The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-05-10

The Seattle grain companies have COM
solidated.
A wheat boom is on In the State of
Washington.
The anticipated May Day riots in
France did not occur.
General Josiah Howell, a pioneer of the
West, died on April 80.
Minister Conger was welcomed by great
crowds at .Des Moines.
1t is said that Venezuela has renewed
her relations with France.
The Crown Princess of Japan has been
safely delivered of a son.
Good rains have cheered the farmers
of the San Joaquin valley.
The Italian bark Natalie Suitpo is
ashore on the Florida coast.
H. NJ. S. Condor, with yellow fever
aboard, has reached Victoria.
King Edward may buy Nine. Adelina
PATHS castle in South Wales.
The Hunt Brothers cannery at hay
wards will be rebuilt at once.
May Day was tremendously observed
at the Sacramento street fair.
Thirty-five persons were burned in a
Bombay cotton press recently.
Firemen at Los Angeles saved store
house and 100000 feet of lumber.
A dividend of az per cent has been
paid by the Pennsylvania Railroad.
P. ]. Dineen, a San Francisco pioneer,
died in Seattle at the age of 60 years.
Col. George 1. Gillespie succeeds Gen.
John II. Wilson as chief of engineers.
An epidemic of highway robbery is ter
rorizing the people of Butte, Montana.
Congressman Crump of Michigan died
at his home in West Bay City, May 1.
A great electrical display signalled the
opening night of the Buffalo Exposition.
Tyrrell Hamlin, '02, has been elected
captain of the Berkeley University nine.
Chief Magulnna Of Nootka, the leading
chief of the British Columbia coast. is
dead.
The reward of $1,000 for the body of
Pat Grove, dead or alive, has been with
drawn.
A Seattle man was recen.ly buried I'M
der sixteen feet of sand by a boiler ex-
plosion.
A combined harvester in full operation
is to be shown President Mckinley at
Stockton.
w. Bayard Cutting, Jr., the American
diplomat, has welded Lady Sybil Cuffe
in London.
Mrs Fiske is to fight the theatrical
trust in New York and have theater
of her own.
Samuel B. Murray, the millionaire pat
ent medicine manufacturer, died at his
home in Toledo.
Col. Wallace Randolph, the new chief
of artillery, has begun his duties at the
War Department.
w. f. Davidson, the civil engineer who
laid out the route of the Union Pacific
Railroad, is dead.
Mobs of the unemployed recently
raided the bread booths of the markets
in Lemberg. Galicia.
1t is reported that the Chinese indem-
lAop he. nfan1 I,x, ErsCSS IN
and f1oated in America.
A reduction of one pound sterling per
ton in South Staffordshire marked iron
was announced recently.
Norris Humphrey, for twenty-five years
a leading business man of Lincoln, Ne
braska, committed suicide.
1t is reported the Germans have select
ed a concession in Canton, and that pos
session will be taken soon.
The committee of Ministers at Picking
for the fixing of the indemnity has re-
ported in favor of s27O, 0OO, 900.
VIM. Mitchell, Pacific Coast pioneer.
died at Seattle of pneumonia. He had
made and spent several fortunes.
The spring exodus to Nome has COM
menced. Two steamers sailed April %
from Seattle with 160 passengers.
F. w. Vanderbilt and Chauncey Depew
were elected directors of the Lake Shore
and Michigan Southern Railway.
1t is reported that the Germans have
selected a concession at Canton. and
that possession will be taken soon.
The husband Of Carrie Nation. was rob-
bed in Indiana of SIS, some jewelry and
a return railway ticket to Kansas
The heat records for May Day were
broken this year in st. Paul with Their
mometer registration of 80 degrees.
The Filipino General Tfnio, Colonels
Cipriano Callao and Gregorio Katibac
have surrendered to the Americans
The Russians and Chinese clashed near
Moukden on May Day. Four Russian Of
f1cers and forty-five soldiers were killed.
E. d. Tucker and wife, American res
idents at Ensenada. Mexico, have been
arrested by the Mexicans for smuggling.
Mrs. Stella Lynch of San Diego has
been sentenced to two years in San
Quentin for attempting to kill her hus-
band.
James Douglas Reid, 1.-THE Father of
the Telegraph" the friend and associate
of Prof. Morse, died at his home in New
York.
A massive key of gold was presented
to President Mckinley by Cripple Creek
when the special train went through the
place.
Omaha is now a Puritan city. all
business houses except hotels and res
taurants being compelled to close on
Sundays.
George D. Perkins has withdrawn from
the contest for the Iowa Republican Gu
bernatorial nomina ton in favor of Min
lister Conger.
1t has been given out that the Ameri-
can Legation will remain independent
and will not be under orders of any for
eign General.
Carvali, one of the largest Vienna
grain exporters, recently shot himself,
having failed for 100000 francs. Great
excitement prevails.
The British Federation of Miners have
threatened to strike over the coal tax.
The possibility of suspension has caused
dismay in the trades.
-Four youngsters, of good fanny, have
been arrested at San oernardino for
horse stealing. They will be sent to the
Whittier Reform School.
Archbishop Ireland has been in confer
ence with Secretary Root of the War
Department looking for a settlement of
the church question in the Philippines.
1t is prophesied by London papers that
there will be a general uprising of the
Chinese soon. 1t is said that well-armed
bodies of Chinese are secretly drilling.
The mining machinery and engine man
ufacturers' trust, with a capital of $780,
100000, has been organized, Cornelius
Vanderbilt being one of the directors