The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-12-24

Harold Darringale, an alleged Amer
lean, has been arrested in Cape Coiony
charged with fomenting an Afrikander
rSUSiiioil.
Ine new Grand Jury have been Civ
ei. sweeping Instructions to probe InI-
caSo scandals, especially the Police De-
partment.
Brown University is making good
progress toward getting, a second mil
lion dollars for the university endow-
ment fund.
Archbishop Ireland upholds the can
teen and protests against its abolition
and declares it TO be; powerful factor
for temperance.
Changes in international patent regu-
lations have been recommended by the
conference which met in Brussels on
the 18th instant.
! Two mail cars were looted by two
bandits on the Cotton Belt road in Tex
as on the 14th instant. The postal
clerk was injured.
/ The French Government will not Of
fer objection to any action of the Unit
ed States Congress regarding the Clay
ton Bulwer treaty.
! The conservative element in the
American Federation of Labor in con-
vention December 13 at Louisville, Ky,
voted down all radical ideas.
The American Bridge Company will
building thirty bridges, using 1000 tons
OF steel for the Uganda Railroad. The
contracts totaled $4,000 tons.
The falling overheard of a man from
a Chinese boat caused a rush of pas
sengers to the Side capsizing the YES
sci and drowning 200 persons.
Gwen E. Hottie of California divided
the first prize with his opponent, Peter
G. de Jong. in the senior final contest
in the University of Chicago.
Practical joking caused the death of
two prominent Chicago men, Joseph
Huffman, who killed his friend Thomas
Mehan, and then shot himself.
The San Francisco. Preside invalids,
735 in all, will be remembered Christ
mas Day. The Red Cross Society have
the Christmas tree in charge.
japanese divers at Victoria, B. C..
while rescuing cargo from a wreck de-
sCended twenty-three fathomS under
water and remained two minutes.
a woman claims a, big Seattle es-
tate, valued at $500, 600, saying she was
the fiancee of the late John Sullivan
and that he intended deciding it to her
There is a reign of terror in Paris
The capital is overrun with criminals
and the police are powerless to cope
with them. There are 212,00O people Out
The Natural Food Company of Mag.
ara Falls will have d mammoth fac
tory Immediately erected, capitalized
at SO, 900. The falls will be used fol
water power.
Two bank robbers were arrested OF
board train in Wheeling, W. Va, afte
& desperate fight with the police. The
passengers We're terribly frightened
Many shots were fired.
Fishermen and timber men have rem
dered the Tulalip and Swinomish an,
5 SUNNI Indian reservations PRACTICAL.
i valueless. The Federal authorities viii
take the matter in hand.
Chauncey Rathbun, leader of tn
Rcoter's Club of the University o
Washington, was suspended by the fac
: ulty for the profanity in his yell. TIL
i affair has caused a big row.
I The University of California has ac
Z. Cepted Mr.. E. Benard's new plans. MI
r Bernard drew first prize of $4,000 70
his design. The cost of the propose
: new buildings will be 100000
: A Seattle fire engine plunged off
trestle on the 14th instant, falling te
r feet and rolling down an embankmen
o nearly twenty feet further. Neithe
men nor horses were seriously injured
n The Cunarder Campania is bringin
0 bSck E. Parmlee Prentice of Chicag
and his fiancee. Miss Alta Rockefeller
t daughter of John d. Rockefeller. VIII
: went abroad to try and have new ca
drums grown to cure her deafness.
e The California Wafer 81 Forest AS
S ISOLATION met in convention Decembe
IA, in the Palace Hotel, San Francisco
r The roll call mounted MP Into tn
e thousands and the first. practical an
effective step was taken, toward secur
e ing to the State q system of scientifi
n irrigation for it's arid and semi ari
lands, and the corporation of the Ma
tional Government is distinctly pIedg
: ed in all future projects which the as
scciation may undertake along thes
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