes buZZing.
The Deutschland has made another
Atlantic record by crossing in five days
and eight hours.
| Thomas Kingsford, head of the
] L ~ i u
eth, after "a brief illness.
! The insane daughter of King Leopold
Princess Louise of Coburg, owes $500, 00C
and is now in an asylum.
| The British expect decisive news from
Roberts soon. Butler is engaged with
the remnant of the Beers.
/ Addison Kelly, the famous Princeton
athlete, is to coach the University OF
California football squad.
/ j. w. Reid, of Lewiston, Idaho, whose
name is on the Bryan electoral ticket
has come out for Mckinley.
Stanchfield, who defeated Hill for the
gubernatorial nomination in New York
was Hills former law partner.
Thrifty Jim Corbett, guided by his
friend Tim Sullivan, has cleaned up d
good many thousands in Wall Street.
Refugees, many of them Americans
are living in caves on Table Mountain
near Cape Town, from inability to pay
rent.
General OTIS report has been made
public. Ii insists that the Philippine
war was forced on us by the insurg-
| ents.
The Oakland, Cal, Board of Health
wants a quarantine on tuberculosis
and plan to isolate afflicted consump
tives.
Nine of the Wells party of twelve
We're killed by the Seri cannibals while
icIa in, ha Ct,lf Of Col
fornia.
AT the Austrian military maneuvers
September T. a big gun exploded, kin
ing four men outright and woundins
eighteen.
The War Department is sending il
supplies and the great cities are for
warding money for the relief of thu
Galveston sufferers.
H. D. Copeland, a Stanford Universi
ty student, dug a hole through a bricl
wall over foot thick with a pewte
spoon. He is insane.
President and Mrs. Mckinley attend
ed the wedding of their niece at Som
erset, Pa. Their present to the brid
was a chest of silver.
In Zante, one of the Ionian islands
there is a petroleum spring which ha
been known for nearly 5000 years. 1t j
: mentioned by Herodotus.
The President has pardoned Frank NJ
Lake City, in May, 1893, for embezzle
ment of $3,072 postoffice funds.
Governor Roosevelt arrived at Gran
Rapids, Mich, on the evening of tn
9TH. He made eight speeches in tn
one day. The crowds were large.
The postoffice of Port Essington, E
. c., has been robbed of two sacks @
registered letter mail, containing owe
$4,000 in cash, checks and drafts.
On the occasion of the Sultan's jubi
lee the Mussulmans at Sarajevo in Bos
mia desired to celebrate with fete:
The Austrian authorities forbade it, bu
, the Mussulmans persisted and riotin
occurred.
American energy promises to be re
warded by securing orders for 800 larg
coal trucks, involving e150,0O0. about t
be placed by gold mining companie
, of the Rand.
, Major Edward T. Comegis. surgeon
| is ordered to proceed to Taku. China
: with all medical supplies invoiced t
MN at Nagasaki and to establish
medical supply depot.
The Trades Union Congress. in ses
sion at Huddersfield. England. ha
selected John Weir of Dumferline. Scot
land, and Peter Nolan of London, a
delegates to the coming convention a
| Louisville.
The transports Warren and Ate
hANC lcdCIeu NaSdSahl and Taku. re
spectively. Both transports have order
to proceed to Manila. The men of tn
Ihlrd Cavalry have preceded thei
mounts to the Philippines
The John b. Lyon, a 255-foot steamer
owned by j. c. Gilchrist recent
foundered about five miles off Con
naught, Ohio, and fourteen of her ere,
or sixteen We're lost. The LYON wa
valued at 100000. Only two of the cre1
escaped
The central bureau at Washingto
, mas tabulated the returns of fifty-fou
cities. These show a population of IA
: o44, III. This is an average increase i
population per city of 27.9O per cent. Tn
same cities in 1890 had a population {
dI,l5O,O45, making a total gain of 3.4S4
Eight years ago the love affairs c
Mile. Helene Vacaresco and Crow
Prince Ferdinand of Roumania wer
the public gossip of two continents To
Jay dispatches state that this sam
Mile. Vacaresco is making the utmos
efforts to embroil Roumania in wa
with Bulgaria. She makes her head
quarters at Sofia, the Bulgarian capita
and is one Of the leading spirits in tn
Roumanian revolutionary eommitte