The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-04-12
ASSOCIATED PRESS.
The Minor News of the Coast Files
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good.
socialist disturbances are increasing
in Italy.
Destructive floods have occurred in
Uruguay.
The revolt in the German Cameroons
is serious.
A Democratic mayor was elected in
Milwaukee.
California salmon are being destroy
ed by sea lions.
Puget Sound packers have formed a
cannery combine.
Quo NadIs is being produced in
American theaters.
An anthracite and bituminous coal
trust is impending.
Illinois township elections show Re-
publican majorities.
Mrs. Leslie Carter will play Zaza in
London next season.
Joseph Francois Bertrand, French
Academician, is dead.
The slayers of Missionary Brooks In
China will be executed.
Russia has adopted a Russian model
for her quick-firing guns.
DIR. Il. +. Shaw, Kansas City doc
tor, was killed by lunatic.
The Tacoma Republicans elected
their mayor by 200 majority.
Two thousand American Catholics
will make "a pilgrimage to Rome.
The permanent bridge over the Mod
der river station has been finished.
Count Cassini denies that trouble is
brewing between Russia and Japan.
A prize of 100000 francs Is offered
in France for a device to steer balloons.
Assistant Paymaster Clarke of III. NJ.
S. Leander deserted his ship at Esqui-
malt.
II. S. Utley, the inventor of many
in artificial marble, is
dead.
A French torpedo boat exploded at
Cherbourg. Five of the crew we're
burned.
Lord Roberts did not meet his wife
at Cape Town. She will go to Bloem-
fontein.
The steamer Newfoundland has ar
rived at st. Johns with a great catch
Of seals.
Queen Victoria arrived at Dublin
and spoiled some of the ar
Charles II. Pepper has refused the
position of secretary of the Philippine
There were eleven fresh cases of
plague at Sydney on April / and two
additional deaths.
Dewey's swords, cups and other tro-
phies will be exhibited at the Smith
sonian Institution.
The steamer Henry NJ. Stanley was
sunk in collision near Rising Sun,
Ind. No lives lost.
A storm resembling typhoon swept
Suffer and Yuba counties
(Cal.) on April End.
A new trans-isthmian canal company
has been formed in New Jersey with a
capital of s1O0,00O,00O.
General Otis reports that over 400
Filipinos have been killed i'm battle
during the present year.
Premier Delcasse says the French
policy is peaceful and committed to the
development of colonies.
Mark Twain has appeared before q
House of Commons Committee to argue
for an American copyright.
The municipal elections of Kansas
generally went against the Democrats
in favor of the Republicans.
Sugar-Raw, steady; fair refining,
37sc; centrifugal, SO test, 43sc; molass-
es sugar, 3 11-16c; refined, irregular.
American naval commanders report
that there is now no prospect of war
between Nicaragua and Costa Rica.
M. d'Ayrill des Essarts, a prominent
lawyer of Paris, has been arrested on a
charge OF embezzling 100000 francs.
Paul Edward. the American mental
healer" who has been driven out of
Belgium, will appeal to Secretary Hay
Congressman Hay of Virginia Is pre-
pairing bill for a reserve of volunteers
to do away with a large standing army.
The Reading and Erie and Lehigh
Valley railroads in New York have
passed under the control of J. p. Nor
gan.
The United States transport Sher-
man has sailed from Manila with 175
prisoners and twenty-five in
;ane.
Mrs. Catharine Jordan. daughter of
he well-known Col. Andrews of San
/ francisco, was asphyxiated In New
York.
European powers may have to send
expeditions TO China to help
put down rebellions and piracy in the
provinces.
General Vasquez. formerly President
If Honduras, says there will not be
,eace in Central America until the
United States takes charge of IL.
Commissioner Peck is trying to Sc
ure the removal of a Turkish tower at
he French Exposition which will OBJ
truct the view from the American
The great Kansas City Auditorium,
n which the Democratic convention
vas to have been held July 4, has been
burned. 1t will be rebuilt in time for
he convention.
One hundred and fifty masked men
lear Logansport, Ind, have burned
bridges and toll-houses on the Logans-
)ort and Burlington pike as a protest
against high tolls.
The Dady $4,000, 900 contract for
covering and paving Havana, which
vas obtained of the Spanish city gov
has been annul.ed by GOV
.rnor General Wood.
Major Geo. G. Kirkman. Forty-ninth
volunteer Infantry. serving in the
has teen dismissed the SER
ice for having insulted Archbishop
,hapelle while drunk.
One of the reasons why Governor
cary was removed from Guam Is his