The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-07-24

G. H. Allen, Governor Of Porto Rlco,
may become ambassador to Italy.
Sixty thousand orange trees are being
sent from California to Honduras.
Grant Gillespie may succeed the late
Adelbert Hay as Consul at Pretoria.
The Earl of Roslyn has made a failure
as drummer for a cattle cake firm.
A Philadelphia millionaire has left
fund to provide for disabled teachers.
Many houses have been swept away by
hurricane on the Guatemala coast
An aged Californian, James A. King,
has welded q young bride in Illinois.
An American manufacturer has pro-
posed to buy all the Belgian glass works.
An income of 100000 per year is now
needed to move in high English society.
French burglars are making raid on
the jewels of the American colony in
Paris
Admiral Mello of Brazil has been
cleared of the charge of monarchical
plotting.
The United States will support Japan's
claim for an enlargement of her in
demnity
Fifteen Polish students are On trial at
Posen for belonging to national patriotic
societies.
Minstrel Billy West is dangerously i'll
of an abscess of the mouth caused by
smoking.
London trade circles favor the pro-
jected European trade combine against
America.
London is near to a financial panic
owing to a heavy decline in the prices
of stocks.
r. H. Newell, the htmorist known as
"Orpheus C. Kerr" was found dead in
New York.
Prince Chun is now en-route to Ger
many to apologize for the murder of
Won Ketteler.
Chicago man, victim of an accident,
is living with his head nearly severed
from his body.
With the censorship off the Manila
press is abusing the American military
administration.
Hugh Tevis' will divides his estate of
81 O00,O 900 between his widow and his
daughter Alice.
Eight Italians and a trainman were
killed by the collapse of bridge at
Springfield, Pa.
Major Gen. Smith-Dorrien has been
made Adjutant General of the British
forces in India
j. Pierpont Morgan has bought the
Chilean section of the Transandean rail
way for 100000.
Methuen defeated a force of Beers in
the Transvaal, killing four and captur-
ing forty-seven.
The Botkin case will be tried again,
the Delaware witnesses promising to ap-
pear and testify.
Acting President Shalkberger's wife
has been captured by the British and
taken to Pretoria.
Julius Eilenstein has sued Los An
geles woman for SO, 900 damages in
breach of promise.
Olive Schreiner, the authoress, Is in
British custody for having espoused the
cause of the Beers.
Edison wins a fortune by the decision
giving him his rights as the inventor
of moving pictures.
A British school of naval strategy,
fashioned on the United States establish
ment, is to be started.
The discovery of a new throat disease
by DR.. Koenig, an American doctor, in
terests French scientists.
A boiler explosion on an excursion boat
at Sunbury, Pa, killed two boys and in
jures5 dozen other persons.
Lt.Kjaw and death came of wound
from toy pistol in the hands of ten
year-old boy at Portland, Ore.
Major General Sir William Nicholson
has been appointed director of military
intelligence in the British army
The body of murdered Chinese at San
Jose has been boiled to secure the bullets
needed in evidence against the criminals.
A woman, unable to get her money
after business hours, circulated false re-
ports and caused a run on an Ohio
bank.
The Tribune's London correspondent
discredits the reported engagement of
Lord Rosebery and the Duchess of AL
bany.
White fishermen on the Frazer river
have got the fisheries away from the
To,
them.
Harry Craven, grandson of Rear Adj
miral Craven, has gone insane because
of a hazing he got at Annapolis, four
years ago.
English engineers are in Jamaica to
enquire into the failure of English loco
motives to do the same work as Ameri-
can locomotives.
n. H. Copeland, an insance passenger on
an East-bound Union Pacific train, muir
dered fellow-passenger whom he said
had hypnotized him.
Admiral Crowninshield is not popular
in Washington and the statement that
he will command the European squadron
next year is adversely criticised.
search of the effects of W. N DIM
mick, chief clerk of the San Francisco
mint, shows that he knew the combina-
ton of the vault that was robbed of
$4,000.
Agricultural conditions are bad in
Europe and Germany, France, Austria,
Italy, Switzerland, Spain and Great Brit
ain will have to draw on the United
States for food.
H. Phelps Whitmarsh, Governor of
Benguet, has been ordered to Manila to
be examined on the charge that he had
a scrap with Otto Scherer, secretary of
that province, who dsagrees with the
Governors views of administration
In decree made public at Picking. the
Dowager Empress orders Chinese Min
listers now abroad to report to her the
names of young Chinese in foreign coun-
tries who have shown special abilities
in the various professions, with a view
of bringing them back to China. at the
Governments expense, where they will
be eligible for office.
A Salt Lake dispatch says: Judge Hall
of the United States Supreme Court to-
day rendered his decision in the celebrat-
ed Hilton-Park case, the Court holding
that the ceremony of sealing perform
ed in 1872 was purely a religious ceremony
affecting the lives of Mrs Hilton and
DR.. Park only in the hereafter, and was
not a marriage ceremony known to or