The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-07-27
NEWS OF THE WORLD
IN SHORT PARAGRAPHS

The wall paper trust has collapsed.
r. G.. Dun of New York is seriously i'll.
There has been good rainfall in In
dia.
Serious fighting is expected in Minda-
mao.
Smallpox at Jackson, Cal, is under con-
troll.
Gold Democrats will not put up
ticket.
Mckinley will make no campaign
Mexicans are fighting the Yaquis in
Durango.
California's flour trade with China has
been lost.
London papers score Astor for the Mil
ne incident.
A case of yellow fever is reported at
New York.
Counterfeiters are reaping harvest IN
the Philippines.
Japan is increasing her demand Tor
American flour.
Six people have died from the heat in
New York city.
| Forty thousand soldiers Will be kept in
the Philippines.
Pierre Fontaine. an aged Oakland man,
has disappeared.
Reports from Venezuela are that the
revolution is over.
Tea may go up in price owing to the
troubles in China
Bloemfontein is to be the Federal cap
ital of South Africa.
Ex-Warden Hale of San Quentin prs
on. California, is dead.
Former Controller Ashbel +. Fitch of
New York bolts Bryan.
| Tho Union Pacific's net earnings for
1899 were over $40 200, 600.
Americans made clean sweep in the
Paris athletic contests.
Brig. Gen. T. II. Barry will be Mac
Arthur's chief of staff.
I The Christian Endeavorers of the world
are in session in London.
Mexican troops will go to the Yonda
river to flank the Mayas.
| Henrik Ibsen, the Norwegian poet and
dramatist, is seriously i'll.
] San Francisco Is agitating for a sub
way under Market street.
The Earl of Hopetown is the new Gov
ernor General of Australia.
II is stated at Cape Town that 10000
Beers will move to America.
! Champ Clark will be a candidate for
| the Senate TO succeed Vest
The stenographers of California are in
convention at San Francisco.
Senator Gear of Iowa is dead. He was
born at Ithaca, n. Y, in 1925.
The b. p. o. Elks will hold its next
annual meeting at Milwaukee.
Prof. Merrick, "a well-known scientist
has been lost on the Utah desert.
Most OF the side shows connected will
the Paris Exposition failures.
j. w. Yerkes has been nominated fol
Governor by Kentucky Republicans.
Portland exporters are suing for th'
return of duties collected at Manila.
The Goebel law will be made the Issue
lof the campaign in Kentucky this fall.
The anti-Imperialists may put thir,
ticket in the field and nominate Dewey.
The Populists and Democrats of Soutl
MI NN.. 49, .s...< ia
! A crucible steel trust has been organize,
i'm Pttsburg with a capital of $4,000, 600.
1t is rumored that Wyatt carp, the ia
nous gambler, has been killed at Nome.
Andrew Carnegie refuses to give Sc. 00
towards the restoration of the Acropolis
Major ]. C. Caperton, a prominent Ken
; tuckian, died at Chicago of heart failure
, Albert Il. White has been nominated 70
Governor by the West Virginia Republi
cans.
DIR. John Fryer of Berkeley may re
main in China, where he is high man
DARN.
l Coomassie has been relieved by tn
, column under command of Col. viii
} cocks.
: A $500 bulldog owned by Frank Crok
er, son of the Tammany boss, has bee
stolen.
Fifteen persons are known to hav
persisted in a cloudburst at Coleman
D Texas.
t The rebellion in Colombia continues br
: Panama is held by the Governmer
} troops.
George Gould wants to run for Cor
gress on the Republican ticket in Me-
Jersey.
European monarchs are not going
e the French fair though the Shah ma
= attend.
: l.. G. Tewksbury, banker of Concor,
o \. H., has disappeared and foul play
feared.
3 All grades of refined sugar have bee
advanced ten cents on the hundre
pounds.
Corbett and Mccoy are matched for
fight at Madison Square Garden. Al
gust 25th.
1t is rumored that plot to blow u
T the President Of France has bee
S thwarted.
v The trial of Caleb Powers, charge
o with completely in the Goebel murde
!, has begun.
: The German Navy il. not satisfied wit
u English canned beef and wants the Amer
e lean brand.
S Adelbert Hay, United States Consul a
Pretoria, is about to leave there fc
Washington.
Chicago Republicans will organize
e marching club of 10000 men, infantry an
z Rough Riders.
4 ! SchWelnfurth has closed his Heaven.
. married one of his angels and left III
rest to mourn
: The United States cruiser Baltimore re-
turning from Manila. is at GibraIta
awaiting orders.
Fire has destroyed the northern sec
2 ton of Prescott, Arizona, at loss {
Z 100000 to $1,000
Amalgamation of the American Feders
ton of Labor and Western Federation {
Labor is proposed.
Y There are grave fears of an Indian III
5 rising in Minnesota. Blanket Indians al
holding war dances.
, Hundreds of cattle are perishing
. Arizona and Southern California on a,
I count of the drouth
e A buoy marked Andres Polar Exped
4 ton, 1888, No. 3d. as been picked up nea
[ the coast of Iceland.
W. ;. Wright AN Indiana newspape
man, Is now Prime Minister of the r.
public OF San Domingo.
Willie Smith, the American golf chan
pion, was beaten by Harry Vardon, til
/ Englishman, at Chicago.
: The Prince of Wales wrote to s.
Berkeley Milne saying he thought A.
. tors conduct objectionable.
George Lederer and A II. Chamberlv,
: two theatrical managers. are at war owe
| the plaV s'Tha Cadet Girl