The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-01-07

rapid growth OF American influence up
Ion the economic situation of Europe"
| The Samoa is to be made a transport.
| Giaconini's comet has been seen again
| LORD Roberts has arrived at Gibraltar
| The Queen of Holland will wed in Sep
| her
Andree has at last been given up for
| lost.
There is a corner on the bean market
| now.
Hank Half will sail the Boston cup de-
fender.
Russia will take over the Manchurian
New York is to have an orthodox Rus
sian church.
The Colombian rebels have met with
more reverSeS.
| Jules Riviere, famous. musical con-
| There is q strong anti-foreign move
rnent in Corea.
| Depressing weather marked the Eng
| lish Christmas.
| Prof Moses Colt Tyler of Cornell Uni
Eversity, is dead.
| Dr. Alfred Momerie, the noted Ensllsh
! churchman, is dead.
| The value of the Pullman estate hasgin-
creased to $13,000,0O0.
| DreyfuS vigorously demands the re-
Opening of his case.
| Secretary Hay is again at his desk In
the State department.
! The Great Northern telegraph opera
tors threaten strike.
Glasgow has established work-houSe
for habitual drunkards.
The prune men of San Jose have failed
to reach any conclusion.
Representative Hull thinks the Army
Reorganization bill is safe.
The corn crop of 1900 was one OF the
four largest ever gathered.
Turkey has signed the ship-building
contract with the Cramps.
Claus SpreckeiS viii invest IS, 600 200 in
a San Francisco gas plant
Gold has been found in the crop of a
wild goose from Pitt Lake, B. C.
There is a plan on foot among proni-
nent Democrats to depose Bryan.
De Wet failed in his attempt to break
the British lines and escape south.
Joseph Owen, six years ago mill hand,
has received a fellowship at Oxford.
The Duke of Westminster is to marry
the beautiful Miss CORVALLIS West.
A heavy snowstorm occurred near AL
buquerque, New Mexico, December g.
Booz' brother declares that former Ca
Diet Oscar L. Booz was not a coward.
A new Emperor of China is said to
have been appointed by the Dowager.
The ship Lodore was struck by a
squall off Newcastle and turned side up.
Thirty-five Thousand new men began
business in the United States during 1899
The Italian bandit Mussolino has been
cornered and will either be taken or kill
ed
Mrs Lulu c. Jenkins, widow of a
lynched man, has recovered $4,000 dam
ages.
The new Panama Canal Company on
December q held lively meeting in New
York.
The British have reoccupied Ficksburg
ia1, hos. hoo IS ~
Beers.
A Mexican bank has failed for over
two millions owing to financial strin-
gency.
The Southern Educational Convention
met in session December q, in Richmond
Virginia.
One lone bandit stopped an Arizona
press box.
H. A. Seymour, a New York broker,
has failed. with liabilities of s6ss, $50, as
set s750,695,
Diamonds, or what closely resembles
diamonds, have been found near Capt.
tan, N. NJ
A wealthy Oakland, CAL, citizen has
left the bulk of his property to the Sal
walton Army
Sydney Miller, the kidnapped 7-year-old
grandson of Attorney General Miller, has
been returned.
Members of the English Embassy were
grossly insulted at Constantinople by the
Sultan's troops.
Grove, the supposed abductor of young
Cudahy, is supposed to be escaping in
woman's dress. --s-
+ Great Britain is building eleven battle
ships, nineteen cruisers and fourteen
smaller vessels.
Owing to general starvation, human
flesh is being offered for sale in the prov
ince of Shan-si
Decision has been given against Kip
ling in regard to the elephants head as
a copyright mark
run on all the banks of Baltimore
followed the announcement of the Old
Town Bank failure
Roosevelt refuses to- extradite Rookie
Teller to Texas for alleged violation of
the antitrust law.
Wesley Dugan, a public school teach
er in Petersburg. Ind, was brutally
hazed by his pupils.
The Tugari tribe from Dutch New
Guinea raided the English possessions
there on December 81
The Methodist and Baptist churches of
Illinois and adjoining States are prepar-
ing for. great revival
Senator Allison says the Senate Com
mittee on Finance will grant no hearings
or war revenue matters.
Postal robbers on the Michigan Central
made haul of 100000 in negotiable pa
per. A pouch was stolen.
1t is rumored that Mrs Phoebe Hearst
has left the Episcopal Church and taken
up with Christian Science
Americans on December % Joined a
British and German expedition to clear
the country east of Peking
w. L. Fletcher of the Missouri Pacific
says San Francisco is developing faster
than any city in the Union
Alfred Harmsworth, the London editor
says he sees no reason why America
should not control the canal.
w. F. H. Fickstone of San Jose has
been engaged by Cecil Rhodes to culti-
vate his acres in South Africa.
Mystery shrouds the shooting of a
prominent Masonic Indiana official, Will
nam ID. Smythe, on December o.
British cavalry en- route to South
Africa are discarding the lance and car
Dine and taking rifles and sabers
Owing to the Lindley disaster last May
several British yeomanry officers includ-
ing Colonel Spragge, have resigned
The Senate Committee on Relations
with Cuba will consider the question of
irregularities under the Cuban service.
A woman of seventy, who married
man OF twenty-three and gave up to hir1
her estate, now claims she was deceived
A new sect called 1.-THE Tribe of
Beasts has been started in Chicago. 1t