The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-01-18


hotel proprietor. was axphyXiated.
william White. San Joaquin pio-
neer committed suicide by shooting.
a new market for Pacific Coast fir
has been opened in the Philippines.
A new gas company has been incor-
porated IN Sonoma county, California.
Charles Ross, a fifteen year old Sac
ramento boy, was killed by electricity.
New York wants Congress to ap-
propriate 81, 500, 900 for a new postof-
flee.
The profits of the steel trust for nine
months are given as more than ss4,-
900. 900.
Kipling has written a sensational
scription.
Chinese reformers are planning to
establish branch banks along the Pa
| cific Coast.
| The murderers of Frank Richardson
at Savannah, Mo-, have been captured
/ in Washington.
| Fresno, Cal, cigar dealers will con-
| test the validity OF the anti-slot ma
chine ordinance.
| Miss Minnie Fletcher, seventeen
years of age, became insane over the
loss of her lover.
Major General Young is looking over
sites at Monterey for the new Pacific
Coast military post.
Rampant City, Alaska, was swept by
flames, with a loss of $4,000. Consid-
cradle mail was destroyed.
Clarence Woodward and Frank Fos-
ter two Wyoming outlaws, We're cap
, tured in a frozen condition.
Miss Joan Dessner and Thomas NJ.
Edwards, of San Francisco, met on the
street accidentally, and eloped.
81, ir,J
squadron of the Eighth Cavalry with
drawn from Puerto Principe, Cuba.
The Nome mining interests of Lind
berg and Lindbloom have been incor-
porated, with a capital of $5,O00,0O0.
Lieut.. H. F. Frick, a naval officer
stationed at Apia, Samoa, during the
1889 hurricane, died at Philadelphia.
j. Acock, electrician at the Spreck-
els sugar factory, in Salinas, was
frightfully burned by live wire.
The University of California is en-
deavoring to gather the songs and
folklore Of the Pacific Coast Indians
Turkish troops at Cairo mutinied and
1ogged the governor of the province
and the commandant at the garrison.
The Hanna men have secured con-
troll of the House, while Foraker has
the upper hand in the Senate, of Ohio.
New Workers are raising a fund Of |
500. 600 to be given to ex-Apprafser
Wakeman,i who was ousted by RooSe- ,
welt. Is - = =.
Ex-Secretary of the Treasury Car
Isle was compelled to pay former
cabman 81 900 damages for false ar
rest.
The adherents of President Palma !
carried the Cuban Legislature also,
except in the province of Puerto Prin- !
cipe.
An English firm has offered $4,000 900
for the purchase of the British char |
tered South Africa Company's copper
mines.
A Mexico City detective agency !
claims to know the whereabouts of ,
banker. |
The schooner Norman Sunde was j,
wrecked on Five Finger Island, Alas !
ka, and the fate of her crew is un |
known.
Richard German, of Oakland, was
killed by Edward Flanagan. Gossip
and drink are said to have caused the /
tragedy.
Charles Hopkins, a wealthy Seattle !
man. is said to have been twice buried |
alive in Alaska, the second time with
fatal results.
Alma de Bretteville, a San Francisco !
girl, has sued Charles j. Anderson, a
wealthy Klondike miner, for $50, 900 for
breach of promise.
The engagement is announced of
Miss Ruth Hill, daughter Of the rail-
road magnate, to Lansing Beard,
New York attorney.
Mrs. BeaumeiIe s. Peet, president of
The California Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union, attacks Bishop Potters
position as to prohibition.
The President and Mrs. Roosevelt
gave a reception at the White House
1n the evening of January 18th, in hon
n of the diplomatic corps.
Ernest Thompson-Se the celebrat-
I'd writer on animals, had a box con-
taining bear and deer skins seized by
he Colorado game warden.
AS the result of a legal contest in
New York, the widow of Henry b.
Plant, the railway magnate, will re-
ceive 81, 900 as her dover right.
The historic liberty bell, which has
been in Philadelphia, has been remov
I'd to Charleston, where it will be
placed on exhibition at the exposition.
Sibyl Sanderson. the famous Califor-
Tia singer, has sailed from New York
or Paris. On the same steamer was
Count FitZjames. to whom she will be
married the latter part of February.
Senator Hanna and President Roose-
yelt had a conference at which many
appointments were referred
o the former, as chairman of the Re ;
publican National Committee for set '
lement.
Attorney General Knox has held that !
stocks pledged on loans must be
stamped. The ruling was made on
%. 600 in Pennsylvania Railroad
tock; which requires $4,000 in revenue !
tamps. II
Gardner E. Beach and Morris J. 5
Kern, two Southern Pacific employees, |
lave sued the Market Street Company 7
II San Francisco for 100000, alleging :
hat the company stole their invention
or cable cars
The Interstate commerce commits !
ION contemplates action against the ?
1g packing houses for receiving pref
rental rates. Railroad men admit ,
ross violation OF the law against dis /
tariffs
Judge Welborn, of Los Angeles, sent
wo men TO Jail until they pay the
ruSteeS OF their bankrupt firm SD 600