The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-04-25
NEWS OF WORLD
CONDENSED

] better.
/ The Italian squadron has sailed from
/ Many metal manufactures in China
aIe idle.
/ La Grippe is killing many native babies
| in Guam.
! France will support Catholic claims
! against China.
| 4 small party of Bulgarians has raid
| ed Turkish soil
| A general strike of dock laborers will
| occur at Genoa.
| c. S. Young, California we'll operator,
has disappeared.
Portuguese Republican papers violently
attack the Pope.
Col. John R. Musick, author of work
on Hawaii, is dead.
Archbishop Keane of Dubuque has re-
ceived the. Pallium.
Frick will establish another great steel
plant in New Jersey.
Queen Alexandra has returned to Lon
don from Copenhagen.
Japan and Russia may terminate the
independence of Corea.
sThe Navy Department wants S5,000,O00
Naval station in Luzon.
There is little sickness among the
troops IN the Philippines.
A $4,000 artillery target will be built at
the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
flllplnO sentiment on ll6 lSlauu OIL u
ray is favorable to peace
The threatened strike in the steel in
dustry may be compromised.
The pacific influence is now uppermost
in the Macedonian Congress.
The United States Treasury contains
half a billion dollars in gold.
Cape Nome pioneers met at a New
York hotel and held a potlatch.
Minister Loomis says that good rela-
tons with Venezuela are restored.
President Mckinley will review avail
able Naval vessels at San Francisco.
The Korean Government has fixed the
penalty of death for opium smoking.
1t is reported in Paris that an attempt
has been made to assassinate Kruger.
Walters in New York's swell restaur-
ants get as much as 800 weekly in tips.
Hypnotism has been successful over a
telephone wire at distance of 120 miles.
E. S. Willard, the famous London ac-
tor, denounces the American theatrical
trust.
There have been 1872 cases of plague at
Cape Town and there are five new cases
daily
The recovered Gainsborough painting
will be sold to j. Pierpont Morgan for
$125 900.
A soldier and two boys were hurt by
an unexplained explosion in a erin
church.
Alexander Agassiz has been elected
president of the National Academy of
Sciences.
Sixteen cases of bubonic plague are re-
ported from Cape Town, including 1hree
Europeans.
Vessels. the peace envoy reported to
have been shot by De Wet, has return-
ed to Hebron.
Theresa Vaughan, the actress, has
gone insane over the death of her hus-
band and brother.
Venezuela has been warned by Ameri-
ca, England, Germany and Spain not to
try foreign subjects.
Sir Alfred Miner takes a gloomy view
OF the South African situation and
thinks peace is mot near yet.
The Canadian landing place for the
Pacific cable win be Barclay Sound, on
the west coast of Vancouver Island.
George Q. Cannon was, buried at Salt
Lake with imposing ceremonies. Presi-
dent Snow was the principal speaker.
Cashier Lewis of the Farmers Nation
al Bank of Vergennes, VT, has been ar
rested for misrepresentation of funds.
The bars of gold lost aboard the Kali
ser Wilhelm der Crosse have been recov.
cred. They were hidden on the ship it
self.
XII Kon Ho, Korean Minister of Jus
tice has been condemned to death for
in conspiracy against the
Empress.
An Italian composer has written an
opera, by order of Emperor William, on
a Hohenzollern theme, which will be
performed at Berlin.
Richard Pennefeather Rothwell is dead
at his home in New York. AS mining
engineer of distinction in his profession
and as a Journalist few men in his gen.
Grafton have equal1ed Mr.. RothwelPs
services in the cause of industrial SCI
ence He was born at Ingersoll, Ont,
Canada, May 1, 1897.
A Vancouver dispatch of April II says:
By the explosion of the boiler on tho
river steamer Ramona this afternoon
cur persons were killed outright AMI six
5thers were seriously injured. The deaa
include two women, who were passen-
gers on the steamer. and two deck hands.
If the injured the purser and the mate
will probably die.
William Labatt, assistant ticket agent
,or the Santa Fee, captured and Gagged a
mosquito yesterday morning claimed to
De the largest and fercest ever seen In
his section of the country. Labatt dis
covered the insect perched on an ink
stand on the counter. He Is over half
IN inch long and stands about an inch
ligh.-Galveston Daily News.
Santa Fe, N. NJ, dispatch says: An |
attempt by three convicts at the peni-
entiary early this morning. to escape
esulted in the killing of George Steven
ION, the mortal wounding of William
simmons, the serious wounding of Jose !
Monica Sena. Besides these convicts, |
Captain of the Guard Felipe Armijo and |
fuard Pedro Sandoval were shot.
.Alonzo J. Whiteman, once Mayor CT |
Duluth, afterward a Minnesota State
senator and candidate for Congress end /
It one time a millionaire, was sentenced !
o two years and six months imprison.
nent. He had been convicted in The |
Court of General Sessions of Duluth CT I
'assing worthless checks for 800 upon /
lie Hotel Navarro last November.
A Sioux City, Iowa, special says: The |
-emars National Bank, at Lemars, Ia,
I'd not open this morning. Thomas F.
Ward. vice president and manager of the |
is self-confessed embezzler |
o the amount of $4,000 to $4,000 He
las also absconded. Ward departed |
Monday night. and yesterday Cashier
frank Roots received letter from
Ward.
A Denver dispatch says: 1t Is an
lounced that E. T. Wolverton. a veter-
N prospector. when searching for cop