The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-09-05
NEWS OF WORLD
CONDENSED

automobile.
Business is now fairly prosperous in
Porto Rico
On August 23d the Oregon was nearly
ready for sea.
Denver's population is 1889, an In
crease of 27,146.
Carnegie denies that he will take the
stump for Bryan.
The Frazer river salmon catch is
failure this year.
Tom L. Johnson of Ohio will take the
stump for Bryan.
Lower prices for plates is booming
iron ship-building. \
Omaha's census shows decrease OF
1000 in ten years.
Hypnotism is making cures for IN
sanity at Stockton.
There is general depression in the
European markets.
Confederate General Harris died IN
England, August %.
The census of Baltimore shows sos, So',
an increase of tabs.
Governor Roosevelt is teaching box
ing to his three boys.
A large part of Geyserville, CAL, has
been destroyed by fire.
General De Wet is said to have aban-
doned most of his guns.
The Canadian telegraph line to Daw-
son is almost completed.
King Humbert's memory was honor
ed by cities of the South.
Cleveland has population of 3S1, 76S
and has passed Cincinnati.
| American Red Cross has begun work
for the Indian famine victims.
| Stevenson, for Vice President, has
been endorsed by the Populists.
The Boer General Olivier and his
three sons have been captured.
South American silver and lead is to
be smelted in the United States.
Paris horses now wear bonnets to
protect them from the suns rays.
The Duchess of Montrose has sold her
jewels to pay her husbands debts.
A. j. Sampson, Minister to Ecuador,
has returned home from the Andes.
General Wood talked to the people of
Cuba regarding their independence.
! Croker has placed Senator Edward
Murphy in charge of the campaign.
In London, on August 22d, Thomas
Faed, Royal Academician, expired.
The Southern Pacific denies that it
will give up it's Galveston terminal.
Another rich strike In the Nome
country. This time it is Hastings
creek.
A German scientist has patented
what he asserts is puncture-proof tire
filling.
Destructive storms are reported from
the districts of Stuttgart, Leipsic ant
. Rostok.
James p. Hill of San Francisco is il
prison in Guatemala, charged will
murder.
The officers of the Baltimore wer,
? banqueted at Belfast, Ireland, on Au
, gust %.
: Work on the Alviso channel has be
: gun, and the slough is now bein,
, dredged.
The steamship Ohio, from Nome
brought down treasure estimated a
Q $2,OOO.OOo.
The Chinese troubles threaten t
. seriously affects the cotton industry il
England.
Gen. ]. r. Carnahan has taken com
mand of the uniformed rank, knight
r of Pythias.
o Owing to a decrease of 100, 900 in it
:. population, Nebraska may lose on
: Congressman.
The training ship Lancaster has ar
: rived at London, and the Hartford q
Southampton.
A woman ran into a burning buildin
: and saved the life of little child q
Oakland, Cal.
A body guard of four hundred me
: will attend President Mckinley on hi
4 Chicago visit.
Joseph Chamberlains daughter, Eth
: ell, was married to Whitmore Richard
e on August %.
A nun, while en- route to this coun
n try, committed suicide from the deck o
= a French liner
: The United States has charters
:. three large steamers as transports 70
t the Philippines.
= An Alaska cannery boss, while on tn
: warpath, was shot down by the mar
= shall and killed.
An Omaha bank cashier named E. L
Balch, was beaten and robbed on
Pullman sleeper.
Six million pounds of beef on the hoo
has been ordered from Chicago for tn
Russian soldiers.
Castellane succeeded at the eleventh
: hour in raising funds and his chatea
was not auctIoned.
There Is another boom at Dawsc,
0 City, and new wharves and warehouse
are now being built.
Francois Salson, whose attempt to as
sassinate the Shah in Paris was unsuc
cessful, is an anarchist.
Carl Smith, the American sculptor
who designed the bronze statue @
Sherman, died abroad.
n Charles Williams, who sued the Sa
Francisco Call for s255,OOO damages
d was awarded one cent.
Q An American warship has been sen
s to Morocco to support claim for tn
: murder of an American
: Governor Rogers meets defeat in tn
e washington State convention, and hi
:, opponents secure control.
After vacations spent in study an
{ observation In Germany, the Stanton
s professors have returned.
a Charles A. Towne has opened tn
|, Democratic campaign in Minnesot
o with reply to Roosevelt.
: A new West Indian steamship lin
e Will run line of steamers to Hondura
and South American ports.
: A Bakersfield, California. man he
o lieves he has discovered a damon
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