The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-10
WORLDS NEWS
CONDENSED
ohm Clark Ridnatb Is dead.


Smallpox is subslding at Dawson.
The negro riots in New Orleans are
over.
Bryan will manage his own cam
paign.
Typhoid and pneumonia prevail at
Nome.
The Ashantis have suffered another
defeat.
The Philippine tariff is being re-
framed.
The cost of the Boer war may reach
ESQ, 900 600.
Taxes are soaring in England owing
Great forest fires are burning near
Los Angeles.
a son of Senator Pettigrew has join
ed the Beers.
Fire has caused $4,000 damages at
Buckley, Wash.
Serious anti-Jewish riots have oc-
Cured at Odessa.
The French war office has been en-
tirely reorganized.
The pension roll increased last year
by over q, 900 names.
Roger Walcott will succeed Draper as
ambassador to Italy.
1t Is now reported that Aguinaldo has
been badly wounded.
Gen. De Pellieux, prominent In the
Dreyfus case, is dead.
The Navy Department asks for bids
on six modern cruisers.
A lodge of Lady Elks is to be estab-
lished In San Francisco.
The Coast has received s10,000,000 this
season from the Klondike.
| Corbett will fight Mccoy at Madison
Square Garden, August 80.
| Speakers in Cork believe the time is
ripe for an Irish rebellion.
! Rebels have been defeated by Gov
eminent forces in Yucatan.
Cincinnati has a population of 325, 902.
/ The city had claimed 400, 600.
About 1000 Beers have surrendered
in the Orange River Colony.
| Quarantine stations are to be located
at Nome and Dutch Harbor.
The Vanderbilts have got control of
the Wabash railroad system.
The battleship Oregon Is reported by
Captain Wilde TO be structurally in
tact.
A street car was struck by lightning
at Toledo, Ohio. and ten persons were
hurt.
Reports come from Mexico that 5000
1 Maya Indians have defeated Mexican
troops.
General Prinsloo, with 5000 men, has
surrendered Internationally, to the
British.
North Carolina has adopted a white
supremacy amendment, eliminating the
negro vote.
Samoan native chiefs of Tutuila have
transferred their possessions to the
United States.
No more cigarette smokers will be
employed in Swift & Co.'S big packing
house at Chicago.
Ballard Smith, the well known jour-
nalist, Is dead. His last days were
spent in an asylum.
General Smith-Dornen repulsed the
Beers on July 31st, who attacked while
demanding his surrender.
Ruins of an ancient city, intersected
by broad streets, have been discovered
on the shores of Lake Lobnor, In
Thibet
The President of Nicaragua announc-
ed that the Cragin-Eyre canal syndi-
cate has succeeded to the rights of the
Maritime Company
The request of Chief Joseph and the
Nez Perces to be returned to their
home in Eastern Oregon, will be refus-
ed, as the country is occupied by set
tiers.
The cost of the rebellion In Colombia
is estimated at 600 lives, the Lieberars
being the heaviest losers. Panama
streets are strewn with dead and
wounded
Machinists. blacksmiths, boiler max
ers. filters, laborers and locomotive
painters on the Canadian Pacific have
struck on the line between Lake Su-
perior and the Pacific Coast
Richard Combs, witness in the Goebel
case, says that Mason Hockersmith was
offered $1,000 to kill Goebel and showed
how 1t could be done from a window In
the office of the Secretary of State.
Christopher and Margaret O'Neill OF
Pittsburg, with their five children, have
arrived at st. Louis in wagons. They
are searching for a year-old child who
disappeared more than year ago.
Aycock (Dem.) has been elected Gov.
ernor of North Carolina by nearly so 0OC
majority. The Legislature which will
choose a successor to Senator Butte,
(Pop), will be four-fifths Democratic
! In both branches.
The Duke of Sake Coburg and Coths
IPrince Alfred. second son of Queer
| victoria, Is dead. He was a victim n,
, alcoholism, and had a cameron,
growth at the root of his tongue. He
VIII be succeeded by the Duke of All.
oany, whose German subjects. how.
ever. are critical of his English blood
An amusing incident in connection
with the coming marriage of King All.
: exander of Servia is, that the weddine
has been postponed because the Ser.
Wan throne is in Paris, whittier 1t wa.
sent to embellish the Servian exhibit
ton. So the throne has been packed
back to Belgrade as quickly as posi-
bic, and the wedding is timed for any
day before Sunday. The royal couple
are coming to Paris in the course Of
their wedding trip.
The American rights for THE Littlt
, Minister" which, in its dramatizec
version. is said to have PLAYED to ovel
100000 in this country, were sold by
the author. James Matthew Barrie o.
London, for e20 or about 500. to Johr
W. Lowell of New York. The owner
!. ship of the copyright eventually passed
into the hands of the Publishers Plate
Renting Company of New York. anC
now that company Is suing to get {
slice Of the enormous earnings Of thu
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