The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-05-25

grants ever received at an American port
one day arrived at the barge Office
May II. They came in six slnps and
numbered 5,5S2.
At the instance of Rear Admiral Rem
ey. in command of the naval forces on
the Asiatic station, the Navy Depart
ment has reconsldered it's, decision to re
call to the United States the gunboats
Concord and Bennington
Fire destroyed the works of the Canada
Cycle Motor Co. and the Welland
Vale Company. The loss will amount to
Heariy ha.I million dollars partly COW
thrown out of employment
Plans which have been perfected for the
celebration of the 10th annlv ersary
OF the founding of the American Unitar-
ian Association, the leading organization
of that body of Christians, p.Jmise to
make the occasion memorable.
The only memorial in this country of
monument at New Rochelle, N Y, is to
be perpetuated by money contributed by
delegates to the late middle-of-the-road
Populist convention at Cincinnati
Officers of the Red Cedar Single Asso-
citation have notified all the mills mat over
50 per cent had signed the closing agree
ment and mills We're TO be shut down be-
tween May 10 and June 4. Five thousand
men will be laid off for three weeks.
Dublin University has returned Sir Ed
ward Carson to the House of Commons
without opposition on his appointment as
Solicitor General, in succession to Sir
Robert Bannatic Finlay, appointed to
succeed Sir Richard Webster as Attor-
ney General.
stag concluded the debate of the navy
bill after deciding that the measure is to
come in force simultaneously with the
amendments to the stamp law and the
customs tariff, prov Idlng the means for
the increased naval expenditures
Willie Collier, the comedian, one of the
group of mourners gathered about the
open grave in Graceland Cemetery Chi
cago, read the burial service over the
body of Frederick Grosvenor Stanley re-
Gently and conducted the full funeral
rites usually enacted by an Episcopal rec
tor.
II. de la Roche Vernot, second secretary
of the French Embassy in Berlin, has
been recalled to Paris because Emperor
William had complained to the French
Embassador, the Marquis de Noailles, of
the secretary's improper public remarks
during the recent visit of Emperor Fran
els Joseph.
The financial situation in japan is
growing more and more precarious and
the empire is at present standing on very
thin ice The loaning Japanese banks are
offering rates of interest for deposit
while, significantly enough, the foreign
banks are at the same time cutting their
rates down 80 per cent.
The Queens bench division of the High
Court of Justice gave Judgment in favor
of the crown in the case of the Govern
ment against the Jewish Colonization AS
ISOLATION on claim for succession duty
amounting to 81 $50, 600 on property val
ued at upward of eS 900, coo, settled by the
late Baron Hirsch in 1892 upon the Colo
niZation Association.
The convention of Western Miners Fed
Grafton and Western Labor Union passed
a resolution urging all labor unions to
unite in support of one political party as
the only means by which laboring men
may hope to secure the rights they CON
I their
but private expressions from the mem
bers show that Mr.. Debs and his party
hold first place with them.
From a girl Is years old, under arrest
at the East Chicago Avenue Station, said
to be the daughter of a wealthy South
Side family and whose identity is kept a
secret, Police Inspector Heidelheimer has
obtained confession which he believes
Will result in the arrest of the persons
who committed many of the burglaries
that have been committed on the North
Side within the last few months.
The United States Ambassador, Gener-
al Horace Porter, and the United States
Commissioner General. f. w. Peck, par
ticipated in the exercises of turning over
the agricultural exhibit known as the
American corn kitchen, for demonstrate ting
the use of corn as food and for the pur-
pose of increasing exports, to the exposi-
! ton authorities. The kitchen is the work
of Colonel Clarke Carr of Illinois.
! AS result of the Wanaker- English en-
| ISOLDE, subcommittee of the Municipal
League has issued a call for meeting to
complete arrangements for a mass meet
| ing to be held Saturday evening Ito
| protest against the attempt upon the part
of high city officials to restrict the right
! of free speech and free criticism by
threats to use official power in an assault
upon private character"
Secretary Root sent to Chairman Hull
| OF the House Committee on Military At
fairs, an exhaustive collection of opin-
ions on the question of the Army Can
teen,' gathered by Adjutant General Cor
bin from every branch of the military ser
vice Secretary Root, in the course of Il
! brief Endorsement, says: IT think the
enactment of this bill would be INJURIOUS
to the temperance, morals and discipline
of the enlisted men of the army"
The House bill relating to game birds
Senate Committee on Interstate Com
merce. The purpose of the bill is to pre-
serve, distribute, introduce and restore
wild birds in the United States and the
entire question is placed in the hands OF
the Secretary of agriculture. The impor-
tattCn of the mongooSe, flying fox Eng
lish sparrow and other animals or birds
destructive of the game birds is prohib-
tied by the bill.
Among the passengers who arrived on
the new North German-Lloyd steamer
Grosser kurfurst from Bremen was Dr.
Johannes Trojan, editor of the German
comic satirical weekly, Kladderadatsch
Two years ago DR.. Trojan was confined
six months at Weichseimuende fortress
for lese majestic, committed in having al
lowed to be published in the Kladdera-
datsch a cartoon showing Alexander the
Great, Hannibal, Caesar and other ia
nous heather field marshals in a state
OF great hilarity over the assertion of
emperor William that only good Chris