The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-04-24

Dewey has agreed to the plans OF
Chicagoans for a grand demonstration
in his honor.
J. Sloat Fassett has secured a grant
of 5000 square miles OF gold-bearing
land in Corea.
Attempts to perform the Passion
Play in New York have been thwarted
by the police.
Secretary Dick of the Republican
National Committee defends the Porto
Rico tariff bill.
A party OF German sovereigns will
visit Emperor Francis Joseph on his
10th birthday.
Leon Gaget has been arrested in
Paris charged with having relations
with Germany.
The Earl of Yarmouth may manage
the theater at Newport, X. l.. during the
coming season.
The Pope has decided that Catholic
bodies. the world over. shall take no
part in politics.
IL is reported that Mrs. Dewey has
left the Catholic Church and become
an Episcopalian.
The railroads are planning to settle
| 20O, 900 immigrants between Chicago
and the Rockies.
The revolt in the Cameroons Is be-
ing quelled by the influence Of Ameri-
can missionaries.
Senator Stephen 4. White may be a
candidate for Vice President on the
| Democratic ticket.
Eighty-eight per cent of the Ameri-
1 can death rate i'm the Spanish war Is at
| tributed TO disease.
Buddha's birthday was celebrated in
San Francisco at the Buddhist Mission
on the Sth instant.
Chief officer johnson OF the steam
er Reporter lost his life in a heavy gale
of San Francisco.
Grover Cleveland may become
member OF the New Jersey Fish and
Game Commission.
Secretary Long wants attendance at
Annapolis Increased to provide for
more naval officers.
Intense heat generated by an inven-
ton tested in New York melts steel as
though IL were wax.
Burglars stole $50 900 worth OF jewels
and other property from the house of
o. w. Potter, Chicago.
The United States may have to use
force to make turkey pay the $4,000
missionary indemnity.
a member OF the Democratic National
| Committee has asked Dewey 10 declare
Stockton has won two games out OF
the series OF baseball matches between
that team and Oakland.
Typhoid fever swept Nome City
| during the winter. There were 300
cases ans thirty deaths.
Coomassie, the Ashanti capital, is
surrounded by natives and the British
are marching to its relief.
Swindler Miller of Brooklyn has been
4 found guilty of larceny. Miller ran the
/ $40 per cent interest bank.
United States ships are stationed at
several places on the Asiatic coast
ready for the expected war.
Civil government will begin on July
/ l in the Philippines with the Taft Com
mission In supreme control.
| Rufus Wright, Chicago millionaire,
was fatally shot in hotel OF that city
by woman. Mrs. Lothridge.
General and Mrs. Ballington Booths
son. William, has had his name chang
ed to Charles Brandon Booth.
James Murray may secure the Mon
tana Senatorship If Clark's seat u de-
clared vacant, as seems likely.
The Government has bought the sub
marine boat Holland and contracted for
other vessels OF the same type.
j A strike OF Italians on the New York
waterworks has led to bloodshed. one
militiaman having been killed.
On the voyage to Valparaiso the L. s.
s. Hartford's engines worked badly and
she had to depend on her sails.
The Senate Committee on Privileges
and Elections has made a unanimous
report against Clark of Montana.
The British cruiser Arethusa. arrlv-
ing at Victoria, b. c.. reports seeing
I -.
The Picking government has sent
\ 1000 troops against the Boxers. most of
whom are members OF that society.
British surveyors on the Burmah
/ border have been attacked by Chinese
on the Burmah border and defeated.
The historic church OF Notre Dame
des Vertus in the outskirts OF Paris
was pillaged and burned by vandals.
! Mystery still surrounds the death OF
\ F. w. Kreling. whose body was wash
ed ashore at Berkeley, Cal, recently.
| Charles Ingersoll, the defaulting
/ treasurer OF Tompkins county, y. Y,
has fled. He was under $4,000 bonds.
Sparrows building nests in Oakland
garrets, containing matches with straw
and tow are responsible for recent
| fires.
! Melbourne Macdowell broke down AT
Sioux City during a performance OF
Fedora" and had to be taken from the
stage.
| Mckinley has interceded in Dew
ey's behalf and recommends that the
/ Admiral be paid for extra services rem
dered.
a Barcelona dispatch says the steam
! ship Montevldeo from Manila, devel-
oped three cases OF bubonic plague en-
route.
Relentless guerilla warfare is being
waged on the Island OF Luzon; the in
surgents give the troops but little
/ peace.
A scheme Is preached in Minneapolis
/ to combine all the farmers OF the world