The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-02-08
TELReRAPH1c BREvITIEs.
A Birdseye View of What is Going
on Abroad

The Marquis of Queensberry is dead.
Madrid reports 5000 cases OF inhu-
enZa.
Maude Come has arrived in New
York.
Russia is making active preparations
for war
Adelbert S. Hay has reached Louren-
20 Marquee.
Coast files report a great rush to
Cape Nome.
Judge Thos. A. Wharton of Jackson,
Miss, is dead.
Max Muller, the or3entalist, is in a
critical condition.
James II. Britton, formerly mayor of
st. Louis, is dead.
The Argentine Budget shows de-
felt Of 100000 900.
The transport Grant arrived at Ma
Mia on January 25th.
Prof. Max Muller is recovering from
his recent severe illness.
The railroad trust has Withdrawn
commissions from agents.
ne Great Northern railroad viii run
more steamers to the Orient.
Brigham H. Roberts claims for
mileage have been rejected.
Ranchers in San Rafael country are
organizing against cattle thieves.
The law against trusts became oper-
alive in Texas on 1st February.
A majority of the California Legis-
lature is pledged against Burns.
The POpulists of Texas have nomi-
mated w. ]. Bryan as their leader.
a Carlist arsenal has been seized
by the Spanish police at Valencia.
a big shipbuilding plant is being
erected at Camden on the Delaware.
Rear Admiral Beresford has taken
command of the Mediterranean feet.
The order of ST. Michael has been
conferred upon Nansen, the explorer.
Alexander Dunsmuir, the millionaire
coal merchant OF New York, is dead.
The Great Northern Railway is hir-
ing men in anticipation OF strike.
The Venezuela reyolut1onists have
again defeated the Government troops.
The question OF church property is
left To the new Philippine Commission.
An assessment will be laid on the
stock of the United States Milling Co.
At a1ayton, o., a FIRE in the business
center caused 100000 worth of dam
age.
A BIZ has been introduced in the
Senate 20 repeal the war revenue stamp
tax.
Sixty Tagas have been killed and two
forts blown up by the Britikh IN Bor-
neo.
The bank at Deerheld. Wis, has
been robbed of $4,000. Dynamite was
used
The rebellion IN Colombia has inter
fered with the progress of the Canal
work.
The Beers are turning out 1900 car
tridges and zoe, shells a day at Pre-
toria
The middle, west and south states
are experiencing z succession Of bliz-
yards.
The steamers State of Nebraska and
Ethiopia are one week overdue at New
York.
Quincy Ulls.) police officers shot
and killed two burglars who resisted
arrest.
Stanford University has lost the
first game of baseball at the Palo Alto
campus.
The overdue steamer City of Nebras-
ka arrived at New York on the list of
February.
The second detachment of the sec
ond Canadian contingent has embarked
for Africa.
Turpin. the French chemist and In
ventor OF Melinite, is said TO have left
for Pretoria.
Stories that war is likely between
Japan and Russia are denied by the
Oriental press.
William Waldorf Aston has left Lon
don on a tour through Sicily, Greece
and the Balkans.
The Heine monument in New York
has been mutilated because Of it's in
decent sculptures.
Twenty-thnee cases of bubonic plague
have occurred at Noumea, the capital
OF New Caledonia
Brazilian gunboats have sailed for
Acre TO enforce the protocol between
Bolivia and Brazil.
Philip D. Armour, Jr., is dead. The
Armour plants were shut down on the
day OF the funeral.
There are 10000 cases of influenza
rer orted in Turin, Italy, and several
thousand in Rome.
Boer reports of January 24th state
that sortie of 300 Lancers from Lady
smith was repulsed.
II is rumored that Torres, the Mexi-
can General, has executed six citizens
OF the United States.
The fast train on the Plant system
was wrecked near Tampa. Two deaths
and several injuries.
The asphalt and oil deposits of Tam
plco, Mex, are to be developed by
United States capital.
Gov. voorhees, of New Jersey has re-
fused the use of the Paterson armory
Tor a Bryan reception.
Treasure-seekers are searching for
buried thousands in Santa Ynez cam
on, near Los Angeles.
The Croker heirs will build great
hotel on Van Ness avenue, San Fran
cisco, to cost 100000.
Large coast defense guns have been
placed in position at Forts Casey and
tlagler on Puget Sound.
Five launches are being prepared
at Hongkong by the Filipino Junta for
the rescue of Aguinaldo.
The latest bulletin from Frankfort
says the chances are a thousand to one