The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-06-14
NEWS OF WORLD
CONDENSED

Peter BAH, the San Jose oFcndTuise' 10
dead.
Pugilist Jeffries is now in Los An
geles.
The big Tombstone. Ariz., mines have
been re-opened.
Rich mining districts have been discov-
cred IN Ecuador
Viscount Katsura has formed new
Cabinet in Japan.
The provincial government of Cavite
has been established.
Two new bridges over the Hudson riv-
err are soon to be built.
No trace can be found of John Dix, the
missing Tacoma banker.
The passion play continues to draw
large crowds in San Jose.
Isaac c.. Stoddard has been made Sec
rotary of Arizona Territory.
1t is said that the Weare Company are
cornering wheat in Chicago.
Francis II. Snow has resigned as chan
cellor of Kansas University.
The Kings Daughters are holding a
convention in San Francisco.
The Clayton-Bulwer treaty was accept
ed by the Nlcaraguan congress.
The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and
York sailed for Auckland June 9Th.
William H. Newman is now president
of the New York Central Railroad.
George Vierling, the noted composer,
died June 4 at the age of 81, in Berlin.
The smelling works at Copperopolis,
Cal, burned to the ground last week.
The latest special reports are that
Mrs. Mckinley shows great improvement.
William H. Daniels, a Santa Rosa boy,
was killed by a fall from a tree recently.
DR.. John a. Dowie of Chicago, who
thinks he is Elijah, has been declared in
sane.
General Merriam is authorized to use
troops to eject squatter settlers in Okla
homa.
Rev. E. w. Parker, the Methodist mis-
sonary Bishop, died in southern Asia re-
Gently.
The Oceanic returned to New York on
June s. having damaged one of her pro-
pellors.
A national manufacturers meeting was
held last week in Denver to discuss reel
procity.
The Bernhard opera season opened in
London on June 3 with an enthusiastic
reception.
Beatrice Terry, the child actress, niece
Of Ellen Terry, has already made hit
in London.
Seventeen Filipinos have been ordered
deported from San Francisco back to the
Philippines.
Annie Clark, daughter of a Denver edi-
tor, was killed last week by a falling
lumber pile.
Prussia and other large German States
have abandoned the idea Of the so-called
double tariff.
Heron, the Socialist preacher of the
Des Moines Congregational Church, has
been expelled.
Mark Hanna has been made a colonel
on the staff of the commander-in-chief of
the G. A. r.
Jayier Yea, manager of the telegraph
lines at Juarez, is suspected of defalcat-
ing with $4,000
The U. s. S. Mayfiower has gone
south to keep in touch with the Vene-
zuelan situation.
Sir Alfred Hickman has reasserted his
charge that American locomotives are in
ferior to English.
In a big grain fire in the Los Banos,
Cal, foothills, thousands of dollars loss
was suffered recently.
Patrick brick, a Colusa murderer, con-
victed in 1885, has been pardoned by Gov
ernor Gage of California.
The performance of "Cyrano de Ber-
gerac" has been stopped in Constants
nople as a revolutionary play.
Major George Arthur U.S.A., son of
p. Nj. Arthur, chief of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers, Is dead.
There was a recent riot of foreign SOL
diers in China, in which British, French,
German and Japanese participated.
The Dowager Duchess of Newcastle
may become nun. She has for many
years been devoted to religious work.
Two thousand five hundred natives
have gathered at Chilliwick, B. c.. to wit
ness the passion play by the Indians
there.
Nine. r. Ross. a pretended clairyoyant
recently duped a number of Tacoma peo-
pie and disappeared with their jewelry
and money.
George E. Roberts, director of the
United States minis, is now in San
Francisco on a tour of inspection of
Western mints.
The adoption of the design of Admiral
SIMPSONS face on the Santiago medals
has stirred up a protest from Admiral
Schley's friends.
Poisoned ice cream at an Antioch, Cal
picnic nearly caused a number of deaths
The prompt assistance of a physician
saved the victims.
The Leyland steamer Assyrian, from
Antwerp for Montreal, with 1000 tons of
cargo. is ashore on Cape Race and is
likely to be a total wreck
Frank j. Lascalles, of a noted Van
couver English family, recently shot and
killed a Chinese cook. He was regarded
as being harmlessly insane.
There was a collision on the Santa Fe
railroad near bakersfield last week, in
which the engineer broke his leg and a
conductor was severely injured.
Recent experiments with maximite at
Sandy Hook show that it will destroy
great ships. A bomb was fired through
a Pinch plate and exploded inside.
Three fashionaule weddings have re-
Gently enlivened New York society. These
were the Lehr-Dahlgren, the Goodridge-
Iselin and the Stillman-Potter nuptials
1t is said that lake of oil all ready
to burn has been found in Mexico near
the Gulf of California, which is the most
wonderful discovery of the kind ever
made.
Rev. George E. Dye. pastor of the Will
lows, Cal, Baptist Church, has been
forced to leave the town on account of
a scandal in which Mrs. Klemmer, a
leading member of the church, was in
volved.
The Northern Pacific Railroad war has
ended peaceably in a giant combine. Har-
riman may get the Santa Fe system and
that railway consolidation of great