The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-10-24
NEWS OF WORLD
CONDENSED

NONDCiNSLOI
Kwangsi province, China, is in rebel
West Virginia car builders are on a
strike.
| Archbishop Martinelli may be made
cardinal.
A convention of coal strikers is in
progress at Scranton.
A crusade against vice has begun by
churches in New York.
Part of the Sixth Cavalry has left
China for the Philippines.
7 Stockton, Cal. mill hands may join
the San Francisco strikers.
I On the steamship America ], 400 cigars
were seized at San Francisco.
| a new steamer line is projected be-
tween Vancouver and Skagway.
Half a regiment of marines has been
sent from China to the Philippines.
1 A race horse at Covelo, Cal, ran into
crowd and seriously injured one man.
| Two Filipino judges have been found
guilty of fraud, and may be removed.
| Two street cars met in collision at
Seattle, Wash. but no one was injur
I ed.
w. ]. Watson, an engineer, was kill
ed in head-end collision near Denver,
! Col.
/ The Second Regiment, California Ma
tional Guard, is in camp at Marys-
vile.
The Ministerialists have gained two
seats in the British House of Com
mons.
Mrs. NJ. E. Ritter of Randsburg, Cal,
attempted to kill DR.. Nichols of that
place.
Jesse r. Grant, a son of ex-President
u. S. Grant, has gone over to the Dem
ocrats.
Edwin Hawley denies having been of
fered the presidency of the Southern
Pacific.
Mrs. Philip Hardy, wife of London
business man, committed suicide in
Chicago.
California is paying the sum of sS1, 900
each six months for the support of half
orphans.
General Butler is expected to leave
Cape Town the last of this month for
England.
Many Chinese have been decapitated
/ in South China and there is great dis
affection.
/ The steamer City of Seattle has ar
rived at Seattle with $4,000 in gold
from Nome.
c. Z. Jones, Southern Pacific brake
man, was run over and fatally injured
at Suisun, Cal.
Clyde Bishop, a prominent Democrat
of Santa Ana Valley, Cal, has come
j out for Mckinley.
Gen. George w. Davis, commanding
in Porto Rico, advises the reduction ..
| the military force there.
! DIR. Robert T.. Pierce, a prominent
physician of San Jose, Cal, has brouGA,
suit for divorce from his wife.
Typnus fever is raging in the Sixty
eighth Infantry at CoblentZ, and also
in the garrisonS at Saarbruken.
At the Newmarket races, October IL,
American jockeys rode the winners. Joe
Gilman was ridden by Tod Sloan.
First Lieutenant Robert Brakeman,
Forty-ninth United States Volunteer
Infantry, has died in the Philippines.
Daring thieves stole bundle of let
tiers from mail bag at the Southern
Pacific depot at San Luis Obispo, Cal.
Prison guards OF San Quentin had a
fierce battle with the waves in a small
boat off Point San Quentin, but escap
led.
William Rockefeller, the Standard Oil
magnate, will not be taken to Texas to
answer charges of violating antitrust
laws.
San Jose, Cal, wants local option.
The miners held at San Quentin
prison for the Idaho riots have been
released.
General Edward S. Bragg, a lifelong
Democrat, and Minister to Mexico I'M
der Cleveland, has gone over to the Re-
lpublicans.
Adolph Ottinger a ticket broker OF
San Francisco, has been sued for $50, 00(
, damages for defamation of character
by h. II. Duffin.
Lora Lambert, a factory girl of Sar
Francisco had the entire scalp tori
from her head by catching her hair in
a whirling shaft.
Rear Admiral Silas Casey has beer
. selected to succeed Rear Admiral Kaut;
as commander of the Pacific station up
on the latter's retirement.
|, Admiral Sampson is not seriously i'll
although in poor physical condition. H
is feeling weak from his strenuous
: campaign during the Spanish war.
l President Jordan of Stanford Univer
T sity addressed large crowds of Berkele,
students on the legal conditions which
: may make Stanford pay heavy taxes.
There is big scandal at the Prestol
: School of Industry. Superintendent
Hirshberg is unable to control the boys
and there is much crime among the in
mates.
Thomas Nelson Page has been drive
to Europe. His recent criticism of New
port and New York society resulted i
). the social ostracizing of himself an
= family
e The South African League fayors
g preferential tariff on British manufaC
% lures. and adopted a resolution in on
position to the Dutch language bein
3 abandoned.
e The challenge of Sir Thomas Lipto
: for another series of races for the Am
n erica's cup has been received by til
Is New York Yacht Club and is now unde
- consideration
The securities valued at 357 900 lir
stolen from the Vatican previous
FEBRUARY last, were sold in that mont
e on the Paris Bourse. They were stolel
IS 1t is asserted by order of an Italia
" capitalist
q Educators are strong for Mckinley
ticket. a poll of the western college
- and universities resulted in a large ma
Ie tority of Republicans. Four professor
d OF the University of Chicago announ,
Ie ed they would not vote.
a New Yorker will send two ships
q search of the north pole The exped
:, uon Will be in charge of Evelyn
BALDWIN, who was a companion ,
: Peary in 1898 and 1894, and also a men
Der of Walter Wellman's expedition.
The French balloon, Centaure, ira,
eled over a thousand miles, carryir
n two passengers. Comte Henri de
d Vauix and Comte Castilion de Sal,