The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-04-26
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News of Coast Files Abbreviated TO,
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The transport Sumner reported at
colombian rebels have been badly
beaten.
Edmond Rostand, the playwright,
may recover.
Extensive packing plants will be
built in Mexico.
Miners at Meyrsdale, Pa, will resume
work at 80 cents a ton.
The price of steel bars at Pittsburg
has been cut IS per ton.
Ex-Congressman Colson Is on trial
! Tor murder at Frankfort, Ky.
The U. ). 5. Buffalo is to have a two
months cruise in European waters.
Terry McGovern was unable to put
out Tommy White in a six-round bout.
Seth Low has been elected president
OF the American Geographical Society.
Rev. Fay Walker, ID. D., has resigned
| the pI esidency of Oxford College, Ohio.
Hon. Sullivan NJ. Cutcheon, ex-
Speaker OF the Michigan House, is
dead.
On April Is a passenger train was
reported water bound near Quitan,
Miss.
The ingram carpet weavers of Phil
adelphia ask for a per cent increase
of wages.
Widespread suffering has occurred
in Jamaica owing to the failure OF the
banana crop.
The Government will return the
transports Tartar and Westminster to
their owners
Republicans of the Tenth Congress
sional District OF Ohio renominated
Stephen Morgan.
Benjamin Harrison will preside over
the Presbyterian Ecumenical Council
at indianapolis.
Available cash balance in the United
States Treasury April IS. $751;, 272, 574:
gold. $50, 1921.
Harry Vardon, the British golf cham
pion. defeated Fem and Shouner at
Woolaston, Mass.
The deaths from plague throughout
India in the week ending April Is were
| upwards of 1000.
Gould dealings in Wall street noint
to important railroad consultations
in the Southwest.
work has been resumed at the Gro
ton dam near New York under protec-
tion of the militia.
The last storage battery overland
line in Chicago is about to change to
the overhead trolley.
The total customs receipts OF Manila
for the three months ending with
March were S115936.
A Cairo dispatch says the bubonic
plague has made its appearance at sew
eral Red Sea ports.
Mrs. DR.. Bell Howard of Chicago.
convicted of capital crime, is dying
of cancer in Chicago.
Thirteen Catholic students were
| II hxyf ho
the Rhine near Bingen.
Frank w. Hackett of New Hamp-
shire has been nominated for Assist
ant Secretary of the Navy.
The second annual conference OF
Catholic colleges of America and Can
| ada Is in session at Chicago.
The property qualification in Louisi-
ana gave the Democrats an enormous
majority in the late elections.
The Philippine Commission may
choose a secretary from among Ameri-
can residents of the Philippines.
| Fire caused loss of about S75, 700 In
the mattress and iron bed factory Of
c. b. Rogers d Co., New York.
| The Democrats OF the Seventh Con-
gressional District OF Kansas have
nominated Claude Duval and the Pop
ulists !. p. Campbell. The Republicans
] nave IeHOuludLeu chester i. Long.
The will Of Mrs. Eliza Chrisman
leaves $250,000 for the founding OF the
University of Topeka contingent upon
the Methodist Church raising an equal
amount for the purpose in ten years.
j. G. Mccullough, ii. c. Bates, Ed
ward Wells and l.. VI. Read are Yer
mont Republican dele .. tes-at-large to
the National Republican Convention.
There is a strong expansion plank in
the platform.
American capitalists are en- route to
Russia to secure the contract for build
ing the railway from st. Petersburg to
Odessa, traversing more than half the
Empire from north to south. The road
will not cost less than 100000, 900.
Telegraphic advices from Alberta re-
port the coasting steamer ClayCquOt be-
ing picked up by the Willapa with a
broken shaft and leaking and about
three feet of water in the hold. She
had struck rough weather just of
Wreck Bay while returning from Clau-
oquot where she had been despatched
with cannery supplies. The captain and
crew made the shore with the ships
boats and were ultimately taken back
to Clayoquot town with one of the
sloops.