The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-11-08
TELEGRAPHlC NOTES.

An order was issued October 20 by
direction of the President disseminating
the division of Cuba and the eastern
and western departments of that divi-
sion and establishing the Department
of Cuba.
The syndicate formed In New York
to build the new cup boat will rush
work on the yacht, but the personnel
of its owners is still withheld from the
public.
The Chinese Mutual Protection So
ciety of the Hoping district has offered
$4,000 for the head of DR.. Sager of the
American Board of Missions, and $4,000
each for the heads of Rev. S. G. Tope,
British missionary; DR.. Graves and
DR.. Beattle.
London witnessed an extraordinary
spectacle at the reception to the City
Imperial Volunteers October 2S. Four
thousand police and $4,000 troops were
unable to preserve order. Several per-
sons were killed and hundreds injured.
Norman MacColl, NJ. A, the noted
English editor, will retire from the
editorship of the Athenaeum on Janu-
airy 1. For thirty-one years he con-
trolled the Journal. The Outlook says:
He knows perhaps more than any
man living of books and their authors"
1t is proposed to add six big battle
ships, submarine boats, torpedo, cruis-
ers, armed Golfers and repair steamers
to the number of forty to Uncle Sans
fleet.
Edward Dewey, brother of Admiral
Dewey, is dead. He was II years old.
He served in the Civil War as Quarter
master of the Eighth Vermont Regi-
ment.
A conflict between twenty-one armed
Carlists and a detachment of Gend-
armes occurred near Badalona October
70. The chief of the Carlists was kill
ed and another man was wounded.
An old telegraph line has been dis
covered in Alaska showing traces of
the intercontinental wire which was
projected and actually begun to con-
meet North America with Europe by
way of Siberia.
MADEIRA, California, boasts 1t has the
longest fiume in the world. The Sugar
Pine Company's mill is also said to be
one of the biggest mills in the world.
A despatch from Helena, Mont. Oc-
tober 20, states, that Northern Pacific
train No. 4, east bound, was derailed
at De Hart. Seven are dead and many
other passengers badly crushed.
Lucky Baldwin has returned from
Nome. His principal mine adjoins
Charles d. Lanes which cost 5000. 600.
Baldwin expects his property to pan
out as well.
The Robert Dollar brought 81, 900, 900
In gold down from Nome and reached
Seattle safely October 80 She had $50
passengers on board.
DE Lamare, the Frenchman who I'M
dertook to ride from Skagway to Daw-
son on an automobile, reached Van
couver October 20. He owns numerous
claims on Boulder Creek He brought
out $500 chunk of gold ore.
Inc Nebraska farmers will put in their
wallets this fall the largest sum of money
ever received from a harvest in the State.
.ne value or the four staples reaching
The San Francisco Call. October q.
states: Should negotiations in Picking fail
TO produce satisfactory results within 2
reasonable time, the United States will
urge the reference of the matters in ais
pute to the International Court of Arbi-
rtration at The Hague.
a speclai dispatch to the Chronicle. dat
quarters there is felt to be some sipnif
canoe In the fact that France. Russia and
Japan, as well as the United States. have
not yet accepted the invitation to accent
the principles of the Anglo-German alli-
ance.
From Peking, October q, comes the
news that Prince Ching and Lii Hung
Chang have separately urged the Emper-
or to return to the capital. but no deci-
sion has yet been made.