The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-08-01

cansed a loss of 500, 900 last week.
/ s transfers strike had traffic tied
ND in San Francisco at last reports.
/ Germany is preparing to raise the
duty on grain and all kinds OF meat
/ Ex-Judge Duboise, of Alameda, viii
serve six months in jail for contempt
| a party of French scientists are test
ling the intelligence of various animals
s. large posse has organized in Ten
pessee to battle with the moonshiners
| The new Russian cruiser Nowik has
| a speed of twenty-five knots an hour
/ II is reported that Lord Roberts VIII
| be paid half a million by Parliament
/ 4 Kansas woman welded a hatchel
in saloon where her sons gambled
Professor Wetzei, OF Yale, says there
| is a growing spirit OF unbelief in Am
/ erica
The Baptists are having a big con
| yention at Twin Lakes, near santa
Cruz.
4 party of scientists in Colorado has
discovered the remains OF a great steg-
Mrs. Nation has been fined 800 and
sent to jail for thirty days, in Topeka,
again.
4 young San Jose man had his hon
| eymoon interrupted by an arrest Tor
bigamy.
The steamers between Australia and
| Dit " NC 49,
Lascars.
| Lord Kitchener has committed the
| death sentences OF thirty-four Boer
| prisoners.
The British government has declined
to release the Americans captured with
the Beers.
Angus A Grant, the well known
railroad builder, died in San Francisco
last week.
A Paris doctor claims that he can
make women grow taller by a stretch
/ ing process.
Disorder and suffering are feared in
| Oklahoma over the opening OF the
| 900 claims.
| An old topper of Healdsburg. Ore. was
cured Of his love for whisky by dose
Of strychnine.
| A Riverside woman recently drove
away her daughters sutton with a
carving knife.
a runaway Pullman collided with a
| train on the Mexican Central, and
many were hurt.
An oily product of German brown
coal tar called ..masut," is being sub
stituted for coal.
| Gen. William Ludlow, invaded home
from the Philippines. has arrived at his
New Jersey home.
/ Lord Roberts has ordered that car
bines shall replace the sword in dis
mounted cavalry.
| The annual meeting of the American
/ Bar Association is to take place al
/ Denver on July 20.
| The little daughter of Monroe Stew
art of San Bernardino, was burned
| 10 death last week.
One man was killed and another
wounded by q premature blast, at Los
| Angeles, last week.
| Two young Americans are in trouble
| for the violation of the Mexican laws
/ in Lower California
1 No official action has been taken in
regard to turning of the electric light
| ing plant in Yosemite.
/ The Southern Pacific has refused K
lower its freight rates for the SaI
Joaquin Valley farmers.
An anarchist, plotting to kill Italy's
king was betrayed recently through Z
letter to his sweetheart
An unknown schooner recently burn.
ed and sank on Marinette, Wisconsin
during an electrical storm.
A West Virginia mob hanged ne
gro to a tree in park for fatally
! wounding chief of police.
| Signorina Alfonsina Orsini. daughter
Of noble Italian family, has taken tn.
veil and will go to China.
A recent decision rendered by Judgt
Trout, of San Francisco, adds mors
millions to the Fair fortune.
An old couple, nearly seventy years
of age. were recently remarked, hav
ing been divorced for years.
Two million dollars IN duties are tt
be returned, being taxes paid before
| the Foraker law became effective.
| The New York courts consider thai
| Howard Gould was unfairly treated iF
| the recent breach of promise suit.
| The budget committee Of the cham
! Der of deputies has voted to abolish
the French embassy at the Vatican.
/ Senator T. c. Platt and Whitelaw
Reid, of New York, after a ten-year
| feud, are now on the best of terms.
| The King of Italy has invited the
United States to take part in Italy's
exposition OF modern decorative art.
| A Californian in New York recently
committed suicide because he owed a
| debt of $50 which he could not pay
A. 2. Cummings, Republican, candi-
date for the governorship of Iowa, was
seriously hurt in a runaway last week.
A new electric lighting company in
Los Angeles makes no charge to its
patrons, and q war is on with its riv-
ais.
It is reported that the Reichstag will
pass law requiring American i'm
porters to make out authenticated in
voices.
Six thousand acres were burned over
by fire near Modesto last week. a
number of barns, filed with hay, were
burned.
The Japanese of New York say they
are not afraid of an exclusion act as
they do not believe Congress would
pass one.
Secret service men have recently dis
covered some clever counterfeit
schemes, banknotes being printed from
old plates.
Measures are being taken by the
Oklahoma government to prevent fraud
by double registration in the matter
of land claims.
An alleged German count who SAYS
he comes with secret mission landed
at Vancouver, on his way to San Fran
cisco, last week.
The Epworth League convention at
San Francisco closed after an excel
lently attended session, which aroused
much enthusiasm.
The Governor of Porto Rico has laid
before President Mckinley resolutions
passed by the Porto Rican Legislature
for local taxation.
Some blood-stained clothing was