The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-07-18
WORLDS NEWS
CONDENSED
Redding has had a $4,000 fire.


Captain Sigsbee is improving.
Europe is experiencing a hot. wave:
Crop conditions In the States are favor
able.
The olympian games are to be revived
in Chicago.
Oil has been struck north of San
Bernardino.
The Nebraska Democrats refuse to en-
dorse Bryan.
Napoleon LIE Brun, the New York ar
chitect, Is dead. III
Tehema city. California, Isl experience
ing building boom.
Prince Christian of Denmark may visit
the United States In 1902.
Rear Admiral Bunee has had his tongue
removed because of cancer.
The Bennington, Concord and Petrol
are to be repaired at Vallejo.
Turkey has paid her debt of $4,000 to
the United States government.
An Ann Arbor man has been enjoined
from meeting another mans wife.
James Kilbourne has been nominated
for governor by the Ohio Democrats.
Walter Barger, q six year-old boy, was
drowned at Redwood city On the 10th.
Arthur Ferguson has been made private
| secretary to Governor Taft, of Manila.
| The total receipts under the war rev.
| enue act up to May 31st were $500, 600. 900.
Several naval apprentices have been
dropped from the Mare Island Navy
Yard.
| Clyde Freshour, of Santa Rosa, was
week.
Sacramento has formed q municipal
taxpayers league. 1t is for political pur-
poses.
| The interurban road, to run between
Los Angeles and Whittier is rapidly as
Stunning definite form.
| A Danish steamship to Chicago, via
the st. Lawrence river and the great
! lakes, is contemplated.
| University students are handling grain
| sacks at Stockton where the grain
handlers are on a<strike.
Clinton D. Smith has accepted the
presidency of the New Mexico Agricul-
tural College He is beet sugar ex-
pert.
Abe Hummel. the New York theatrical
| lawyer, was thrown from. a carriage in
London on the 10th and severely in
jured.
Ii Moan, an educated Chinese of viso-
lin, California, is dying of consumption.
His spiritual adviser is Confucian
priest.
Thomas Langford chief of the fifth
battalion of the New York Fire Depart
ment, has been badly injured by fall
of thirty feet
The Sierra club Is opposed to the light
ing of Yosemite by electricity. They say
the valley should not be converted into q
midway plaisance.
Roy Kennedy, Sacramento boy, died
in Ogden while undergoing an operation
for wound received while resisting an
Ogden police officer last spring.
The homesteaders at the Colville re-
SarVafiOn Wa4hfn Dtnn q
organizing against oil prospectors, who
have been land grabbing Of late.
After twenty-five years of fmprison-
ment, the Younger brothers, the famous
outlaws, have been pardoned from the
State penitentiary Of Minnesota.
j. w. Deuel., of Redding, narrowly
escaped being killed near Redding by
having team run away with him. He
Is prominent merchant of that place.
President Kondo. of the Japan Steam
ship line, which runs to Seattle, says
that Germany, England and Russia will
soon be in the trans-Pacif1c steamship
trade.
A camping party of twenty-five which
left Santa Barbara for Santa Cruz Island
in three small boats met high seas and
had to bale water and row all night for
their lives.
| What the position of ]. C. Stubs, the
traffic director of the Hartman roads Is
to be, is not definitely settled, but he is
expected to act as harmoniser between
the Hartman roads.
AS a result of the strike Of grair
handlers at Stockton, Cal, Office meI
are handling all the grain that Is going
out but the heavy shipments are being
diverted to Port Costa.
Edward s. Marten, former Secont
Lieutenant Fifth Artillery who was dis
missed from the army for swindles con
cerned with Canteen account, has con
ferred that he forged a check for s74.S6