The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-21
WORLDS NEWS
CONDENSED


The Gar is well again.
Georgia Cayvan is improving. 81
.Dooley" Dunno is recovering.
August Belmont has typhoid fever.
The Nansen fund has reached S<oo'-
900.
Tod Sloane will shortly visit Califor-
MIA
The postal deficit was over five mil
lions. ,,,
Our troops are active In the Philip
pines.
Ellen Terry has retired from the
stage.
Andrew Carnegie favors the Isthmian
canal.
The Beers are still raiding British
trains.
Civil law will soon be established in
Africa.
Roland Reed, the noted actor, is crit
ically i'll.
Mount Wrangel is still in a state of
eruption.
The Cape Dutch continue to uphold
the burghers.
Servant girls or minneapolis VIII oi-
ganize a union.
England is seeking more army horses
in South Africa.
Sir Robert Hart is aging and cannot
last much longer
The Berlin census.returns show pop
ulation of 1,SS4,345
Alleged relatives Of Millionaire Daly
may contest his will.
Col. ]. F. Weston will succeed Eagan
as Commissary General. -.
The Epworth League rates were still
undecided December z.
The Californian, q new weekly paper,
will appear January 5.
Returning Laplanders say reindeer
do not thrive in Alaska
The Canadian troops have sailed for
home from South Africa
England may accept the abrogation
of the Clayton Bulwer treaty.
The metric system may be adopted
officially by the United States
The steamer Ell Dorado is. caught In
Yukon ice and NAV be crushed.
The Sultan gave a dinner to the off,
GERS of the battleship Kentucky.
1t is whispered in court circles that
Queen Victoria is failing rapidly.
Spain is planning to raise new loan
in order to replenish the gold supply.
Representative FoSs of Illinois is now
at the head of the Naval Committee.
Samuel Gompers asks that Southern
negroes be allowed to organize unions.
The Assistant Postmaster General
urges Improvement in registry service.
Kid Mccoy will marry Marguerite
Corneille, Corbett's former sweetheart
Wild animals are being trapped in
British Columbia for the New York
Zoo.
An English syndicate may purchase
several Pennsylvania steel and iron
mills.
The House passed the Grout oleomar-
garine bill by vote of 1856 to s2 on De-
cember z.
| The French Government is seeking to
buy American paintings for the Nation
al Gallery.
General Otis denies having any deal
lings with Rockefeller relating to min
ing claims.
| De Wet was compelled, in retreat, tC
release his prisoners and abandon 6
Krupp gun.
| Captain Carter, the disgraced Army
officer, has failed in his attempt to Sc
lcure release. 81.
Sugar Magnate Oxnard has married
Marie Pichon, his sister-in-law's beau
ltiful French maid.
A gold badge has been presented t
Mrs. Mckinley on behalf of the Pari
Exposition Commission.
| A female mass meeting recently sen
re solutions to washington urging Con
igress to prohibit polygamy.
An Oregon stage was held up AM
cbbed near Lakeview by one lone high
wayman on the 18th instant.
A Lake Erie gale caused a disaste
last week wherein an ore barge SUM
and eight men were drowned.
The Pacific Mail will fight the ship
Iping subsidy bill because of the claus
aimed at their Oriental crews.
Mrs. George NJ. Pullman, widow o.
the palace car magnate, is to MARI.
Gerard Barry. New York artist:
More trouble is brewing for the d.
lCastellanes. Their valuable yacht fa
now been seized by their creditors.
The United States Government ship
ped 100000 live salmon eggs to New
Zealand as a present, on the Sierra.
-
denies any intention of keeping troop
in the Chinese Empire permanently.
Richard Baker, proprietor of the ney
lQueen's Hotel. London, has failed an
his liabilities are placed at e650, 900.
Dorothy Drew, the actress, will su
Jeffries, the pugilist, for saying that h
had never asked her to be his wife,
The two wives of bigamist J. NJ. La
throp met in San Francisco last wee
and wept together over their sorrows.
The engagement of Miss Gladys Dea
con to the Prince Won Lichtenstein O
Austria has been formally announced
Rudolph Mers, a tailor of San Fran
CISCO Is arrested on a charge Of mur
dering his partner by gas asphyxiatior
A proposition Is on foot to join tn
great lakes and Atlantic by a 30-foO
channel to cost over three hundred mil
lionsJ
The annual Oxford and Cambridg
football match took place at tn
Queens Club, London, on the 18th in
. slant
The Irish Nationalists have denounc
ed landIordism and declared the cor
tinual struggle would never be aban
doned.
Hume Yerrington, formerly Mayor {
Carson, Ney., has been arrested at Vic
toria for stealing field glasses from
saloon.
Reports from Washington show
marvellous increase in trade with POI
to Rico, Cuba and the Islands of tn
Pacific.
John McAuliffe, the famous painte
OF horses, was killed last week by
. fall from window of his residence
, New York
Two big lumber companies were In
corporated at Tacoma, Washington, O
the 18th instant and capitalized at ha
4 a million dollars.
e The Shah of Persia Is an enthusiast
e autonobilist and recently made a Ion
h Journey in q horseless carriage whic
: he purchased In Paris.
Napoleonic relics were burned :
Cherbourg, France, December z. inclut
: Ing Napoleon's launch. The loss is e.
timated at 100000 francs.
h The Sultan of Turkey welcomed Lloy
IL. GrigrOn1 Trnitad Cfo+1.