The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-05-03
NEWS OF WORLD
CONDENSED

DR.. Tanner, the Irish leader, is dead.
The New York Legislature has passed
Lava is again flowing from Vesuvius.
Ada Rehan is ill with nervous PROS
tration.
1t is said that Corea will negotiate for
a loan from France.
Count Tolstoi is planning a new novel
with moral lesson.
The steamer Comox Is aground eighty
mikes from vancouyersSYu
An original Schubert composition man.
uscript has been found.
Telephone officials are encouraging the
proposed telephone combine.
Six freight cars were smashed in a
wreck near Santa Barbara last week.
Active work is being done in Washing
ton on the Philippine tariff schedule.
1t is said that the navigation season
will not open on. the Yukon until May Is.
The town of Keswick, Cal, had mar
row escape from serious fire last week.
Gordon Paddock of New York has been
nominated for Secretary of Legation at
Seoul.
Chinese rebels have destroyed a great
portion of the Manchurian railway re-
Gently.
a bill that all women who own property
in the State and pay taxes thereon, may
cast vote.
600 and tortured nearly. to death recently
by burglars.
Frost has been adding damage to rain
in the Southern States and floods are
now threatened.
Burlington stockholders will vote on a
project to accept the control of the
Great Northern.
have become reconciled and are now to-
gether in London.
An operation in which stitches in the
heart were taken resulted successfully in
st. Louis last week.
Santa Barbara had four days of gay
holiday last week on the occasion of the
Native Son celebration.
Minister WI has sent an important
memorial to the Imperial Government,
pleading for Chinese reform.
Percy Rockefeller was married to Miss
Isabel Goodrich Stillman April %. The
bridegroom is worth $500 600.
Rev. DR.. Heron at lecture in Brook
lyn severely denounced present Christi
anity. He may be tried for heresy.
FanchoH Thompson, the London ac-
tress, is to take the place of Alice Neil
son with Frank Perley's company.
An attempt was made to kill prison
er in a Denver Jail by poisoning piece
of cheese which was a part of his lunch.
Coal owners, miners and shippers OF
Great Britain protest against the new
coal tax and ask for certain exemptions.
A chicken few against a loaded gun
in Butte, Mont, last week, discharging
the gun and killing little boy instant
ly.
winsted, Connecticut, is threatened
with great damage, lake 100 feet above
the town being on the verge of an over
flow.
A company of Punjat Infantry were
forced to retreat by Boxers in an at
tack made recently near Flu Wing. Great
loss of life was suffered.
Lord Kitchener reported on April %
that since April Is the British comman-
ders had taken 81 prisoners and 100000
rounds of small ammunition.
1t has recently been discovered that
Filipinos who refused to join the rebel
forces have been burned to death by the
secret societies Of the insurgents
On April 81 1t was discovered that the
defaulting officers of the Vancouver
First National Bank had committed sui
eide together, their bodies being found
some distance from the city, both shot
through the heart. Great excitement
prevails.
Because an employe remains in the en-
ploy of the company when he well knows
that risk is assumed by so doing, does
not relieve the employer of the response
bility If accidents occur. This is the gfst
of an opinion handed down by the Unit
ed States Court of Appeals in the case
of the Southern Pacific Company, plain
tiff in error, against Katie Yeargin. as
Administrative of the estate of 7. J.
Yeargin, deceased In a similar case the
me court holds that when there Is
comparatively safe and more danger
Gus way known to a servant, by means
of which he may discharge his duty. 1t
is negligence for him to select the more
dangerous method, and he thereby as
sumes the risk Of the injury which Its
use entails"