The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-01-21
NEWS OF WORLD
CONDENSED

There are 267 cases of smallpox IN
President Mckinley has a bad attack
of the grip. ,,.,,;o,,;. ,s
aground in the Firth of Clyde.
Premier Dunsmuir will open the BTU
ish Columbia Legislature In FEBRUARY;
Three companies selected from the
volunteer soldiery will act as Mania
police. :. 10
ported off Fastnet in disabled COLI
dition. of
| defense in the new Australian caplnet,
| is dead.
| Sir Wilfred Laurier regrets that SO
| few lawyers enter the Canaolan ID
| lament.
| Frederick Clark Withers, one or
| Americas most famous architects, Is
dead at YonkerS, n. Y
| Corrected returns give Mr.. y. Il.
| Rowland, Toronto's new mayor, ma
jority of 1920 over Controller spence.
A line has been made to the STRANDED
steamer Russie near Marseilles, but on
January IL the passengers had not been
taken off.
The military government may close
several ports in the Southern lslands
to prevent communication between the
insurgents.
| j.
| ond-Greenlees Co.. Ltd, Montreal
and Winnipeg, died suddenly of pneu-
mona in Montreal
A dispatch from Brussels says Queen
Il Mary Henrietta is in an extremely
weak condition, and the slightest I'M
prudence may prove fatai.
| La grippe has reached Toronto In cpl
ldemic form and many large mercantile
concerns are crippled owing to the en-
ployees being down with the disease.
dispatch from Puerto. Beal, near
Cadiz, where Admiral Ceryera is lying
ILL., says his condition has grown worse,
and that his recovery is almost hope
less.
Five trains were snow bound for sew
eral days near Odessa, Russia, and
, were rescued with difficulty. A force
lof 1000 Russians are clearing the
track.
David Offers private bank at Shiloh
Ohio, was robbed $4,000 being secured
and a quantity of jewelry. The rob-
bers stole a horse and buggy and es-
capped.
Col. George B. Bellotti, noted civil
war veteran, committed suicide at Am
sterdam, N Y An old wound is hello
responsible for the arrangement lnduc'
ing suicide.
: The proposal that the city take over
t 1.-The plant of the Consumers Gas Com
t pany has been endorsed by Toronto
tcitizens with majority of lilo In 6
+ vote of 20,0S6.
The Ontario government has granted
the use of the legislative hall for the
Toronto ladies' entertainment in honor
I of the returning members of the Cana
dian Mounted Rifles
D In response to an appeal OF the Pr1n
: cess of Wales for further contribution:
, to the fund for the families of the mer
= at the front, Mr.. William Waldorf AS
tor has contributed $4,000
British Columbia now excludes al
[ Cinnamon who cannot make declara
r ton of entry in one European Ian
S guage. The law conflicts with TIT
f Dominion statutes, and "a clash ma!
4 result.
The banns of marriage for three cou
. pies being published at the little vii
II lage church of Acton, in Suffolk, i
was discovered that every one of tn
six persons concerned was nance
It Woodgate.
g Discussing the project of an ex
= change of German East Africa for Cy
N prus, the Novae Vremya est Peters
= burg) says Russia would never con
y sent to Germany securing such a foot
hold in the Far East.
n Sir Edward Spence Syms, chief sec
n rotary of the government of Burmah
s since $780, and member of the execu