The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-03-23

trees from the lumbermen has been
signed by the President.
The batJleships kearsarge and Ken
.UCAy are nearly competed.
General Davis makes a strong appeal
for food FOR hungry Porto Ricans.
The Alaskan steamer WolcJit has
been wrecked. No lives were lost.
The French Worlds Fair Will open
on April 18th In an unfinished state.
ne Federal Court finds that The tax
on bills OF lading FOR export Is valid.
The annual production OF precious
gems in the United states Is increasing
The Alaskan steamers Walcott and
Excelsior are long overdue az Seattle.
The milers OF Kansas. Oklahoma
and Kansas City have formed a trust
c. =. Huntington will acquire the
Houston. East a West Texas railroad.
An American Angora Goat Breeders
Association has been formed In Kansas
City.
Lieut. Gilmore and his party OF eN-
prisoners have arrived at san Fran
cisco.
DR.. Parkhurst has begun crusade in
New NorsN against gambling and pool
rooms.
4 plan to overthrow the Brazilian
Republic has been discovered and frus-
tfated.
Miss Enid Wilson. a famous London
beauty. has been married 10 Lord Ches-
terrified.
Miss Katharine Wolfe Bruce. who
gave the $4,000 telescope 20 Harvard.
is dead.
Sixty-two miners lost their lives In
the Red Ash Colliery disaster at Fire
Creek. Va.
A bill has been drafted providing for
n national home for lepers in Yellow
stone Park.
Ex-President Harrison expresses dis
pleasure at the rumor that he will re-
enter politics.
Fourteen lives were lost in an in
cendiary fire in the Italian quarter Of
Newark. n. J.
The plague steamer Mango Maru has
left Port Townsend with a cargo OF
-four for Japan.
Representative Robbins OF Alabama
has been ousted from Office on the
ground of fraud.
The steamer Kaiser Wilhelm der
Crosse has made a successful test OF
wireless telegraphy.
The widow OF "Bill" Anthony OF
maine" fame has been given a place
In the Census bureau.
Henry Ward Beecher's sister Mary
and half-brOther Thomas X. Beecher
both died on March IL.
The powers have neglected TO ratify
the three conventions made by The
Hague Peace Conference.
The War Department has no record
OF Gen. Wheeler having rendered his
Nrn.r.-.N..r
Miss Ida Wilbur. the San Francisco
girl who lay unconscious for two years
from asphyxiation. is dead.
Madame Hermann. widow OF the
magician, will marry Baron Ivan Or
skevitch. a Russian nobleman.
American soldiers are said 90 have
stripped Gen. Gregorio del Pillars body
and left Il naked by the roadside.
The Second Presbyterian and Trinity
Methodist churches OF Chicago have
been burned by an incendiary crank.
John l.. Macatee OF Oklahoma has
been nominated for Associate Justice OF
the Supreme Court OF that Territory.
Warrants have been issued for Secre-
tary OF State Powers and other officials
for completely In the murder OF Goebel.
Senate bills have been introduced
providing for the opening OF Libraries
at Manila for the benefit OF Americans.
The rival Governors OF Kentucky are
both forming a large militia. Demo-
Gratis are planning the arrest OF Tay-
Tor. Il
Automobiles with gasoline power are
declared from Golden Gate park. Elec-
trio and air-propelled vehicles are per-
mitted.
The remains Of President Lincoln are
90 be put in "A temporary vault while
the monument at Springfield Is being
rebuilt.
The submarine torpedo boat Holland
had a successful test before the SEN
ate and House Committees on Naval
Affairs.
Col ]. T. Morgan opposes Adjutant
General COrbin's promotion on the
ground Of cowardice at the battle OF
Nashville.
Major General Z. NJ. McCook. twice
Governor OF Colorado. has become an
inmate of the Soldiers Home at Yount-
vile, Cal.
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett. au-
thor OF Little Lord Fauntleroy." has
married her former secretary, Stephen
Townsend.
The bubonic plague at Buenos Ayres
has caused twenty-three deaths with
In two months. Plague is increasing
at Sydney.
Surgeon General Wyman states that
there was but one case OF plague on
the Nanyo Maru. The other cases
were beri-beri.
The British steamer Cuvier has been !
sunk near Calais, France. IN collision |
with an unknown steamer Forty OF |
the crew are missing.
The Princess Of Wales held a draw /
ing-room at Buckingham in behalf OF 4
the Queen. Presentations. which were /
limited. included four American ladies. /
The British Government will prob 4
ably decline 10 accept the amendments 4
10 the Hay-Pauncefote treaty and will 1
hold that the Clayton-Bulwer treaty f. |
still in force.
The German flag was hoisted over
Apia on March ]. DIR. Solf IL Governor.
a public reconciliation took place at
the nag-hoistfng between Tamasaga