The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-12-20

huano, where the ship will be locked
| and overhauled
The American Federation of Labor
! appointed a committee, of which Com
| pers is head, to consider all questions
| of trade economy.
City Treasurer Gerst has been re-
moved from office at Buffalo on ac-
count of deficit which he incurred in
office but made up.
| The American naval attache at Lon
don reports successful device for
maneuvering "a torpedo-boat by the
use Of the Marconi system.
! Secretary Root will be asked to post
pone the Cuban elections, friends of
Palma being charged with securing
/ control OF the election boards.
The discussion Of the Philippine tar
if by the ways and means committee
4 indicates that Congress will follow the
! lines of the Porto Rican law.
/ Carnegie will donate $lO.O00.O00 FOR
I university extension. and President
! Roosevelt will name a national COM
mittee TO administer the fund
| Railway competition between Colo
RADIO Springs and Cripple Creek has
reduced the round-trip fare to % cents.
I The fare one way used to be 500.
The State Department has been ask
el to aid i'm securing the release of
Miss EastwiCk. under arrest at London
fu" ,urgery, on the ground of insanity.
\ woman is fought to be the cause
of a mysterious and nearly fatal as
sault upon Mrs. Ada Gilbert Dennis,
a fashionable dressmakei Of Washing
ton.
The submarine torpedo boat Fulton
sank at her dock at New suffolk, l.. |.
Water had entered through the for
ward hatch. She was brought up in
tact.
secretary Hay refused to testify re-
garding the Danish Islard negotiations
in libel suit against a New York
newspaper, and contempt proceedings
Gre threatened.
In his suit against Healer Dowie to
force receivership of the Zion lace
industries, Samuel Stevenson. Dowie's
brother-in-law, says the healer swim
dled him out of SlS5,OOO.
1t is reported that when Parliament
meets, the government will propose an
abandonment of the Boer concentra-
ton camps, and suggest that the peo-
pie be distributed in the settled dis
tricts.
Serious breaks have occurred in the
big cylinder ilanges on both sides OF
the engines of the battleship Illinois.
They are full of cracks which experts
say are a serious defect. The Illinois
will be sent to the Newport News
yards for extensive repairs.
A resolution by the Ballyneal Branch
Labor Association respectfully asks its
presidents, Maude Come and Major
MacBride to petition the American
people, for Almighty Gods sake to
save the Irish labolel and wol kingman
from eXterm ination by the greedy. sell
I fish, purse proud farmers end the Unit
ed Irish League.
San Francisco wants direct line 10
the Philippines.
The Marquis of Queensberry is in
financial straits.
Representative Kahn has introduced
a drastic exclusion law.
Chile has purchased three torpedo
dcstrCyers and a cruiser.
| Lieut.. Col. William Y. Richards, Sew
enth United STATES Infantry, is dead.
Federal office holders are warned to
abstain from all active craftsmanship.
| Another alleged tetanus cure has
cure has been discovered in PittsburS.
The Treasury Department has ruled
that no foreign ships may be used in
the Philippine trade.
The Chicago Historical Society has
pun che sed the diary and correspond
ence of President Polk.
| The Alexandra mines at Nanaimo,
b. G., have been shut down, owing to
a diSagr cement over labor unions.
The Federation of Labor has refused
to adopt Il resolution denouncing the
use of machines in making cigars.
\ mammoth natural cave has been
discovered fifty miles from Butte, Mon
/ tLna, filled with relies of prehistoric
| race
Senator Hoar favors the Punishment
| OF anal Chlsts or anarchist teachers 70
some island, internationally agreed
upon.
Miss Stone is reported located in
| Bulgarian territory once more, aEd
agents have gone to negotiate FOR her
! surrender
The steel plate makers of the United
! States. failing to corm trust, have
| formed a pool to control prices and
production.
The converted cruiser Mayhowcr.
| formerly the yact of the late Ogden
! Goelet, will be fitted up as the Pres.-
dents pleasure craft
II. II. Commau, of Brookside, shot
and killed Rev. j. W. bradford. a
Methodist minister, for passing uncom-
IIlimentary remarks about him.
j. *. Barr. formerly prominent
merchant OF Denver, was convicted OF
stealing 5000 worth of diamonds from
Mrs, Mary Bates of that city
Mrs Bertha Harriet Purdy, who
went into the Klondyke three years
ago, has come out with "A million and
a half. ana will settle in san Fran
cisco.
The three largest blue diamonds
known, estimated To be worth mort
than half million dollars, are To be
made Christmas presents to New YORK.
women.
Instructions have been given II
every school in Manila to celebrate an
= nually the birthday of Jose Rial the
= Filipino patriot, who was executed by
the Spanish.
t An Indian, Durge Toohe, and hi:
squaw, Annie Texas are in Jail a
Grass Valley, Cal, charged with being
4 implicated in the murder of J. w
T Grtfiths, a pioneer.
+. A treaty has been signed at Mana
qua, by which Nicara qua leases n stril
|, of land six miles wide, which include
= the route of the canal, to the Unite'
Il States, perpetually.
Francis :. Mayor, accused of forging
: signatures on debenture bonds il
= Japan, was arrested in Minneapolis
q while en- route to England, He will