The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-02-09
NEWS OF WORLD
CONDENSED
ToIstei is seriously Ill.


1he DuIness OF Manchester is Ill Win
throat trouble.
Many engagements are reported by
LORD hlIchtner.
f. a. sawyer, a Napa tCal) pioneer,
died January %.
A eoal miner strike Is expected 1T
Wilkes barre. Pa.
The Coates Opera House OF Kansas
City was burned.
An insane stockton (Calo butcher
barks like a dog.
French torpeoe boat No. "a sunk from
boler explosion.
On January 70 hruegerS condltlon was
said to be critical
1t is said that Chile has made peaceful
propositions to BOLIVIA
The Pope has sent a messenger to KING
howard wlIn condolences.
King Edward has addressed a pacific
procla nl..tIon to the Beers.
Russian papers comment adversely on
the Anglo-German entente.
On January II 1t was cabied that quiet
reigneo in Northwest Luzon.
The disabled Alaskan steamer City of
Topeka has reached seattle.
A big suit over water rights has been
begun at Fresno, California.
another death from plague is reported
from the British steamer FAIRY.
The ship-subs1dy bill Will be pressed
ahead of the appropriation bills.
:
The Cuban war bondnolderS are ener-
gencaiy lobbying at Washington.
A damaging storm was reported from
the britlsi CHANNEL on January n.
1t is stated that there is little hope
for the Pacific cable at this SESSION.
Mrs Clement Drexel Biadle, Phila-
delpnia bel4e, seeks theatrical fame.
a granumotner ana 1auner OF Illinois
are charged with kidnapping little girl.
Secretary Lolg has approved the rec
commentator not t. puy the CUBAN DOCK.
MIS-. =. Aiackay dazAieo New York So
cieIy at a, Waioort-Ast-rla dinner 10 lou
guests.
Two Kentucky officers were killed
Whine attempting to capture moonsh4ners
recently.
n.Aes rock, an American engineer and
Astronomer IN une employ OF GuaJemaia,
Is dead.
UA January q 1t was reported that
huAoreas Lad fallen in blooay nights in
enezue-a.
1ne beers under De Wet have base
in cape CoIony Tor, supplies OF food and
lemounts.
luke nenry, Queen Wilhe.mina's fan
&c, has entered The Hague with much
ceremony.
The Consuls demand that the Chinese
Government shall suppress piracy on
the rivers.
Capt mcCalla has been vindicated
from the charges brought by Command
er Colwell.
known woman of letters, died in Paris
January q.
The three new American cruisers are
to he among the most powerful of their
class a1oat.
lhe two California universities have
decided that their football coaches must
be graduates.
rNl,
a contest between the British and Amer
lean gun clubs.
The ball and chain has been adopted
as a punishment for women tramps in
Bloomsburg, Pa
w. K. Vanderbilt has ordered a $4,000
French automobile which will run seven
ty miles an hour.
A pretender calling himself King of
Arabia has been defeated in battle on
the plains of koweit.
Frank Hyatt, who killed man In
Texas two years ago, was captured at
Sacramento last week.
Richard Daie, a Sacramento pioneer,
who witnessed the coronation of Queen
Victoria, died last week.
During January the United States is
sued 504 ,616,6f5 postage stamps, tne iarg-
est number in its history.
John OBrian, on the fishing steamer
Edith. was cooked 70 Ges,ru by escaping
SlediH OIL the AldSkdn coast
Mrs Nation threatens Topeka saloon
men with force in d letter addressed to
My Dear Hell-bound Sinners
Inc Santa Fe Company is contemplate
ing extensive improvements around the
Chinese Basin in San Francisco.
A burning vessel was siSnted on Octo-
Der 6 by the bark Ben Avon on her way
from New York TO hudson Bay.
Two million dollars Is to ue expended
by the Northern Pacific in Washington
on a cutoff to save ninety miles.
The Irish-Americans or San Francisco
are making extensive preparations for
the observance Of ST. Patrlck's Day
| Governor Gage has refused e&tradition
papers in the case OF Dr. and Mrs. John
Wright of Illinois, charged with kidnap-
ping.
/ bishop Potter, in an address at Yale,
scored the Europeans in China He said
their own arrogance brought on the
trouble.
Charles R. Flint may buy the plant of
the Prigg Shipbuilding Company at
hichIloi-u, Z. Il wall eompe,e win the
Cramps
The Duke of Roxburgs and Miss Pau
line Astor are engaged. The Duke is d
cousin of the Duke of Marlboi ough and
his fiancee.
The Willard Hotel. Washington. D. c.,
In which several Congressman were lodg-
ing, caught fire last week and smoked
out the guests.
Prince Francis Aversburg, a physician
living in New York, has filed a petition
In bankruptcy. Liabilities S290,799 and
no available assets.
The revenue cutter Grant started from
Tacoma January q in search of missing
vessels In the north, twenty-five vessels
being unheard from.
4. E. Copeland. an attorney of Reno
while going him intoxicated, fell into
/ an irrigation ditch and was drowned in
few inches of water.
! Four masked men terrorized the Wash
ington mining town of Leary last week,
| leVying tribute from all whom they met
at the point of pistols.
| "A Socialist organ of Berlin says King
EDWARD paid the Kaiser, on the latter
arrival in England, 24.00O.o00 marks, mon
= loaned by Emperor Frederick.
george w. Barger, lonely recluse Of
culture and education, committed suicide
ia his hermit home in a Santa Barbara
canyon last week. He was a victim of
the opium habit.
| III fseen years ago a Chicago man
and wife could not agree upon the name
| of their baby daughter and they never
spoke 20 each other until the other day
when a revival meeting broke their long
silence.
T. \. Drake, who was for some time
in China, returned to Santa Barbara re-