The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-06-21

| over very rOuSn
l. The Filipino junta at Paris denies
! that Aguinaldo is dead, and announces
that the revolution is still alive
| The prisoners who died in British
hulks in New York bay during the rev.
olution are to have monument.
| Mrs. Langtry's "Merman'' won the
1000 sovereign gold cup and 5000 SOW
| ereigns specie at the Ascot meet
/ DR.. Paul Gibier, head of the Pasteur
| Institute of New York, has succumbed
to injuries received in a runaway.
The transports Lawton, Athenian and
Seward have left for Alaska with troops
and supplies to garrison new posts.
/ General Mascardo, a Filipino leader,
offers to yield if he will not be impris-
oned. He has 200 men and 500 rifles.
Los Angeles is so much wrought up
over the frequent hold-ups that vigil
ance committee has been organized.
/ Governor Beckhan is trying to extra
dite Governor Taylor on a charge Of be-
ing accessory to the Goebel murder,
Young Peter Jackson has been award
ed a decision over Kid Parker of Dem
yer, after ten rounds of fast fighting.
i Ceoeral Otis has commuted the death
sentence on three Filipinos convicted of
murder to twenty years imprisonment
/ Thomas Jefferson Johnson, known as
Cyclone Johnson, a street preacher
has been shot and killed in Indianapoli
| Mrs. Robert j. Burdette of California
General Federation of Women's Clubs.
The delay in the breakup of the ice
In Behring Straits will seriously impede
| the progress Of the gold-seekers bound
for Nome.
The price Of wheat has been advanc-
ing by leaps and bounds throughout the
! States, on account of prospects of a
short crop.
| The torpedo boat Dupont was seriously
damaged while entering dock at New
port. She will have to have new bow
built on her.
Three men have persisted in a burning
mine in Gloucester. Ohio. Their names
are Evan Joseph, John McClelland and
Aaron Swanson.
A statue is to be erected to the mem
Org of DR.. r. S. Storrs. for half a cen
! fury pastor of the Church of the Pill
grims, Brooklyn.
w. X. Vanderbilt, Jr. has caused
much excitement in New York by driv-
ing his automobile at a too rapid pace
about the streets.
The training ship Hartford, which re-
| Gently rounded the Horn from San
Francisco to Newport News, has been
ordered to Europe.
A hired man named James Morrison
has killed five of his employers fami y
by the name of Macarthur, in the village
of Welwin, Canada.
An electric car at Chicago ran three
w
tcaped a freight train, with the motor
man dead at the lever.
I The Democrats of Indiana, Missouri
Idaho, North and South Dakota and
West Virginia have endorsed Bryan
and the Chicago p atform
Charles Phillips of Sacramento and
Miss Jennie Vanderpool of Plymouth
were drowned while waaing in a stream
in Amador county, California
While pulling the bell in her own front
door in New York. the bell wire broke
and Mrs. Russell Sage fell down her
front steps. She was badly hurt.
r In the House the naval appropriation
bill caused discussion In which Com
mander Todd of the navy was charged
: with tampering with legislation.
Board and lodging costs $500 a month
In Dawson City; eggs are So a dozen;
oranges. 81 apiece, and apples so cents
l each. Bonanza prices generally prevail.
Governor Roosevelt has dismissed
from the National Guard of New York
Major Clinton H. Smith of the Seventy
, first New York, for cowardice at San
: tiago.
Two cyclists caused much excitement
, at Lanesboro, New York, by riding the
stone coping of the Erie viaduct at that
place. They accomplished the feat sue
cessfully.
Mrs. Marie Allen Wilmerding a
granddaughter of Commodore Wander
7 b1lt, Is to go on the stage. She has fig
ured in divorce courts and has been in
an insane asylum.
NJ. H. DeYoung, proprietor of the San
francisco Chronicle, was the guest of
honor at an elaborate banquet in Paris,
given by the American Commissioners
to the Exposition.
A scheme is on foot to connect Man
? chester and Liverpool by a single rail
line, over which trains will run at a
rate of twenty minutes for the distance
. of twenty-Seven miles,
San Francisco is to have an oil boom.
| Discoveries are alleged to have been
made in the sand hills along the ocean
. beach south of Golden Gate Park, and
property values have gone up.
The Lafayette Primary School on
: Telegraph Hill, San Francisco, was de-
Stroyed by fire, the confiagration being
witnessed ty thousands of spectators.
, 1t was visible all about the bay.
The famous yacht Scythian, owned
Dy Mrs. Charles 7. Parker, formerly
Miss Susan de Forrest Day, the author
ess, has been burned at sea- She was
towed into Boston. a total wreck
Major March's battalion of the Thir-
ty-third U. S. Volunteers. which was
SAID TO nave killed Aguinaldo, has re-
, turned to Candon in bad condition. after
hard march through the mountains.
: The wife of Lieut.. Edward Martin of
the Fifth u. S. Artillery has been ar
rested for keeping a pool room for wo-
$ men. Martin is himself in trouble for
r Irregularities in his financial accounts
The so-called Nevada claims" arts
ing out of the payment in greenbacks
: of Nevada's soldiers in the Civil War
nave been rejected by Congress. The
amount was 100000 and California has
IKE claims of 100000 and Oregon OF
S400. 000
Gen. Buckner thinks the gold Demo
re will L.
although stronger numerically thar
they were in 1885, He says the South
VIII be solid for the Democracy except
In Kentucky Maryland and Delaware
ana that Kentucky will go Republican