The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-09-27
NEWS OF WORLD
CONDENSED

Marcus Daily is better.
Hops are being shipped from Tacoma
to Australia.
The price of coal is advancing because
of the strike
Arch Rock, San Francisco, is soon to
be blown up.
The thread trust of Great Britain has
advanced prices.
The Municipal League is In session at
Milwaukee, Wis.
A 81, 600, 600 museum of fine arts is to
be built at Boston.
The President has arrived at Wash
ington, from Canton.
Two schooners were driven ashore at
Nome by the last gale.
Philadelphia has contributed $4,000
to the Galveston fund.
The railroads entering New York will
pool their grain traffic.
Lieutenant Hobson has returned
home by the way of Victoria.
Marcus DAILY is thought to be suffer
Ing from cancer of the stomach.
Texas still guarantees against San
Francisco on account of the plague.
Spring Lake, n. j., a summer resort,
has been destroyed by fire. Loss $780,
000
1t is doubtful that the registration in
San Francisco will reach the total OF
$685.
Journeymen tailors of Cleveland. O..
have secured a ten per cent raise in
wages.
The sea-going tug Slocum, en- route t,
San Francisco from New York, has ar
rived at Lima.
The British steamer Lorle has arriv-
ed at Port Said with the first importa.
ton of American coal.
The newspaper list of dead at Gal.
weston is over 1000. and the estimated
loss from 5000 to 5000.
The $2,000,000 Swedish loan, placed il
part in the United States, will run fol
ten years at per cent.
Huntington's nephew is not consider
ed a strong candidate for the presiden
cy' of the Southern Pacific.
The social Democrats held a State
convention at Butte, Mont, Septembel
| Is, and Endorsed Debs for president
The new primary election law of Min
nesota has proved to be great success
The law works smoothly and with littl,
friction.
The Egyptian mail steamer Char
kieh is ashore on the reefs of The Pr
aeus with broken shaft. Some of he
| passengers have been drowned.
Cubans papers and politicians de
nounce Governor General Wood fo
having interefered in the late elections
in the interest of his Cuban tools
Senator Wellington, whose conversion
to Democracy is denied, will go on tn,
stump for Mckinley. He says the Re
publicans are likely to lose Maryland
| By collision of the British steamel
Gordon Castle and the German steame
Stormann in Cardiff Bay, both vessels
were sunk, and twenty persons OF
board the Cardiff were lost.
| The President has returned to Wash
ington to deal with the new Chimes,
! situation resulting from the demand o
Germany for punishment of the lead
ers of the anti-foreign movement il
| China.
Attorney General Smith of Nebraska
brings suit to have declared void tn,
| transfer last year of the Argo Starch
Company of Nebraska City, Neb., to tn,
United Starch Company, as being ii
restraint of trade and against the anti
trust, law. The Argo was controlled
iast year by the Mortons, and a son o
d. sterling Morton, former secretar,
OF agriculture, was manager.
Mrs. Mary A. Laban, a daughter o
| the late Commodore Vanderbilt, an
swers suit for $4,000 brought agains
her by A. p. Dodge, an inventor, TO
balance. due on a payment of 500, 00
for quarter interest in Dodge's inyen
| tons. by alleging that a bogus me
alum in the employ of Dodge got he
/ to squander $4,000 through pretended
messages from the spirit of Vanderbilt
| one sues In turn to recover the money
There are only ten houses in a hab
| ltaple condition south of High Island,
SAID III. Spangler, general manager o.
the Gulf and Interstate Company, wht
returned to Galveston, September is
from tour of inspection of the proper.
W OF his company. There were thou
SANDS of carcasses of animals anC
ABOUT 500 bodies of human beings found
there. The latter have been partially
buried, but the hands and feet are pro.
trudlng from the earth in many places
ana there are not enough people lef
In that section to bury the dead"
Ihe navy officers who brought over
the big quantity of dutiable goods from
China on the hospital ship Solace have
nnally acknowledged the right of the
surveyor OF the Port to search the yes.
sell and no longer attempt to keep the
stun. Deputy Surveyor of the Port St
John, upon his return from Mare Is
land, announced yesterday that the
goods were under seal and would be
transported to this city on the steamer
Sunol. There are over 200 boxes of silk
crockery, etc, and when their value has
oeen appraised, fine equal to the duty
that would have been due IL the Solace
mad not been Government vessel will
De assessed upon the owners of the
boxes Captain Winslow of the Solace
says the fine will be paid. Many of the
boxes are addressed to friends of Off
GERS in the East.-Chronicle.