The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-06-19
4 great storm is reported from okla

A great storm is reported from Okla
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Good reports are coming in from the
The Dowie colonists are now eager
to go home.
A new coinage for Australia Is be-
ing discussed.
A new coin for the Philippines is
being talked Of.
There was a snow storm in North
Dakota last week.
Howard Gould is fighting the suit of
his valet for $1,000.
A home for INDECENT Elks is 70 be
formed at Indianapolis.
The prune growers have effected an
organization at San Jose.
Mrs Ernest Seton Thompson has
sued her father for $4,000
Extensive horse stealing is reported
from the northern boundary
The Ministers at Picking are not
pleased with German methods
London's underground passes are
now in control Of Americans
M. Delcasse, the French ambassador
to Germany, has been recalled.
Charges of gross fraud are creating
a scandal in the English army.
The tobacco magnates of the East
have organized in a giant trust.
Fires in the Stockton grain fields
have been doing great damage.
DIR. Theo. Bond, the famous London
surgeon, has committed suicide
Scholarships at Columbia University
are to be given selected negroes.
The Fresno raisin combine has been
attacked in the courts as trust.
Twenty-Five per cent OF the West
Point applicants are kept out by weak
eyes.
Recent reports show big increase in
both exports and imports of the Phil
ippines.
A dozen Oil men have been arrested
at Bakersfield on account Of a snoo,-
ing affair.
Wagons, supplies and thousands of
cattle were captured from the Beers
on June 5.
| w. B. Snyder, of Pomona, CAL, fen
before a train last week and was
crushed to death.
Twelve German men were killed and
eaten by cannibals on the island of
Matthias recently.
Rev. Hester Clapp has gone to the
Philippines to represent the American
Board of Missions.
The proposed civil government Of the
Philippines is to be much like that Of
early New Mexico
held a secret consultation about the
Boer war on June 5.
The Blythe block in San Francisco
has been purchased by Banker He'll
man and his syndicate.
It is said that the Standard Oil Com
pany will purchase the Pocanontas Oil
fields in West Virginia.
A splendid memorial casket has been
presented to General Baden-Powell by
the Australian colony of Victoria
M. Dumont, a young French profess
sor, Is building a new airship which he
expects to excel anything in it's line.
Writ Henry Allen, a nine year-oid
Berkeley boy, was burned to death in
an alcohol bath, through the careless
ness Of a. nurse.
Thirty thousand dollars in govern
ment bonds were found last week
among some old love letters, in New
York.
One million dollars was given as
wedding present to Miss Queeny Fer
ry on her marriage to avery CoopIey,
Of Chicago.
A recent stage accident near Van
couver resulted in the death of the
other persons.
A st. Louis man caused several
women to faint and soldier to go in
sane, by committing suicide in a pas
senger train in Colorado.
Richard Mansfield has declared that
no one in Chicago has sense enough
to write "Cyrano,'' in reply to charges
against him of plagiarism.
Evidence against the Modoc lynch
ers has been given by crippled old
soldier, and punishment of the guilty
is demanded by the people.
Lieutenant Richard H, Townley, Of
the navy, has been convicted of par
ticipation in the commissary frauds,
and sentenced to dismissa! from the
service.
Viscount Peel, of the English House
of Lords, hasMnade himself ridiculous
by espousing the cause of barmaids,
who, he says, are engaged for their
good looks, and ought to have their
compilations protected by shorter
hours.
A Fresno coroner went to Firebaugh,
neighboring town, to take charge of
the body of a suicide, and was first
greeted by the suicide" himself, who
was going the round Of the saloons
with bullet in his head.