The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-02-01


come to the Pacific Coast at present.
A woman claiming to be Mrs. Luet-
CERT is in the hands of the Ohio police
VIM. j. Bryan is making speeches in
New York, New Jersey and Connect
cut.
Andrew Carnegie will spend vast
sums to defeat the Republicans next
year
The San Francisco Police Board has
not yet agreed on a successor to Chief
Lees.
The Federal Government will not
buy the submarine torpedo boat Hol-
land.
Afternoon New York report. Jan.
25th: Sugar-Raw, firm; refined
steady.
Archbishop Chapelle has been re-
quested by the Filipinos to remove the
friars.
A shipment of 100000 pairs of socks
is shortly to be made to Manila for the
troops.
The plague is dying out in Japan.
only a few sporadic cases being re-
ported.
The Standard Oil Company's ware
house at Portland, Ore, has been
burned.
DR.. John E. Davis, professor of math-
ematics in the Wisconsin University.
is dead.
Prof H. A. Hazen of the Weather
Bureau has been killed in a bicycle
collision.
Judge E. F. Dunno has been re-elect-
ed president of the Iroquois Club of
Chicago.
Representative Lentz asserts that
important papers in the Roberts case
are missing.
A woman at Omaha snapped a cord
in her throat by yawning and will
probably die.
A large part of the town of Ward, a
Colorado mining camp, has been de-
stroyed by fire.
Maj. Lallande, American chief of po-
lice of Guatemala, has been shot dead
by desperate.
Col. James M. Bell, U.S.A., has been
made a brigadier for his services in
the Philippines.
A Copenhagen correspondent says
America will acquire a sphere of in-
fiuence in China
1t is expected that at least ten ships
of the American Asiatic squadron viii
be ordered home.
The antitrust conference to assem-
BILE at Chicago February IL will have
over 500 delegates.
Senator Jones has given notice that
he will move to reconsider the vote on
the Samoan treaty.
Railroads west of Chicago have. al
vanced rates on 200 articles by an ay
erage of 10 per cent.
The census of Puerto Rico gives San
Juan $4,000 inhabitants and Ponce
$4,000; the island 957, 900.
Buffet dining-cars are to be added to
the equipment of Chicago's surface and
elevated street railroads.
The Chinese Government offers
| large price for the bodies of Kang Yu
| Wei and other reformers.
Rockefeller is engineering a com
bine of all gas, electric light and trac-
| ton companies in New York.
DR.. Amos G. Warner, head of the de-
partment of economics and sociology
in Stanford University, is dead.
VIM. Jameson Reid, author of
Through Unexplored ASIA" is de-
nounced as self-evident fraud.
1t is reported that Bryan has quar-
relied with Chairman Jones on the sill
yer issue and that Jones will resign.
The bubonic plague has broken cut
in Rosario, near Buenos Ayres, and
rigorous Gordon has been established
Generals Bates, Wheaton and
Schwan have occupied the principal
towns of Cavite and Batangas prov
inces.
Jamaicans have decided against Jo-
seph Chamberlain's English direct
fruit trade scheme in favor of Ameri-
can trade.
In the Swedish budget King Oscar
asks for forty-six new batteries Of ar
tillery, 100000 Mausers and 50,000,00O
cartridges.
The steamer lost with all hands in
St. Marys bay has been identified as
the German tankship Heligoland, OF
1 1868 tons.
Martin Bergen, catcher of the Boston
baseball team, murdered his wife ana
two children at their home. Insanity
is suspected.
In the Senate Mr.. Pettigrew made
violent speech, charging the President
with concealing the agreement with the
| Sultan of Jolo.
One of the regiments engaged at san
| Juan, and which lost none in Killed,
wounded or missing, has filed 4ls
claims for pensions.
King Menelek, who recently started
| for the Soudan border with a large
force, has returned to his home ana
dismissed his army.
General Otis cables that Lieut. Stock
ley. Twenty-frst Infantry, has been
missing since Jan. 18th. He was on
accommodating duty.
| Mrs. Swift, chaplain of the Thlr-