The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-04-16
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French strikes are threatening disas
| ter.
Premier Waldeck- Rousseau is recover
ing.
Cecil Rhodes is said to be seriously
| sick
| A rich gold strike is reported in West
ern Idaho.
George Q. Cannon is reported as sink
| ing rapidly.
| There is an epidemic of smallpox in
Kansas City.
Porto Ricans.
Mexican grain crops nave been greatly
damaged by frosts.
There is a lively fight on between RI
val railroads in Utah.
The condition of Dean Farrar at Can
terbury is very critical.
The labor situation in England is said
10 be daily growing worse.
Recent Investigations show great in
crease of vice in Germany.
Mike Conley, the pugilist, is wanted for
a murder committed in Ohio
J. c. McCook, the American Consul at
Dawson. is III with pneumonia.
Andrew Carnegie's proposed Pennsylva-
MIA Railroad will not be built.
James Callahan, the Cudahy kidnapper,
has entered a plea of not guilty.
John NJ B. Sill, formerly the United
States Minister to Corea, Is dead.
Prince hatfield, son-in-law of the late
C. P. Huntington, is in New York.
zola has been restored to his position
as an officer of the Legion of Honor.
It is reported that there is a revolu-
tionary riot in the Republic of Mexico.
Philanthropist Carnegie is driven to
his wits end to escape charity delegates.
The $4,000 residence of .. E. Meyer,
near San Jose, was destroyed by fire last
week.
Herman D. Armour of New York, sus-
tanned stroke OF paralysis but may re-
cover.
The Shasta fruit crop is said to be
almost a complete loss on account Of
frost.
President and Mrs. Mckinley dined
with Senator and Mrs, Hanna on
April s.
An advance of wages has averted the
threatened trouble on the Lake Shore
railroad.
DIR. Robt. Mcintyre. pastor of ST.
James NJ. E. Church of Chicago. has
resigned.
1t is said that Italy is likely to be CIV
en- free hand in Tripoh by the French
Republic.
In a quarrel over a 15-cent crap game
one Des Moines boy shot another through
the heart.
physician of Omaha is trying to col
lect a Judgment of $500 from Mrs. Les
lie Carter.
Ben. Fairbanks, the well-known gam
bier, was killed in a runaway last week
at Tucson.
A girl of A. who has been bride for
one year, is suing for divorce In the Chi
cago courts.
General F'itzhugh Lee, accompanied by
his daughter, Is in California for a
pleasure trip.
Chicago wants Mckinley to stop there
two days on his return from the Pacific
Coast in June.
George Murphy Smith, the London pub
Usher, who brought out Thackeray's
works, is dead.
Ben. D. Fairbanks, a pioneer citizen
of Tucson. A. T., was thrown from a
buggy and killed.
Lieut.. Gen. Viazaski, who is in dis
grace by reprimand from the Car, has
fled from Russia.
The number of idle men left by the
closing of factories are causing great
anxiety in Russia
Only two out of forty-fve Chinese ap-
plicants at the San Diego immigration Of
fee were admitted.
Mrs. J. L. Newcomb of New York be-
queathed two million dollars to Tulane
College, New Orleans.
The corpses of two Cubans have been
found near Santiago. They had fought
a duel with machetes.
Jennie Yeamens the actress, was drag
ged by a New York street car and Sc
riously injured recently.
There is plan to consolidate all the
big machinery and stationary engine
plants of the United States.
Russian company, backed by the
Government, has secured control of the
Persian transportation affairs.
Loubet, the French President, is being
given a warm welcome in his travels
along the Mediterranean coast.
The inventor of a. blast furnace has
sued Andrew Carnegie for $4,000, 900 for
alleged infringement of patent
Pinkerton has positively identified the
new-found Gainsborough painting as the
one stolen from Lockett Agnew.
A tie was dashed across the railroad in
Shasta county in an attempt to wreck
the .north-bound passenger train.
The Standard Oil people have complet-
ed their smelter combine and now con-
troll the copper and silver yield.
The employees of the Central Railroad
of New Jersey are secretly balloting to
determine whether they shall strike.
The leaders of the Macedonian Com
mittee at Sofia, Bulgaria, have been ar
rested and their building sealed up.
Anxiety is felt for General Servierre,
who is operating on the Moroccan Dor
der and whose whereabouts is unknown.
Under date of April 8 1t is said that
Russia has no intention of giving up
Manchuria and feels bitterly the blow to
her prestige.
Two Harvard students are under the
doctors care as a result of undergoing
the initiatory ceremonies of college Sc
cret societies.
Maybelle Gilman, the actress, is the
victim of blood poison ensuing from a
surgical operation, and it is thought she
cannot recover.
Three thousand Nome letters, dating
back as far as January Is, were brought
to Seattle on April by the steamer
City of Seattle.