The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-04-29
NEWS IN
BRIEF


| Grass Valley has a new depot costing
| IS, 600.
| ship-building company has been or
| ganized at Tacoma
Several new geysers have appeared in
DEVILS Canyon, Cal.
It is said that America will reap a
profit from Englands high taxes.
Vaccination caused the death of q 10
year-o1d child in San Bernardino.
DIR. G.. A. Miller of Cornell is to take
I a professorship at Stanford next year.
! An $4,000 fire in San Luis Obispo is sup
posed to have been started by tramp.
| A boiling geyser an acre in extent has
| broken out at Lake Echo, New Zealand.
| Commander Chas. o. Allibone of the
gunboat Wilmington, at Cavite, is dead.
In a recent raid on disorderly houses
| in New York an Alderman was arrested.
| Great preparations are being made in
| San Francisco for the Presidential week.
The California State Medical Society
will hold its annual session at Sacrament
to.
| A broken rail ditched train near Los
Angeles last week, injuring several per-
sons.
! Klondike cleanup at $30,000,O 900 for the
year.
! A terrific tornado swept through Flori-
da last week hurting people and houses
| before It
1t is said that the Beers have declared
themselves not ready to quit fighting by
| any means.
| The Pacific Mail has declared that 1t
will not run steamers to Manila without
a guarantee
| The policy of Emperor William has
been severely criticized by Prince Her
bert Bismarck.
| Hon. Whitelaw Reid lectured to STAN
ford students recently on the needs of a
higher education.
! c. e. Huber of Los Angeles complains
| that his sister tried to railroad him to
an insane asylum.
| Fifty insurgent rifiemen attacked the
town of Bay, Luzon, on April Is. and
| were quickly routed.
| General Macarthur still declares that
| the commissary frauds at Manila. have
| been much exaggerated.
| General Felipe Yama, the leader of the
| Maya rebel Indians, has been assassfnat-
| ed by his under-officers.
| The allies are seeking the perpetrators
| OF the burning of the palace at Peking.
| The Chinese are blamed.
| The plague has broken out in an insane
asylum in Australia. Rats are believed
to have carried the infection.
John Gorham of Copperopolis killed his
rival, George McCarty, then blew him
self into pieces with dynamite.
! Ten paintings, valued at 100000 pesos,
have been stolen from the Santiago Mu-
scum of Fine Arts by burglars.
| DR.. Oscar Chrisman, the educator has
lost his chair in the Kansas State Nor.
nal School by an cratic lecture.
Miss Vivian Sartoris, granddaughter of
General Grant, is to be welded to Archi-
bald Balfour, the London barrister.
President Hayes is the authority for
the statement that the Southern Pacific
engines will soon burn oil for fuel.
/ Mrs. Mary r. McGinn, st. Louis wild
ow, forfeited a fortune left her by her
dead husband by re-marrying last week.
The President has signed the treaty
amendatory of the Brussels convention
for the protection of the industrial prop
erty.
Alma Swope. the 16-year-old daughter
of prominent Riverside family, has
eloped with William Rockefeller Of Col
ton.
Whitecaps are terrorizing the town of
Rathdrum, Idaho, being incensed at
| losses in a gambling game at a local sa-
Icon.
| The council of Ministers at CONSTANT
nople has been instructed to seek means
| of abolishing the foreign postoff1ces in
Turkey.
| Mike WEIGH and ]. L. Templeton, the
| two footpads who are supposed to have
| Eeen terrorjzing bakersfield, have been
| arrested.
The Dan Murphy" tract of land in
Mexico has been sold for s275,000 to
Michigan purchasers. The tract contains
! 800. 900 acres.
It is said that at 15-hour faro game
$4,000 was lost by a capitalist in New
York, who is one of the magnates of
| the steel trust.
| Up to April IS there had been forty
one cases of oubonic plague among the
persons under military and naval control
in Cape Colony.
The threatened strike in the plants of
the American Sheet Steel Company ut
McKeesport, Pa, has been avoided and
the trouble is settled.
| 1t is said that the Argentine Govern
ment is alarmed over the announcement
that Chile has opened several strategic
passes through the Andes.
Late DISPATCHES from General Kitche-
ner show that the British are still act
| i've in South Africa, several captures
| having been recently made.
| Oriska Worden, the actress, is suing
| for an absolute divorce. 1t is said she
will marry a millionaire broker of Wall
street when she is again free.
! Baron Fava, late Italian ambassador
| to the United States, has been placed
| on the retired list and Marquis Carbo-
maria appointed his successor.
| John Barret, ex-Minister to SIAM has
| been appointed delegate to attend the
! Pan-American Exposition to be held in
the City of Mexico next October
| The admiralty court appointed to in
vestigate the collision of Empress of ia
Fan and the bark Able Palmer have fix
| ed the blame on the former vessel.
| It has been given out by Irving NJ.
Scott that California wines will be used
/ in christening the Milwaukee and all the
/ ships built by the Union Iron Works.
| President Schwab of the Edgar Thomp-
son steel works in Braddock, Pa. has
won the hearts of the factory men by
generous distribution of benefactions.
A war is on in the Kern county oil
fields between vigilantes and claim
| jumpers. Two men We're mortally
wounded in pitched battle last week.
"A bakers strike in New York last week
CAUSED much suffering among the poor
the price of bread being doubled. Only
! five bakeries were in operation or
April IS.
snowslide in Colorado last week
swept a train from the track and buried
| 10 cot,