The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-09-13

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adler generals.
Governor Roosevelt has left on his
speechmaking tour, which viii extend
as far as Salt Lake.
The soda works of the Stephen Paden
Company, of Chicago, were destroyed
by fire. Loss, $4,000.
Thomas Moore jackson, nephew of
Stonewall Jackson, has declined a West
Virginia Democratic nomination.
The transport Argyll sailed for Ma
Mia. from Portland, Ore, September 1,
with a cargo of supplies for the army.
Lord Ampthill private secretary to
Joseph Chamberlain, succeeds Sir Ar
thur Havelock as Governor of Madras.
At latest Geographic advices the Good
Samaritan Hospital at Portland Ore,
was on fire, and many lives were i'm
perilled.
The transports Garonne and PAX
Ling. with two squadrons of the. First
Cavalry aboard, reached Nagasaki on
August go
The freshman class at Stanford Uni
versity will be very large this year.
Numerous changes have been made in
/ the faculty.
Acting Secretary of State Adee de-
clares the stories of friction between
Hay and President Mckinley to be to-
/ tally untrue.
I The BralIamer copper mines on Howe
Sound, near Vancouver, have been sold
to English capitalists. The price paid
was 100000.
I Representative Holland, of Frank
/ fort. Ky, introduced bill in the House
| to repeal the Goebel election law, and
/ to enact a new one.
made many people think II. T.. Hunt
/ ington will succeed his uncle, the late
Coils p. Huntington.
Robert Louis Stevenson's novel,
Prince Otto" in dramatized form is
Ia success in New York, with Otis Skin
ner in the title role.
! The reform plan for the higher
schools of Prussia, now adopted, rem
ders the study of English obligatory,
but only in the higher classes.
Governor Roosevelt and Colonel Bry-
an both spoke at the Labor Day dem
onstration at Chicago. The Governor
spoke first, and Mr.. Bryan followed.
The consolidation of the Northwest
ern Life Assurance Company of Chica-
go, with the Mutual Reserve Fund Life
! Association of New York, is announced.
The North German Lloyd steamer
Kaiserin Maria Theresa, on her home
i trip, succeeded in sending message a
hundred kilometers by wireless tele-
| graph.
The letter carriers are in national
| convention at Detroit. They are dis
cussing a pension bill to be provided for
by deducting a percentage from their
salaries.
Lieutenant Roy L. Arnold of the
Twenty sixth United States Volunteers
belonging to Winterport, Maine, was
drowned in the Dumazuas river, Iloilo
September /.
Forty-four cotton mills at Fall River
Mass, operated by twenty-four corpor-
atoms. shut down on September 1, I'M
til September 10. These mills employ
1880 hands.
NJ. Henri Regnier, the French sym
bolist poet, referred to the late Coils
p. Huntington as the Nations ideal,
and placed him on a plane higher than
the great artists.
The Navy Department has called for
bids for constructing the five battle
ships authorized by the acts of 1899 and
1900. November Is is fixed as the date
for opening the bids.
Elaborate precautions are being TAX
en- to guard the Kaiser against assas-
sination, the main precautions being
against Italians, although all strangers
are viewed suspiciously.
The Fresno Fruit Packers Associa-
ton have sent out printed circulars
calling for female labor. With the
railroads an arrangement has been
made for a two-thirds fare.
Sidney Grundy's new five-act play
"A Debt of Honor" was produced in
l. %
August 81, and the chief honors for act
ing were taken by Fay Davis.
The steamer Samoa, under charter to
the German government, will carry 73l
horses to China for the German army
/ The steamers Bosnia, Nurnberg and
Alicia, are also under charter.
The twenty-fourth anniversary of the
accession to the throne of the Ottoman
empire of Sultan Abdul Hamid II, was
celebrated in Constantinople September
l, with great pomp and ceremony
Fred Hines the boy murderer of
Fresno, Cal, was arraigned on Septem-
Der l, and his trial set for the 18th in
slant. He seems to have no sense OF
appreciation of the terrible charge.
a so-called National party has been
organized in the Eastern States. Its
platform calls for gold standard and
civil service reform, and is opposed tc
Imperialism and special privileges.
:. The California Cured Fruit Associa-
ton have finally fixed upon prune pri-
ces. The packers met on the same day
and reelected as permanent officers the
temporary officers of the organization
The new ruler of -Coburg-Got
Is but sixteen years old. During his
minority the regency will be held by
Prince Ernest of Hohenlohe-L angen-
burg, son in law of the late Prince
Alfred.
Captain Malcolm Hogarth, who as.
sisted his brother, Captain Archie Ho-
garth, the skipper of Sir Thomas Lip
tons yacht to sail that boat in the las,
contest has been drowned In Milford
Haven.
} Although no orders have been sen,
out from the Navy Yard regarding the
oregon. 1t Is generally believed she Will
be sent to Yang-tse to contribute to.
ward the protection of the transport
service.
The heavy fogs have materially aided
the fire fighters in quenching the flames
In the mountain forests about Los An.
geles. Commissioner Border returned tc
Pasadena and reported the fires prac.
tically over.
The monthly statement of the Direc-
tor of the Mint shows that during Au.
gust the total coinage at the United
States minis was $7,77416 as follows,
Gold $5.505, 900; silver 1886, 600; minor
coins s1SS,16
A serious conflagration occurred al
Guaymas, Mexico. A building covering
a whole block, and the largest of its
kind on the west coast of Mexico, was
burned at loss of over a quarter of a
million dollars
Many miles of cars are loaded with
wheat at Kansas City, and the rail-