The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-07-13
NEWS OF.WORLD
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CONDENSED
A Ct. Louis minister breaches in shirt
waist.
The i've new infantry regiments are al
most filed.
The Labor Party threatens revolution
In Belgium
The British Mediterranean fleet is to
be strengthened.
Andrew Carnegie has given @ioe,oOo 10
Detroit for a library.
The torpedo boat Biddle averaged go
knots on her trial run.
The Indian government has spent ES,-
$4,000 to relieve famine.
Myron Herrick of Ohio may be APP
pointed ambassador to Italy.
India viii have not more than 100000
quarters of wheat for export
Langtry's daughter is engaged to the
eldest son of Lord Wimborne.
Senator James II. Kyle of South Da-
kota is dead of heart disease.
There Is a growth of friendly feeling
between France and Germany.
Owing to the income tax British rev.
enues have increased e2,440,000.
Jacob s. Rogers, formerly owner of the
Rogers Locomotive Works, is dead.
BY the burning of a Hoosac Tunnel
dock at Boston 100000 damage was done.
Modjeska, now in Poland. will return
to the United States On a starring tour.
Stevedores at Stockton, Cal, have gone
out and may tie up the wheat shipments.
The business section of Williams, A.
T.. has been swept by a million dollar
fire.
The full report of the Isthmian Canal
Commission will be made in about
month.
The growth of the surplus of cash in
the Treasury during the past year was
SIG, 900 900.
Lt-Commander Curtis of the Gunboat
E6eft IL ins a. critical condition from ap-
sSg1dititis.
J. P Morgan & Co have bought the
Northern Pacific and Alaska Steamship
companies.
Fire destroyed Chinatown at Jackson,
Cal, with losses of $4,000. One Chinese
lost his life.
Roentjen rays caused the death of
Emil Clausen at Monterey from paralysis
of the lungs.
IS A quarter million dollars worth of
new revenue stamps were sold in New
York on July l.
Vaabrught. the actress, were married in
London recently.
Lillian Nordica will open the new
= Wagner theater at Munich as Isolde In
Tristan and Isolde"
The official report upon the test of the
battleship Illinois shows the speed was
T449 knots per hour.
Adolph C. Vonner, an Austrian count,
will fill the chair of German and French
at Stanford next year.
Eugene Stumbaugh has been arrested
g.. Co.. he nf
Marshall at Wilburton, I. T.
BY collision at Rock Springs, Wyo.,
the Union Pacific flyer was wrecked and
fifteen persons badly injured
Linseed oil has been advanced to eighty
cents a gallon, an increase of twenty
i've per cent within the past month.
William A. Brandes, convicted at Oak
land of the killing of his daughter, has
been SENTENCED to Folsom for ten years.
Denmark is said to have sought the
advice of England about selling her
West Indian islands to the United States.
Frank NJ. Daniel, convicted of the muir
der of Claire Fitch at Portland Ore, has
gone to the penitentiary for fifteen years.
Consolidation of all the bitumnous coal
properties In the United States is being
prosecuted. it is said by ]. Pierpont Nor
gan.
Officers and men of the Netherlands
fkahN&N, SOull AdSe DSSn QS-
ported because of their hostility to the
British.
Edna Wallace Hopper is sole legatee of
the estate OF her mother, Josephine
Dunsmuir, who died recently at Oak
land, Cal.
Americans at Skagway. Alaska, are
convinced that the Canadians are trying
TO steal the town, and hoist the British
flag over IT.
The Cowboy Preacher" L. G. Brock
er, committed suicide, after declaring his
innocence of a serious charge brought
against him.
M. B. Norton, a young business man Of
Pacific Grove, Cal. has disappeared. ow-
Ing to losses at poker. He let his wife
and children destitute.
Train robbers wounded three people
and plundered safe on Northern Pa
cific train, near Great Falls, Montana,
and $4,000 were secured.
The Increase In the number OF pen
sioners on the rolls of the Pension office
during the past year was 2,5o0. The num-
Der of new pensions was 1862
BY the breaking OF one of the storage
dams in the Blue Lakes. considerable
damage was done along the valley of the
Mokelumne river IN California
A rate war is threatened IN California
arising from the action of the Santa Fe
road In making grab or nearly all of
the discharged soldier business.
Twelve men and boys crowned into a
little shanty on the Chicago water front
We're killed by lightning. during a fierce
thunderstorm. One lad escaped.
An American syndicate has bought the
International Sleeping Car Company
from the Belgian company and will
transfer the business to Chicago.
Russia has Installed a civil admins
tration at Newchang, Manchuria, and
this is taken to mean that there win be
another move toward occupation. Other
powers advise that China open Manchu-
ria to the world to forestall Russia