The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-10-19
WORLDS NEWS -
CONDENSED

4 burglar dug his way out of Mo
desto Jail
Professor Wright, of Lick Observa-
tory. has married.
Judge W. F. Nichols was appointed
auditor of Arizona
A Baltimore syndicate seeks prices
of San Jose street railways.
Russia is to begin the construction
of the trans-Caspian railroad.
California Beekeepers Association
reports seven carloads Of honey on
hand.
Bulgarians have been arrested and
tortured to secure information of Miss
Stone.
A ten billion dollar company of east
ern capitalists has been incorporated IN
Arizona.
A g1eat fire was raging at Marinatte
Wis. on October Z, destroying several
large buildings.
The people of Tekva, Washington,
use fire hose on an individual of an
archistic tendencies.
Financial circles in France are feel
ing the effects of the collapse of rus
sian securities and banks.
The parliamentary elections at Lis
bon have resulted in a large majority
for the present government.
The fishing town of Sleveston, at the
mouth of Fraser river, was nearly de-
stroyed by an incendiary fire.
The Democrats of San Francisco
have nominated Joseph S. Tobin, at
present supervisor, for mayor
A series of some 1900 views OF San
Francisco will be taken by the Camera
Club of that city on October 10.
Mustangs, or desert horses, are 10
be killed by hunters, a grand hunt
having been organized to XII them off.
Two sections of freight train col
lided near Onward, Ind, on October
6. Four men were killed ind one in
jured.
Railroad commissioners reduce rates
for shipping crude petroleum from Ba-
kersfield to the coast from ~ to 37.8
cents.
In Kansas City fortune Of 100000
is awaiting /. Herbert Wisner and his
sister Bertha. They have not yet been
found
A department of Chinese will be
added to Columbia College, $4,000 hav-
ing been given by Dean Lung for this
purpose.
An eccentric Stockton man who dies
wills that his ashes shall be scattered
from the top of tall building in San
Francisco.
A six-story warehouse in Chicago,
be lorging to Barry Brothers, was de-
strcyef by fire on October 6. The loss
is 100000
The Huntington mansion, on Cal.for-
MIA and Taylor streets. in San Fran
cisco. is to be eventually given over to
some hospital.
Mr.. Haskell, the American mission
airy at Samanakoff, Bulgaria, opened
to reduce the ransom ask
ed for Miss Stone.
The great Aspen tunnel, on the IN
ion Pacific Railway, has been complet-
ed, and trains are running through it.
1t cost $4,000, 900.
A force of telephone linemen were
surrounded by strikers, whose place
they were going to take, at Akron. q.
Serious trouble may result.
The Pittsburg Clay Pottery Works N
Allegheny, were damaged by fire on
October 6 to an extent Of $2S0,o00. Six
firemen were badly injured.
A decree has been issued by Captain
Leary that all the sailors at League
Island navy yard must learn to sing
The Star Spangled Banner
DR.. b. Morton, resident physician at
Del Monte Hotel, accidentally shot
Head Clerk w. A. Johnson through the
eyes while on shooting expedition.
A new treatment by injecting cocaine
In the spinal column, the effect OF
which is to stop pain while preserving
has been successfully
tried at Stockton.
Appointments by the President: Ma
H. West, captain George
H. Stafford lieutenant commander;
Raymond Stewart, lieutenant; John NJ
Higgins, lieutenant.
A report from a committee in the
House of Bishops was presented decIar-
ing the expediency of appointing a
bishop for the Philippine Islands
without unnecessary delay.
Colombian Liberals fired on the Brit
sh steamer Quito, one cannon ball
making a hole in her above her water
mark. Shortly after the British war
ship Icarus left Panama for a destina- |
ton not made public.
France wants Russia to reduce the |
iuties on French wine and brandy, but |
Russia asks corresponding reductions |
n the duties on wheat and other asri- |
cultural products, as well as the revo-
cation of the sanitary rules affecting |
Russian cattle.
A dispatch from Managua, Nicara-
qua, October 8, says: Severe seismic
disturbances caused by volcanic action
n the Pacific, raising the level of the
ocean, occurred at o'clock last night.
The Pacific coast of Nicaragua was
Hooded to a depth of eight feet, and
much damage was done.