The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-08-09
NEWS OF WORLD
CONDENSED

The run Of salmon is unusually large
in the far north.
Watermelons are selling at Fresno
| Cal, at 80 cents "a load
Twenty-six salmon canneries have
beer. absorbed by the trust.
Martial law for Boer prisoners has
been. proclaimed in Bermuda.
The steamer Rustler, of Juneau, is
on the rocks in the far north.
Maryland Democrats will undertake
| to climate the negro from politics.
Manti Utah, was inundated by a
cloudburst and suffered much damage.
The House of Commons has adopted
Lord Roberts half million dollar reso-
! luton.
Several country towns in California
may be connected by an automobile
system.
An edict of the Sultan of Turkey pro
hibits the teaching of his subjects by
foreigners.
The L. S. S. Concord will spend the
summer in the Aleutian islands in re-
| connoisance
No agreement had been reached July
! 30th at the conference of steel men held
at Pittsburg.
King Edward has recommended that
| Earl Roberts be given 100000 for
| eminent services.
lone highwayman held up a stage
near Ukiah, Cal, and robbed the pas
sengers, getting IS.
Vice President Zanartu, of Chile, has
resigned as protest against further
military operations
The War Department has warned
Capt T. L. schley. U. S. a, not TO talk
about his fathers case.
Blockhouses may be built along
South African railroads to protect
them from Boer raiders.
The report that the new British bat
tleship Glory has gone ashore on the
Chinese coast is denied.
Edward H Sheldon, secretary Of the
Oceanic Steamship Company, died at
San Francisco, July 20
Reprisals against Germany are
threatened if the proposed tariff
changes are inauguraIed.
Boxers threaten. if the indemnity
house tax is collected, to rise again
and drive out all foreigners.
The British squadron has left Hong
kong under sealed orders, after taking
on board coal, ammunition and stores
The report that the Belgian and Ital-
ian missionaries to Northern Mongolia
have been massacred has been disprov-
ed.
American railways lead the world ex-
cept IN the number of passengers car
led, England being ahead in that re-
spect.
Corey's Haymarket a notorious ten
derlOin resort of New York, Is 10 be
converted into a house or worship ev-
cry Sunday night.
A Boer commando with two guns has
encamped in Portuguese East Africa.
Unless they surrender the Portuguese
viii attack them.
a London company has secured a
klondike creek water right from the
crown, and viii supply the hillside and
bench claims of the gold district in
Wuleng.
George II Phillips, the Chicago corn
king, has transferred his open accounts
to another firm, but expects to resume
business as soon as his accounts are
Strengthened out.
A dispatch from Lord Kitchener, at
Pretoria, says: French reports that
he has received letter from Kritzin-
ger Ga Boer commander), announcing
his intention to shoot all natives in
British employ, whether armed or I'M
armed. Many cases of cold-blooded
murder of natives in Cape Colony
have recently occurred"
Three negroes implicated in the muir
der of Mr.. and Mrs. r. T. Taliaferro,
at Carrollton, Miss, were taken from
the Jail there on the afternoon of Au-
gust /, and lynched. The negroes were
mother daughter and son. The daugh-
ter broke down and confessed. Gov
ernor Longino made an Intellectual at
tempt to stop the lynching.
Marie George, the actress, while
coming upon the stage of the Knicker-
booker Theater in an automobile nearly
lost her life. The auto jumped the in
cline supposed to represent hill road
and Miss George was thrown out. be-
ing knocked senseless. She was saved
from serious harm by the fact that
some side scenery broke the force of !
her fall.
On July 2Sth an officers patrol of
twenty yeOmanry and some native
scouts followed two carts and few
Beers fifteen miles from the railway al
Doom river, Orange River Colony,
where they were cut off by 200 Beers
and, after defending themselves in a
small building, they surrendered when
their ammunition was exhausted
Three yeomanry We're wounded After
the surrender the Beers made the ma
tive scouts throw up their hands and
shot them in cold blood They after
ward shot and wounded a yeomau. The
remainder Were released. The Beers
gave as reason for shooting the yeo-
man that they thought he was Cape
boy. Evidence on oath has been
taken of the murders.
To Beautify Washington.
NEW YORK. August 2-Fredaric,,