The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-12-20
NEWS OF WORLD
CONDENSED


Yukon gold is said to be rich in
platinum which is now wasted.
Chinese highbinders are still murder
ing each other in San Francisco.
An army and navy board declares
the Gathmann gun to be worthless.
The report on Philippine commerce
shows gains in trade with England.
1t is rumored that Ambassador
Choate may succeed Hay in the cabi-
net.
Maurice Grau, now in New York, re-
ports a successful San Francisco sea-
son.
A bitter fight has been begun on the
German tariff bill by Russia and Aus
tria.
Colonel Meade, of Brooklyn, has been
acquitted OF the charge of drunken
ness.
Thomas +. Lawson is reported to
have lost $1,000, 900 in the copper
slump.
California is to he assigned one o!
the big army camps of the United
states.
Marconi expects to send wireless
messages to ships four hundred miles
at sea.
The Board of Health meeting to have
been held yesterday was postponed to
Friday.
Bishop Montgomery, of Los Angeles
is to be the first American bishop OF
Manila.
capt David II. O'Keefe. the white
King of Jap" died in the Caroline
Islands.
The jury in the Carnahan pension
fraud case has brought in a verdict OF
not guilty.
Ri Rev. r. +. Gambon, chancellor of
the Diocese Of Louisville, is dead of
heart failure.
The London Review advocates an
Anglo German alliance to check Amer I
lean progress.
Wheat advanced six cents, and sold
at the highest point for year in the
market.
Admiral Dewey denies a report that
Schley has been found guilty by the.
court OF inquiry.
An effort is being made by the |
American Packing Company to corner |
the raisn market.
on December II the Senate was in !
executive session over the Hay |
Pauncefo.e treaty.
Investigation of the election laws of
Ma ssa chusetts and Louisiana is pro-
posed in Congress.
The President has reappointed the
United States judges of Arizona, New
Mexico and Oklahoma.
Representative Taylor, OF Ohio intro
duced n bill for an annual pension of
81. 1000 for Mrs. Mckinley.
ArIre nian refugees who go to Russia
sre encouraged to remain, but must
become Russian subjects.
Three army officers connected with
the Manila hemp frauds were convict
ed and sentenced &c prison.
King Edward will wear a cloth of
gold jacket and crown studded with
1000 jewels at his coronation
An attempt to wreck west bound
Erie train near Lima. Ohio, failed.
only the engine was derailed.
\ wreck dcrailed the east bound
passenger train of the oregon line at
Portland, killing the engineer.
The main university building at
Wooster, o.. burned on December II.
Loss, S250GO0: insurance, $4,000.
An attempt to Iuin the first produc-
ton in New York of Francesca Ill ~
mini led tc riot in the audience.
Western congressman cannot agree
IN an arid land policy, and RooscNelts
recommendations are likely to fail.
Miss Elena Grace, daughter Of Gn
aN-mayor of New York, will wed the
Earl of DOnCughmore on December II.
j. b. Hagman, owner of the Ana
Conda copper mine has purchased the
famous Cerro de Pasco mines, in Peru
The Pennsylvania Railroad may
choose to build Il tunnel under the
Hudson, in preference to bridge over
1t.
The royal couples of Hesse and Rou-
mania are having marital troubles al
most equallinG those of Queen Wilhel-
nina.
In "A boarding house quarrel Francis
Waugh, a New York editorial writer,
was shot and killed by Alexander
Hurr.
The premier of Hungary has refused
the parliamentary demand To stop the
shipment of horses to Kitchener $
army.
cramps are to build cruiser for
Turkey.
The queens Hotel ut Southsea was
destroyed by fire.
Serious labor riots have been in
Progress in Lyons, France.
American trade in the Orient fell off
heavily during the Boxer crisis.
The prospects seem good for early
ratification of the Canal agreement.
The Duchess of Marlborough will Wis
it her father in New York this Win
ter
Signor Emayor des Plauches is the
new Italian ambassador to the United
States.
4 The Korean cabinet was ovcrthrown
I while Major General Polk was visiting
] III japan
Vladimir Bnrgoraz, an explorer, has
been compelled to leave St. Petersburg
by the police.
] Bourke Cochran, in a speech deliver
ed in Chicago. scored British methods
of warfare in South Africa.
Rev. Campbell Brown, of West Viz
sinia, has declined his election as Epis'
Copal bishop of West Virginia.
Thirty-nine prisoners at Birmingham
I Ala, dug their way out of prison by
cutting through "A l6-inCh brick wall.
Major Van Tets, who was wounded in
a duel with Prince Henry, Queen vii
helmina's consort, is said to be alive
Professor Moore. weather bureau
chief, says progress in his department
has been made with wireless telc'
| graph.
, Senator Cockrell has introduced bill
for the construction of a million dola
bridge over the Missouri river at 81
Joseph.
Mrs. Anne Wentworth, Of Lowell
Las made available for Dartmouth Co.