The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-29
News OF WORLD
CONDENSED


THE house has recently voted III fa-
vor of the Hopkins bill.
A cannery hre at sacramento last
week caused a loss of $4,000.
A great landslide near Castle Crag,
Cal. delayed overland trains.
President Mckinley had a buffalo
roast on his Christmas dinner menu.
The situation is said to be growing
worse III China and more trouble is ex-
pected there.
The proposed canal around the rapids
on the Columbia river would cost four
l.l.llior dollars.
Senator Allen severely denounced the
gossip of lobbyists in the Senate at
Washington last week.
l. is intimated that the Union Pa
c.fc, Southern Pacific and Santa 'Fe
railroads are likely to unite.
IN Oakland baker has been sued for
s. eco by girl employe of his shop for
ecinF her without her consent.
Great distress and destitution is said
TO prevail among the Indians of the
Sow. hern California reservations.
Thirty insurgents We're captured near
Manila on December 18th by twenty
five men of the u. S. goth infantry.
Nearly two million dollars is said to
have been recently paid by an English
syndicate for a Coalinza oil claim.
Classmates of dead Cadet Booz say he
was regarded as a coward and was not
prosecuted for his religious belief.
Eleven hundred Christians are re-
ported tortured to death or slain by
the Mohammedan fanatics in Turkey
Governor Wroth of Ohio has stated
that he will not permit the proposed
Jeffries- Rubin prize fight in that state.
Miss Vivian Sartoris, granddaughter
OF General Grant. is to be married to
Timothy Nichols, New York club
man.
Under date of December 18th it is
stated that the outlook for the passage
of the. canal bill this session is very
dark.
The California delegation are work
ing hard to prevent the ratification of
the French and Jamaican reciprocity
treaty.
A "Mayfiower'' society is to be or
ganized in Oakland consisting of those
who claim descent from the Mayflower
pilgrims.
A sensational speech was recently
made at a secret consistory in the Vati-
can by Pope Leo, bitterly denouncing
the state.
/ kid" Mccoy wants to arrange a
fight with Corbett or some other heavy
weight He seeks to redeem his lost
prestige.
After a desperate struggle Chicago
girl was beaten almost to death by a
burglar last week. Her injuries are
probably fatal.
An American mining engineer killed
two Mexican bandits last week at f
Paso, Texas. They attempted to rot
him and he shot them.
Paul Julius Antoine, French Vice
Consul, died at the French Hospital ir
San Francisco last week. having shot
himself through the head.
An Ostend woman has just confessed
that her dead husband committed the
crimes for which three innocent nner
were sent to the guillotine.
The arguments on both. sides of the
Philippine and Porto Rican cases hav,
been made and the decision now rsst.
with the United States Supreme Court
A ballot box suitably inscribed anC
bearing California's majority, at tn,
last election will be presented to Pres
ident Mckinley his visit to- the west
Severe measures have been taken a
West Point against hazing.. Demeri
marks to half the number which cause.
expulsion We're given two hazers las
week.
An insane sheep herder of San Migu
], e, Cal, cut his throat with iul
butcher knife and set his clothes on fir
after saturating them with coal oil las
week.
The coroner's jury in the case of .fou
men who were killed in a railroad acci
dent at Suisun severely censurued tn
Southern Pacific Company for the ac
!, cident.
The bin to give soldiers the prefer
: ence in the matter of public appoint
ments was defeated by a large majorit!
in the House of Representatives las
week
The libel suit of j. II. Won Schroede
, against J. d. Spreckels of the Sal
Francisco Call is now attracting a grea
deal of attention in the San Francisc,
courts
Frank Cheuce, the baseball catcher
. is recovering from the concussion o
the brain caused by being struck in tn
) ear few weeks since. He is in a 10
Angeles hospital
Mrs. Louise Victor of Chicago las
week became a proselyte to the Jewisl
faith because she feared to be separat
ed from her husband in DEATH her hus
band being a jew
Captain Howgate formerly chief o
the u. S. weather bureau. viii be re
3 leased from New York state prison ol
New Years day from a six-year sen
tence for forgery.
Dispatches from Madrid confirm tin
report that one hundred and thirty-si,
r persons went down with the trainin,
ship Gneisenau in the recent storm of
the port of Malaga.
Another negro lynching affair is re
} ported from Boonsville, Ind. John Rol
t la, who killed a barber, was takel
: from his prison cell and lynched by
t mob in the Jail yard.
| Hugh Buchanan, an inmate of tn,
Napa insane asylum, just released, 4
2 to be tried on a charge of murder com