The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-05-16
A $4,000 hotel win be built at Los An

pear in vaudeville.
Another oil gusher has been struck at
| Beaumont, Texas.
: France does not propose to reopen the
} Egyptian question.
Oil has been discovered on the Arizona
desert near Tucson.
Tod Sloan says that American jockeys
are unpopular in europe.
J Attempts will be made near San Jose
to grow the pistache nut.
The yacht Constitution was Saunched
at Bristol, r. L., on the 5th
Jefferson's son will soon wed Miss
Christie Mcdonald, the singer.
Bob Fitzsimmons lion pups have been
Itorn to pieces by his Great Dane.
| Mountains of rich quartz are reported
from the Tanana district of Alaska.
An Oakland woman has turned smash
err bombarding saloons with stones
The Durham suspect at San Jose is
probably C. F. Grill, Dunham's double.
.Plunger'' Riley Grammar has return
ed to New 1ork, from europe, penniless
The Chicago Homeopathic Medical
College has determined to admit wom-
en-.
Rear Admiral Cromwell has taken
command of the South Atlantic Squad
ron.
1t is said tnat important gold discov-
cries have been made on Vancouver ISL
and
| Republicans carried eighteen out Of
/ twenty -four wards at the Baltimore cleo
ton.
Charles G.. Seymour. a Chicago news
paper man, died of Consumption al Ell
Paso
| Miss Frances Raymond actress, COM
mitted suicide by inhaling gas in New
York.
Modjeska has sailed for Europe and
| may not reappear on the American
| stage.
Train service in the Colorado noun
tain regions has been delayed by land
slides.
An Italian ranch-hand at San Rafael,
was driven insane at the sight of
| snake.
The National Federal Committee has
voted against general strike of the
/ miners.
! Nearly 200 lives were lost by ferry
| boat disaster on the Dneiper river in
Russia.
| Vengeful gypsies poisoned wells in
| Austria with the result nat fifteen peo-
pie died.
The Southwestern deserts of the Unit
| ed States have had the heaviest rainfall
| in years.
The remains of ,Ae late Dr. Pelton will
be sent home to Oakland from Nome for
| interment.
| A new filler for packing salmon is ex-
pected to revolutionize the industry of
| the Coast.
1 Solomon Lewis, pioneer Jeweler, fell
/ dead on the street in Oakland, Cal, on
/ the 5th instant.
| An insane woman ran amuck with
knife in Sweden and stabbed four wom-
| en-, one dying.
| no trace has been found of young
Beckwith, who recently wandered from
| Los Gatos, Cal.
| Grant Gillet, the exiled cattle king of
| Kansas, fell into a Mexican mine and
| was badly hurt.
| Over a thousand took the pledge to
| church recently.
/ Relief trains and boats are arriving at
the City of Jacksonville Fla, recently
| destroyed by fire.
| The Government has been accused in
| the House of Commons of packing trial
| juries in Ireland.
Plans for Withdrawing troops from the
Philippines regiments longest in service
4 first, are being perfected.
Louis Knoll, an Alameda DOCTORS
coachman, now owns half interest in
a Butte county gold mine.
| Drink has driven B. M. Lelong, late
secretary of the California State Board
| of Horticulture, to suicide.
| Two thugs committed daring crime,
beating woman and robbing man. in
San Francisco the other day.
| A she-bear entered the city limits of
Vancouver, B. c., chased several people,
killed calf and then escaped.
| Rev. A. H. Needham of Salinas. Cal,
has sustained probably fatal injuries as
4 the result of buggy accident
| Conger says he is not a candidate for
the Republican Gubernatorial nomination
in Iowa but will accept if chosen.
British shipbuilding industry is falling
/ off. The construction for last year was
1 100000 tons below the record of 1899.
Baron Won Rheinbaben will be Minister
| of Finance and Genera Podbielski, Min
lister of Posts and Telegraphs, in Prus-
sia
| The >.ern Pacific Railway is ais
! playing great activity in building into
| Whatcom and Fairhaven, on BeIlingham
bay.
4 The Maya Indians are losing ground
President Diaz sent congratulations to
his troops when they occupied Chan
/ Santa Cruz.
/ forward by China to open Manchuria to
| the; world. circular note has been is
/ sued to the various powers and the
United States; Great Britain and Japan
are understood to nave replied.
! The Corean Government has revised
its action in the matter of McLeavy
/ Brown, and has ordered him to leave
his residence and relinquish the control
| of Corean customs. The representative
of Great Britain in Corea is moving act
| lively in the matter.
General Delarey, the Boer commander
now has 1900 or 5000 men in the hills
around Hartbeestefontein. Gen Babing-
| ton, in command of the British forces in
the district, is without sufficient force
to attack and is observing the Beers
while Generals Methuen and Rawlinson
are converging. A battle appears immi-
nent-
Mr. Gregory, the principal medical off,
Ger OF Cape Colony, says he cannot Grad
1cate the bubonic plague until the rats
in the colony are extinct Hundreds of
rats are still dying daily Three colored
persons and three Europeans are re-
ported with the plague today One col
ored person and one European have
died
Dover. Del. dispatch says: he spec
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