The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-01-30
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pulco for San Diego.
Troops have restored order IN the
Kentucky feud district.
There is no choice yet for the snort
term Montana Senatorship.
The Senate adopted resolutions of re-
greet for the death of Senator Gear.
Moran Brothers, of Seattle, will build
one of the new sheathed battleships.
The Shotwell defalcation in the Ray
County (Mo.) Bank amounts to $24, ASS.
Full official census figures will not
be available for a year and a half to
come.
A sister of Professor Garner states
that he is still alive and at work in
mid-Africa interpreting monkey-lan-
guage.
The final speed trial of the torpedo
boat Bailey will be held in Long Island
Sound.
The government will build 6-inch
rapid-firing gun with pedestal mount
and shield.
All ports on the Gulf of Morrosquillo,
Colombia, have been closed by govern
mental decree.
Sigmund Hertz, of New York, charg-
ed with American forgeries, has been
arrested in London.
Two large mortgages have been filed
in Michigan by the Grand Trunk West
ern Railroad Company.
Henryk Sienkiewicz and his Italian
translator have received the Pope's
blessing for "Quo Vadis."
Premier Bond of Newfoundland, has
been invited to London to take part in
the French shore negotiation.
The attempt to prohibit the sale OF
wines and liquors in the Philippines
has been blocked in the Senate,
Henry Ide Root, of New Haven, COM
mitted suicide by taking poison. Ner'
yous prostra ton, caused by. overwork,
was the cauSe.-- 4t,.s.4s
The Bank of BriStow, Indian Terri
tory, has been robbed. by outlaws. The
president of the bank was shot five
times and mortality wounded
I Judge. Leo Rassieur,f commander in
chief of the CT a. r., denies that he
opposes the choice of Denver as the
place of national encampment
The Earl of Wemyss has married
again at the age of 50 years. He lost
his first wife four years ago, three
years after they had celebrated their
golden wedding.
Major General Sir Henry E. Colville
of the British army, who was respon-
sible for a British disaster in South
Africa has been put on the retired
| list at half pay.
Tunis, the black charger that Cen
| Boulanger rode zen revenant de la re-
| vue" in 1886 is dead and his tail has
| been sent as a memento to Henri
Rochefort. SO says L'Intransigeant.
| Gold has been found in paying guam
titles on the beach between Otter Point
and Sooke harbor, thirty miles from
| Victoria, b. G.. There are several miles
of beach and it has been staked out
! for it's entire length
! Hohkonigsburg in Alsace the re-
| mains of an early medieval castle, is
| to be restored by the Kaiser after the
manner in which Pierrefonds was re-
/ h1ril ht- 40 or 10 D1,n
for the Empress Eugene.
| In Borneo and Labaun postage
stamps to the value of 100000 We're
| sold last year though the postage on
mail from these two countries does not
| exceed $4,000 a year. 1t is the col
lectors who buy the stamps.
| All the princes of the Caucasus claim
direct descent from King David, ac-
| cording to the Vienna Neue Freie
| Presse. and some of them base their
descent from Noah or the landing of
| the ark on Ararat which is nearby.
| Mr.. Choate will act as arbitrator be-
| tween the British and Japanese gov
| ernments to settle the case of the
KowShing, chartered British vessel
| carrying Chinese troops, which the
Japanese cruiser Naniwa sunk during
| the war of 1S94-95.
| The President has approved of the
private pension act giving Mrs Evelyn
| Nedie murray pension OIL soo
! month. Mrs. Murray is the widow of
General Eli H. Murray, former Cover
nor of Utah. and later prominent
resident of San Diego.
! Weaverville, the county seat of Trim
ity county, Cal, has been snowbound
since January 1. The first news from
/ there was brought out January 18TH
Barns and small houses have collapsed
under the weight of snow, and the
! town hall is ENDANGERED
| The American Board has received a
| cable dispatch from Constantinople an
nouncing the death on January 18th, OF
Rev. DR.. Elias Riggs, the Oldest mis-
sionary of the board. DR.. Riggs was
ninety years old and he had been in
the service for sixty-nine years.
A hitherto unpublished work by
Gustave Flaubert entitled Memories
dun Fou," is being published in the
Revue Blanche. 1t seems to be a rec
ord of his boyhood, and was written in
1888, since which time the manuscript
has been preserved by the LIE Poittevin
family.
Jenny Lind's letters to woman
friend living in Italy from 1S45 to 1874
| will soon be published by an Italian
firm. The letters, it is reported, num-
/ Der over hundred and give the prima
! donna's outspoken and unconventional
| opinions about the music and many Of
the musicians of her time.
The Picking correspondent of the
Daily Mail says: THE British protest
has proved effectual, ana Russia has
expunged the obnoxious conditions
! from the contract to restore the Shan
| Hal kwan Railroad to the British
bondholders Count Won Waldersee will
| sign the revised convention tomorrow -
Two men entered a Broadway res
| taurant about closing time and held
up the cashier in the presence of sew
eral walters. The cashier lodged a
! bullet and saved his cash. a crowd
collected and the robbers ran, bran
dlshing their pistols. One was captur-
ed.
Sole for breakfast will soon be a ira
/ dltlon in England. Another wall over
the disappearance of the fiat fish pro-
ceeds from the London Daily Mail The
price OF sole and plaice has doubled in
nVe years, and the outlook is that it
VIII double again in another five. 1t is
/ the steam trawlers and the destruction
OF young fish that are doing the mis-
chief.
! Two murderers, whose crimes at
tracted unusual attention in Europe
| last year, have just been beheaded.
One was Swede, Nordlund, who kill
ed seven persons on the steamer Prinz
Karl in May. The other was Gonezi.
who killed a rich widow and her