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


| The Amnesty bill was passed in the
Senate at, Paris on the Gath inst
Roland Reed, the factor, whose life has
been feared for, is now conyaleseent
Final arrangements are being made
for the Jeffries-Ruhlin fight in New
York.
President Mckinley and his family
spent very quiet Christmas at the
White House.
formed in Pennsylvania with fifty mil
liens capital.
Commodore Perrys grandson, Perry
Tiffany. of New York, has filed a petition
in bankruptcy.
An assa1iant of non-union men was re-
Gently sentenced to six months imprison-
ment in Maryland.
An energetic anti-vice crusade is being
waged in Chicago by the Ministers Asso-
Iciation of that city
Seven hundred Golfers have gone on a
strike at Shamokin, Pa, completely ty-
ins up the business.
The Northern Pacific Railway recently
refused to recognize an organization of
teiegrapherS order.
An American gunboat is reported to
have discovered and seized new island
off the Norwegian coast.
During a recent storm off the English
coast over score of fishermen persisted
and many boats are missing.
The Santa Fee Improvement Company
incorporated last week in Los Angeles
with a capital stock of $4,000
Turmoil is still being reported from the
Island of Leyte, several soldiers having
been killed and wounded recently.
President Taft of the Philippine Com
mission favors the adoption of the United
States currency in the Philippines
Another kidnapping case is reported
no -rJJ Df
millionaire being taken for ransom.
The big c. B. Boothe Supply Company
OF. Los Angeles has sold out to the Pa
chic Coast Manufacturing Company
The natives of Samoa have expressed
ksatfsfaction with the United States rule
|ander Governor Tilley's administration.
A San Rafael man went to his home
intoxicated on Christmas Eve and drove
his wife and four children into the street
The Archbishop of Caracas, Venezuela,
has been excluded from religious func-
lions owing to illness and mental trou-
bles.
restrictive order to protect forest re-
serves made Christmas trees in Southern
California very scarce and expensive this
year.
Chas. H. Smith, cashier of the South
ern Pacific Railroad Company, received
as Christmas present a decree of di-
|vcrce.
II IS SAID that the father-1n-laW of the
Duke of Manchester is arranging to pay
the Dukes debts, which amount to over
$10G, 000.s
VIM. Francis Sage, playwright and dra-
matte critic, died in New York last week.
Another revolution is reported in Ven
ezuela.
The London Royal School of Art is
making the marvellous embroideries to be
worn by Queen Wi1helmina on her we'd
ding gown.
Uncle Sans soldiers all over the Unit
led States domain were treated to turkey
dinners on Christmas, furnished by the
Government.
Mrs. A. J.. Hough of Los Angeles re-
Gently presented the University of South
ern California with a business block val
ued at $4,000.
AN Englishwoman's Love Letters, .
published anonymously, has been ascrib-
ed to many people but it's authorship is
still unknown.
The Filipino Federal Party haze eff
fected a new organization, and it Is be-
lieved that they will make strong ef-
fort for peace.
Mile. Jane Derval, winner Of the Gil
Rlas newspaper beauty contest) received
5000 a ryear from a famous man dress
maker in Paris
The Catholic priests and converts in
China have taken up convenient positions
near the outskirts and have fortified
themselves there.
DR.. Edwin Bingham. Professor of Bot
any in the University of West Virginia,
was married on Christmas to Miss Ethel
Faulkner of Chico.
Tt is reported that hardship is being ex-
perienced by thes inhabitants of GUAM
supplies having run short and the island
being without resource.
]. A. Fleming. the famous electrician
~ h. rIoy. TIT &, 4.
important experiments for the transmits
sion of. electric energy.
Robbers rif1ed the Coffey County Bank
at Tullahoma, Miss, and secured S., COO
They We're discovered by the town watch
man and captured later.
President Johnson has refused to act
as head of the Second American Baseball
League organization, but promises to as
sist it in all ways possible.
A. F. Observation-Disclosures, the muir
derer of Mrs. Clute in the sensational
San Francisco case, has been sentenced
to life Imprisonment at Folsom
The writ of certiorari applied for by
Alexander M'Kenzie in the famous Cape
Nome mining case, has been denied by
the United States Supreme Court.
Eighty thousand people assembled at
Rome on December oath to witness the
centennial closing of the holy door of
st. Peters Cathedral by the Pope
A boy was shot through the heart at
Great Falls, Montana, on Christmas Day
by his father, from whose wrath the boy
was trying to protect his mother.
Three missionaries who were frighten-
ed out of China at the beginning of the
Boxer troubles left San Francisco on the
24tE instant to return to the Orient
A Knockout blow in the Golwin-Cau-
trell prize fight in Paris aroused the ire
of the Paris Police Commissioner. who
Will take action against the pugiIists
The comments of London papers as to
the Canal treaty have been officially de-
clared unauthorized. England says she
has been too busy to discuss the matter.
Sir Robert Hart, director of Chinese
Maritime Customs, states that China
would he unable to pay any considerable
indemnity demanded for the Boxer out
RACES.
The $4,000 that played such a conspicu-
Gus part in the Montana Legislature
two years ago is to be used to advertise
the State at the Buffalo Exhibition next
summer.
The coroner's verdict In the case of
Edward Sanford. pugilst. in Pennsylva-
MIA was death from hemorrhage of the
brain" The arrested parties have been
released.
1t has been arranged at an official con-
ference that no more tro1ps are to be
returned from the Philippines until the
Government has made arrangements to