The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-27
NEWS OF WORLD
CONDENSED

n new TeNOll tHTcdltIS NcileZueld.
Thibet is said to be seeking independ-
Ience.
The Oakland morgue wagon is an au
tomobie.
Work on the Bankruptcy bill has been
postponed.
France claims to have the speediest
railway trains.
The English Parliament closed with
a lively debate.
The Phoenix, A. T., carnival was an
immense success.
The Sanshi Bank affairs are worse
than were supposed.
a French scneme is afloat to eStab-
iiish colony in Brazil.
a Chicago artist, A. n. Pell shot the
| girl who rejected him.
| Two negroes were lynched in Indiana
| by big mob December 16.
| The smallpox situation in Eastern
| Utah is becoming alarming.
| The Senate worked the greater part
of last week on the Canal treaty.
I Major Hawley L. S. A. was married
in Los Angeles to Mrs. Hepburn.
| Senator Depew's niece, Miss Annie
Paulding, win wed a Naval officer.
| Oswald Ottendorfer, editor of the
Stats Zeitung, died December Is.
The newly appointed Japanese Con-
sui for San Francisco is K. 4Uyeno.
The next Women's Christian Temper
ance convention will meet in Texas.
| The National Civic Federation con-
| ference met in Chicago December Is.
Jean de Aeszke will sail early in jan
uary to fill his American engagement.
| Russia will absorb Manchuria, ac-
cording to the latest report from Pc
! king.
| A new independent sugar refining
company Will be formed in Philadel-
phia.
Ada Rehan has secuerd the Ameri-
| lipps.
| Hypnotism was used with success in
a surgical operation in Chicago, Decem-
Der 10.
The widow of Calvin S. Brice passed
/ away on the anniversary of her huS-
| bands death.
/ a cable from Picking on the 18th in
stant says that Prince Tuan is under
arrest. Hf
Clements disaster has aroused Eng
land to the fact that the Beers are not
| beaten.
Catholic churches will celebrate the
century's end in the United States and
elsewhere
The section OF Peking controlled by
Americans already shows remarkable
| improvement.
Robert Riley, a 12-year-old boy OF
keswlck, saved the lives of three chill
dren from fire.
| Last years production of precious
metals was the greatest output on rec
ord in America
The Reichstag, after two months of
hard work, adjourned for the holidays
on December 16.
M'Farland of California and Elkes,
MS team mate, won the six day cycle
race in Chicago.
| Tolstofs new DRAMA THE Corisse,'
will be put on the stage in ST. Peters
burg next month.
| Mrs Vanderbilt's legacy of over two
milton dollars has been paid to her.
She was Theresa Fair.
The Pope declared his conviction that
the United States should retain its
hold on the Philippines.
| Robbers in an Illinois town tied UP
marshal and robbed two stores but
lfailed to wreck a bank
There was serious fire in the con-
! struction department at the Norfolk
Navy Yard December 16.
santa Monica man shot several men
who attempted to serve a warrant on
him and then killed himself.
The number of shops and houses
burned at Canton, China, on the 10th
lnstant is estimated at 2000
~ The Civil Commission held i'm Manila
last month provides for payment of all
salaries, in United States coin.
Great Britain is dunning the Ottoman
Empire and energetic means will be
tdheH 10 effect a settlement.
Minister Limautour'S report of the
financial condition of Old Mexico pro-
lduced an excellent impression
General Chaffee has received notice
or converts armed with modern guns
matchmaking villages in China.
Morris e. Hewlett won the $500 prize
Tor the best exhibition of four-in-hanJ
Idriving at the New York horse show.
George S. Edgar, a Chicago million
a1re, has been sued for divorce by his
wife because of the rules he posted in
MS household for the guidance Of his
family.
James 70: Scripps, who built Trinity
reformed Episcopal Church, Detroit
michigan, at a cost of 500, 900. demands
us return, as he is displeased at the
ioIm or service used in it,
copper i'm paying quantities has beer
discovered in the Watching Mountains
Two miles north of Boundbrook. N. J
me iact that copper vein had beer
Louno has just been made known. il
bas bbasihg hso oeen developed that the mine
YoyL oeen zen worked secretly by New
iork men for several months.