The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-30

0o0 at the Readville track, was won by
Boralma, owned by Thomas w. Law
son. of Boston, in straight heats. Best
time, 2:0911.
The Daily Chronicle says: Mr.. Con-
ger has at last opened the eyes of the
State Department to the real character
of Orientals.
A Paris dispatch says that the Dow
ager Empress faed from Picking with
so 900 900 taels and is now surrounded
by Japanese cavalry.
Owing to Henry Youtseys physical
condition his trial for completely in the
murder of Goebel was continued until
the next term of court
An official dispatch from Corea says
that a thousand rebels have attacked
Song Ching, burning the Government
buildings located there.
The population of Minneapolis is 202,-
rs. an increase of %. 05 per cent since
1890. That of st. Paul is 163, 632, an in
crease of % SO per cent.
Messages have been exchanged be-
tween President Mckinley and the En-
peror of Austria, the occasion being the
Emperor's SEVENTEEN birthday.
The Easthampton LIBRARY Company
OF Long Island, founded in 1905 by Rev.
/ Lyman Beecher, father of Henry Ward
IBeecher, has decided to disband.
/ \ London dispatch: c. ]. Ross. a
/ former clerk of PARIS bank, accused of
stealing about $500, 900 from the bank in
January, 1899 has been committed for
trial He was caught passing a Go
note.
| General Chalaron, commander in
chief of the Tennessee Confederate vet
Grams, protests against Blue and Gray
reunions because of the condescension
/ of the nOrthen orators and the social
equality of negroes who wore the blue.
The Chefoo-Taku cable is open with
- IL IT,. +
now Joined TO Tien-Tsin by a military
telegraph, but an international line is
I in the way of construction and will be
opened soon for business. Service be-
tween Peking and Sian Flu is suspend
I ed.
/ Several prominent Astoria business
men have secured control of 8 500 acres
I OF land at Knappa, near Astoria, and
disclose the fact that experts have de-
clared it a very valuable coal and pc
troleum fieIu. a company has been
formed, and il is stated development
Will begin Immediately.
The American action in refusing to
deal with Ii Hung Chang in the peace
proposal meets with unanimous ap-
prevail at the hands of the morning
papers. The Standard says. We imag-
inc that other powers will take the
same course, at any rate, until Earl Ii
/ produces satisfactory evidence of his
dulHuIllE 10 negotiate.
Judge SOmeTVille of New York in an
I opinion handed down for the Board of
Classification of the United States Gen
eral Appraisers, says that it is more
than doubtful whether a refrigerating
Eplant could be considered a part of a
ships equipment, especially as it was
not part of the property of the own
I ers OF the vessel, nor was it leased by
/ the owners.
+ The Daily Express prints long letter
said to have been written by Vice Ad-
miral Seymour, in which he stoutIy de-
tends his action in advancing to the
relief of the legations when he did
saying: Two or three times our pros,
poets were very dark, and disaster
seemed probable. Yet, 1 never regretted
that had started, as L could not have
respected myself if l had not done so.''
Referring to the difficulties of control
ling mixed troops and to their charac-
teristics, he says: The Germans We
admired most, but for dash and go
none surpassed or perhaps equaled the
Americans. The French had no par
ticular rapprochement with other ma
tionalities. The Germans and Russians
were inclined 10 hold together, but the
Americans were with us always"