The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-08-20
ORIENTAL
BUDGET 7
Arrival Of the Two
Celebrated
EIopers.
NSIIRGENTS BEAT
CHINESE AND RUSS
I,naDess Securities--Siamese Want
wsrship American Sentenced
for Lootins Near Peking.

,yaK0HAAlA. Aug. 1O.-Among the
Y passengers on the Nippon, Maru,
g.ch arrived Sunday from San
--,....e were a Mr.. and Mrs. Smith,
are none other than Lady Frances
g,.- formerly May Yohe, the well
.,.ur actress. and Major Putnam Brad
=. Strong. ate Of the L. S, army, from
...4 he recently resigned. According
.-s San Francisco Chronicle, Lady
u,.. ms been the central figure in at
.,.- s.z extensively published stories of
alliances with prominent men. Then she
usr1e5 the English lord and reached
no climax Of her theatrical aspirations.
,asr four OF five years of lavish ex-
,.r5i,urs their welded life faded to the
,r,sy routine of threatened financial dis
ms. Lord Hope was ruined man.
ONLY family jewels remained, and they
,agLl not be sold. The chance of inherit
ng his brothers. dukedom apd the i'm
nense fortune was good, but it was un-'
,.ra9 and distant. Lady Hope did not
ars TO wait. She met and admired Put
IAN Bradlee Strong in Europe and ac-
gnpanied him to America. She enter
aasd him for months at her fat in
yF York city, and she refused to re-
.al to London with her Hege lord.
Major Putnam Bra0lee Strong is the
only son of the late multi-millionaire,
William L. Strong, who was Mayor of
New York from 1894 to 1S9S. Young
Strong was here in San Francisco in 1898
a. a Captain of Volunteers, acting as
Assistant Adjutant-General on the staff
Of Major-General Wesley Merritt. He
Tas4he youngest officer of the command,
and mis- appointment had come because
0. his own social and militia prominence
2 New York, because of the wealth and
sanding Of his father, and because Of
aS iamily's intimacy with people high
L. authority at Washington.
in the Philippines he distinguished
himself by special service and was
Seyetted Major of volunteers. Strong is
Lnguist and speaks German, French
22d Spanish. Because of his knowledge
o. Spanish and some Tagal he had pick
= up in the islands he was entrusted
VI February. 1899, with the important
MISSION Of forcing his way fourteen miles
" NE headquarters of a rebel command
Il Win messages from General Mac
arthur who sent warning to the insur-
ssh' chief to live up to a former agree
4eht Shortly after that he returned to
ls United States.
Aa!'F Strong has had romantic affairs
.7g'e nov. Not long after his arrival
NE Philippines persistent stories came
.@.A 10 the effect that he had woed
.I- Won the late Princess Kaiulani while
~ ~ transport was lying at Honolulu on
way to Manila. The rumor of his
-sagement TO the beautiful Princess
'o-lo not down for long time.
+auy Frances Hope, formerly May
IS. IS no stranger to San Francisco.
vas here only last year with her
~ acquired and titled English hus-
- 80 and was about a good deal at
,-e .-Ies With Edna Wallace Hopper, who
4. y stt'ained the pair at her country place
.e foothills near Oakland.
May Yohe she was here in 1889
ae City Directory at the old Bush
.tes' thsster. At that time she attain
- good deal Of newspaper notoriety
= quitting the company and taking
g. .llehts IN the 1900 block on Ellis
ras.9 canning that she had quit the
Frs,,.-ha ana married a prominent San
ID 5-l-sean. orS' In March. 1894, she actually
usrs.s s.!e 'he ourlesque business and was
T. - - London to Lord Hope.
He 81. IaAcis Hope is 35 years old.
eY1 lhFee years ago for more than
seror- Inc official examination of his
es.. showed that he had spent
for - -or eating and drinking, S105, 900
Ma vANs the Lyric Theatre where
ganr5;lHe played; S350,O0o for betting and
De n's; ~; $4,000 on behalf of other peo-
Twin, wv IN raising money, 500, 900 in
3s5-s .Apsnses and $4,000 in minority
las No. 11o'd Hope is now in London and
She ~ Dee, oeen living with his wife for
Y. CHINESE INSURGENTS.
s5qre.s received from thoroughly reliable
cAurs ~ n, various parts of Lower Man
betoo Eg,ngtien) brought by way of
Daily Na.- shanghai, says a recent Nc.
asse ana confirm the reports of Chi
N bort,,- russian reyerses in the East
u Feogt1 "a fengtien, in the vicinity
.'s.ne5 ~ ul'IIitscheng and the country
hsr statss tHe Yalu river. 1t is fur
'ae iasuro---. mat the greater portion of
lsnty of ee.'ls s are well-armed and have
lave unlfa-linI --,llinIunition, that their leaders
Il large b,,HIy b,,-y treated the inhabitants
oae Or tgo g,e'[a.anely and justly, and that
s1cesses - ~. lands only have committed
';pressea fr.iIh' however, were speedily
u the ire,;,.the the more responsible leaders
,,..0ntry nsoals ns~sins dispatch reports that the
Nanchurjsp and banditti of the three
provinces in their bitter hos