The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-11-09
NEWS OF WORLD
CONDENSED

entertainments IN New 1OTk Will be on
a very lavish scale this winter
Cecil Rhodes, according to special dis
patch from Cape Town, is i'll with fever.
new "Schlatter' has appeared in San
Francisco and is making money out of
the credulous.
General Haywood's opinion is that TO-
900 men should comprise the Marine Corps
in order to meet all demands upon it.
The Assistant Secretary of the Treas
ury has decided that a COW and calf are
household effects and as such are entitled
to Importation free of duty.
William Waldorf Astor wins new un-
popularity by applying for permission to
cicse much-used footpath in his Give
der estate on the banks of the Thames.
Minister Conger has preferred charges
of cowardice against Captain Newt. T.
Hall, L. S. NJ. c., the second in command
or the marine force at Picking during the
siege
Frank Groskate, a lad of T. residing n
san Francisco, was struck on the head
by falling scantlirg and his skull was
fractured. Trephining was resorted to-
The boy may recover
Col. Chas. b. Wagner, personal friend
of Abraham Lincoln. and who guarded
The house to which he was carried after
being shot by Wilkes Booth died at Ala
media at the age of IS years.
| Emperor William has ordered Prof Be
gas to make His Majesty's own marble
statue for the new Hall of Glories in
Barmen, where statues of the Emperor s
ancestors are already placed
| Dickens house in Tavistock Square,
where the novelist lived nine years, en-
tertained celebrities of the day, and the
place where he wrote BLEAK House, an
other works, has been demolished
The charges of Cowardice preferred by
Minister Conger against Captain Newt. T
/ Hall. U. S. NJ. c., the second in command
Z n h.a 1atf., Co., T
siege, have been declared to be ground
less
! W. ). Robson, one of the most extern
s1ve cotton planters of Texas, has gath.
cred statistics from the Brazos and Colo.
RADIO valleys. He declares the boil weev
has destroyed s6,OoO,0OO worth of this years
cotton.
Paymaster General Bates reported te
the Secretary of War that during the
year ended June 80, 1900, ne paid to the
Army, regular and volunteer, $36, 656. 600
on the emergency fund to disband the Gu
ban army, 81 81, $50.
! Though John Sherman did not desig.
nate anyone to be his biographer it /.
supposed that Henry c. Hedges. chair
man of the speakers bureau at the Ma
tional Republican headquarters at Chi
cago, will be chosen
"A dispatch from New York, October %
stated that terrific and fatal explosions O.
SitliilCdlS SHOOK new Ork like an earth
quake. seven-story drug store wa.
hurled into the air, leaving many deaC
III the ruins. Two blocks of building.
were set on fire
The Valencia, which sailed from Nom.
on october 16, had on board Alexander
mckenzie, receiver of the Nome golc
properties, as a prisoner The Nome citi
zens went wild with joy over his arrest
He was forced to surrender the gold dust
in his possession.
The grain shortage in Russia is not
connned to the eastern provinces and ST.
IBERIA The provinces richest in cereals
are actually suffering on account of poor
harvests. Grain is forwarded ahead OF
other merchandise and grain railway
rates have been reduced.
Edouard de Reszke. Scott, the baritone
Nine. Nordica and Susan Strong arrived
from Europe in New York on October 81
Their manager, Maurice Grau, crossed
with them and seventy members of the
company. Madame Melba and L'Aoui-
taine arrived on the French steamer.