The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-05-03

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Napa is preparing for League of the
| Cross celebration.
! A huge store trust Is said to have been
/ completed in St. Louis.
| The London coal miners are protesting
/ against the export tax.
/ The loss by recent floods at Pittsburg
| is estimated at $1,000, 900.
/ Cold weather has greatly damaged the
cotton crops in Georgia.
| The rival oil company fight at Bakers
| field is still in progress
The new bridge over the East river is
| rapidly near completion.
! Heavy loss of life at Cape Nome caus-
| ed by blizzard is reported.
An unknown man In boat was swept
| over Niagara Falls last week
| It is said that American exporters may
gain by England's new taxes.
| The Beers captured train near Mon
| teno, Cape Colony, on April 49,
| Little damage was done at the Buffalo
Exposition by the recent storms
/ 1t is reported that great coal deposits
| have been discovered in Iceland
Mountain lions are killing stock near
! San Diego in disastrous numbers.
A new and definite survey is to be
made of the Canadian boundary
The smallpox epidemic is reported
among the Port Townsend Indians.
1t is reported that the Duke and Ouch
ess of Marlborough have separated.
| 1t is reported from Harrismith that
! General De Wet has few followers
| A combine is being organized in Chi
cage to check Hills railroad schemes.
! new and rich gold strike is reported
on Ell Dorado creek, British Columbia.
NJ. Delcasse the Foreign Minister, left
Paris for st. Petersburg on April 20th.
Joel c. Goldenburg of New York re-
Gently died and left s2,OOO,OoO to charity.
| Over 100 Beers, with wagons and rifles,
surrendered near Biddleburg on April q.
Mrs. Nations arrest is causing a cru
| SADIE against Sunday saloons in Kansas
| City
| Three hundred dollars were taken by
burglars from Bakersfield butcher
| shop
Five little children were butchered in
| their beds last week in France by rob
bers.
| .eHonest Tom" Sampson, the famous
| mining detective, died in New York re-
Gently.
1t is said that the Turks suffered de-
feat at the hands of the Arab rebels in
Yemen.
Admiral Schley at last reports was be-
| ing sumptuously entertained at Rio de
Janeiro.
The officers of the First National Bank
of Vancouver, which failed. are now
missing.
The Alabama Democrats propose to
disfranchise the negroes by new con.
stitution.
1t is said that the visit of Minister Del
casse to the Russian capital has no sig
nificance.
VIM. H. Pope of Santa Fe has been
appointed special attorney for the Pueb-
10 Indians.
| Sailors are scarce on Puget Sound and
the boarding house keepers are reaping
a harvest.
A big fight is being made against the
masters of Chinese slave girls in San
Francisco.
The Illinois Central machinists have
struck for a nine-hour a day limit and
higher wages.
Arthur Rast, a penniless young man
| of Riverside Cal, has fallen heir to
| fortune in Illinois.
Two hundred persons met death in the
wreck of the Turkish transport Arlan,
| off Constantinople.
| The Treasury at Washington IS wor-
| ried by the Wall street stock boom,
! which Is alarming.
! Chief Sullivan of the San Francisco
| Fire Department is to go to fires in an
automobile hereafter. +s;4r
| John M Clark, the Chicago nagnate,
| has admitted that there is to be a tele-'
| phone combine formed
1t is rumored in Salt Lake City that
James Hill is backing Senator Clark in
| his railroad enterprise.
| 1t is said that deep distrust Prevails
| in Germany in regard to Italy's new
| friendship with France.
Ernest Seton Thompson, the writer of
animal stories. win give a series of lee
lures in San Francisco.
The bachelor debts of Prince Henry are
WOrryipO Oueep Wi1bp1mipa who saws
he must pay them himself
Francois soon to remove many troops
from China. Foreign residents think
this action should be delayed
Military operations in Manchuria have
been resumed by the Cars forces and
| activity is renewed in Russia.
1t is said by those familiar with the
| region that the tale of a hundred frozen
miners on the Yukon is myth.
The eight-footed horse of the Chicago
dime museum, after living forty-ffve
years, died last week Of old age.
1t is said that hundreds of bogus Chi
nese certificates have been sold from a
plate made in British Columbia
A London paper takes hostile stand
against the United States, fearing the
danger of combine of great power.
Ii Hung Chang has been sharply rep
rimanded in an edict which holds him
accountable for the German expedition
E. v. Methever, convicted of murder
ing a young girl at Los Angeles is try
ing to starve himself to death in his
CELL
Thomas Mason, g. prosperous Klondike
ciaim-owner, is accused of having for
merly murdered his wife and child in
Oakland.
The widow of De Lesseps, who figured
in the financial scandals that stirred the
French political world, has again VEN
tured into society.
Napa and Sonoma counties are excited
over big oil discoveries and a new oil
center may be established in that sec
ton of California.
A Hill special train recently broke the
record by going from st. Paul to Seattle
in forty-fve hours, at the rate Of eighty
four miles to the hour.
The Reichstag has passed the copy
right bill which gives German authors
rights on dramatic and musical produc-
tions from thirty to fifty years.
A letter has been received at Wash
ington from A. L. Lawshe, auditor of the
Philippines, in which no mention is
made of the alleged postal frauds.
Gunner Morgan, whose name was
brought into prominence by Admiral
SIMPSONS criticism of enlisted men as
officers has sI,ed his wife for di,,oroa