The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-11-08

Africa for home about November 18th,
and Lord Wolseley has consented to
perform the duties of commander in
chief of the army until the end of No
vember.
William ]. Bryan concluded his New
Jersey campaign tour on October 20.
He addressed large crowds. About 500
Germans gathered about his hotel on
the last day. They rendered him a
serenade.
A dispatch from Washington to the
! Call says the Administration is oppos-
ed to further attempts of Germany 10
establish coaling stations in the west
| ern hemisphere, and will enforce the
| Monroe doctrine.
| Mrs. Sarah A. Burtis is dead at
Rochester, New York, in the ninetieth
year of her age. She was born in
Saratoga in 1910. Mrs. Burtis was one
of the first active workers in the cause
of woman suffrage.
| The new torpedo-boat destroyer, the
! first of her class to be built in San
Francisco, was launched on October
q. The Perry is one of the sixteen
torpedo-boat destroyers ordered by the
J Government two years ago.
United States Depot Quartermaster
Col. o. F. Long, of San Francisco, was
at Washington, October 26, consulting
with officers regarding special arrange
Philippines in time for their discharge
by June 80.
Roosevelt completed over l 100 mile:
of travel and made oyer fifty speeche:
the first week of his State campaign
He addressed a big meeting at Bing'
hamton on October q. 1t was hi:
forty-third birthday.
The Bavarian Government has order
ed the rebuilding of the tombs of th'
ancient German emperors in the Ca
thedral of Spires. The Hohenslauffen!
and the rulers of the Salio dynasty viii
rest in a fine new crypt in suitable
saracophagi
!, A dispatch from Pretoria, October 90
announced the death from enteriC
fever of Prince Christian Victor o
Schleswig- Holstein, eldest son of the
II Princess Helene of England, and ;
grandson of Queen Victoria. He wa
born in 1867. He was a major in thu
Kings Royal Rifles.
The fireworks display in Madison
, Square. New York, on October 26, wa
remarkable While the display was a
its height, the big chorus of 5000 voice
led by Bandmaster George L. Hum
phrey of the Seventh Regiment Ban'
= burst into the Star Spangled Banner
The big parade in New York city oil
October 20, numbered $4,000 persons
) They had torches and transparencie
p and fagS and dinner pals and enthu
: siasm. 1t was a spectacle seldom seer
The cornerstone of st. Roses Church
Santa Rosa, Cal, has been laid.
. Governor Brady of Alaska has sue
2 ceeded in abolishing the Alaskan In
= dams potlatch. The chiefs have a
passed their word to the Governor tina
they will help break them up.
D There was great rush for seats a
! the opening of the opera season in Sa
Francisco. The advance sales the frs
4 day, October q, brought $4,000
y recent decision of the Secretary {
2 the Treasury has caused much specu
4 lation, says the San Francisco Call {
i October p. 1t is to the effect tina
2 Chinese wives of American born China
men may be imported into San Frar
= cisco.
Y William J. Bryan's second visit
e New York on October 81, was the OF
k casion Of one of the noisiest polite;
demonstrations of the campaign. -Four
: teen thousand people cheered him ;
d Madison Square.
|. HOodlum followers Of Bryan tried
q vain to mar the magnificent Republ
|. can procession in Chicago, says II
n San Francisco Call of October IS.
n the great pageant were workingme
= from all industries, lawyers, me
# chants. railroad men and financier
2 There were 10000 men in line. TIL
monster parade Of voters was in m
h ton from 10 a. m. until 4:30 p. m.