The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-27

A. X. Zeigier, the Santa Cruz, Cal,
wife murderer, has been held without
bail.
The Fresno children accused Of MUIR
dering their father, have been held for
trial. =.
The Boer Commander De Wet will
probably escape with his force OF $500
men.
San Francisco society has flocked to-
Del Monte for the goif and polo tourna-
ments.
Three men were killed and three in
jured in a boiler explosion at Portland,
Maine.
left a million dollars to found a boys
school.
The tribes Of the Touat oasis In
North Africa have submitted to the
French.
The Turtle mountain Indians in
North Dakota are having smallpox
epidemic.
Los Angeles is restrained by the
United States courts from raising wa
ter rates.
Gold bars worth ss0O0,OoO We're ship
ped from New York to Europe on Au-
gust 18th.
The terrible heat continues in the
eastern cities, and there are hundreds
of deaths.
The Norfolk navy yard is shipping
shells, powder and projectiles to San
Francisco.
! The skeleton of a mastodon has been
found at st. Lawrence Island, north of
Vancouver.
| President Diaz has sent his condo
lences to the family of the late c. p.
Huntington.
The ice trust with which Mayor Van
Wyck is said to be connected will be
! investigated.
Senator Bard of California has dis
posed Of large coal oil interests near
| Los Angeles.
! Major F. A. Whitney, Sixth United
heart disease. -
! China wants no foreign troops sent to
Shanghai. and has appealed to the
United States.
Loie Fuller, the dancer, is having
trouble with the architect of her new
theater in Paris.
! George F. Wilcox, the Santa Rosa.
Cal, wife murderer, was sentenced to
life imprisonment.
The Boer war drags on and every
one in England is anxious to Sc ii
concluded quickly.
Lord Alverstone will probably sue
coed the late Baron Russell as Eng
lands Chief Justice.
General Miles has achieved a full
dress uniform patterned on that of a
Russian field marshal.
Frank A. Stauber, a prominent bust
ness man and socialist of Chicago, has
failed. He ran a bank.
1t is reported that 10000 Filipinos are
Ilepers, and the Government is forming
plans to segregate them.
In spite of the soldiers, lawlessnesS Is
rampant at Nome. Robbers chloroforn
victims asleep in their tents.
Senator Hanna will open the Repub
lican campaign in New Jersey by max
ing speech at Asbury Park.
General Randall, in command of tn,
Department of Alaska, asks authorit,
to send out destitute persons.
The Kentucky legislature has beef
convened in extra session to modify thu
amendments of the Goebel law.
The steamer Cymric arrived at New
York with her cargo nearly burned UP
She was not seriously damaged.
George M. Hord of Chicago wante,
his wife to look at no other man blu
himself, and she sued for divorce.
1t is reported that President Kruege
has asked for an asylum in the Ameri
can consulate at Lourenzo Marquee.
An English correspondent says tina
President Kruger will contribute 81,
: 900 900 to the Bryan campaign fund.-
"Bowser," who shot the Magyar
e rapids a few weeks ago, will go i
again next month and take soundings
t The Atlin and Dominion TELEGRAPH
lines to Dawson and Fort Cudahy il
q the Yukon basin are nearing compile
ton.
: The Paris cabmen are waxing fat OF
Exposition visitors, and the Frenc
: government has stepped in to stop ex
tortion.
In lfcfa Ill 1Satxx
crowded trolley car and a horse an
l. truck, boy was killed and a man bad
ly hurt.
IS Sault Ste Marie straits have bee
blocked by the sinking of the or
n schooner Maude. About 200 boats al
delayed.
n \ large number of the Roman Cath
olic nobility of England will make
"a pilgrimage to Rome to see the Pope
October.
n Emperor William has promoted him
self to the rank Of field marshal II
: was major general when he came
the throne.
san Francisco, is to have a new tria
y The decision affecting him may affet
Mrs. Botkin.
e Actress Mabel Bouton is rayjp
maniac, possessed of an idea that 81
- has untold wealth and is about to r,
CelNe a title.
l. A steam roller ran amuck in Oaklan
and smashed into the house of L.
D. Harlow, $40 Kennedy street, doin
much damage.
Is AT Buda-Pesth the well known opei
singer, Nine. Nemethy. drank poison c
E. the stage and fell dying before the no
rified audience.
III Secretary Hay says that the Unite
States gets much more than it Civ,
Ill by the temporary boundary arrang
ment in Alaska
O. George Dixon and Mrs. Aaron J
Frost of Portland, Ore, have been a
r rested for connection with q forge
deed tranaction.
as The members Of the party which h,
been stringing the telegraph wire
2. Dawson report the loss Of large par
not far from Atlin.
rs The Japanese Minister at washin
ton complains of the treatment of h
D. countrymen at San Francisco durir
the plague epidemic.
OF There Is great distress in Porto Ri
and many natives are starving
ed death. The Government Is employir
them in building roads.
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