The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-05-16
NEWS OF WORLD
CONDENSED

Plague riots are recurring In India.
There is a potato shortage in the
Northwest.
An American shipbuilding trust is to
be formed.
The Army in the Philippines will be re-
duced to 10000 men.
1t Is stated that the Pope has made
will naming his successor
Young Filipinos will aid in the Ameri-
can survey of the islands.
The designs for the new protected
cruiser st. Louis have been lost.
Father Paoli. an Italian missionary.
has been burned alive in Shan-si.
There is increased worry in Great
Britain over American competition.
There Is an Immense demand for the
new Pan-American postage stamps.
The Mad Mullah has taken the war
path again intending to raid Berbera.
Prussia has bought the coal mines in
the Ruhr district for 25.O00,o0O marks.
A cheap coal gas of great value has
been discovered and patented in Lonaon.
Grover Cleveland made 100000 by the
upward trend of Northern Pacific stock.
George w. Ochs of the New York
Times has bought the Philadelphia
Times
Colonel Dennison. with a patrol of
scouts, has been captured in South
Africa.
Three people were burned to death in a
fire In a hotel in Montreal on the 5th.
instant.
Seven people met death in fire in an
apartment house in Chicago on the 5th
instant n
Mrs. Botha, whose health is impaired,
will sail for Europe to consult with
Kruger.
Cuban ENJOYS have returned home and
made a favorable report on the Platt
amendment.
Cronje's wife has gone insane at St
Helena and imagines herself the ex-
Empress Eugene.
1t is charged that soldiers in the Phil
ippines are sending dutiable articles
through the malls.
Professor Winchell of the University
of Minnesota believes Western Washing
ton is rich in coal 9-a
1t Is said that Mckinley has informed
Kruger that ne cannot receive him off,
cially, or otherwise. @t -e-
A jewel thief was arrested at Mrs
Morgan's London house while imperson-
ating an electrician.
Hundreds have been arrested in Rus
STA In connection with the alleged revo-
lutionary movement.
Minister Conger fears that China may
yet be divided, some power may demand
territorial concessions
The British Consul at Panama says
that the struggle IN Colombia has be-
come a guerrilla war.
report on abuses in the Indian SER
vice says that the red men are often de-
spoiled by the agents
The House of Commons is likely to
pass the British Governments measure
concerning the coal tax
u. II. Hartupee of San Diego sues to
recover $4,000 he was led, by misrepre-
sentation, to invest in a mine.
Nearly 100000 iii nuggets and cerIfi-
Gates OF deposit have been found among
the effects of former Klondiker
Boston woman who searched Europe
three years for daughter stolen by her
ex-husband has secured her child
Inc American cavalry and artillery left
Peking on the 5th instant, escorted to
the wall by the British contingent.
1t is reported In Wall street that the
Union Pacific has passed out of Harri-
mans hands into those of Vanderbilt.
French officials state that France pos
sesses the privilege 20 work all mines in
Hainan and the two Kwang provinces.
Cole and James Younger, Of the Jesse
James gang, In Minnesota prison for
twenty-five years. are to be released on
parole.
Thousands are returning from the Ku-
skokwim fields. reports of rich strikes
in that region proving to be without
foundation.
London art circles are excited over the
attack on the reputation Of beautiful
Miss Vanderbilt Wackerman, the New
York heiress, by Hubert Herkomer. the
artist.
A London dispatch says: The Daily
Express declares that an alliance be-
tween the Cramp Shipbuiiding Company
and vickers' Sons & Maxim 1imited) is
ready for signature
4 gun that weighs $50 tons and can
throw a projectile Weighing 2,3N pounds
q distance of twenty-one miles Is being
completed at the Waterviiet arsenal I'M
der the direction of the War Depart
ment.