The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-10-10
NEWS OF WORLD
CONDENSED

There Is a shortage of tea in Japan.
' Two Of Galveston's banks have reop-
ened.
plague-
Is dead.
There 10 an increase Of yellow fever
in Cuba
The Nome City storm cost that place.
81 900 900.
The smallpox epidemic at Nome Is
subsiding. =.
Germany's duty on wheat is likely to
be increased.
Irtemperance Is gaining among wom-
San Francisco may put in postal
pneumatic tubes.
Bryan has been stumping Nebraska
in an automobile.
Workmen are pouring into Galveston
to rebuild the city.
A championship golf congress Is In
session at Chicago.
Wild fowl are unusually plentiful In
California this fall:
Governor Roosevelt Is having a great
reception in Nebraska
John Ostenius, an old Chicago musi-
clan and inventor, is dead.
American firemen are far in the lead
at Paris fair competitions.
The Prince of Wales has engaged Tod
Sloan to ride for him in 1901.
Eighty thousand pilgrims saw the
Pope on September % and 20.
The population of Los Angeles Is
102, 479, as against 0,395 in 1890.
Clement Scott Is to issue a new week.
ly In London, the Free Lance.
The steamship Robert Dollar may
have been lost off the Alaskan coast.
senator. Stewart of Nevada says Bry-
ans influence Is waning in the West.
Roberts has given notice that Beers
who surrender will not be deported.
Col II. A. Trevelyan of Fresno. CAL,
a survivor of the Light Brigade, is dead
Mary Anderson Navarro lately APP
peared in opera in London for charity.
The National Association Of Demo-
cratic clubs Is in session at Indianapo-
lis,
! Harvard Is thought to have the best
chance at the lawn tennis champion
ship
Actor Sothern was injured in a stage
duel at New York, foil piercing his
foot. 15~
: Lawyer John NJ. Chretien Of San
Francisco has been found guilty of for
gerry.
Electric cars are likely to supplant
cable cars on Market street. San Fran
cisco.
Former President Harrison, wife and
daughter, have gone to the Adiron-
dacks.
Formal announcement is made of the
departure of the Russian legation from
Picking.
Japan is vexed at the subordinate
position given her In the peace nego-
tiationa
A New York millionaire has arranged
n have the Passion Plqv rpnrodnCod in
America.
Henry Miller, the actor, has been
forced by throat trouble to leave his
company.
Charles Ierkes of Chicago will in
vest millions in London underground
railroads.
Stanford University is to have a hos
pitai for the care OF sick or injured
members.
In the maneuvers off Newport the
torpedo boats won the fight against the
warships.
Kitchener. for services In South Afri-
ca, Is likely to get the local rank of
full general.
Rev. DIR. T. De Witt Talmage is trav-
cling and occasionally preaching in
Great Britain.
One hundred and fifty square miles
of Sonoma county. Cal, have been
swept by fire.
The case of Henry Youtsey, charged
with completely In the Goebel murder,
is now on trial
A great review Of British troops was
held at Komatipoort in honor of the
King of Portugal.
The Southern Pacific Railroad has or
dered 1000 new cars and Al new engines
to handle freight.
The Belgian Dutch are making extern
sive preparations for the reception of
President Kruger.
General Miles renews his recommen-
dalton for the further use of the auto
mobile in the army.
General Baden-Powell will command
1900 police in the Transvaal and Or
ange River colony.
Won Waldersee will make his head
quarters in one of the imperial palaces
of the Forbidden City.
Actor Hackett has left Frohman be-
cause of the latter's refusal to let him
play Richard Carvel."
Miss Bessie Macdonald, the Chicago
opera singer, will wed the titled nephew
of the late Baron Hirsch.
Lieutenant Hobson says he was mis-
quoted at Seattle, and that he had no
desire to reflect on Dewey.
The Santa Fe Railroad Company is
providing free scientific and economic
lectures for it's subordinates.
New York business men are making
a clause I'm all contracts declaring them
void in case Bryan is elected.
a large and wealthy Southern Cali
fornia family have moved to Argen-
tina, where they have taken up land.
The New York Herald's careful Doll
of States Indicates that Mckinley will
have an electoral vote of 25S and Bry-
an 16S.
Edmond Rostand and others have
sued Richard Mansfield for an account
ing OF his royalties on "Cyrano de Ber-
gerac."
There Is an abundance of wild berries
on the hills about Dawson, and Indians
are bringing them In for sale at 81. SO
per quart.
The outbreak of a submarine volcano
In the Gulf of Mexico is reported by all
incoming British tramp steamer at
New York
Ntvisection Is sport for women in
France. society parties In Paris being
formed to witness the mutilatfon of
living animals.
Five and one-third billions of postal
cards, stamps and stamped envelopes
were sold In the United States during
the last fiscal year.
Rev. t. f. Clark. the father of the
christian Endeavor movement. who has
lately been in China, thinks that coun-
try should be partitioned
Census returns show that the nro
rata gains of the largest cities of the
United States are about what thew
were In the previous ten years.
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