The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-02-01
WORLDS NEWS
CONDENSED

works at penuelas
The battleship Iowa has left Acn-
pulcu for san Diego.
Troops have restored order IN tht
kentucky feud district.
There Is no choice Yet FOR the short
term Montana Senatorship.
The Senate adopted resolutions OF re-
gret for the death OF Senator Gear,
Moran Brothers, of Seattle, VIII Oulld
one of the new sheathed battleshtps.
The Shotwell defalcation I'm the Ray
County CMoD Bank amounts to $24, 45S.
Full official census figures viii not
be available for year and halt TO
come.
A sister of Professor Garner states
that he Is still alive and at work III
mid Africa Interpreting monkey-lan-
guage.
The final speed trial of the torpedo
boat Bailey will be held in Long Island
Sound.
The government will build 6-inch
rapid firing gun with pedestal mount
All ports on the Gulf of Morrosquillo,
Colombia have been closed by govern
mental decree.
Sigmund Hertz, of New York, charg-
ed with American forgeries, has been
arrested in London
Two large mortgages have been filed
in Michigan by the Grand Trunk West
ern Railroad Company.
Henryk Sienkiewicz and his Italian
translator have received the Pope's
blessing for "QuO Vadis."
Premier Bond, of Newfoundland has
been invited to London to take part in
the French shore negotiation.
The attempt to prohibit the sale or
wines and liquors in the Philippines
has been blocked in the Senate.
Henry Ide Root, of New Haven, COM
mitted suicide by taking poison. Ner-
ra
was the cause.
The Bank of Bristow, Indian Terri
tory has been robbed by outlaws. The
president of the bank was shot five
times and mortaly wounded.
Judge Leo Rasseur, commander In
chief of the G. A. r., denies that he
opposes the choice of Denver as the
place of national encampment
The Earl of Wemyss has married
again at the age of so years. He lost
his first wife four years ago, three
years after they had celebrated their
golden wedding.
Major General Sir Henry F.. Colville,
of the British army. who was respon-
sible for a British disaster in South
Africa, has been put on the retired
list at half pay
Tunis, the black charger that Gen.
Boulanger rode zen revenant de la re-
vue" in 1886 is dead and his tail has
been sent a memento to Henri
Rochefort SO says L1ntransigeant
Gold has been found in paying guam
titles on the beach between Otter Point
and Sooke harbor, thirty miles from
Victoria, B. c. There are several miles
of beach and it has been staked out
for it's entire length.
In Borneo and Labaun postage
stamps to the value of 100000 were
sold last year, though the postage on
mail from these two countries does not
"a
lectors who buy the stamps.
All the princes of the Caucasus claim
direct descent from King David, ac-
cording to the Vienna Neue Freie
Presse. and some of them base their
descent from Noah or the landing of
the ark on Ararat, which is nearby.
Mr.. Choate will act as arbitrator be-
tween the British and Japanese gov
ernments to settle the case of the
-Shing, a chartered British vessel
carrying Chinese troops, which the
Japanese cruiser Naniwa sunk during
the war of 1894-95.
The President has approved of the
private pension act giving Mrs Evelyn
Neale Murray pension of $50 a
month Mrs. Murray is the widow of
General Eli H. Murray, former Cover
nor of Utah, and later a prominent
resident of San Diego.
Weaverville, the county seat of Trim
ity county, Cal, has been SnoWbound
since January l. The first news from
there was brought out January 18th.
Barns and small houses have collapsed
under the weight of snow, and the
town hall is endangered.
The American Board has received
cable dispatch from ConStantinople an
nouncing the death on January 18th, of
Rev. DIR. Eiias Riggs, the oldest mis-
sionary of the board. DR.. Riggs was
ninety years old and he had been in
the service for sixty-nine years
hitherto unpublished work by
Gustave Flaubert entitled Memories
dun Fou." is being published in the
Revue Blanche. 1t seems to be a rec
ord of his boyhood, and was written in
1928, since which time the manuscript
has J. n preserved by the lie Poittevin
fanliu..t
Jenuy Linds letters to woman
friend living in Italy from 1S45 to 1874
will soon be published by an Italian
firm. The letters, it is reported, num-
Der over a hundred and give the prima
donnas outspoken and unconventional
opinions about the music and many of
the musicians of her time.
The Picking correspondent of the
Daily Mail says: The British protest
has proved effectual, and Russia has
expunged the obnoxious conditions
from the contract to restore the Shan
Hal Kwan Railroad to the British
bondholders Count Won Waldersee Will
sign the revised convention tomorrow"
Two men entered a Broadway res
taurant about closing time and held
up the cashier in the presence of sew
eral walters. The cashier lodged a
bullet and saved his cash; a crowd
collected and the robbers ram bran
dishing their pistols One was captur-
ed.
Sole for breakfast will soon be a ira
dition in England. Another wall over
the disappearance of the fiat fish pro-
ceeds from the London Daily Mail. The
price of sole and plaice has dc ubled in
five years, and the outlook is thatgit
will double again in another five. 1t is
the steam trawlers and the destruction
of young fish that are doing the mis-
chief.