The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-06-03

The Capitola (Cal.) girls recently held
a field day.
Gottlob Wendt, San Jose's pioneer
butcher, is dead.
The last of the American troops left
Picking on May 22d.
1t is reported that Lawson's yacht
will be allowed to race.
The Russian police recently fired on
rioters at ST. Petersburg.
General Fitz John Porter died at his
New Jersey home May 21st.
| France and Venezuela are still una.
BILE to agree on the protocol.
The revenue cutter Richard Rush Is
| to patrol the Alaskan coast.
William Mullenney. Sacramento's
surveyor, has been indicted for fraud
| An eastern syndicate is said to have
secured control of the Coalinga oil
tract.
The Siwash Indians of British Co.
| lumbia are to present the Passion
Play"
sympathy bill with warm defense OF
Englands policy.
| The postal officials in China have re
ceived orders to return by the first
| transport available.
Archie Warren, a timberman in a
Boise, Idaho, mine, was killed by a
falling rock last week.
A Baltimore syndicate is seeking to
secure control of the electric and mo-
tor railways of San Jose.
The Supreme Court at Washington
has decided that army officers are not
exempt from paying alimony.
Count Goluchowski, the Austrian
Foreign Minister, says the interna-
tional situation is dangerous.
The transports that have been used
between New York and the West In
dies are to be sold at auction.
It is rumored that the Chinese are
planning to rush into Cuba before the
exclusion act is enforced there.
Millions of dollars damages has been
done and many lives lost in the valley
of the Upper Tennessee by floods
Two Democratic aldermen have been
ousted in Denver on charge of fraud,
and Republicans put in their places.
Mrs Chaffee and Miss Chaffee have
left New York for Manila They will
sail by transport from San Francisco.
President Diaz, of Mexico, has sent
a congratuiatory message to the man.
ayers of the Pan-American Exposition.
The Upper Yukon river is again open
to navigation. The, smallpox among
the natives Is said to have died out.
A. L. Snider. postmaster at Tuscaro-
ra, Nevada, is arrested on charge OF
embeZzling 81, 400 from the govern
ment
The powers are giving no support to
the American stand on the indemnity
question, and are still unwilling to
yield.
Under date of May %, it is reported
that General Cables is likely to sur
render with his insurgent forces very
soon.
Dawson is to have a government adj
ministration building, and large appro-
priations for improvements there are
proposed.
Many shops in the East have &C
copied the terms of the machinists
and the indications are for an early
settlement.
The President will appoint a new
Governor for Alaska upon his return
to Washington. Governor Brady's term
has expired.
1t is said that General Malvar has
has assumed command in the Philip
pines, and is planning to reorganize the
insurgent forces.
The Philippine Commission has I'M
posed registration tax of one peso
on all males in the Philippines with
the exception of soldiers.
The full score of Purcell's Fairy
Queen, missing for 200 years, has beer
found at London, in the library Of the
| Royal Academy of Music.
| Fred G. Foster, who was under sus-
picion of blowing UP Cambridge
| Mass, bank, shot and killed himself
| when an officer came to arrest him.
The United States has reached nc
agreement with the powers about Chi
ma, but the government hopes the in
tegrity of the empire may be preserv-
ed.
The late Queens birthday was gen.
orally observed in England. King Ed
ward followed his mothers custom
and witnessed the trooping of the col
ors.
George Adrian, a .Mereed merchant,
was shot by his cook. Walter Moran,
on May 23d, in a dispute over wages.
Adrian was not seriously hurt. His
assailant was arrested.
The northern boundary of the State
of Washington is to- be re-established.
By this means Washington will secure
additional territory, which will include
valuable mineral properties.
M. L'Enfant, the French explorer,
has just returned to Paris from Africa
He succeeded in reaching Gaya, In
northwestern Africa. The country, he
says. is marvelously fertile.
Seemingly reliable Information from
Washington says that George B. Cor
telyou, President McKinley's private
secretary, will soon be promoted, pas
sibly to a cabinet position.
On account of evidence of unsteadi-
ness, the Rank of Endowment.
Knights of Pythias, of Milwaukee. has
ordered an investigation of the insur-
ance department of the order.
The names of five cadets who were
given the extreme penalty for hazing.
have been made public. Their dismissal
has been declared final. They will go
to Washington to ask for restoration
1t is said by United States Immigra-
ton Commissioner Healy, of the State
of Washington, that the Chinese pass
over the northern American border, in
either direction, absolutely unchecked.
Two counterfeiters were captured at
San Ygnacio, near Ell Paso, on the 23d
of last month. The gang to which
they belonged has been making AM
erican dollars with marvellous fidelity
Colonel 7. F. Barr, lately stationed
at Chicago, has been appointed to sue
coed General G. Norman Letter. retir-
ed, as judge advocate general. with
the rank of brigadier general, at Wash
ington.
Another case Of brutal hazing is re-
ported from Madison, Wis. A student
was thrown into rocky lake with his
hands and feet tied, and was severely
bruised, as well as half-d drowned, when