The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-06-19
NEWS OF WORLD
CONDENSED

India has had a favorable monsoon
recently.
Milwaukee has had two serious fires
recently.
A tornado recently played havoc in
Alabama.
London is fairly overrun with Yam
kee tourists.
Waldersee's successor has not yet
been named.
San Jose has voted against issuing
$217, 600 bonds.
| An Oklahoma Indian has sued his
spouse for divorce.
The gunboat Mayfiower Is to visit the
coast of Venezuela
| Sadie Martinez is now married to
| Olga Nethersole's brother.
| Marquis of Headfort has married
Miss Rose Boote, an actress.
| Many were hurt in a railroad wreck
at Wichita, Kans., last week.
| Oil discoveries in Washington State
are creating great excitement.
| Ex-Congressman briggs says that
| hazing is dead at West Point.
| Four men were swept to death over
| the Five Finger rapids recently.
| It is claimed that asbestos has been
| found in the Siskiyou mountains.
! Georgia mob was prevented from
| lynching negro June by a sheriff.
Peru has offered Harvard College it's
best site for an astronomical observa-
tory.
The Sultan of Turkey has sent pres
ents and congratulations to King Ed
ward.
William Lidgeon, of Guthrie, o. t.,
killed his brother with an axe last
week
Austria has no thought Of mediat-
ing between Great Britain and the
Beers.
Trouble is reported from Canada in
regard to the jumping of valuable
claims.
The big lock of the Forbidden City
at Picking, is to be exhibited at Wash
ington.
Heavy rains in Ohio have been caus-
ing great damage to properly and some
loss of life.
The Ell Paso, Tex, postoffice and an
adjoining store We're robbed by masked
men June 6.
Carnegie has arranged to provide
Tor splendid educational institution
for Scotland
Jeffries, the pugilist, is ambitious to
be an oil King, and has invested in the
Ere fields.
German tariff conference decid-
q to abandon the maximum and mini
mum scheme.
Sarah Bernhard will make an AM
erican tovr as Romeo with Maude Ad-
ans as Juliet.
said to have been shot in South Afri-
ca for treason.
Reports of July 9th say that the ru-
NOR that the Boer war is near its end,
is well founded
Two sheep men have been shot in the
Wyoming war between the cattlemen
and sheep herders.
crazed boy of Toledo. Ohio. killed
his little brother and sister with q
butcherknife, June g.
Cuba and the Philippines were dis
cussed at great length by the Cabinet
at Washington, June 7.
Boer prisoners and quantity of am
were captured by the British
near Cape Colony, June 8.
Major Ruthers, chief commissary In
the Philippines, has reported an effi- |
cient department and good work
$4,000 mirror for the Lick Observa-
tory, was shattered in the Pittsburg
factory by an accident last week.
The discovery of a defect in the new
Fresno city charter has made the re-
election of city officers necessity.
At a suicides funeral in Illinois, G. !
A. Funk, a prominent farmer at Belle
vile. hung himself with a hitch rein. |
Andrew Carnegie has completed his |
I
to selected trustees in steel trust
bonds.
James Morgan is said to be plan
ming an international bank, the capital |
OF which is to amount to one billion |
dollars.
Mabel Lawrence Burt, of Smith Col |
lege, New York, has been arrested for
wholesale thefts of other students
jewelry.
Chicago man has invented a !
machine which takes
photograph and finishes it in twenty !
minutes.
Explorer Baldwin recently made a |
balloon ascension from st. Louis, trav-
cling twenty-four miles at an altitude |
Of two miles
A disastrous freight train collision |
took place near New York recently. |
There was dynamite on one of the
trains, and ten people were fatally in
|ured.
w. D. Norton, Of San Bernardino,
Under sentence Of death for killing a
nan at The Needles. refuses to reveal