The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-02-08

GA1OCo.
Edward ]. Phelps, former Minister
TO England, is seriously i'll with pneu- I
monia at New Haven, Conn.
An Italian girl has been released I
from Turkish harem at the demand I
OF her country's ambassador
t'orty-eight Fraser River salmon |
Gamers formed combine in order to |
meet Puget Sound competition
Two deaths and much suffering have |
been caused by cold snap in Chicago. !
The mercury was s below zero.
sugar-Raw, strong; fair refining.
&c; centrifugal, SO test, 7-16c: mo-
lasses sugar, 8 S-4c: refined firm
The Paris Figaro has brought a
counter suit for damages against Count
Boni Castellane for 100000 francs
A Colorado murderer named Thomas
Reynolds was taken from the hands of
officers and lynched on Jan. 9th.
A plot to destroy the Suey Sing Tong
headquarters by dynamite has been
frustrated by the San Francisco police.
Butler may attempt to relieve Lady
smith by turning the east flank of the
Boer army that has twice defeated his
force.
The rebel armies in Luzon have been
| scattered by the American troops and
| thelr forces reduced to maranding
bands.
1 Mrs. Matte Rich has been sentenced
at Ell Paso, Tex, to fourteen years in
| the penitentiary for the murder of her
| husband.
A collection of art works valued at
100000 has been presented to the Chi
eago Institute by Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel
Nickerson.
Premier Semlin of British Columbia
denies that the Alien Exclusion Act
has caused heavy American losses in
the mines.
Red Cross nurses are trying to Sc
cure the passage of a bill providing
for the employment of women in army
hospitals.
The Philadelphia is In dock pre-
iparatory to her trip to Pago-Pago with
the new Governor and a detachment
lof marines.
l The British War Office discredits
the st. James Gazette's dispatch about
Buller having crossed the Tugela on
Ia return trip.
First Vice-President Morton of the
Santa Fe Railway Company is in con-
ference with the California fruit men
las to routing
Charles E. Macrum, formerly United
Estates Consul at Pretoria, sailed from
southampton in the st. Paul on the
9th of January.
The British steamer Expedient ran
down and sunk a harbor steamer near
Altoona, Germany. Thirty workmep
we're drowned.
The National American Woman Suf-
tfrage Association met on ousan B. Az
thongs eightieth birthday and received
her resignation.
A play written by the German EN-
! peror, called "The Iron Tooth" was
presented at the Royal Theater. Ber-
l lin, January Goth.
/ Ruth A. Condo, daughter of Million
aire Swift Condo of Utica, N. Y. has
Seioped with son of Col. Chas. II.
/ Thorn Of that city. m
The transport Senator arrived in
San Francisco Jan. 80 with eighty-one
kconvalescent and seventeen. insane SOL
Idiers from Manila.
Reports from Samoa are that Ger
man annexation is regarded with in
| creasing disfavor by Americans. Brit
ish and the natives.
/ c. F. Cole, formerly president of the
Globe National Bank, is charged with
Eembezzling 100000. He was arrested
and released on bail.
I A plan is being perfected in Wash
ington to sell postage stamps in book
form at the same price now paid for
loose stamps in sheets.
| A report has reached London that
the Boer shell factory at johannesburg
was destroyed on January 20. The loss
lis stated as irreparable.
| Sir Campbell has assail-
| ed the British ministry, bitterly con-
tdemning its method of dealing with the
South African problem.
Albert Goebel, cousin of the wounded
Ikentuckian, nearly lost his life at Chi
Icago by fall from a train while suf-
fering from heart disease.
1t is reported that the Chinese boy
Emperor Kwang Su committed suicide.
but there is general belief in Shang-
hal that he was murdered.
General Otis reports that the rebel
forces Of Manila are disintegrating and
ARE now little better than robber bands
Epreying on peaceful natives.
Henry Wohler, an old South Sea
navigator and commander of the new
missionary schooner La Croix du Sud
died in San Francisco Jan. 80.
There is a decided opposition in the
House to the resolution giving Miss
Helen Gould the thanks of Congress.
She will probably get a medal.
United States experts have officially
reported against sixty out of 800 sam
piles of tea admitted through New
York as unfit to be used as tea.
Salisbury was attacked in the House
of Lords, Rosebery demanding inform
alton as to the intentions of the Gov
eminent regarding the campaign.
The National Association of Masters
and Pilots has adopted resolutions IA
voring the construction of the Mica
ragua canal by the Government
A fierce storm swept the Atlantic
coast on the 26th ult., reaching a We
locity of seventy-six miles an hour,
doing much damage to shipping.
/, The Washington administration is
said to have receded from its colonial
nOSitiO0 and that nominal dutios ara