The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-01-05
NEWS OFDWORLD
CONDENSED

John D. Spreckels of the San Francisco
Call won the suit brought against him
by Baron ]. H. Won Schroeder
/; Rich quartz mines are said to be devel-
oping in the Klondike Prosperity is re-
ported for the Klondike winter.
A London journal says Americas trade
advancement is more serious to England
than Canal or Chinese questions.
The American invention of jackscrews
for use in eleyating houses for repairs
has just been adopted in London.
The output of Alaskan gold, according
to the official mining report for the past
fiscal year, is over eleven millions
General Lee has explained that recent
remarks did not mean that the United
States would permanently hold Cuba
Colonel Charles w. Miner of the Sixth
United States Infantry has been appoint
ed Governor of the Island of Negroes.
The Tammany Committee in New
York strongly denounced the police of
that city in a meeting held last week.
Professor Slaby lectured in Berlin be-
fore the Emperor upon his discoveries in
wireless telegraphy, on the 23d instant
An expert silk thief was caught and
arrested in Chicago while eating
Christmas dinner with friends at hotel
The fire in the celebrated burning mine
at Summit Hill, Pa, which started for
ty-two years ago, is now under control
Sarah Bernhardt played the title role
in Hamlet last week, in New York
Despite her age the play was a success
Dowager Lady Churchill, friend of
Queen Victoria, was found dead in her
bedroom at Osborne Christmas morning
Senator Hanna says that there is no
lobby behind the subsidy bill, and that
it is being pushed entirely on its merits
The Kaiser has conferred the insignia
of the Order of the Black Eagle upon
the Imperial Chancellor, Count Won Bne-
low.
A mail sack full of valuable presents
and registered letters was stolen at Hell
ena, Montana, when en- route to the
East.
London Spectator commenting on the
Ross incident says the moneyed power
enc argers American intellectual free
dom.
1t is reported that the steamer City of
Topeka can be saved. She has already
been partially repaired and taken to Sc
A Santa Rosa man dropped dead In
church on Christmas Eve Just as the
last hymn of the Christmas services died
away.
a Chicago woman changed her faith
and Joined the Jewish religion In order
to be with her dead husband in the next
world.
To settle controversy between Allan
ia (Ga0 papers, former President Cleve-
land writes that he did not vote for Nc
Kinley.
Several officers and soldiers were killed
last week In Mexico by rebeIlIous Yauuf
Indians, Colonel Peinado being badly
wounded.
A sailing vessel brings word to Seattle
OF having sighted vessel bottom ND
ABOUT seventy-five miles north of Cape
The members of District Attorney Car
diners staff have protested against Cow
elnor Roosevelt's removal of the District
Attorney.
burglars entered a Haywards, Califor-
MA, church and tried to steal the silver
sacramental set, but the deacons had
hidden it.
w. ]. BRYAN. through a Kansas news
Paner, sends message to bis followers
declaring himself loyal to the principles
OF democracy.
A board Of Chicago scientists claim to
nave discovered that the pulsations Of
the heart are due to the presence OF
salt in the blood.
Mrs Phoebe Hearst distributed $500
worth of Christmas presents to the chill
dren of West Berkeley College settlement
on the 22d instant
Rev. ]. L. Leonard of a eolored church
at st. Joseph. No. was fatally burned
by the explosion of an alright stove In
thu church edihce
Miss Strakosch, the operate singer,
made great Impression In Chicago,
where she appeared short time ago IN
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