The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-05-04
NEWS OF WORLD
CONDENSED.
Herbert Spencer is very feeble.

Oil trusts are planning to control the
Texas fields.
A salmon canning trust is to be form
ed in Chicago.
Porto Rican laborers have declined to
go to Ecuador.
An alleged German spy has been ar
rested in Paris.
Severe earthquakes have been doing
damage in Italy.
The Ohio river flood maintains an even
stage at 59.7 feet.
A s6O0O,o00 sugar beet plant is to be
built in Colorado.
A storm wrecked the barracks at Poloc,
P. l., on April rs.
j. B. Hudson, Montana mining man,
has committed suicide.
David c. Thompson is to edit the
Northwestern Christian Advocate.
Oracle Trip, aged 49, of Angels Camp,
CAL committed suicide last week.
A new comet having three tails has
been discovered from Cape Town.
The French mining strikers have won
the victory after prolonged strike.
The Building Trades Council of Chica-
go has practically decided to disband.
On one vote lately the Ministerial ma
jority in Parliament was reduced to sc.
British mine-owners and shippers have
entered a protest against the coal duty.
A little girl Of San Diego recently died
in great agony from the bite of a rattle
snake.
An Argentine army surgeon claims to
have discovered a serum cure for tuber
culosis
Burglars wrecked the bank vault at
Pioneer, Ohio, with dynamite and secur-
ed $1,000.
The Observation-Disclosures Bank of
Whatcom, Wash, has been looted by its
president.
Official reports show decrease in the
amount of internal revenue for the Unit
ed States.
Kaiser William visited Cronberg to
greet his mother, the Dowager Empress
Frederick.
The Russian Government has forbidden
the exhibition of Count Tolstofs picture
in Moscow.
Results of the conference of the Gu
bans with the President are said to be
satisfactory.
Marconi, the inventor of wireless te-
legraphy, is to marry Miss Holman of
Indianapolis.
A maddened elephant recently created
a panic in Peru circus, and finally kill
ed his keeper.
Jim McPeck, a famous Wyoming cat
tie rustler, was killed by a stock detect
i've at Miles City.
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Fifth avenue between two restaurants
in New York City.
The will of D'Oyley Carte, the we'll
known London theatrical manager, was
sworn in as G240, $40.
Austria and Mexico have resumed dip
lomatic relations for the first time since
the death of Macmillan.
King Charles of Roumania was attack
ed recently and narrowly escaped murder
at the hands of a ruffian.
All the properties of Bear Gulch Mining
Company have been consolidated, calling
for an investment of s2,000,000.
Big sales of Union Pacific stock are be-
ing made since the circulation of rumors
in regard to the pending deal.
Edward j. Saxton, an insurance man,
in a fit of dependency, attempted sui
eide at Cripple Creek recently.
John w. Garrett of Pennsylvania has
been appointed by the President secre-
tary of legation at The Hague.
Brooklyn will not receive Professor
Heron, as formerly planned. A storm
of protests caused the change.
Improved conditions in Porto Rico, and
the approach of the harvest, 1t Is said,
has stopped Porto Rican emigration.
Arthur B. Markham, Mp, who de-
nounced the African companies, is pre-
pared to repeat his charges publicly.
the safe of the Badger Lumber Company
and secured a small amount of money.
Sir Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, MP, has
been fined for asseulting lawyers clerk
who served him with a bankruptcy no.
tice.
The Chinese regulars, who retired be-
yond the great wall, have reappeared at
another point within the international
area.
Germany has refused to decrease her
demands in China, and Great Britain is
trying to induce the Powers to cut their
claims.
Sergeant Weston has been sentenced to
dishonorable discharge and two years
Imprisonment for commissary frauds at
Manila.
The Irish members of Parliament have
to reduce the tea duty and
to have Ireland exempted from the to-
bacco clause.
A coaching accident in Philadelphia
caused the death of Jos. E. Widener, son
OF a wealthy resident, and severe inju-
ries to another.
Senator Beveridge delivered an ad-
dress-"The American Situation''-at the
banquet Of the Grant Club of Iowa, at
Des Moines April II.
The President is announced to deliver
a speech in Convention Hall during his
from the Pacific Coast.
Miss Portia Knight, the actress who
Is suing the Duke of Manchester for
breach of promise, alleges that he twice
promised to marry her.
Masked burglars entered the American
Express Company's office in Paris, sur
prised and gagged the Waterman, and
escaped with 5000 francs.
BY June /, James ]. Hill will have
control of the Colorado & Southern, Fort
Worth & Denver City and probably the
Colorado Midland Railroads.
In New York victim of apoplexy was
taken to the police station as a drunk
and died from the shock. She was the
wife of a wealthy merchant
Mrs Charles K. Rodgers, daughter of
the late Millionaire P. P. Mast, and a
sister of the wife of Minister to Vene-
zuela, F. B. Loomis, died at Tucson,
AriZ.
The seventy-ninth anniversary of the
birth of General Grant was celebrated at
Gaiena, Ills, his old home, on April q.
Rev. F. w. Gunsaulus made the Grafton
of the day.
Count Waldersee has been announced
as failure in Hongkong; his methods
are said to have made the situation in
North China worse. He is pronounced a
good soldier but poor administrator.
DR.. Morrison, wiring IN the rTir,ac