The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-04-15
NEWS OF WORLD
CONDENSED

| DR.. SChliCnter, the African Traveller
and geographer, is dead.
Fil.pinos are being placed in positions
of trust in the Philippines.
A snow torn recently created grea'
havoc in the city of Pittsburg.
severe earthquakes are being reported
from various parts Of Europe.
she i5elaware witnesses are preparing
to testify against Mrs. Botkin.
Warsaw University has been closed tc
lprevent a student demonstration.
I he boycott Of the typographical Union
on the New York Sun is now ended.
Nine Marcella Sembrich has sailed for
/ Europe for a tour of rest and recreation
Investigations are being made In the
matter of commissary scandals in Ma
Mia.
| 1t is reported that the Naval force in
the Philippines is to be reduced very
soon.
| At secret sessions in Havana, Cubans
have been discussing the Plat amend
ment
The Beers recently wrecked a train
near Mount Prospect and heavy fight
| ensued.
| General Macarthur has cabled that the
tales of commissary fraud are very much
Exaggerated
| Consular reports show big increase
| in Chinese trade last year notwithstand-
| ing the war.
| The German battleship Prince Henry
recently ran aground and was consider
ably damaged.
Mrs. George Woodman of Davisville.
Cal, was fatally shot by her jealous hus-
band on April 1.
| A plan to reform the Foreign Ofhce
in China has at last been agreed upon
by the Ministers.
| The unpleasant Corean incident over
the dismissal of ]. McLeavy, has teen
amicably adjusted.
Relatives of the plague victims are en-
| deavoring to conceal the corpSeS OF the
dead at Cape Town
| Two tracts of Alaskan land have been
ordered reserved as reindeer stations by
President Mckinley.
J.. Pierpent Morgan and other capital
| lists propose to build the Panama canal
at their own expense.
| A conspiracy against Chief Mataafa
and the German Government was re-
Gently quelled at Samoa.
| Mrs. Potter Palmer recently entertained
200 ward politicians who elected her son
an Alderman of Chicago.
| Gonzales the insurgent Governor of
Manila, seeing the hopelessness of re-
sistance, has surrendered.
| Ii Hung Chang has admitted that he
| fears Russia and will make arge con-
| cGSSlOHS 10 lHdIlldin ptdSS.
| Spain has approved the basis OF the
Treaty of peace and friendship between
the United States and Spain.
| Many iron and steel mills are preparing
to suspend operations on account OF
strikes in the Scotland mines.
! Charles H Allen. Governor of Porto
Rico, has gone to Washington, it is
thought, to resign his office
| The runaway girl-cousin of the Duke
| nf IJa milf ha f0nnd nOSinR
model for New York studios.
| England has denied the rumor that she
| has made protest to St Petersburg
against the Manchurian treaty.
Mrs Martha Gilmore of Bakersfield,
Cal, has sued the Southern Pacific for
$4,000 for the death of her son.
| Mrs. Botkin is fearful of her second
trial The question of Jurisdiction will
again be raised by her attorneys.
The punishment demanded by the
powers has been greatly modified, only
four executions being now required.
John Redmond, the Irish national lead
er in the House of Commons, may resign
his seat to J. X. Merriman, Boer.
May Buckley claims that she, and not
Moulton, furnished the fiat which has
! been seized by Moulton's creditors.
| Prime Minister Salisbury's retirement
| is now shortly expected in London and
Balfour is mentioned as his successor.
r. H. Moulton, May Buckeyes lover, is
a complete wreck, and will not be prose-
cuted for attempting to kill the actress
A pet dog belonging to the wife OF
Primrose, the famous MINSTREL was re-
Gently buried in a 500 white satin cas-
ket
Albert L. Johnson has announced that
he win give 100000 to the political party
making a three-cent street car fare an
issue
1t is said that to evade the tariff laws,
big English company will establish
large industrial plant In the United
States.
Andrew Carnegie is said to be in con-
temptation of making endowments for
the elevation of New York and London
theaters.
Miss Hoffman, the missing San Fran
cisco nurse, is believed to have recently
listed the Bellevue Training School in
New York.
Aguinaldo, on April 2, took the oath
of fealty to the United States under the
terms of amnesty offered by General
Macarthur
The Southern California wine and bran
dy product Is practically in the hands of
three firms, and prices have been consid
erably advanced.
The situation In Russia is very grave,
there being much bloodshed in Poland
and revolutionary movements in many
towns and cities.
Chief Surgeon r. H. Hall of the De-
partment of Northern Luzon is dead
Carter Harrison has been again elected
Mayor of Chicago.
On April China again refused to sIEn
the treaty and Russia has conveyed a
distinct impression that she would force
the empire to yield.
Two hundred and nifty thousand dollars
In bullion were recently stolen from Lon
don bankers, bags of sand being substi-
tuted for the bullion
Excessive cigarette smoking Is alleged
as grounds for divorce in the suit of
Mrs. Robert ]. Walker of Oakland
against her husband
The withdrawal of foreign troops from
China may endanger thousands of lives,
the Chinese converts being in great fear
of the native soldiers
1t is said that Lloyd c. Griscom. secre-
tary of the United States Legation at
Constantinople, has effected settlement
of the long-delayed claims.
The Chinese and French are now fac
ing each other on a hostile line. It is
said that there will no M oh ,1p1aSs