The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1900-12-30

afre Peck had contracted TO erect q
concentrating plant at the Indepsa-
5e1ce mine and Mr.. Strat-o1 claimed
e contract was not fulfilled
II is reported that Baron Hoshi To-
"a. the minister Of communications Of
Japan. has resigned his post on &C
count of an accusation Of bribery n
connection with the street cleaning
contracts Of the city council
At a meeting presided over By J. VI.
Comstock Of Spokane. Wash. on De-
cembeT 22d. attended By thirty bust
ness and mining men. It was decided
TO hold an exposition in Spokane from
June TO November, 1902.
Il is stated that French engineer
has designed new compound locomo
tive with which he has reduced the
time on two important French rail-
roads until their express trains are
now the fastest in the world
The first order Of importance toI
supplies to be used in the construction
OF the new San Pedro. Los Angeles
and Salt Lake railroad has been given
for 220. 600 ties, to be delivered dur
ing February and March at San Pedro
Senator J. K Jones. according 70
reports in Democratic circles, will
Don call speciai meeting of the Dem
ocratic national committee in Wash
ington. for the purpose Of resigning IS
chairman.
As result of trouble Dec. q be
tween Police Judge John p Bauder
OF Prescott, s. T., and z woman nam
ed Claudio Kline. the former mas 4
terrible wound in his neck and face
and the woman lies dead on a slab in
the morgue.
The money panic in Mexico which
was started by the heavy expectation
OF silver dollars to the Orient is grow
ing into something serious An aver
age Of $4,000 per day has gone through
El Paso. Texas. 10 China and the ORR
ent each day for five months.
The casting vote of the president Of
the second CHAMBER of Darmstadt was
required to defeat motion instructing
its representatives in the Reichstag
to initiate a proposal for arbitration
of the Boer difficulties.
The Deutsche Colonialblatt of Ber-
lin publishes an order from Emperor
William forbidding officers and offici-
ais, including those on the retired list,
in the colonial service, to print any
thing about the colonies without the
consent of the minister of marine.
hnnr, Oh
Sioux City. Iowa, TO build a fish can
merry in Alaska, south of ST. Michael,
with an annual output of 10000 cases.
and to FISH in the rivers Of that region.
Chinese and japanese labor will be
used.
A general attack is being planned
upon all American interests in Venezu-
ella. and if succor in the prompt dis
patch OF war ships uy the United
States government is not forthcoming
at once the results may prove disas-
trous.
A resolution has been introduced in
the San Francisco board of supervis-
ors regarding sidewalk fences. 1t puts
a limit of seven feet on the height Of
such structures, provides for going
into immediate effect and imposes a
penalty of $50 for every infraction.
F. H. Morris of Ohio, auditor of the
war department, was shot, December
22d, in his Office in the Winder build
ing, Washington, D. c., by man
named Mcdonald, formerly a disburs-
ing officer in the department. Morris
is thought to be fatally hurt.
The sale Of the Coalinga oil lands of
Chanslor & Garfield of Los Angeles
and W. H. H. Hart and associates of
San Francisco, which was reported
some five months ago and subsequent
ly denied, is again reaffirmed on good
A fresh attack was made by the
striking dock laborers and others on
December %, at the
wharf. Antwerp. A detach-
ment of fifty policemen charged the
strikers, firing their revolvers into
crowd. Thirty men were wounded,
ten of them severely.
AS result of the high tides and
rains, the dixie at Stevenson, between
the Gulf of Georgia and the Atlas
in British Columbia, gave
way On December 21st. There was
four feet of water over the streets of
the big fishing town of Stevenson.
The vaults of the Coffee County
John G. A. Leishmann of Pennsyl-
vania. now minister to Switzerland.
is TO become the minister to Turkey.
in place of Oscar Straus of New York
Chief of Police Deverey of New
York has caused a sensation by max
ing number of unexpected changes
in the New York City police depart
ment.
The Hartford. Conn, board of health
has begun war of determination up
the cats found in the vicinity OF Park
Terrace, a fashionable neighborhood.
Striking telegraph operators at To-
peka. Kansas, say they will accept |
lothing from the Santa Fe Company |
'ut an absolute granting of their de-
hands.