The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-07-09
NEWS OF WORLD
CONDENSED

Austria is importing American grain.
Sacramento river is to be dredged.
Mrs. Mckinley is able TO leave her
room.
The wheat crop of Europe is most
promising.
Riots are in progress in Alicante ana
in Madrid.
Philadelphia is now engaged in
fierce political strife.
George H. Moeler, the we'll known
sugar refner, is dead.
The Shamrock II showed good speed
ION her recent trial spin.
Merritt H. Weed, OF the Western
Sugar Refinery, is dead.
The Pynchton National Bank, OF
Springfield, Mass, has closed its doors.
A monument will be erected to the
late Stephen M White at Los Angeles.
Berlin banks have been only slightly
affected by the failure of the Leipziger
Bank
/ Louis A Garnett, an authority on
coinage and finance, died at Pacific
Grove, Cal
a million-dollar corporation will
build dry docks on the Columbia, at
Astoria, Oregon.
A great oil well struck near Denison,
Texas, Is said to be spouting oil to a
heighth of 400 feet.
The tinplate trust of the United
States has increased wages Of all its
men about 2 per cent.
A Williamsport, Pa, carpenter had a
fight with a catamount which nearly
resulted in the loss of his life.
Alvin l.. Croker, the mining broker,
who recently failed. hopes to pay all
his liabilities and have surplus.
Eight thousand acres of grain was
destroyed by fire in the eastern part
of San Joaquin county, California
Mr.. Kruger president of the late
South African republic was given an
enthusiastic reception in Rotterdam.
A portrait of Lady Manners, after
ward Countess of Dysart. by Sopner,
was sold at auction in London for S72,-
600.
Striking laborers at Rochester, n. Y,
, had an encounter with the police, and
eleven police and twenty strikers were
! injured.
AT negro picnic in ST. Louis recent
! ly, cutting and shooting ARRAY took
place in which several persons were
! injured.
/ The American Pillow Company has
/ been organized at Trenton, n. j., to alb
sorb all the plow manufactures in the
country.
Enrique Muller, wealthy Mexican
| capitalist, was accidentally killed by
the discharge of pistol that he was
examining.
The Southern Pacific has taken ex.
ception to the manner in which its
property was assessed by the officers
of Nevada
During a fierce electric storm about
Pittsburg several persons were killed
streets were blockaded and bridges
| washed away.
Secretary Hay has announced that hs
will stay at the head of the State De
partment until the close of President
McKinley's term.
By the burning Of the Central Hotel
of Bakersfield, Cal, two lives were los
and several people injured, the proper
ty loss being $4,000.
Senator Hanna has given $4,000 t
Kenyon College, Gambler, Ohio, for tn,
erection of dormitory to be called
Politicians Barracks"
The chamber of commerce of King
ston, Jamaica, has asked that 800
Boer prisoners be sent to Jamaica, OF
fering money and farms.
Harriet DENLY, niece of ex-Ministe
to China, Charles DENLY. eloped from
her home in Connecticut, with Ton
Fleming, the ball player.
The federal assembly at Melbourne
expelled Mr.. Findley, editor of a labo
paper, who reprinted an attack on tn,
King taken from an Irish journal.
A Filipino sergeant of police who en-
ticed an American soldier into hi
house, and after making him drunk
killed him, has been sntenced to hang