The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-29
WORLDS NEWS
III CONDENSED
philip ID. Arm5ur Is critjcallv i

Philip d. Armour Is critically ILL.,
Archbishop Ireland is to visit Cuba.
The coal mines of Spitzbergen are to
be worked.
VIM. J. Lyme will be first Premier
of Australia scr f
The Missouri River Commission will
Zola appeals to Loubet to reopen the
Dreyfus case.
Norway will have an independent
Consular service.
Won Waldersee reports more fighting
With the Boxers.
The Emperor of China Is said to be
en- route to Peking.
The French amnesty bill was adopted
by a vote of 156 to 2.
At st. Paul Mississippi catfish are be-
ing canned as salmon.
Western opposition may modify. or
cefeat the subsidy bill.
Heavy silver exports have caused a
financial panic in Mexico
The President. on his Western trip,
viii visit Puget Sound cities.
Count Won Blumenthal. the oldest
German Field Marshal. is dead.
Spokane will have an exposition be-
tween June and November, 1902.
New York banks will distribute divi-
dends of $3.50. 200, 900 on January 1st.
The Natural Bridge of Virginia has
been sold to a syndicate for $4,000.
Frank Rockefeller of Ohio will start
an immense stock farm in Kansas.
An English syndicate wants to buy
lNicaragua's railroads and steamers
Officials at Hartford, Conn, are kill
ing cats to prevent the spread of diph-
iberia.
Princess Clementine. daughter of
King Leopold of Belgium, will become
"A nun.
have married Jack Levy, a diamond
bf oker.
The Duke of Manchester and bride
left New York for Cincinnati, Decem-
Der %
A girl was fatally burned in a New
York public school while playing San
ta Claus.
The Crown Prince of Denmark has
aroused hostility by mixing in party
politics.
Every employe of the American Ex-
press Company got present of IS on
Christmas
! The u. s. s. Hartford will remain in
can interests.
/ Banker Dreyer of Chicago. who was
recently in Jail, took the lecture plat
/ form on Christmas.
4 Lieut.. Evans. Forty-fourth infantry.
with fifty men. attacked 700 bolomen
and lost three men.
/ Ex-Goy. Merriam of Minnesota, Di-
rector of the Census. wants to be a
member of the Cabinet
If the Army bill passes there will be
twenty-five new Coloneis and fourteen
new Brigadier Generals.
The White Star steamer Cufic. aban-
dcned by her crew off the Skerries. has
been towsd to Liverpool
Three hundred recruits have left
/ Fort Slccum, Long Island Sound, for
Manila. via San Francisco.
I Jean de Reszke's voice has been re-
stored and he has left Europe to join
the Grau company in New York
The wife of the Rev. DR.. Joseph K
Dixon Of Boston has secured n divorce
from him on the highest grounds
In an address before the Pierce
School OF Business at Philadelphia.
/ Grover Cleveland arraigns trusts.
( After adopting the amendments the
Senate approved the Hay-Pauncefote
treaty by vote of fifty-five to eighteen.
! Forbes Robertson. the actor-mana-
ger. and Gertrude Elliott sister OF Max
Inc Elliott, have been married in Lon
don.
: The Quebec Government will try to
induce French Canadians living in New
England to return and take up new
land. s,ss ...
Senator Nelson OF Minnesota has o.
fered an amendment to the Army bill
to supply State militia with Krag- Jor-
genson rifles.
/ Under a system of protit-sharing the
Crane Elevator Company Of Chicago
will distribute s100. 900 to 1000 employees
on New Years Day.
! Manila fears q general revival Of the
war when the volunteer regulars are
withdraw The force of $4,000 viii
leave for home in July.
The schooner Pioneer, lumber-laden
U.41 r.-.<.
lost her rudder in a gale and wen,
ashore opposite Ocean Park, Ore.
/ The anti-dynastic rebellion In the
Province of Kansu is becoming serious
i Storms have caused damaging floods
in the Fraser river valley, y. G.
Charles s. Francis. editor of the Troy
IN. W Times, has been appointed Min
lister to Greece. He is 43 years old anf
a graduate of Cornell University
| Faiduk Islam. who was cheated out
lof his great fortune by Armenian mon
'ey-lenders. is raiding Christians in Sa
lonica. He has horde of ruffians.
Grover Cleveland, in an article in tn,
Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post
urges the Democratic party to abandon
Organism and return to first principles
Miss Alta Rockefeller has been curet
of deafness which she had had since
childhood. New ear drums were grow
and she can now hear the ticking of
watch.
Miss Grace Howard, daughter of 10,
Howard. the famous New York journal
ist. will marry Joseph Mesnard. tn
manager Of her South Dakota stool
ranch.
A Judgment for s13O,555 was given II
the Federal Court of Denver in favo
OF Orrin =. Peck of Chicago VS. Win.
field s. Stratton, the Cripple Creek mil
lionaire.
Porto Rico will enforce her claim o.
81. SOC. 600 against Cuba. when American
control ceases there. The Spanish Gov
scrnment exacted this amount for wa
purposes.
Claiming Barnes. who held up ar
Illinois Central Railway train in Jul,
and had notorious California record
committed suicide and was found dea,
In n swamp.
Jessie I. Beckwith. granddaughter o
Abraham Lincoln and daughter of Rob
ert T. Lincoln, has got divorce from
her husband. an ex-basebau player O
Mt. Pleasant, Ia
Preparations by the United States [,
send warship 10 one of the ports O
Morocco to enforce payment of al
American claim of $1,000 brought tn,
Sultan to terms at once.