The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-01-25
WORLD NEWS
CONDENSED
saxony is seeking a heavy loan

Island. Z
A road is building around Pago-Pagp
harbor.
Philip D. Armour left millions to
charity.
John F. Fee, founder of Berea College.
lis dead.
PugiIist Jem Mace's son is a successful
evangelist.
Garner, the explorer, may nave PERISH
! ed in Africa.
| A new ocean telephone patent has been
sold for $200, 600.
| Cleveland NAV get the G. A. r. ma
tional encampment.
Gen. Fred. Grant has defeated large
band of insurgents.
| Bryan's paper, the Commoner was TO
appear January 2Sd.
/ Pat Grove. the suspected kidnaper, has
not yet been found
The British were victorious but had
heavy losses at Belfast.
Jeffries denounces clergymen who
preach against pugiliSm.
/ Business is booming in Americas Sa-
moan Island of Tutuila.
| The Holy Synod of Russia has cxcom-
municated Count Tolstoi.
Crying babies in Chicago are rut to
sleep by the photograph.
| James De Foe, the last male descend
ant of the author, is dead.
Col. George French will command the
Salvation Army in the West.
/ The Samoan Weekly Herald has been
sold to company of Germans.
! Great Britain denies the reported ces-
sion of the Newchwang railway.
The German Government of Samoa is
expressing the people with taxes.
| Peter f. Dunno, "Dooley,' is out of the
lChicago hospital and getting well.
| Samoans are now receiving the SAL 600
paid them for surrendering arms.
| The old warship Omaha may be re-
paired and used as a training ship.
/ Four deaths from bubonic plague re-
Gently occurred on a British steamer.
Ten persons were killed in an English
hat factory in an explosion recently.
The house in which Lincoln's mother
was wooed has been destroyed by fire
More diamond finds are reported from
northern Mexico and lower New Mexico.
The Government will assist the starv-
ing Mission Indians in Southern Califor-
mia.
Mrs. Hurst, the divorced wife of Meth
odist Bishop Hurst, may become a Cam
Ollie.
The Government has reserved 2,00O 900
acres in Arizona to protect the water
supply.
The Russian Government has ordered
the Novoe Vremya to cease attacking
France.
German trade journals now refuse to
accept advertisements of some American
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products.
British and American residents of
I German Samoa are gradually leaving
the country.
saltwater Bill, the Klondiker, has
taken his third wife from among the
Lahore sisters.
La Verite, organ of the ultra-Cathollc
French Canadians, threatens an uprising
against England
Henry A. De Lille, confidant of Ma
poleon III and husband of live Logan.
is dead in London.
Bishop Potter wants the New York
police force reorganized by an Army
man on military lines.
| Cornelius Vanderbilt did not attend
his brothers wedding. the families not
having been reconciled.
| The German Governor of Samoa has
reprimanded Mataafa for demanding l.
900 mats from the chiefs of Tutuila
The Governor of Ohio will christen the
lbattleship Ohio, to be launched in the
lpresence Of the President at San Fran
cisco.
California fruit is affecting the Eng
liSh jam business and Yankee invention
may revolutionize the British wooden
trade.
George johnson. the millionaire laird
of the Isle of Fife, Is dead. or thirty
years he never permitted any one to see
his face.
Burglars were caught in Paris after
they had entered collectors apart
nents and cut Titian's 'Danae" from
its frame
Tom Fitch, who has been a candidate
for a Senatorial nomination in every
Western State, will practice law in the
Philippines.
A fight between the union and nom
union hack-drivers of San Francisco has
resulted in tying up twenty-five non-un-
ion burials in two weeks.
The Senate was considering the War
Revenue bill on January Sth. The trend
of sentiment appeared favorable to a
greater reduction than was made by the
House bill.
Reports from the States say that the
recent storms are dying away and the
rivers are lowering. 1t is said that the
Tuolumne river was higher than for
twenty years before.
On the opening day of the California
Legislature the Governors message was
sent to the Senate late and adjournment
was taken before it was read. This was
regarded by some as an act of great dis
courtesy.
Butte waiter in restaurant saved
the contents of a cash register by throw
ing a sugar bowl al robber. The rob-
Der fired one shot and left with $40, leav-
ing a roll OF bills amounting to several
hundred dollars.
! Mrs. SchmalZ, a San Francisco woman,
left will leaving her fortune to various
relatives and bequeathing only $50 to her
husband, because, she said, he had treated
her cruelty and she had given him $780,
900 in her lifetime.
Paul A. Davis of Boston drank all the
way across the ocean the last trip
of the Gaelic to San Francisco, and upon
landing there his wife had him arrested
that she might be rid of his company
and spend a night of rest.
Alfred Packer, the Denver criminal who
was convicted of a charge of the murder
of five companions in the Colorado
woods was pardoned from 40-year SEN
tence at the expiration of II years i'm
prsonment on the Sth inst
The Senate Committee on Military Af-
fairs has agreed to accept in modified
form the amendment to the Army bill
for the appointment Of a committee to
investigate the Army canteen. There
was vigorous debate on the subject
George Edwards, representing the alum
nj of the University of California, pre-
sented a number of measures for univer-
sity legislation to Senator Rowell to
bring before the California Legislature,
the measures all being for financial pro-
visions.