The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-09-06
News Notes.

Colombia is preparing for war.
King Edward is visiting the Kaiser.
Admiral Schley will be retired Octo-
Der TO-
A plague of grasshoppers has invad-
ed New York.
The American Line steamer Paris
has been rebuilt.
A decided Increase is reported In the
Philippine trade
Prices Of plate glass have been re-
duced rs per cent
Much ice in the Atlantic is menacing
the navigation there.
The Austrian government has decid-
ed to issue gold coin.
Three Filipino students have entered
the University of California.
The death rate OF the Boer concen-
tratfon camps is $50 per LOCO
The liberals of Colombia won a bat
tie fought with the clericals.
Professor Jordan wants to admit
Chinese who bring their families
Lord RothSchild denies any connec-
ton with the American copper trust
Bryan may make Chicago his home.
and transplant his paper to that city.
General Castro, of Venezuela, has
sent an expedition to invade Colombia
A Montana man shot his wife in the
cheek, whereupon her father killed
him.
The Russian government will con-
tinue the siege at Moscow for another
year.
DR.. j. M. Shannon, of Oakland, Cal,
was held up and robbed in his door,
yard.
Sam Strong, a millionaire Colorado
mine owner, was killed in saloon
fight
Luther Burbank, the famous agricuI-
in,
work
The hulk of the whaler Grampus
wrecked on Point Barrow, was sold
for $3.50
The proposed new German tariff
places heavy duty on American
products.
The labor council in San Francisco
have protested against students load
ing vessels.
John A Mann, Iongsnorema1, sho,
his sweetheart and then himself, at
Portland, Or.
Earl Russell, who was charged with
bigamy. is serving a three months
term in prison.
Jake Logan and his two sons, and
two Wilson brothers, were killed in a
Kentucky feud.
Dr. Caldas allowed himself to be Bit
ten by infected mosquitoes to- test a
Charles Nordstrom was hanged In
Washington for murder committed
nearly ten years ago.
Mrs. Phoebe Hearst has founded a
chair of Indian anthropology at the
University of California
Ethel Vaughan, aged seventeen, mar
rted 4. 3. Martin. of Los Angeles
thereby facing disinheritance
A fierce rain and wind storm did
great damage to buildings in Jersey
City. but no lives were lost
Norris Jessup, the millionaire has
invited Booker T. Washington, the ne
gro leader, to his summer home.
The sale of the Danish West Indies
to the United States will be consum-
mated before the end of the year.
Two Of Vice President Rooseveldt-s
children are in the hospital. They have
both undergone successful operations.
James A Fleming, a wealthy Phoe-
nix mine owner, has been sued for
$50 600 for breach of promise to marry.
Five men from the wreck of the
steamer Lane spent nine days in an
open boat before they reached st. Mi
chael.
International trouble may arise from
the killing Of an Italian railroad la
borer by American workingmen In
Texas
Indians were robbing the bodies
wa shed ashore from the wreck of the
Islander. until stopped by the federal
marshal.
Two boys, Alfred Dukeshier and
Christian Wyss Jr were killed by
street cars in San Francisco the same
afternoon
The Goulds have secured control of