The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-02-26

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actor, died in Massachusetts last week.
Russia has decreed heavier tariff
against certain imports from the United
States.
Prof. Barrett Wendell of Harvard will
lecture at Berkeley during the summer
session.
Senator Teller win try to prevent the
of the subsidy bill at this
session.
An attempt is to be made by Western
to break the Eastern yaude-s
vile trust.
The Arid Lands Committee in Con-
gress has approved the extension of the
Carey Act.
All the males of Grafsfontein, Cape
Colony, have been arrested for aiding
the Beers.
The California and Alhambra Thea
tiers are to be run under a partnership
management
The Springer baby who was kidnapped
was found in a lumber camp in Hum
boldt county.
The rumor that the Earl car line has
been sold to Armour and Company has
been confirmed.
King Edward. Queen Alexandra anu
other members OF the Royal family have
gone to Windsor
United States Attorney F.. L. Coombs
of the First District of California has
rendered his resignation.
1t has been announced that Judge Car
roll Cook will wed Mrs. Bessie Grim
Herold of San Francisco
If Justice Gray retires from the SUI
preme Court, son of Oliver Wendell
Holmes may succeed him.
The last preparations are being made
for the big Eastern steel deal. The cap
ital is said to be $500, 900.
Professor C. A. Duniway of Stanford
University is to be married to Miss Car
lN1i C,fc1a t,,er nf 1r1o nd
Moritz Hermann, prestidigitator, is
dead at Berlin. He was the nephew and
successor of the great Hermann.
Two shippers, one from Massachusetts
and the other from Chicago, are to race
across the Atlantic in open boats.
Fifteen masked women broke into a
depot saloon at Atchison. Kas.. and de-
stroyed a lot of whisky and beer.
| A widow of San Francisco has filed a
charge of theft against her admirer.
who, she says took away her purse.
/ On February IS. Chief of Police VIM.
/ s. Devery of New York retired, the re-
cent difficulties having been patched up.
| Colonel Peter s., Niche. professor Of
the Department of Natural and Expert
mental Philosophy at West Point, is
dead.
| The Jeffries- Rubin fight was called off
and the forfeit money paid to the man
ayers. The fight may take place In San
Francisco.
The fruit-growers of California have
demanded a six-day to Chicago and eight
days to New York transportation for
shipments.
Fourteen carloads of men. women and
children have arrived in California as
the advance guard of colonists and
lhcmeSeekerS.
| Prince Henry of Prussia has arrived at
Cronberg to visit his mother, the EN-
! press Frederick, whose condition is fair
/ ly satisfactory.
! Captain Carter, under sentence In the
Federal prison at Leavenworth, Kas., for
Idefrauding the Government, has been
refused "a release.
! Evidence has come to light that there
is an organized band of Chinese SNUG
slers in Portland Maine, several off,
Gals being implicated
It has been decided by Judge Acheson
of the United States Court that United
States marshals do not require war
rants to make arrests.
| Recently number of bodies of Chi
nese We're shipped from San Jose labeled
| "bones," and were directed to China At
San Francisco they were detected
Two Oakland burglars broke into a
restaurant, dined on oysters and wine
robbed the till, and escaped through the
front door as the police came in at the
back.
VIM. Paats, head of one OF the leading
firms of New York, committed suicide by
throwing himself between two heavy
wagons. He had lost heavily in wool
speculation.
A Dresser, Ind, dispatch says: Mrs.
John Jordan, who lived three miles north
of here, is dead from paralysis She
weighed SIC pounds and was the mother
fof thirteen children
ADMIRAL Scnley's supporters opposed
the compromise which confirmed the
residents list of officers to be advanced
ana suggesting that Admirals Schley and
Sampson be given the rank of Vice Adj
lrniral
Judge William III. Holt, United States
District Judge for the district of Porto
Rico, has decided that the executive
council of Porto Rico Is not more sub
Ject 10 injunction than the Senate of the
United States.
A panic was caused in Oakland nv the
imitation ceremonies of the Sentine,s Of
the Universe. Five pistol shots were ar
ed IN the Ghost rite to shock the candi-
date, and there was a panic on the
street until the police solved the matter
A Portland, Ore, dispatch of Fehr,,.
larry is says: Six hundred homeseekers
arrived in Portland from the East yes
terday and today over the Oregon Rail-
road and Navigation line, a portion OF
them coming via Spokane and the rest
via Huntington. The Northern Pacific
also brought about 100 IN today.
Carlos Solari was the name of two
men in San Francisco. One of them had
nearly $1,000 in the Hibernia Bank. The
other one died and by mistake the 9TH
Ier's money was distributed to his heirs,
THE living Solari called at the bank for
the money and was told that he was
dead, and the money gone to his heirs.
He will sue the bank IL the heirs do
not refund the money.
One hundred and twelve rifles and l.
500 rounds of ammunition were surren-
dered at Haganey on February Is, most
lily from a supply secreted In the contig-
luous swamps. The incident is impor-
liant and indicates a great reaction IA
Ivorab1e to American interests In the re-
gton Of Bulacan, heretofore one Of the
worst in Luzon. This result has been
accomplished exclusively by the long