The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-11-30
WORLDS NEWS
CONDENSED

The San Francisco Board of Educa-
ton have decided to inaugurate the
system of semi-annual promotions in
the schools.
Pioneer Square, Salt Lake City, Will
almost certainly be granted to the Los
Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad for ter
minal facilities.
The Republicans have secured two
more Senators, which will give them d
majority of five on joint ballot in the
Nebraska Legislature.
Lord Ashburtons sale of rare books
at Sothebys in London drew crowd.
One rare book dated 1870, sold for G450,
and another for G116
! The San Francisco Gas and Electric
! Company may soon have strong COM
petition. Claus Spreckels is planning
to build a rival plant
The black sand deposits on the beach
of Ureck Bay, Vancouver Island, have
yielded $4,000 this season. Next season
cleanup of 100000 is looked for.
At an audience given Bishop Burke
of st. Joseph, Mo, the Pope said he
hoped that God would grant his pray
er for the prosperity of the United
States.
The files of the controller of currency
contain a long list of names of capital
! lists who want to get authority to es-
tablish national banks in the new pos
sessions.
The Russian battleship Retevisan, re
Gently launched at the Cramps ship
yards in Philadelphia, is similar in
some respects to the Maine, Missouri
and Ohio.
A fortune in whalebone was brought
back from the Arctic by the whaling
steamer Grampus The bone is valued
at $4,000, and is the product of thir-
teen whales.
A Santa Cruz lad stole $4,000 worth
of jewelry from the family chest on
November 10, and started out to have
gay time He sold jewelry valued at
$1,000 for $50.
The Paris Petit Journal declares the
report to be quite correct that the Sc
cret of the new French cannon has
been divulged.
A telegram dated Cripple Creek, Col,
Nov. 10, states that ore to the value OF
800 900 a ton, was taken out of the
Gold Bond Consolidated Mines Compa-
ny of Gold Hill.
Libel proceedings may be brought
against Lord Durham. The Jockey Club
has reached no decision, but racing
men are satisfied it will acquit the
American jockeys,
At the fail meeting of the Yale cor
poration, it was voted that free tut
ton at the university should be given
to five Filipinos of exceptional fitness
and high character
Miss Mary DAILY, second daughter of
he late Marcus DAILY, will marry Jas.
w. Gerard, young lawyer of New
York city. Mary DAILY is a beautiful
and accomplished girl.
The German Government, November
3, officially granted permission to 1000
Transyaal Beers to trek through the
Kalahari Desert to territory in Ger
man Southwest Africa.
According to the London Daily EX-
press, Holland has expressed "A will
lngness to purchase on behalf of Mr..
Kruger for the eXiled Beers a portion
of German Southwest Africa.
There are 500 teachers and $4,000 pu-
pills in Porto Rico. There are 100000
children of school age without school
facilities. There are no public school
buildings, colleges or universities,
Robert w. Hamburg has been APP
pointed president OF the board Of agri-
culture In the British cabinet, and
Marquis of Londonderry viii retain the
portfolio OF the postmaster general,
The bodies Of twenty-five persons
were recovered In Hongkong, Noyem-
Der 10, killed by the collapse Of houses
In the typhoon. More than nifty bod
les were recovered from the hBrbor.
The PittsbuTg Coal Company has In
augurated a plan whereby Its 10000
employees are NOT only 10 become
stockholders IN thu company, bot have
an accident. death and pensina 4 80