The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-02-02
CONDENSED KILOGRAMS.
Brief Abstracts From Files and
Special Service.

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A German sugar trust has been es-
tablished.
Brig. Gen. c. w. Squires, US.A., re-
tired, is dead.
German wine-producers will exhibit
at the Paris fair.
The lower-class Beers desire to blow
up the Rand mines.
The Afghan Ameer is strengthening
his frontier garrisons.
Four widows of the Revolution are
still on the pension list.
American commerce with Turkey is
threatening French industries.
Count Castellane, Anna Gould's hus-
band, is in financial difficulties.
The cruiser Albany will soon be de-
| livered by the British builders.
Several mysterious dynamite explo-
sions have occurred at Leadville.
The last of the German ships seized
| by Great Britain has been released.
The National Board of Trade is con-
sidering extra cable service to Cuba.
The City of Picking has arrived at
San Francisco with 156 soldier dead.
Chaplain D. H. Shields has been dis
missed from the army for drunkenness.
The steamer Miami is ashore at Oys-
ter Harbor, Alaska. She is a total loss.
The Filipinos have been routed by
Schwan near San Diego and 100 killed.
The German press believes the Brit
ish position on the Tugela is desper-
ate.
Chinese pirates threaten to dynamite
foreign firms at Canton if tribute is not
paid.
| The Mexican troops have made a
successful campaign against the va
quis.
| The British public is wondering what
has become of the Roberts reinforce
ments.
| F. W. Reitz, Transvaal War Secre-
tary, has written parody on Kipling's
Recessional.
The National Board of Trade has de-
cided strongly in favor of the Hanna
Payne shipping bill.
The German ambassador visited The
University of Chicago and had an en-
thusiastic reception.
The State Department denies tha
any form of civil government has beer
established in Tutuila.
| Democrats in Congress favor the in
dependence of the Philippines, fre'
trade and free coinage.
The bones of prison-ship martyrs a
the time of the Revolution have beer
unearthed in the Brooklyn Navy Yard
The funeral of Gen. T. II. Stanton
occurred at Omaha Jan. % and the re
mains were taken to Arlington Gene
terry.
d. NJ. Burns, Van R. Paterson, Irv
! ing NJ Scott and NJ. H. De Young ar
: in the race for the California Senator
: ship.
o Charles Bennett of New York IA
, been chosen secretary of the Unite
: States Senate and d. NJ. Ramsdell c
= Indiana sergeant-at-arms.
= The Executive Committee of tn
e Peoples Party will meet in Lincoln
d Neb., February 10Th to name the tim
e and place for a convention.
r The American Minister to San DE-
: mingo is pressing a demand for S47,O(
5 balance due an American citizen fc
o the destruction of a bridge.
y The commander of the British Fir
Royal Dragons, at Spearman's Cam
Il has exchanged greetings with Empe
or william, VINO IS honorary Colon
-, of the regiment.
:; The Assumptionist Fathers at Par
o having had their order dissolved |
n the courts, the Archbishop of Paris HI
II blessed them and urged them to pers
/ we're in their work with simplicity al
t. fiTmness.
g, George Crocker has sued the Ma
g, haitian Life Insurance Company f
lie damages because the cornice of t
n, company's New York building projec
IN five inches over his line at hight
n 300 feet.
H. A 3-year-Old child at Fort Johr
-, = Oregon, climbed into a locomotive ca
= turned the throttle and rode at t
- rate of twenty miles an hour until t
40 end of the line was neared, when t
engine stopped for want of steam.
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