The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-03-06


Oriental commerce
The japanese Minister to the United
.y,ates, Kcmrra, has been appointed
Minister to Russia.
g. f. Cook, who commanded the
Lafayette escort militia in New YorN
in 1924 lately died.
Surgeon General woodruff accuses
Philippine soldiers of manning them
selves TO escape duty.
J. Tod Sloan, the jockey. Is return
ing to England and will ride his first
race on March oath.
The Paris and Orleans railway have
ordered thirty ten-wheel passenger en-
gines of the Baldw.ns.
In a class singles tournament Of the
California Tennis Club George Whit
ney won the first class.
The San Francisco Health Board
must close many departments on ac-
count Of lack Of funds.
Philip d. Armour, Jr., who died In
California, left his fortune Of SS.OOO,OOO
/ to his wife and children.
Countess Marie POnnisda. of
| Vienna. 16 years old, rich and beauti-
| full. has entered nunnery.
The Paris exposition grounds will
be guarded by 500 of the Republican
1 VI.
! France threatens Slams independ-
| ence. Germany Is watching Frances
movements in that locality.
E. J. Phelps, formerly Minister tol
England. has suffered a serious re-
lapse, and will not recover.
The Democratic National Convention
will meet in Kansas City on July to
select a presidential candidate.
/ As soon as possible miners at CapeI
Nome will prospect below low water
mark to find the mother lode.
The Senate Committee on Military
| Affairs has refused to restore Lieut..
Flepper (colored) to the army.
There is an epidemic of grip In Ber-
lin which has attacked Princess Fred
d erick Charles and Other nosables.
The Carnegie Compa-y Is charged
, with robbing stockholders of a coke
company of which 1t has control.
The Yakima Indians have just
closed a seven day medicine dance near
Tacoma with self-inflicted fortunes.
Five Of a family of seven were
= killed by their carriage being run INFO
( by locomotive near Geneva, n. Y.
, Gen. Otis has sent requisition for
1000 pairs OF handouts. They are sup
posed to be needed for insane soldiers.
1 germany Will dllOW
| doctors to practice without a special
permit from the general government.
According to the Daily Telegraph
London the Russian General KurO-
Datkin would have the Car seize He
rat.
oil Lily Langtry's concert and reception
in New York in aid of the American
Red Cross ship Maine, was big sue
cess.
, Jockey Tod Sloan has cancelled All
agreements to ride for Lord Bsresford
n or the Prince Of Wales N England this
year.
n The Uganda Railway Telegraph line
has now established communication
I between London and the sources of the
Nile.
- San Francisco merchants may form
a Pacific Coast branch Of the Ameri-
+ can Asiatic Branch Association OF New
York.
:. The reciprocal convention between
Jamaica and the United States hai
10 been approved by the former govern
ment.
n Justice Horace Gray of the Supreme
Bench of the United States may retire
10 Former Secretary of State Day may
succeed.
o. New York Catholics ask that clergy
of all denominations be permitted L
,o instruct their followers in the public
schools.
Chicago suffered in the grip of
blizzard the last week in February
The thermometer was 10 degrees BE
~ low zero.
in The President of Harvard say
m church attendance is falling of al
ia over the country except among tn
Catholics
as At Paris the International Cyclists
IS. ! Association admitted the National Cy
co cling Association of the United State
Is. 20 membership.
v The arrangements for issuing tn
3. new two per cent Londs cannot be ca
ny led out until after the currency bi
Sc becomes a law.
be An English shipyard has just com
100 pleted the Japanese battleship Shiki
shima. She Is of 1859 tons and has
in crew of al men.
ts- Dan Rice and Harry Miner. both not
ed showmen, died in New York on Fen
lol ruary 22nd. Miner a millionaire an
100 Rice poor man.
General John McNulta, famous a
he the great American receiver, is deaC
at He was one Of the most noted of cor
poration lawyers.
ed John P. Cunning. Of Botkin cas-
he fame, has returned to San Franeisc
from Manila, where he was Associate
ISIS Press correspondent.
iii The Swedish mail steamer Re
stranded on the German coast. Ffv
led stewardesses were drowned in attempt
m ing to leave the ship.
Professor Joseph lie Conte. tn
the noted scientist OF the University
nm California has celebrated the nth an
niversary of his birth.
M A new trans-continental railros
~, from the Western grain bets to Gu
bee Is TO be built and connected by
snort line to Liverpool.
Zorvaster beat Geyser on the Sa
~ Francisco track before 5000 peopl
Zorvaster was to 2. F. W. Brode Wa
- beaten badly in the race.
Vi Lucheni. who killed the Empress
III Austria and is serving a life sentenc
III tried to kill a director OF the prise