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

& John redmond mas peen Iidue th0
leader of the Irish Parliamentary par
ty.
The Santa Fe Railroad will not arbi-
trate.
The Army blankets are alleged TO be
shoddy.
Japan joined in the Anglo-German
compact.
General Kitchener has asked for more
bushmen.
New York's vote has been officially
canvassed.
Sealskins are fetching large prices
in London.
The designs for LaWsonS yacht are
nearly ready.
Miss Helen Baird, a leading young
actress, is dead.
the Pinsree tax bills passed the
Michigan House.
The fire in Canton. December 49,
burned 500 shops.
Champion Jim Jeffries has mace MS
last ciler to FitZ.
Al. Tne powers are at last in harmony
in regard to China.
Inc apportionment bill fixes House
membership at $50.
Professor Marshall HenshaW or Am
herst College is dead.
Sir Alfred Miner is now Governor OF
the whole of South Africa.
Scarcely any work was done during
the open session of the House.
John Addison Porter, late secretary
to President Mckinley, is dying.
Senator Bard is not satisfied with the
shipping subsidy bill as Il stands.
The transport Garonne on December
Is was said to be aground off LuZon.
George " Meyer of Massachusetts
will be the new ambassador to Italy.
The explosion at Canton was caused
by reformers who exploded dynamite.
The British ship CROWN or scotland
reported a murder and a suicide at sea.
! Senator Bard will work to save the
Southern California forest reservation.
| DR.. S. Hopfner, inventor of the cleo
itrolytic treatment of refractory ores, is
dead.
Berkeley may play the proposed foot
ball games against Columbia College
team.
Ii Hung Chang and Prince Ching say
they have been authorized to act for
China.
More rumors are afioat to the effect
that Secretary of State Hay has re-
signed.
/; McGovern, the new lightweight cham
pion, beat Cans to d stand still in two
rounds.
The corporation of Limerick has con-
ferred the freedom of the city upon
Kruger.
been made Commissioners of Internal
Revenue.
The thermometer at New York, De-
cember Is, registered fifteen degrees be-
low zero.
There is no truth in the revived re-
!. port that the Huntington shares hao
been sold
The Jessie Morrison jury disagreed
Nine were for acquittal and three fol
conviction.
Harcourt estimated that General Ba.
lden- Powelrs police would cost $4,000,
900 year.
Count de Seller, Portuguese Minister
to the Netherlands, has returned t.
The Hague.
A travelling peddler when arrested il
California had bank checks for $3.50,
or his person.
q Sir Michael Hicks-Beach has no
been elevated to the peerage, as erro
neously stated.
The extradition treaty between -th'
United States and Great Britain ha.
beer amended.
~ Miss Flagler, daughter Of the former
Chief of Ordnance, will marryca Cape
Breton physician.
The amendment to the war revenue
measure in the House puts a, tax or
express companies.
Judson c.. Clements of Georgia ha:
been reappointed Commissioner of In
lterState Commerce.
An authenticated copy of Coils P
VIII mas Deen u
probate in New York.
The Queen Dowager is said to have
accepted peace terms. The indemnity
will reach 5000, 900.
The office of second vice president OF
the New York Central will be. permit
ted to lapse at present.
The new directors of the Erie Rail
read are: Norman b. Ream, James j
Hill and Robert Bacon.
|, The White Rock Indian Agency re.
lpcrts that the troubles at the agency
are believed to be over
, George w. Perry, one of the best
known architects on the Coast, dieC
suddenly, December IA.
! George A. Fuller of Chicago is dead
lie was the originator of the moderr
steel skeleton buildings.
: Many buildings were demolished by
a heavy windstorm at Vallejo, Califor
mia, on the 14th instant.
Mrs. Amy G. Gillig secured an abse
Lutte divorce from Mr.. Gillig in New
New York December ID.
a woman from San Francisco wen
! suddenly insane on the steamer
Dauntless, December IA
Sonoma experienced a heavy storm
or the 14th instant, which will serious
. ly handicap the seeding.
The firm of Apt Brothers. of Phila
celphia, have failed. Their liabilities
! are scheduled at $4,000
clara Frick is suing for a share o
old man Hamilton's gold mine which
3 sold for 100000 recently.
The recent changes in the Erie Rail
road mean that the Hill-Morgan syn
I dictate has gained control
g The latest rumor in regard to tn
health of the Car is to the effect tina
5 he is attacked by consumption
The American Forestry Association
;, favors the purchase of a reserve con
tanning the California big trees
/. The holiday trade has increased al
over the United States according Z
r. G. Dun & Co.'S weekly review.
& The Indiana Society of Chose1
? Friends has been declared insolvent
The claims aggregate about $500. 900.
IS Michael G. Mulhall. the famous stats
! tician. who founded the first EnglisI
newspaper in South America. is dead
s A new worlds record has been estab
q llshed by the gunners of Her Majesty,
:. SEP terrible, on the Asiatic SQUADRON
IL Herbert Stewart Stone and Miss Mar
l. Irimsby Mccormick were married i
= great state in Chicago on December I.
- Elenwood. the house of Tbon,a
: Sklnker in the western suburbs of 81
Y, 600 LOSS Soo,
Ihree suspected bandits wera arras.o