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


fire.
A thunder storm caused a flood IN
London, and stopped the underground
cars.
| Kitchener confirms the story that
! Beers shot British wounded at Wax
fontein.
Many insurgents have yielded in Sa-
mar, P. L. and the island will soon be
pacified.
The center of the city of Batoum,
! Russia, has been wrecked by a boiler
J explosion.
| A dinner given by Jacob Greenawald
/ of Philadelphia had $50 gold pieces as
souvenirs.
Dave Crockett's big adobe gambling
house at Naco, AriZ., was held up and
! robbed of $1,000
The Danish Liberal Cabinet favOrs
! the sale of the West Indian islands to
! the United States.
Russia is building gunboats to patrol
| Manchurian rivers, and is also forti-
! flying central ports.
| The Democratic State Committee OF
! South Carolina has read Senator Nc
Laurin out of the party.
! The new White Star liner Celtic, the
! largest vessel. ever built, left Liverpool
/ July % ON her maiden trip
| Aguinaldo has written to the mother
of a captured American soldier and
viii try and find him for her.
F. Marion Crawford fell over a clif
into the sea while visiting the island
of Jersey, and nearly lost his life.
Two members of an English party
were dashed to death on the Matter
horn, and two others severely hurt.
The Manchurian revolt is serious.
Villages and hamlets have been de-
| stroyed, and hundreds of people kill
ed
Thirty-two returned soldiers from
South Africa refused to be decorat ID
on the ground that they needed n cir
arrears pay more.
The Chinese reform board has been
ordered by the court to copy from
| western nations and make China rich
and powerful State.
A beautiful American girl in Paris
| has asked to be taken into an asylum.
saying that she has an uncontrollabEe
! desire TO kill babies.
1t is thought that Andres balloon,
owing to humidity in the atmosphere
when it left Spitzbergen, got a coatIrs
OF ice and fell into the sea.
Vincent Biasioi a San Francisco
stone carver, set fire to his fat to Sc
cure the $500 insurance money, with
which he planned to get married
Floods in San Pedro Valley, Arizona,
washed away ten miles of railroad
|
threaten the town of Fairbanks.
While Miss ANNA Hashlund was try
ing to save a companion from drown
ing in the Tuolumne river at Modesto,
Cal, she was carried away and drown
ed
a nine-year- old boy at San Bernar-
dino, Cal, got a stick of dynamite,
mistook it for a firecracker and set it
off, being seriously, probably fatally.
wounded.
| During a stormy scene in the House
of Commons, on the debate on taxation
of agricultural property, William Red
mond and Patrick O'Brien were nam
ed" and suspended.
Former Chief Justice Elmore Scott,
of the Washington Supreme Court, has
| been arrested at New Whatcom, that
! State, charged with criminaIly assault
! ing Minna Schaeffer. a fifteen-year- old
/ girl.
The United States has entered suit
against Captain Oberlin NJ. Carter, and
/ his uncle, Lorenzo d. Carter, for 81
| 100000, alleged to have been embez-
/ zled by that officer.
/ The first anniversary of the assassin
! alton of King Humbert of Italy was
observed by hundreds of thousands CT
| people who made q pilgrimage to the
/ tomb at the Pantheon.
| Jew Do Hong, a Chinese boy, fifteen
years 1old, was shot and killed at San
| Francisco by Jew Lin Ong. A feud be-
| tween their fathers in China is the
cause assigned for the killing
| A Boer minister declared IN Chicago
| that the rate at which women and
children We're dying in the Dutch con-
| centration camps meant the eXtermi-
nation of the race in nine years.
Indications are that Corea is the
Oriental storm center, as Russia using
France to secure the privileges, wants
to build a railroad to Masampho, the
fine port of the south, from which a
descent on Japan would be easy
w. ]. Bryan, in an interview at Chill
licothe. H., still expresses his adher-
ence to the silver doctrine, and is not
unwilling to be considered a presiden-
tial candidate at the proper time.
Con and Florence Sullivan, of Butte
Mont, and p j. Rooney. of Seattle
were killed by Indians on Unimak ISL
and, Alaska. D. Jackson, who escaped
says the Indians first stole the guns OF
the prospectors, then slew them from
ambush.
A motion to compel the publisher oil
the London Daily Mail to appear before
the House of Commons was defeated
Secretary Broderick had charged tht
Mail with buying secrets of the wal
department, and the editor replied BY
/ saying the charges were DaSeleSS anS
mean.
In a fight between the Beers ant
British near Uquinta, July 2Sth, the
English troops narrowly escaped tn,
loss of a gun. The British lost five
killed. General Kitchener reports the
capture of pompom, twenty-five wag
ons and twenty-three prisoners, at the
same battle.
Brooklyn bridge is in bad condition
owing to overlooking and to a scan
dalous neglect of the structure on tn
part of the Tammany bridge. commits
sioners Woodwork has decayed, stee
cables have rusted for lack of paint
the rods that broke were eaten hal
way through, and the floor of tn
structure says six inches
The directors of the Metropoiital
Railway of London have declined tn
| offer of Charles T. Yerkes to introduce
electricity into their system, partly be
cause they are unwilling to surrende
control of the line. Mr.. Yerkes ant
, his associates offer to guarante 91s pe
cent on the ordinary stock instead o