The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-01-31

of from escape and slid five stories down
la rope.
Ex-Postnaster James L. Hanna of Oak
land is dead.
Lazard Freres have shipped s., 400 900
gold to Paris.
Mr. Kruger has been warmly welcom-
led at Utrecht
An epidemic of diphtheria is prevalent
lin Lovelock. Nebraska.
| Sammy Loates, England's premier jock,
ley, is in San Francisco.
Lewis Edwards, noted San Francisco
crook, has been captured.
The Cincinnati Grand Opera House has
been entirely destroyed by fire.
The Bulgarian Cabinet has resigned on
account OF internal differences.
| The Daily News plant at Dawson was
destroyed by fire on January 18th.
| Oregon is divided between Corbett, Nc
Bride and Hermann for the Senatorship.
An office building of nine stories Will
be erected on the site of the Baldwin Iio-
tel.
| The twenty-first session of the Arizo-
ma Legislature began January q at fhoe-
nix.
| 1t is claimed that important petroleum
discoveries have been made IN Washing
ton.
| Vialliary Sheehy was killed at Watson
willie while monkeying with a loaded shot
gun.
General Manager Bortelman says the
Trans Siberian railroad is nearing com-
pletion.
/ Thomas Kearns is charged with buying
the Utah Senatorship by the Salt Lake
Tribune.
Admiral Silas Casey, commander of the
Pacific squadron, has arrived in San
Francisco.
Albert e. Kent, the late San Rafael
millionaire, bequeathed $4,000 to the Kent
Laboratory.
A bill was introduced into the Califor-
MIA Legislature limiting prize fights to
four rounds.
Low transcontinental rates are being
made by the railroad companies for the
winter travel.
In the matter of the Modesto irrigation
trouble the court has ordered an election
of officers called.
Governor Nash of Ohio and the Ohio
Congressional delegation will visit San
Francisco next May.
Matthew Reilly, a San Rafael saloon-
keeper, shot and killed W. F. Warburton
in a saloon last week.
The White Pass and Yukon road are
now blocked. Three hundred people are
snowbound at Skagway.
The interest of the German capital, it
bicentenary celebrations.
Russia has protested against the Brit
ish expedition to the Blonde Islands,
which she claims to own.
The alleged goldfields near the head
waters of the Kuskokwin river are said
to be an exploded Eldorado.
1t is believed that the low fares of the
Southern Pacific will induce colonists to
settle in the Western States.
The Ohio Anti-Saloon League is max
ing an agitation against using Wine in
the christening of battleships.
1t has developed that Chas. Walden, the
missing accountant at San Quentin, sold
$4,000 grain bags to a junk dealer.
| Sharkey and Maher have been match
ed to meet in a 20-round contest in Louis
vile during the month of February.
| On the 23d inst. the California Senate
passed a resolution to petition President
Mckinley for DR.. Kinyouns removal.
c. f. w. Nicely, the Cuban official has
been released from the order of arrest
under which he was held in $1,000 bail
Enemies of General Miles are working
to secure the advancement of some one
else to the rank of Lieutenant General.
John E. Dix, well-known philanthro-
pist of New York City, died at his home
on January 10 from cerebral hemorrhage.
First Lieutenant John Morrison, Jr., Ct
the Fourth Cavalry was shot from am
bush on January 18th near Gopan, p. J..
The transfer of titles of the Valley
Road properties have been about com,
pleted and Improvements win soon begin
The DUO de Broglie, the famous French
author, died at 1856 o'clock on the even
ing of January 20 at his home in Paris
The bill for the appropriation of mon
ley for the debris impounding dams on
the Yuba river was passed January 23d.
Thomas Kearns has been nominated
fnr Init tod tor
the Republican Senatorial caucus held in
Salt Lake City.
Judge Arthur H. Moves of the District
of Alaska is reported to have sent in his
resignation. He is an important factor
in the Nome scandal and litigation.
In a battle between safe-blowers and a
posse of citizens near F'lippen, Tenn, two
of the robbers were killed and two cap
tured. One of the posse was fatally shot
The Newlands bill relating to the eX-
tension of mining laws to saline lands
has passed the House. Its purpose Is to
permit the entry and patenting of lands
bearing salt.
Reports are to hand of wreck on the
Clover Leaf, Toledo, Kansas City & ST.
Louis Railroad near Warren, Ind, and
three physicians have been dispatched
from that town.
A bill has ben introduced in the Cali
fornia Senate by TyrrelI of San Fran
CISCO providing that eight hours consti-
tute working day on all State, county
or municipal contracts.
The Nevada Assembly has passed
resolution downing the Lottery bill, but
it is thought that it will be killed in the
Senate as the resolution is without record
or committee Endorsement.
The House of Representatives has
adopted a joint memorial to Congress
urging the adoption of a constitutions
al amendment for the election of United
States Senators by direct vote of the
people.
Important changes have been made in
the Indian bill. An increase of $S75, 900
in the total appropriation has been rec
commended. An amendment has also
been made opening reservations to pros
pectors.
United States Marshal Bennett sent
twenty deputies and ten Indian police to
the scene of the Snake Indian uprising,
but they were met with a fus1lade and
compelled to retire. One of the posse
name McNae was captured.
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