The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-08-19
Teleg1apnic Notes.

5. Two lives We're lost in a flood in
Utah.
j. Pierpont Morgan has asked for
police protection through fear of vio-
lence.
The drought which prevails in the
klondike viii! materially reduce the
gold output.
The gunboat Machias has been or
dered to Panama by the Secretary of
the Navy in view of the trouble there
Scotland Yard detectives are guard
ing King Edward on his Journey to
Germany because of fear OF anarcn-
lists.
1t is reported that the French fleet
will be sent to Turkey to emphasize
the French claim to the Constantine
pie quays. -,
Frank Wellman. San Jacinto
rancher, was shot and killed by his
wife because he had threatened her
and the children.
A block of six buildings was blown
up in gasoline explosion at Philadel-
phia on the 5th Nearly a score of
persons persisted.
The Beers are reported to have suf-
fered severely in attempting to cross
the railroad line near Pretoria In the
face of a fire from two blockhouses
John Wesley Pennington, negro,
prise, Alabama, for an assault upon
the wife of prominent farmer He
confessed.
Great floods due to the overlooking
of the Yang-tse, have caused the death
of thousands in China. Chen Teh was
wiped away by the flood and 20 900
people drowned.
Reports have just been received at
New York regarding the seventeen
do hntf IL hat L.
which occurred in May. The rebels re-
tired when their ammunition was gone.
A b. Cummins was nominated for
governor by the Republicans of Iowa.
August i. Minister Conger: who pass
ed through Honolulu, received but AZ
votes, out of a total of over 600 in the
convention.
DR.. Leyds Is In st. Petersburg.
A great gold discovery has been
made on the Rand
A crusade against church bells is be-
ginning in Milwaukee
A lone highwayman held up a stage
near Colfax, Cal, and got $40. =.
Fire in the business district Of Calls
toga Cal. caused a loss of $50 900.
American imports now take first place
at Manila. largely exceeding those of
England.
St Pauis foundations have been un-
dermned by a railway tunnel and the
cathedral is in danger.
There is great restitution among
unemployed English actresses. Ellen
Terry and other notables are investi-
eating.
President Kruger says the Trans
vaal and Orange Free State are ready
TO pay England cash for peace and in
dependence.
The British may withdraw 200
| troops from South Africa and send
them to india where a frontier crisis
| is threatened.
| Vice President Roosevelt addressed
Ian audience of 10000 people at the
celebration Of the Colorado quarto-cen-
tennial at Colorado Springs.
I Each delegate from the Chamber of
Commerce OF New York to the recent
London dinner contributed $1,000 to the
Victoria memorial fund.
| Karl Kruger of Chicago. whose
stomach was removed several months
tago by surgeons. is now able to eat
steadily in weight.
| William w. Bramston Beach, Con-
lservative member of Parliament for the
Andover district of Hampshire, died as
the result of injuries sustained through
being thrown from a cab recently into
the excavations in Parliament street.
| Countess George Karolyi who mar
ried her husband first at the City Hall
of Boston and afterward at Oakland,
Cal, after a precipitate flight with him
from Europe, is now suing him in the
courts for alimony and for desertion.
She is ten years his senior, and at the
| time of her elopement was an actress
of the music hall stage at Budapest.
figuring under the name of Boriska
Frank.