The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-12-20
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United States Judge Charles S. John |
son of Alaska has resigned.
News of the German annexation Of
the islands was received by the Sa-
means with apparent Indifference.
Speaker Henderson may refuse TO
appoint General Wheeler, who is now
in the Philippines, on any committee.
Aguinaldo is heading for home, and
is believed to be on his way to Ca
vite Expectation of catching him III
the north is abandoned.
Lieutenant T. NJ Brumby, flag lieu
tenant to Admiral Dewey, is critically
i'll at Washington, suffering from fe-
yer contracted in the tropics.
bill was introduced in the Senate
by Penrose to pension Mrs Gr1dley,
widow of the late Captain Gridley Of
the Olympia, at 500 per month.
Some of the insurgents in the Phil
ippines have become bandits. A party
of them were captured by detach-
ment of the Seventeenth Infantry.
Congressman elect Roberts Of Utah
has prepared his brief, and declares
that if he were guilty his foes should
have prosecuted him in the courts OF
Utah.
Senator Perkins began the battle
against the new French reciprocity
treaty on December 7th, and no action
will be taken until all protests have
been heard.
The British transport Deutongrange,
with war munitions for South Africa
on board, went ashore outside the har-
| Dor of Las Palmas, Canary Islands, De-
| cember 18th
Over thirty persons persisted in the
| Carbonate Coal Mine, at Carbonate,
| Washington. Deadly fire damp ignited
| from some unknown source and tore
| the victims to pieces.
Emperor Menelik of Abyssinia, with
| a great force, is moving menacingly
| toward the British possessions on the
| White Nile. French and Russian en-
voys are with him.
1t is said that Commander Tilley
| U.SN.. will be appointed Governor OF
| the American possessions in the Sa-
moan group, the government to be SIM
| liar to that of Guam.
The War Department has ordered
| the transports Sheridan and Grant to
! load supplies for the Philippines at Sc
attic. Hay, lumber and corrugated
| iron from a large part of the cargo,
One of the results of the transport
Tartar investigation has been the stop
page of the pay of Maj. Rafter, surgeon
of the Twentieth Kansas, ON account
of certain accounts for provisioning
sick soldiers.
Private Walter Rosser of the First
Tennessee Regiment who murdered
Henry Hildebrand of San Francisco
and escaped the gallows, killed another
man i'm New York on December 9th,
as a result of a quarrel over wager.
The cruiser Philadelphia has gone to
San Francisco, and the flag of Rear
Admiral Kautz was transferred to her
from the Iowa The Admiral will pro-
coed to Lower California with the
PHILADELPHIA and Iowa and meet the
Marblehead at San Diego.
The question of the social precedence
between Mrs. Dewey and Mrs. Miles
has been compromised On official oc-
casions, General and Mrs. Miles will
lead, but at social functions Admiral
and Mrs Dewey will be considered as
the guests of honor.
Pettigrew of South Dakota introduce
ed a resolution December 18th direct
ing the Secretary of the Navy to sup
plv the Senate with information as to
whether Dewey recognized the Philip
pine Republic. but Chandler objected,
and the two Senators had lively tilt.
An effort is to be made in the pres
ent Congress to reach the trusts
through the Interstate Commerce law
and postal regulations, bill beng IN
troduced by Bell OF Texas TO pronlDlt
the use of the mails to advertise any
business controlled by monopoly or
trust.