The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-07-10
NEWS OF THE WORLD
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claiming to have travelled in Thibet
since
Lightning struck the dome of the
capitol at Washington but did no
harm.
A Russian regiment was almost an
initiated by the Japanese at Wolf
mountain.
New York State has established
sanitarium in the Adirondacks for
consumptives.
Japan is trying to make another
loan. Trade is depressed and money
Tightening there.
A boy killed a quail with an air gun
in Golden Gate park, San Francisco,
and was fined $780,
Russians claim that the battleships
Retvizan and Czarevitch have been
completely repaired
Terry McGovern's seven-year-ol
daughter died from sunstroke in
Brooklyn trolley car.
A tornado at Moscow, accompanied
by hailstones weighing three-quarters
of a pound, killed many people.
Three women on Vancouver island
saved the lives Of four exhausted sail
ors, rowing to the capsized boat.
The Japanese transport Sado, severe
ly injured by the Vladivostok squad
ron, has been locked al Nagasaki.
Overtures are said to have been made
from Washington, looking towards
peace between Russia and japan.
Great Britain has brought pressure
to bear successfully on The Porte for
the relief of prosecuted Armenians.
There is a great rush of homeseekers
to the Edge of the Bonesteel reserva-
ton, which is about to be opened for
settlement.
A Frenchman from Port Arthur says
there are $4,000 troops there, 500 women
and $50 -combatants. The food sup
ply is good
Europeans arriving at Chefoo from
Port Arthur had heard nothing of the
reported sinking of another battleship
by Admiral Togo.
Miss Anna Strunsky says the story
of her fnfatuation for Jack London,
whose wife has sued him for divorce,
is absurd and vulgar.
Political trouble is brewing in Co.
lombia where members of the State
Assembly have been arrested by or
der of the Governor of Carthagena
Santos Dumont did not sail in his
ISI2lp tl III LOUIS. instead, the ar
bag was cut and the exposition people
say he did it. Dumont left for Paris.
Charles Chauncey StilIman, son of a
New York millionaire banker is a rail-
road baggage hustler in Oakland, where
he is learning the business of railroad
ing.
The Toxic correspondent of the
Times says: There is considerable
uncertainty here regarding the Rus
sian losses in the recent sortie from
Port Arthur. 1t is just possible that
no ship was sunk. The Peresviet may
have got into Port Arthur at night
The Japanese, on the other hand, feel
certain that three torpedoes took eff
feet on three ships"
Detailed reports of the capture of
Fen Shut pass on June 9th show that
the Russians were driven from an ex-
ceedingly strong position dominating
the Shi Mu Cheng road. In this en-
gagement the Russian losses were a.
gain heavier than those of the Japa-
nese. The Japanese outmaneuvered
the Russians by working around the
enemy's right flank and attacking him
in the rear.
A cable to the Sun from London
says; 1t is stated from an anti-Tur-
kish source that the victims of the re-
cent Armenian massacres numbered
nearly 5000 instead of 5000. At the VIII
lage of Akhbi the number of persons
killed was so great that the bodies,
which were thrown from a bridge,
damned the river, which the Turks
freed by firing artillery into the heaps
of corDses.
a mob, composed of women and men
in about equal numbers, 200 in all, in
dignant over the conduct of one of
their neighbors, assembled at 10 o'clock
Monday night by previous arrange
ment, armed with sticks and clubs,
went to the house of Frederick Hugh
son in Collinsville, n. J., within thirty
miles of New York city, beat him into
insensibility, stamped upon his face as
he lay on the ground in front of his
house, put moose about his neck, drag
ged him a hundred feet, hanged him to
a tree and left him for dead. The only
reason the man lives is that the rope
broke, and he fell unconscious and half
strangled to the ground.