The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-01-22
NEWS OF WORLD
CONDENSED

ot the grip.
Premier Dunsmuir will open the Brit
ish Columbia legis ature in February.
Three companies selected from the
volunteer soldery will act as Manila
police.
The German steamer Frisia is re-
ported off Fastnet in a disabled con-
dition.
Sir James r. Dickson, minister of
defense in the new Australian cabinet.
IS dead
SIR Wilfred Laurier regrets that so
few lawyers enter the Canadian Par
lament.
Frederick Clark withers one OF
Americas most famous architects, is
dead at Yonkers, N. Y.
Corrected returns give Mr.. o. u.
Rowland Toronto's new mayor, ma
Jority Of 1920 over Controller Spence.
a line has been made to the stranded
steamer Rassie near Marseiiles, but on
January IL the passengers had not been
taken off.
/ Tn. military government may close
/ several ports in the Southern Islands
/ to prevent communication between the
| insurgents.
| II. j. Redmond, president Of the Red
/ moud-Greeniees Co., Ltd, Montreal
and Winnipeg, died suddenly Of pneu-
monia in Montreal.
a dispatch from Brussels says Queen
Mary Henrietta is in an extremely
weak condition, and the slightest i'm
/ prudence may prove fatal.
La grippe has reached Toronto in cpl
demic form, and many large mercantile
concerns are crippled owing to the en-
! plOyees being down with the disease.
| A dispatch from Puerto Beal, near
Cadiz, where Admiral Cervera is lying
| i'll, says his condition has grown worse,
and that his recovery Is almost hope
less.
Five trains were snowbound for sew
eral days near Odessa, Russia. and
Of 1000 Russians are clearing the
track.
David Oilers private bank at Shiloh,
Ohio, was robbed $4,000 being secured
and a quantity of jewelry The rob-
bers stole horse and buggy and es-
capped
Col. George b. Bellotti, a noted civil
war veteran, committed suicide at Am
sterdam, n. Y. An old wound is he'd
respons b for the arrangement induc-
ing suicide
The proposal that the city take over
the plant of the Consumers Gas Com
pany has been endorsed by Toronto
citizens with a majority of 7,110 in
vote OF 20,0S6.
The Ontario government has granted
the use of the legislative hall for the
Toronto ladies' entertainment in honor
of the returning members Il the Cana
dian Mounted Rifles.
In response to an appeal of the Prin-
cess Of Wales for further contributions
to the fund for the families of the men
at the 'front.', Mr.. William Waldorf AS
tor has contributed $4,000
British Columbia now excludes all
Cinnamon who cannot make declara-
ton of entry in one European Ian
guage The law conflicts with the
nj a oh
result.
The banns of marriage for three cou-
pies being published at the little viii
lage church of Acton, in Suffolk, it
was discovered that every one of the
six persons concerned was named
Woodgate.
Discussing the project of an ex-
change of German East Africa for Cy-
prus, the Novae Vremya (St. Peters,
burg) says Russia would never con-
sent to Germany securing such a foot |
hold in the Far East.
Sir Edward Spence Syms, chief Sec
rotary of the government of Burmah |
tive council of India, shot himself In |
the head in carriage. He is lingering ,
between life and death.
passenger train on the Central .
Railway, New Jersey, was run into by
a freight locomotive at the Perthamboy
StallOH one passenger car was
wrecked and two other cars derailed.
Seven or eight persons We're injured
While on a pilgrimage to Rome the
Duke of Norfolk, until last year post
master general of Great Britain, eX-
pressed the hope that some measure
of the Pope's temporal power might be
restored Italys susceptibilities are
wounded.
The New York grand jury has re-
Inn re net inf
j. r. Dean and Eugene Da-
Wis, Bellevue Hosp tai nurses, for man
S aughter, in connection with the kill
ing of Louis Hilliard. a patient in tine
alcoholic ward.
By vote of 1856 to 1902, the United
States House of Representatives ac-
cepted reapportionment plan propos-
ed by the Burlaigh bill which increases
the membership of the House during
the next decade from 357, the present
to 3s6.
The Canadian biua book on public &C
counts of the Dominion for the fnan-
ctal year ending June so has just been
published. 1t shows the receipts OF the
fund account were $751;
D29,994, against s4674l,250 Tor 1899 The
fund shows n surplus of
sS,O54, ia against $i,S37,749 for 1899.
James j. Hill in an interview in New
York outlined what he and his asso-
ciates are trying to accomplish. In
stead of a combination of great rail-
ways under one system, he said he was
trying to bring about an agreement
between certain big systems OF the
Northwest by which friction" would
be prevented, and the roads operated
more economically.
The New York Commercial Advertis-
er says: well informed Wall street
men have information that the New
York and Central Raj way management
has made or will make proposition
to lease the Delaware and Hudson
company's railroad and coal property.
The terms of the alleged lease are
stated to be a guarantee OF 6 and 61s
per cent per annum, on the $35,00O,o0o
of ID. a. III. stock"
The following advertisement appear
I'll recently In many Ontario papers.
'On receipt OF one dollar we will send
securely sealed. a beautifully bouno
book OF four hundred pages full of
good things ENAFarN ghnnIH