The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-04-24
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fellow, has been found.
Gen. Gras, inventor of the rifle that
bears his name, is dead.
There are thirteen cases of smallpox
on the U. S. monitor Monterey.
A plan is on foot to make Miles the
Democratic candidate for President.
Major VIM. Monaghan, volunteer pay
master, died of heart disease at Ma
Mia.
Portuguese monks near Oporto de-
Tended themselves from mob with
guns.
Gen. McClurg, head of the publish
ling house of A. G. McClurg q Co., is
dead.
Emperor Francis Joseph has donated
1000 crowns to establish an art gal
Ilery at Prague.
Rich Germans escape Army service
by taking pills that produce the APP
ipearance of jaundice.
A woman, pronounced dead in hos
pital at Evansville, Ind, was returned
to life by a salt injection.
The British War Office. has ordered
lofficers or soldiers displaying the white
flag to be court-martialled.
The Naval Militia of the Eastern
Coast has lost interest in it's work and
will omit the annual cruise.
The gold returns from the Auckland
gold fields for the past three weeks
show a total of s46,11 lis Sd.
The Japanese press sharply criticizes
Minister Conger's attitude toward
missionary tribute expeditions.
Louisiana is making a search for
State bonds that have been missing
since the close of the Civil War.
Several artesian bores have been put
down in the far west of Queensland,
and good water has been struck.
Lorenzo Martinson, an American, for
merly with the Beers, has been deport-
ed from Portuguese East Africa.
Miss Dorothy Studebaker was re-
quested to leave a Chicago hotel be-
cause she did a cakewalk in the par
lor.
The remains of Lincoln are soon to
be removed to the sepulcher under the
new monument The casket will be
Opened.
The United States Supreme Court de-
clares unconstitutional the war reve-
nue. law imposing a tax on export bills
of lading.
a Brooklyn lecturer, whose tongue
was removed for cancer, first talked
his lectures into a photograph and will
sell the rolls.
A deceased Victorian left a will on a
piece of paper pasted on the lid of his
box bequeathing all he left behind him
ito his mother.
Mrs. lie Baron Johnson, wife of the
clergyman who eloped with Miss Hoff
man of San Francisco, has brought an
action for divorce.
The Government officer is much i'm
pressed by his inspection of the recent
tin discoveries near the Tarcoola gold
fields, South Australia.
Typhus fever is raging in the City OF
Mexico, yellow fever has broken out in
Jamaica and plague has again appear
ed at Alexandria, Egypt.
The South Australian Government is
considering the advisability of preserv
ing record of the electors who vote at
the first Federal elections.
John G. Capers has been appointed
Attorney General of the United States
for the District of South Carolina. He
! is an anti-Bryan Democrat.
The German forces in China find the
horses obtained from Oregon unruly
and hard to train, and altogether infe-
rior to the Australian horses
The total value of metals and miner
ais exported from South Australia dur
ing the year 1900 was e 431 2S9. Copper
represented e371, 920; silver and lead,
e17,526 and gold a14,494.
The Russian Government has APP
pointed commission to settle the re-
organization of the administration of
the lslanu of Saghalien, in the Sea of
Okhotsk, and it's penal settlements.
1t now seems certain that the Mar
quis of Headfort and Miss Rosie Boote,
the actress, were married in March and
have been staying quietly at the Hotel
Metropole, Folkestone, for three weeks
past.
The Rev. DR.. Robert Richie of ST.
James Church, Philadelphia, has been
selected by the Duke of Newcastle as
editor of The Church Review, the
American edition of the English
Church Review.
The Anglican Diocese of Adelaide has
appointed a committee and organized
a movement to raise during the next
three years a twentieth century fund
amounting to 100000. Considerable
promises have been received
The gold returns for the Auckland
district for the first quarter of the pres
ent year amount to e146,6S6 As Sd. The
total for the first quarter of last year
was 9144,SSS Is sd. These figures show
an increase for 1901 of 81, 797 16s 1Od.
The Minister for Mines is of opinion
that, many girls would find it to their
advantage to attend a School of Mines
as the knowledge they would gain there
would qualify them for positions in of
fees of the large mining companies.
New York's fashionable clergymen
say few children attend their Sunday
schools and that the homes of the rich
are practically childless. In mile
OF palaces on Fifth avenue there are
only fifteen children under u years of
age.
The New York Herald says: Thomp-
son Hall, j. P, has disappeared from
Darlington, England, and is believed to
have taken refuge in this city. BY
system of deception extending over
long period of years he is accused of
having swindled widows and orphans
clergymen and business men. Although
only layman. he held the Bishop of
Durham's license to preach