The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-06-25

CONVERSATIONS


TO the claims of the United States.
The Hawaiian commissioners TO the
Paris Exposition have reached Paris.
The Association of Train Dispatchers
will meet next year at san francisco.
Cen Louis BOtha has escaped from
the tran set for him by Gen. Roberts.
Fourteen hundred German troops are
due at Kiao- Chau on board transport.
Admiral Dewey says the peopse love
him but do not want him for President.
The Native Daughters of the Golden
West will meet next year at San Fran
cisco.
The Northern Pacific has declared a
per cent dividend for the past six
months.
President Mckinley will press the
button which starts the street fair at
Stockton, Cal.
President kruger is paving the sal
aries of his officers in gold bars, coin
being exhausted.
An American named Schiller was
drugged by Paris crooks and robbed OF
5000 and jewelry.
Costa RIGA has authorized the use of
foreign gold coin, ana her credit has
advanced largely.
paul Rubert. a San Francisco jew
eIer. is in New York hospital, suffer
ing from aphasia.
Seventy Chinese insurgents were kill
ed May goth, south of Pao Tungfu, by
native Christians.
Ten thousand Ashantis surround Coo
massie, West Africa, and 5000 face the
British relief forces.
The pacification of the Transvaai will
be a matter of many months, so re-
ports from London say
The entrance examinations for West
Point are to be made more difficult by
Congressional eactment
Brig. Gen. r. II. Warfield will be the
ha1 Of he NTH of Tt1i Y
parade in San Francisco.
The Japanese government favors pur-
chasing torpedo boat destroyers and
will add many to it's navy.
Democrats of Kentucky, Missouri,
Vermont and Georgia have endorsed
Bryan and the Chicago platform.
Lord Roberts reports progress from
Pretoria very slow on account of the
great extent of territory to cover.
There is discord at Folsom prison,
California, and Warden Wilkinson has
used his ak on many official heads.
The wreck of the sealing schooner
Pioneer is reported floating derelict in
the north seas, with skeletons aboard
May Brice, a thirteen-year old girl
of Findlay, Ohio, was kidnapped by
| gypsies, but was rescued by the police.
James Dunsmuir has been named as
Premier of British Columbia, as sue
cessor to Joseph Martin, who has re-
signed.
| A War Department order recently is
sued permits wives of regular army Of
| ficers to join their husbands in the Phil
| ippines.
/ Albert Tiehm, a naturalized Ameri-
can, appeals against an attempt by tbs
| German government to draft him into
the army.
| $4,000 worth of diamonds seized year
|
| at New York.
Cadet G.. Il. Pillsbury of Massachu.
sets, who lately graduated from West
Point, is one of the ablest young mer
! ever instructed there.
John Lynch, father of John G.. Lynch
collector of internal revenue for Sar
Francisco, committed suicide by shoot.
ing himself in the head.
/ The members of the base ball team o.
the University of Tennessee law depart
ment were expelled for playing bal
with the "Bloomer Girl nine.
A Frenchman won the internationa
automobile race at Paris. A. Winton O.
Cleveland, Ohio. was participant, bu
his machine broke down en- route.
II The political right in Havana this fal
4 will be for Mayor, there being two can
didates, one representing the army ant
the other the statesmen of Cuba.
The abduction of "Gyp," the Counties!
de Martel Janville, at Paris, which wa.
supposed to have political significance
proves to have been a practical joke.
/ The Standardization stage met will
an accident in the California hills ant
several people were injured, amons
them Mr.. and Mrs. Morris of Oakland
} Kitty Jewell. the girl who fell in Low,
with and married Lobengula, the AT
rican prince" is believed TO have sui
cided after quarrel with Lobengula.
The breach of promise suit brought b,
Martha Rachpauer against Paul Strick
ert of the Strickert Cereghino Company
San Francisco, ended in their wedding
Adjustment of postmasters salarie.
in the United States shows presidential
Offices numbering 4,270. There are 20
hrst-class, 942 second-class, and 312
4 third-class.
Thomas Bach, aged So killed hi.
adopted daughter, Mollie Bach, aget
Is, near Louisville, because she mar
ried another man. Bach then commit
ted suicide
Josie Suman, San Bernardino girl
has gone to New York to marry Har
Vey Mourning, whom she believed kill
ed In the Cuban campaign, but whC
turns up as prosperous lawyer.
|, Dewitt Clinton, leading man of tn.
Girl from Chilli company. PLAYING a
Morosco's, San Francisco. was shot b,
a woman named Angelina NJ Abbott
who was jealous of his attentions [,
others.
: According to a decision of Unite;
States Judge Townsend of New York
the Porto Ricans are Inhabitants of ;
.. foreign country as regards the consti
tuition and within the meaning of tn
tariff acts.
; The steamer Coquillam, from Van
couver for Skagway, caught fire on
day out and had to be beached on va
Anda island. Passengers helped figh
the fire and unload the freight. TIL
loss Will reach 100000.
} Judge Belcher of San Francisco ha
pronounced against the validity of Ne
vada marriages of divorced people /
, the case of Mrs. Abbie Wood, who sue
1 the estate of Jas. NJ. Wood on an ante
E nuptial contract of $4,000.
The vice presidential boom of Irwin
/ NJ. Scott of San Francisco is waxin
larger, and such an influential paper a
; the Philadelphia Press has strongi
urged his availability, devoting an en-
tire page to him and to California.
n Among the President makers who ar
n gathering at Philadelphia for the Re
publican convention the name of Cor
neiius Bliss of New York is most FIRE
quently mentioned for Vice Presiden
secretary Longs boom seems to hav
8 gone fiat