The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-06-24
NEWS OF WORLD
CONDENSED

The revenue cutter Grant is in shape
again.
| The British troops will soon leave
Picking.
Col. M. P. Maus is again on General
Miles staff.
! The Washington Legislature conven-
| ed on the 18th.
| The rumor that the Pope is i'll. has
no foundation.
The Santa Fe viii not establish a
trans-Pacific line.
| The Japanese cooks and walters at
| Tacoma are on strike.
| A new electric road is to connect Los
Angeles and Pasadena.
| Eastern capital will erect a big Oil
refinery at Stockton, Cal
| Minister Conger will sail from San
Francisco for China on July nth.
| Richard Rowland Hunt, the New
York architect, is married again.
| Melville Chester, the notorious Swind-
Ter, has been captured in Chicago.
| Rear Admiral Walker says that the
Nicaragua Canal is not impracticable.
| A protected cruiser has been detail
| ed to protect American interests in
Corea.
| Germany has again denied that she
will intervene in the Boer-English
affair
| A new Russian line of steamers is to
connect San Francisco with the Siber-
ian Railway.
i The Paris Figaro shareholders are
dissatisfied with NJ. Perivier, the pres
| ent manager.
| The Lieutenant Lee who was killed In
son, as reported.
The Beers are reported to have in
vaded Cape Colony and taken posses
sion Of Mountain Mex.
! The national meeting of the Mystic
Shriners at Kansas City is one of the
biggest things of the year
A pearl, for which the owner refuses
| $40, 000 has been discovered near the
mouth of the Mississippi river.
A travelling salesman and an actress
committed suicide in a Chicago hotel,
having spent all their money.
Thirty men went down into Penn
sylvania coal mine to fight fire, and all
but three We're burned, June 10.
An aged Los Angeles lady, while
asleep, walked off a Denver train last
week, but was only slightly hurt
Count Stanislaus de Castellane,
brother of Boni, is to wed a daughter
of Terry, the Cuban millionaire.
King Edward distributed medals for
the South African heroes on June IL.
Lord Roberts was first on the list.
From eating canned salmon, the Rev.
William Fawcett, pioneer minister of
Illinois, died in Chicago last week.
DR.. Unger and DR.. Wayland Brown,
the Chicago insurance swindlers, have
been found guilty and sent to prison.
President Sabin says that $5,000.08
must be raised at once to save the Gen.
trail Union Telephone Company Of Chi
cago.
The Cabinet members called at the
White House June 10th to express
pleasure in Mrs. McK1nley's improved
condition.
Mabel L. Bent Smith College stu
dent, has been arraigned on eleven
charges of theft. Her offerings amount
to something like $4,000.
Charles H. Ledsinger, the only sur
viving member of a famous Southern
family, was killed by the northbound
owl train, near Fresno, on the 18th.
machine for testing the activities
by Prof. Carl Seashore, of the Iowa
State University. He calls 1t the .'Psy-
chograph.''
John I. Sabin has called upon the
stockholders of the Central Union Tele-
phone Company to furnish $4,000. 900,
AS a result, stocks have gone down
with rush.
with the Sultan of Jolo, who has q pet
ty kingdom in the southern part of the
Philippines. He says this country Is
trespassing upon his pearl fisheries.
The coroner's jury that sat at the
inquest of William Brown, the colored
bootblack who was killed by Willard
Griffin in Los Angeles, said he provok-
ed the quarrel that led to his death.
Patrick Clark, the big mining man OF
of Moscow, Idaho, and Chas. Sweeny,
a big operator, are at law. The former
charges the latter with swindling him
out Of 100000 in a big mining deal