The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-10-26

all papers OF instruments relating to-
the exercise of the elective franchise,
are exempt from stamp tax.
\ father, mother and four young chill
dren were Intentionally blown to atoms
by dynamite at Sells, Montgomery
county. four miles from Hot Springs.
1t is believed a dispute over a home
stead claim prompted the outrage.
Shipments of mining machinery to
South Africa have been resumed from
Chicago. Thousands of dollars worth
delayed by the Boer war are now going
forward. The mills are crowded with
orders, and the plants running to their
full capacity.
: The cnarred bones of a man and boy
| found in the Sacramento mountains on
| October IA are believed to be those of
| Col. A. J. Fountain and his son. They
have been mining since the latter part
Of January, 1896. They were undoubt-
eddy murdered.
/ Henry Miller sailed on the Deutsch-
| land for months vacation abroad,
and upon his return will probably be
starred In Madeline Lucette Ryley's
Richard Savage" He is to receive a
very handsome salary and large slice
Of the profits.
| Russia is seeking big American
loan. and a syndicate is being organized
to float 1t. 1t is understood she wants
s50. 100000 in gold. 1t is believed the
loan will be taken. and public an
Inducements concerning ii will be made
in a few days.
At the congress Of German anthropol-
ogists at Halle Professor kladtsch Of
Heidelberg read :; paper. TIE contends
that man did not spring from the ape.
His conclusion Was ba Sed on the con-
lstructiCn of the bicephalous muscle of
the upper thigh
The National City Bank of New York
has engaged $2500,OO0 gold for import
Officials of the bank said that the gold
had been secured in South Africa. II
represents the first output Of the mines
of that country since the breaking out
of the Boer war.
a despatch from Madrid says the
Spanish Government is greatly con-
lcerned at the revival of the Carlist agi-
tation and the discovery of depot OF
arms at Lerida, Catalonia. where 81;
, Remingtons and 400 bayonets We're seiz.
ed at a locksmiths store.
Mrs. Marion Eltonhead wife Of the
president of the Lincoln Warehous,
, and Van Company of Chicago. stumbled
by accident upon her rights to a valua.
Bile piece Of property in Atlantic City
She has instituted suit. The property
in question is valued at 81, 900. 600
; The WelIs-Fargo representative a
. Escalon Mexico, d. Kruger, has dis
appeared; with him $4,000 in Mexican
currency. This is the second case O
embeZzlement the Wells-Fargo Compa
ny has had in this territory this month
The first was agent King at Montclova
Julia Marlowe opened the new play
house In Chicago in the play of bar
, bara Frietchie." She made a great hit
. dividing the honors with the theate
. building. The seats Were sold at higl
premium. The box Office receipts wer
, $4,000 The seating capacity of tn
house is 1,400
, "A dispatch from Lourenzo Marques
. dated the 18th. says that the American
bark Fred p. Litchfieid, went ashor
there from her mornings. She wa
, searched for gold, as there was a sus
? picfon that she was carrying Mr. Krue
, gers treasure to the amount of 81 500.
600. Nothing was found.
, Robert Wamsley, the aged Califor
MAN who was found wandering abou
Williamsburg, N. Y, has been turrOe
. over to the Hamburg-American Steam
ship Company and returned on tn
Deutschland. The authorities at Sal
Francisco have been communicate
: with. He has no friends in New York
y Many blooded dogs are being poisone
: by powdered glass in New York. Mrs
Harry Gillig, whose three French poo
dies are valued at over SO, 000 and whic
: are waited on by a special attendant
has lost two dogs. Francis Wilson ha
lost his st. Bernard, Dan, worth owe
t $1,000. and James Hardy's Patrician,
: prize winner. is also dead. All died 4
great agony.