The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-07-16

is in session in Detroit.
Mrs Mary Hubbard, a prominent
club woman, of Omaha, is dead.
James G. Stowe, the United States
consul at Cape Town, has resigned.
The fruit growers of CORTLAND, Cal
ifornia, have formed an association.
The officers of the Union Savings
concern, of San Jose, refuse to settle.
j. c. Stubs, the railroad magnate, Is
in Omaha, looking over the situation.
Two Gypsies tried to steal n1ne-
year-old boy near Nation, ILL.,, on the
7th.
AT volo. Turkey. on the 9th, soldiers
raided the treasury and paid them
selves.
The Princess Hatzfeldt will not con-
test the will of the late c. P. Hunt
ington.
Prince Eitel Frederick, the second
son of Emperor William, has entered
the army.
A sister of George F. Geilman. the
New York millionaire. has been declar-
ed insane.
The Montana train robbers have es-
capped. Pursuit of them has been
abandoned.
Delay is being experienced in this
country and in England in the building
of battleshipS.
Captain Bowman H McCalla has
been made commander of the battle
ship Kearsarge.
Secretary Wilson refuses to relnstate
forecaster Dunn of the New York
weather bureau.
An Episcopal church, dedicated to
the memory of Bishop Kip, is being
erected in Berkeley, Cal.
w. K. Vanderbilt has imported an
automobile from Germany that makes
seventy-five miles an hour.
An explosion at the Santa Cruz
powder works recently killed one man
and wrecked the machinery.
Hereafter casuals on transports Will
be required to pay $1.50 per day, IN
stead of 81 90, as heretofore.
Sidney Locke, of Halifax, killed his
three children, aged fifteen, eleven and
eight, on the Sth. He is insane.
Twenty-eight thousand men have re-
turned to work in the iron mines or
the East, during the past week.
Miss Sadie Schaffer was drowned In
the MERGED river, near Ell Captain
bridge, Yosemite Valley, last week.
The price for mules is unusually high
in the States. They are being ship
ped to South Africa in large num-
bers.
The Japanese have won the fishing
fight on the Fraser river, and their
armed patrol boats are keeping white
men away.
Carman, the Californian accused OF
furnishing supplies to insurgents in
the Philippines, has been restored to
full liberty.
Secretary Root will extend the scope
of infantry schools and try to bring
about joint maneuverS of the regulars
and militia.
John Garvin, of Stockton, was shot
last week by the accidental discharge
of a gun. He may die from the inJu-
rieS received.
in Poland. Sinkiewicz, the author of
"Quo Vadis.' has offered to write a
play for her.
The transport Mcpherson, which
went ashore about eleven miles west
of Matanzas, is afloat. She went ashore
February 4th.
The War Office in London estimates
that during the past four months 5000
Beers have been killed, wounded or
made prisoners.
c. r. Roediger, deputy grand organ
izer for the Modern Woodmen, COM
mitted suicide In Eureka, Cal, on the
night of the 9Th.
j. P. Hays, nephew of President
Hays, of the Southern Pacific, has been
arrested in Ogden for forging his un-
cle's name to a pass.
Peter Gruber, better known as RAT
tlesnake Pete" recently gave a dinner
in New York, the entire menu being
composed of snakes
The approach to Muir glacier, Alas
ka, is prevented by an enormous ice
jam, from thirty to forty feet high, and
fourteen miles in length.
Allen o. Meyers has sued the Elks
for $4,000 damages, on account Of his
expulsion from the order He was the
author of the Eik's ritual.
Alfred Fuller, an illegitimate son OF
Alfred Fuller deceased, has been
granted standing by the Superior Court
of Butte county, California.
The supreme lodge Of the knights of
Pythias is meeting at Chicago TO con-
slider the injudicious investment OF
100000 belonging to the order.
Frank Hadie, a former constable at
Cayucos, California, attempted the
life of Supervisor Kester last week The
quarrel is the result of feud.
An investigation Of the Kern county
board of education, charged with hav-
ing not used the textbooks prescribed
by law, resulted in exoneration.
Two boys were sent to prison in Ber-
lin for a month for making uncom-
plimentary remarks about a bust of
the Kaiser, and then upsetting it.
While hauling hay, w. r. Hatcher,
VI. SANTA ItOSd, ndu al ear pulleQ out
of his head by the overturning of a
wagon. His injuries may prove fatal.
In the Spanish Cortes the Duke of
Tetuan reproached the Liberals for
permitting the intervention Of the
United States in Cuba, and recalling
Weyler.
A claimant to the millions left by
Jacob S. Rogers, of New York, may
appear in France. The child is illeg-
itimate, but Rogers loved her very
dearly.
Jim Johns and his seventeen-year-
old niece were killed by unknown par
ties at Helena, Arkansas, last week
Their dead bodies were found In a
burning building.
Charles Dunn, an aged and wealthy
lumberman of Fort Wayne. Ind, has
been arrested for choking TO death
little girl, whose remains were found
in cistern underneath his house.
A memorial seat, to be built In hon
or Of the memory of Daniel O'Connell,
The Poet of Bohemia" is to be built
in Sausalito. O'Connell was formerly
editor of the Pacific Commercial Ad-
vertiser.
Miss Laura Conger, daughter Of Min
lister Conger, Is engaged to Lieutenant
Fred r. RlChqn Thpu nat chorfty