The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-02-13
NEWS OF WORLD
CONDENSED

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The University of California expects to
receive a sum of nearly $4,000 as GIT
| from Claus Spreckels.
Theodore Roosevelt is becoming outt
of ridicule owing to the romances about
his hunting expedition.
/ Emperor William is said to have offer
ed King Edward VII the dignity of Ad-
Imiral of the German navy.
/ On January IS the Chicago police and
detectives were thought to be closing IN
on the Cudahy kidnappers.
The biography of Bret Harte, with an
Introduction by himself has been an
nounced by T. e. Pemberton.
Five men were killed in West Virginia
last week by an accident caused by the
engineer being asleep at his post.
The Shamrock is being built on entirely
new lines, some radical changes being
made from conventional designing.
| The story of the absorption of the
Pressed Steel Car Company by the Car
negie interests is without foundation.
| Scientists will explore San Nicholas
Island, where it is believed large stores
of valuable Indian relics will be found.
The United States Government is
sending to San Francisco three men who
know the plague, in order to investigate.
| Miss Mary Cunningham of Pullman,
Washington, risked her life to save three
younger brothers and sisters from death
by fire.
At Hero, Norway, January "a, thirty
five persons persisted in hurricane. Six
ty boats were sunk and eight houses
blown away.
Flogging of criminals, which in ancient
times was the custom in yhe land of
steady habits, is to be revived by law
in Connecticut
Over 10000 Catholic members of the
Federal party in the Philippines have
tod 1,n;r t>,, nf b.1
from the Vatican.
The Josiah Morris Bank, one of the
oldest private banking institutions in
Alabama, closed its doors on the morn
ing of January rs.
Forty men from the cruiser Albany,
convicted OF mutlny at Hongkong, have
been sentenced to various terms of i'm
prisonment at Cavite.
Governor Nasn of Ohio has refused to
pardon r. Il. F'errel, the express robber
and murderer and the latter win be cleo
trocuted on March 1st
San Francisco is said to be in danger
of losing its trade with Oriental coun
tries, owing to reduced freight rates to
New York and Chicago.
James Doyle, Jr., of Marysville, while
taking down a receiver preparatory to
telephoning, received an electric shock
and was instantly killed.
Kenneth Hughes, a student of the
Lake Forrest Academy Qll.), travelled
twenty-five miles while sound asleep
without conscious volition
Two of the largest steamers, the Sem
ator and Victorian, plying between Pu-
get Sound and Lynn Canal, have met
with accidents in the north.
AT Topeka, Kansas, Mrs. Carrie Nation
had TO be protected by officers with
drawn pistols to prevent her from being
roughly handled by the mob.
Il
of Internal Revenue in Peoria Qll) was
broken into on January 26 and fortune
stolen in war revenue stamps.
The Texas operators are planning to
shut out the Standard Oil Company and
have bought up all the land within TWEEN
ty miles of the Beaumont gusher.
Ben Tacko, the president of the Eng
lish Law Society, whose firm swallowed
9170,000 of it's clients money, has been
sentenced to twelve years Imprisonment.
Two women persisted in the fire in the
Hotel Jefferson, New York, on January
30. The famous war correspondent, Ed
ward Marshall, barely escaped with his
life.
DR.. George S. Goodspeed and Professor
Smaller Mathews of the Divinity School
faculty of the University of Chicago
think many of the Bible miracles are fic-
ton
An attempt was made to kidnap Oscar
H. Rogers a student of Williams Col
lege, Mass, in January. He was rescued
by his room mate after an exciting
chase.
A cable to the New York World from
Paris, January &C. says that Baptiste
Ledolin is believed to have committed
suicide in his balloon while on noe
| turnal voyage.
| In consideration of $4,000, 900 contract
to make steel, Andrew Carnegie has
consented not to go into the business to
compete with the American Steel and
Iron Company.
Andrew w. Brown. son of the New
York millionaire clubman, who has filed
| a petition in bankruptcy in San Fran
cisco, will be assisted in defraying his
debts by his father.
| At Kansas City the cashier of the
Standard Oil Company was forced back
ward at the point of a pistol and locked
in a closet while the robber secured 500
in cash and departed.
On January rs, Mrs. Nation stormed the
Kansas State House and created pan
ic. She upbraided the officers from the
Governor to the police, calling them law
breakers and perjurers.
Banker Seligman, head of the Paris
house of the Seligmans, delivered the
annual address before the American
lChamber of Commerce of Paris and paid
glowing tribute to America.
Edward p Hall of San Francisco frs
captured a pistol and then shot motto
rious thief who had entered his room
The warfare over Nome placers has
been ended by compromise.
The Municipal Assembly of St. Loui:
passed a bill providing fol- the issuance
of $5,000,000 of bonds for it's World
Fair in 1903