The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-01-31

Jeans to succeed the late Cushman K Da-
wis in the United States Senate.
/ Nine. Natalie Blavatsky, sister-in-law
1of the well-known theosophist, Nine. Bla-
ivatsky, now dead, is agitating Los An
igeles.
! The Shawnee county members of the
Twentieth Kansas Regiment have been
presented with medals made from a
Spanish cannon.
tickets had been sold on January 10 for
the Jeffries-Ruhlin fight at Cincinnati
ION February Is.
The Legislature of Jamaica has de-
clared its decision to fight Joseph Cham
lberlain's attempt to restore an absolute
fcrown government.
| George p. Pfoutsch, a travelling sales
man for a San Francisco house claimed
THAT he was doped and robbed in Butte,
Montana, on January 20, of $1,000.
| Calvary Church of San Francisco viii
launch new project by opening up a
downtown coffee house for the benefit
lof the young people of that city.
| Bolivia has rejected all proposals made
by Chile, and the La Pas government
has refused to recognize Chilean Sover-
ieignty over the territory in dispute.
| Ellsworth Z. Weir, a prominent after
lney of La Porte, Indiana, was shot and
probably fatally injured on January 20
by Joseph w. Brill of Cleveland, Ohio.
| A fire in the Office of Milo b. Stevens
| & Co, at Washington, destroyed over
$4,000 pension claims pending before the
Treasury Department on January 18th.
! Collector of Customs tombstone of
| Northern Rhodesia died of blood poison
resulting from the wounds received in a
desperate battle with lion, which he
killed.
| Seventy million dollars is carried
by the Naval appropriation bill, re-
ported to the House. Preparations are
being made to award more Naval con-
tracts.
| The cadets at West Point have them
selves settled the question of hazing by
deciding unanimously to abolish the
practice, and also that of calling out"
/ fourth-claSS men,
| Estimates are now being made upon
1.-THE cost of a proposed tunnel through
Telegraph Hill, San Francisco, TO con-
meet car lines. The State will probably
be appealed to for aid
| The directors of the Pan-American EN-
position have selected the face of Miss
Maude Coleman Woods, Of Virginia, as
typical of the American girl, to be plac-
ed on the Exposition medals.
/ The British steamer Helen, from Cal
weston to Liverpool arrived in Key West
January 20, with her cargo of 1900 bales
the entire cargo will be lost.
| 4 resolution extending sympathy to
the Filipinos lin their heroic struggle
for freedom was offered in the Arkansas
House and when amended to include the
Beers was adopted with cheers.
The plan of a gang of bandits TO hold
up an overland train in Colorado last
week was frustrated by the escape of
pedestrian whom they had beaten and
robbed and who gave the alarm.
The United States Government is ne
gotta ting for the purchase of the big
British steamship Yang TIE for use as
"a transport in the Manila service. The
price asked by the present owners is
S75O,o00.
Los Angeles brewer has sued rail-
road company for damages upon the
ground that a train ran over the fire
mans hose and prevented the firemen
from putting out the fire in his burning
building.
Andrew Campbell, one of the convicted
murderers of Jennie Bosschieter, is slow
ly breaking down in the Patterson, New
Jersey Jail, where he is confined since
the jury found him guilty of murder in
the second degree.
Final negotiations for the absorption of
the Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapolis AMI
Omaha line by the Chicago & North
western Company are being carried or
in New 4orfS ans IL Is neiieVed that 'ne
necessary transfers of stock can De
made.
The West Point Congressional Com
mittee has returned to Washington, and
as a result of their findings will recon-
mend an anti-hazing law. 1t is probable
that they will report that the deaths Of
Cadets Booz and Breth were not cauSeI
by nl-treatment.
George Shockley, a wealthy man of Los
Angeles, died last week and before mis-
body was prepared for burial, Is
months-old child, which 1t is claimed he
sent for. arrived at his home from Des
Moines, Iowa. 1t is said the mother Is
a well-known woman of Des Moines.
Members of the New York Coffee Ex-
change are optimistic about the future
trading in tea. regular tea calls having
lust been established. At present the
transactions are little more than an ex-
pertinent, but it is generally asserted
that the interest will develop with time
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