The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-07-29
NEWS OF WORLD
CONDENSED

Edwin P. Reed, pioneer OF San
Jose, is dead.
Count Tolstoi is quite ill in Moscow,
of gastric trouble.
General Butterfield died in New York
on July II, of paralysis.
Three men were killed by lightning
at Arthur, ILL.,, last week.
A pleasure yacht off New Haven
sank, and five were drowned.
The Trans-M Mississippi Congress is
now in session at Cripple Creek.
Runaways due to automobiles have
been causing much trouble recently.
The Baldwin, eigler Arctic expedi-
ton left Tromsoe, Norway, on July IL.
w. c. Pickersgill. British consul
general for the Pacific States, is dead.
Andrew Carnegie's latest gift is
5000 for a free library, TO Kansas
City.
Recent rains have saved the crops of
the corn belt in the southwestern
States.
The Northen Pacific won two law
suits over extensive Washington lands
last week.
1t is expected that Mrs. Botkin will
be sent to Dover under the habeas
corpus act.
William Richmond, a millionaire of
Tombstone, Arizona, is TO wed an ILL
nois waitress.
w. A. Clark. of Montana, is said
to have invested 81, 500, 900 in Russian
copper mines.
Two Italian subjects were recently
Iynched at Erwin, Miss. and Rome has
made a protest.
Mrs. e. S. Grant has sent Mrs. Nc
Kinley a knit wooden shoulder cape,
made by herself.
Count Leo Tolstoi, who has been Ill
at Tula, Russia, is now out of danger
and convalescent.
The San Francisco street sweepers
were on strike last week. They de-
mand shorter hours.
]. II. Nash, wealthy ranchman OF
New Mexico. was dragged to death by
d broncho, last week.
Mrs. Ida Shaw, of Oakland, appar-
emily happy wife, committed suicide
last week in Oakland.
Lord Pauncefote says he is hopeful
of soon effecting an agreement on the
Nicaragua Canal treaty.
The United States yacht Mayfiower,
with Governor Allen of Porto Rico
aboard, has arrived at Boston.
In a sharp fight near Aliwall North
many British soldiers were killed
Olive Schreiner is not prisoner.
The Crandell fruit drier at Los Ga
tos, Cal, was burned last week by
incendiaries, the loss being $4,000.
The Chinese warship Chin Tai last
month destroyed an entire pirate fleet
south of Shanghai, off the mouth of a
river.
All exports from Colombia will be
taxed hereafter The exports include
bananas, cocoanuts, ivory, nuts and
timber.
Three corpses were found in the
Truckee river, in Nevada county, Cal,
within three DAYS. Mystery surrounds
the matter.
The thawing of snow up Nome riv-
er has revealed the frozen body OF
Mike Clifford, who persisted in a win
ter blizzard.
While riding through a mimic hades
on a Coney Island scenic railway, a
New Jersey man recently shot himself
through the head.
The final evacuation by the foreign
troops of the Chinese capitol will be
on August IA, the anniversary of the
relief of the legation.
Robbers recently blew open a safe
at Capitola, Cal, at the railroad sta
ton. No money was obtained, the safe
containing only nickels.
The American Federation of Labor
has offered coin to the steel strikers at
PittSburg, and serious trouble has re-
suited for the capitalists.
The Transcontinental Passenger AS
ISOLATION held an important meeting at
Glenwood Springs, Col, recently, rail-
way matters being discussed.
Thousands of fish in Maiden Creek
Pa, We're made drunk by distillery
contents emptied during a warehouse
fire on the banks of the stream
In a military balloon accident at ST.
Petersburg recently, one person was
killed and several injured fatally The
balloon exploded and blazed up.
The chief of police at Reading, Pa,
resents the coming of the coal and
iron police, and will hold it responsible
for any disorder that may occur.
The 25-foot sloop yacht Great Re-
public, Captain Blackburn, has arrived
at Lisbon, from Gloucester, Mass,
after voyage of thirty-eight days
The library of the late Max Muller,
comprising $4,000 volumes, has been
purchased by Baron Iwasaki for pre-
sentation to the University of Toxic.
The statement of the Associated
Banks of New York for the week end
ing July 20 shows: Loans, 1856, 1913, 500;
decrease, s12,26S,9 900. Deposits decreas-
ed sS,44S,S0
Three daring youths, in mask, at
tempted to hold up the agent of a sta
ton of the Chicago elevated railway
last week, but were driven off by the
custodian of the cash.
President McKinleys residence at
Canton, Ohio, has recently been remod-
elled extensively, according to sugges-
lions made by Mrs. Mckinley, who is
much pleased with the result.
The directors of the Eastern Tele-
graph Company are formulating a
scheme to enable the public, by means
of code, to cable to the far east for
one penny a word from London.
General Davis commands the Am
erican troops in the island OF Minda-
mao. As fast as the insular constabu-
larry is organized the American troops
will be conferred, throughout the group,
in fewer garrisons.
Siberian crops appear to be a total
failure, two months drouth having
killed all cereals. There are disastrous
shortages in various parts of Russia
The peasantry of the Volga provinces
are practically destitute.
Andrew Carnegie has been asked to
pay a debt of II shillings incurred by
his mother fifty-three years ago in
England. The debt originally amount
ed to s2-75, and with interest at 5 per
cent, now amounts to s44.
Miss Helen Shafter, a Petaluma