The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-29


Roger Wolcott. the new Embassador
to Italy, is dead
The new ruling on reservoir sites is
of interest to-the West.
Ambassador to France Porter bas
not and will not resign.
licbbers blew open bank safe az
Hope. Indiana, and secured $4,000
An ordinance prohibiting fake prize
ngnts mas been passed in Chicago.
Ihe overdue steamer Royalist from
Moi, Japan, arrived safely at Victoria
"A burglar was put to flight last week
In berkeley by a woman and her daugh-
The Postal inquiry which has been in
progress nearly two years is almost fin
ished.
A fight is arranged between Jeffries
and kuhlin for February 18th at Gin
cinnati
Rockefeller has given another mil
lion and half dollars to the Chicago
University.
Former President Cleveland praisas
former President Harrison's Ann Ar
bor speech.
The Ship Subsidy bill is opposed by
estern men and is not likely To pass
the Senate.
Forty thousand dollars a month Is
being spent on the san Pedro. Cal.
breakwater.
Grau opened his New York opera
season with the presentation Of ..Ro-
meo ct Juliette."
Minnie Maddern Fiske was unable re-
Gently to appear in a Chicago theater
owing to overwork.
Mrs. Frye, wife of Senator Frye. die
suddenly at the Hamilton Hotel. Wash
ington, December u.
A seat was sold on the New York
Stock Exchange December Is for $780,
900. breaking the record
Yp1n
cially aided an aeronaut who is in
venting flying machine.
New York commission houses are
receiving heavy buying orders for all
kinds of bonds and stocks
charles A. Boutelle was made captain
on the Navy retired list by a bill pass
ed in the Senate last week.
A New York paper gives the majority
of McKinleys election as nearly mil
lion. according to official count
An investigation is now being made
or the official course of DR.. Kinyoun os
the San Francisco Board of Health.
Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal,
the Canadian Commissioner, has been
installed as Lord Rector of Aberdeen.
Senator VIM. V. Sullivan of Missis-
sippi and Mrs. Marie Atkins were mar
ried at Washington on December 49,
r. +. Whirlow has taken charge of
the Angels mine, Angels Camp, Cal
The property belongs to G. " Coleman.
The steam whaler Ell route to San
Francisco from q whaling cruise put
into Marshfield, Ore, for food and fuel.
a. complaint from prisoners at Fol-
som asks the Governor to investigate
the manner of punishments used there.
The decision of the House of Repre-
'sentatives on the Harbor bill will not
be made public until after the holidays.
A minister of Colombia is about to
leave RI a,atp int
gotiations for opening the Panama ca
nal.
The death list in the disaster to the
German training frigate Gneisenau at
Malaga Is officially given as thirty
five.
1t is believed the withdrawal of
troops from the Philippines will mean
renewed activity on the part OF the
insurgents.
The Union Pacific Railway will enter
Salt Lake City by a direct cutoff from
Echo, Wyo., shortening the distance
forty miles.
A plan is on foot in Chicago for max
ing reform school of training ships,
for the correction of the unruly youths
of that city.
Bradstreet's on the 2od instant said:
Seasonable conditions rule in trade al
present. Cheerful reports come from
Western farmers
suicide on account of family troubles
but the police revived him by prickins
him with needles.
| The salary of the Commissioner OF
Education of Porto Rico has been in
creased to $4,000 at the request of the
Secretary of the Navy.
| Under date of December 10th it is
stated that the Ministers in China ar.
all in concord and all points of dispute
have at last been settled
/ Eleven awards have been made for
the construction of warships. The Tn.
ion Iron Works will construct two a.
a cost OF seven millions.
I DIR. Taft, the surgeon who took
charge of President Lincoln immediate
lly after Booth fired the fatal shot, diet
At New York December IS.
/ The Thirty-seventh Volunteer Infan
try will sail from Manila for San Fran
cisco January l. The Thirty sixth Reg
iment is second on the hist.
Heavy gales are reported from the
North Pacific. Many steamers and yes
sels have been damaged and delayed
and a number OF lives lost.
/ The University of Chicago co-eds can
not attend the dances given by the col
lege professors. The professors mus
dance with each others wives.
Ii is reported that the American citi
zens in Venezuela are in danger Of at
tack and that warships are needed t
protect American interests there.
warning to insurgentsAis Is to be sen
out in the Philippines, notifying then
that hereafter no leniency will be al
lowed in the matter of punishment.
1t is reported that exState Senator
Hinshaw of California Will cJntest th
will of his late brother. w. p. Hinshaw
to secure a larger share of the estate.
Chester Van Hoy, a 16-year-old boy
was arrested at Portland on suspicion
of having kidnapped the 5-year-old sol
Of Lawyer. Ditchburn. The boy wa
held for SIS ransom.
Mrs. Josephine Dora Walker, a for
mer Seattle stenographer. was married
recently to VIM. Breckenridge of De
soto Miss. as he lay on his th-be,
in Dawson. She inherited $4,000.
After 2 years investigation the Fed
eral authorities caused the conviction
.of Cortes Miller at Seattle for forgins
his sisters name to a money order 70
4 3orly IS. Officers trailed the cuiprit g..
coo miles.
Millionaire George A. Fuller of Chi
lcago. who died IN a sanitarnm, left ;
large portion of his fortune 10 hi.
daughter, Grace, who committed sui
eide fifteen months ago. The viii. how
ever, was made five years ago
The Union Iron Works has bee:
iRwarded contracts for two OF the elev