The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-12-21
NEWS OF WORLD
CONDENSED

a DR.. Robert Curry, founder of Curry
- University, Pittsburg, Pa, is dead.
F'Ieishman, the Los Angeles abscon-
der, is said to have gone to Mexico
Fifty thousand men of the Chilean
r reserves have been called TO arms
/ Movable telephones have been intro
s lduced in the restaurants of Chicago.
8 The United States has offered to me-
date between Chile and Argentina.
= Mr.. Yeries has bought Turner s
Rockets and Blue Lights for Sl5,G0O.
BY court decision the President VIII
inherit a fortune of from 100000 to
$3.50, 900.
Secretary Root has asked an appro-
: priation of 100000 for army posts in
Manila.
, Delegate Wilcox is member of the
committee on coinage, weights and
measures.
French publicists are on their way
to New York to study American bust
ness methods.
Col. George Harvey has succeeded
John Kendrick Bangs as editor of Har-
per's Weekly.
w. B. Galliher, of the Tacoma.
Wash, fire department, was killed by
a falling roof.
1t is estimated that the total value
of the salmon pack this year will run
Up to 81 800, 600.
H. ]. Fleishman, the missing Los
! Angeles cashier, is alleged to have been
seen in Ell Paso.
Western railroads will cut down the
| time of fast trains from Chicago to
I Omaha and St Paul
| Chicago has a club of wealthy peo
pie who are pledged to eat nothing but
pork for six months.
a blizzard is prevailing in the Texas
Panhandle which may prove a disaS-
trous one to cattlemen.
Snow began to fall in Kentucky on
Dec. Il. The mercury fell forty de-
grees during the night.
William Loeb Jr, second secretary to |
Roosevelt, was married to Miss kath- |
arine w. Dorr, of Albany.
\ Filipino has been convicted in the |
department of Visayas of cannibalism |
and sentenced to be hanged. !
Griswold Harte, son of Bret Harte. |
is dead. The novelist himself has been |
i'll in London of pneumonia.
The main building of the University I
of Wooster. Ohio. was burned. with /
loss of $3.50, 600; insurance, $4,000.
Lord Kitchener is now personally d.
recting the movements of British
troops in the field in South Africa.
Members Of a secret society fired the
palace of the Empress Dowager at Kai- /
Feng-Fu. The building was Quilted.
Mohybdemun. a rare mineral used in
steel construction, has been discovered
in the Mingus mountains, California.
a bill empowering the United States
to buy the telegraph lines has been in
troduced in the House by a Kansas
man.
Yung Lu. who commanded troops op-
posed to the allies. has been decorated
for protecting foreigners against
Boxers"
The widow of Senator Tabor. of Den $
yer. who was penniless, has received
$4,000 from property supposed to be
worthless.
The Southern Pacific Railroad is ar
ranging to operate a daily dining car
service between San Francisco and
New Orleans.
Senator Bacon opposes the Nicaragua 7
canal treaty on the ground that it does I
not safeguard the canal under Ameri- r
can jurisdiction. 4,
\ quartz ledge containing gold. sill
yer and cinnabar, has been discovered a
on the Bloomfield ranch in Sonoma a
California. In
The San Francisco Chamber Of Com i
merce protests against the lowering of r
the tariffs on California products '
through reciprocity with Cuba.
The Southern Pacific has ordered s
sixty new freight engines, five passen- 7
ger and ten freight engines in addition a
to the 103 now being delivered. ,
The lower house of the japanese diet :
has replied to the speech from the a
throne that there are indications of Y
further disturbance in the Orient i
Two shipwrecked Japanese fishermen =
spent five days without food and shell =
ter on an island in the mouth of the =
Skeena river. in British Columbia. 9
The United States grand jury at .
Fla, has returned true =.
bill against Helen Wilmans, a woman :,
who professed to cnre disease by men -
tai science.
The German press is belligerent. D
that if Emperor William
wants to seize a Venezuelan port he =
won't need to ask the permission of
Uncle Sam.
The Pennsylvania Railroad has plans L
for tunnels under the Hudson and East
rivers, with an underground terminal Il
in New York for that line and the Long c
Island Road. ic
The heads of legations at Caracas, o
the Spanish minister excepted. Will b
send an Identical note to their respec- y
tive governments. complaining of the II
situation in Venezuela. i
Capt. Matthew \. Batson. Fifteenth y
Cavalry, who organized and led the Il
Macabebe scouts. has fallen i'll and has il
been ordered to the general hospital at b
for treatment.
President WashbuTn, of Robert Col L
lege, has gone To Sofia on a confiden-
tial mission FOR the release of Miss
Stone. 1t is rumored that the United
States will pay the briEands in fun.
Mime. Nordica. the singer. viii sue n
the government FOR money alleged to
be due an ancestor who lost ships in
the revolutionary war. for which the Z
collected. but did not re- -
imburse the claimant.
Andrew Carnegie's proposed gift OF y
SIC. 000. 600 OF steel trust stock to the Y
nation for university extension work,
may be refused. as many congressman II
believe TO accept il would be to legal O
re the stock Of the trust.
Westminster. Il. c., officials are puz- =
lied over the case OF one Franklin
Strong. said 10 be a lawyer OF Aber-
ieen. Miss. who can remember moth "
ing since the morning OF August q. a
1897. when he was called TO defend a h
Ease in court. I:
II
Mrs. Leland Stanford Is determined X
hat the university at Palo Alto, Cal. d
founded in memory OF her son. shall be n