The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-01-26
WORLDS NEWS
CONDENSED

Flour is 500 sack at Tanana, Alas
Vanderbilt and his bride are in Can !
ada.
w. Stanley Coils, United States Con- I
sui at Lourenzo Marquee, has left. Tor
home. &
The river and harbor bill has passed
the House.
Senator Tiilman has been reelected
unanimously.
Ex-Secretary John w. roster VIII
lecture at Berkeley.
Attempts are being made TO establish
a lottery in Nebraska.
The battleship Wisconsin was accept
ed by the government.
1t is rumored that Boer prisoners
have escaped from Ceylon.
The Colorado Legislature may repeal
the Cannon prizefight law.
Johann Faber, founder of the Faoef
lead pencil factory, is dead.
An English correspondent says Con-
ger was inclined to leniency.
Queensland is ready to send 10000 adj
ditional troops to South Africa.
Trusts have caused the prices of win
dow glass to go up 70 per cent.
CONGRESSMAN Burton of Ohio is i'll of
grip, complicated with rheumatism.
Fred Dubois, Senator-elect from Ida
no, announces himself as a Democrat.
Edward w. Carmack has been elect.
ed United States Senator from IenneS-
see.
A secret conference Of the British
Cabinet. took up the Hay-Pauncefote
treaty.
Senator Perkins of California is still
attacking the Jamaica reciprocity
treaty.
Thomas NJ. Patterson succeeds Ed
ward o. Wolcott as Senator from Col
orado.
British ship Beechmont was badly
damaged between San Francisco and
London. ~
HAHN, one of the murderers of
Stambouloff, has escaped from prison
at Sofia
Paul Jules Barber, French dramatic
author. librettist of Faust, died re-
Gently in Paris.
Cornelius Alvord. the bank defaulter,
saws his downfall is due to the Wall
street maelstrom.
Minnie Madden Fiske denounceS the
theatrical trust as d menace TO the
dramatic profession.
The orders to the Scorpion to proceed
to Guanoco from La Guayara have
been countermanded.
Outlaws who have terroriZed Nor
thern Indiana, resisted arrest, and
wounded two officers.
American exports break all records
with showing 5000, 100000 greater than
in the previous twelve months.
The Commercial Club of Chicago will
take a trip to Los Angeles with the
president of the Santa Fe system.
Three English companies in Abys-
sinia have secured control OF railroad
connecting the capital with the Red
| Sea.
A feud in Corbin, KY. which caused
| three Deaths is likely to result in more
bloodshed, both sides being heavily
armed.
Four children of Benjamin Miller, OF
Elkhart, Ind, We're burned to death by
an exploding lamp setting fire to the
| house.
A fire in the Berlin Institute of Path
ology destroyed a large part of Pro
! fessor VirchoW's unique collection OF
skulls.
The Kansas City, Mexico and Orien-
tai Railroad Company has received
valuable concessions from the Mexican
government.
! United States Minister Loomis ha:
fmade an effective protest agains
Venezuelan espionage of his officia
communications.
An attempt was frustrated to carry
off the twelve year old boy of Rober
| Wagner, son of the manager of the
:
4 The Texas oil geyser, which shot OF
fifty feet high for week, has beer
put under control. One hundred anC
fifty thousand barrels were lost.
A head-on collision between freigh
trains on the Grand Trunk, near Lock!
Mill, Me, resulted in the death of fou,
men. and the serious injury of others
4 The w. c.. I. u. asks for an amend
ment to the Constitution defining lega
/ marriage as monogany, and making
polygamy crime against the United
States.
:. krueger's grandson, Frickie Eloff
says the ex-president has no presen
!, Intention of going to America. blu
may go later if Transvaal interests re
quire it.
The county attorney at Wichita
Kas., has dismissed the charge agains
Mrs. Annie Nation, who smashed tn
interior fittings of saloon. He sail
the mind of the defendant is impaired
/ Evangeline Yale Davey, of Boston
better known as Professor Yale, ha
been arrested on a charge of sendin;
an indecent circular through the mails
She is the wife of an astrologer, an,
helps him make Horoscopes
John D. Archibald of New York, vic
president of the Standard Oil Compa
ny, has given $500, 900 to the endowmen
, fund of the Syracuse University con
lege raising like amount This
a part of a long series of gifts iron
Archibald.
One hundred and fifty students re
5 Gently arrested at kiefre for engaging
in political agitation, have been order
ed expatriated to Port Arthur wher
they will do military service. The sam
fate awaits scores of students arreste
at the capital on a similar charge. TIL
2 ferment continues among student
throughout the country. Disturbance
are anticipated.
A Kingston, Jamaica, dispatch says
2 General elections here have concluded
2 Of fourteen members of the Legislator
} returned, thirteen are pledged to re
: sist Mr.. Joseph Chamberlain's attemp
: to restore absolute Crown government
4 The feeling against the British colonia
policy is growing stronger, and if Nj
4 Chamberlain refuses to yield, delegate
will be sent to England soon
According to the Boston Herald
n which claims to have reliable informa
i ton, Sir Thomas Liptons new chal
lenger. the Shamrock II, will have
f draft of 10 feet inches, beam % feet
: inches, and her length over all Will b
136 feet. The lead weight is 10 D
| eighty-five tons. Designer Watson be
I lieves that a beam such as he has Civ
2 en- the Shamrock II is better for all
! round performance than the 26 fee
D which he gave the Valkyrie III