The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-12-19

Cramps are to build cruiser for
Turkey.
The queens Hotel at SOuthsea was
destroyed by fire.
Serious labor riots have been II
Progress in Lyons. France.
American trade in the Orient fe! of
heavily during the Boxer crisis
The prospects seem good for early
ratification Of the Canal agreement
The Duchess of Marlborough VIII Wis
IT her father in New York this win
signor Emayor des PIanches is the
new italian ambassador TO the United
States.
while Major General Pok was visiting
Vladimir Borgoraz. an explorer, has
been compelled to leave st. Petersburg
by the police.
Bourke Cochran. in a speech deliver
ed in Chicago, scored British methods
Of warfare in South Africa.
Rev. Campbell Brown, of West Nlr-
ginfa. has declined his election as Epis-
copal bishop Of West Virginia.
Thirty-nine prisoners at Birmingham,
Ala. dug their way out of prison by
cutting through a 16-inch brick wall.
Major Van Tets, who was wounded in
a duel with Prince Henry, Queen VII
helmina's consort, is said to be alive.
Professor Moore, weather bureau
chief says progress in his department
has been made with wireless teie-
graph.
Senator Cockrell has introduced bill
for the construction of a million dollar
bridge over the Missouri river at St
Mrs. Anne wentworth, of Lowell,
las made available for Dartmouth Col
Iege an endowment of a half million
dollars.
Representative Gardner, of New Jer-
sey, has introduced a bill appropriat-
ing $4,000, 600 for the purchase of the
Danish Islands.
The battleship Iowa has been order
ed to proceed from Panama TO Talca-
huano, where the ship Will be locked
and oYerhauled.
The American Federation of Labor
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 a deficit which he incurred in
Office but made up.
The American naval attache at Lon
don reports a successful device for
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 secuf-SE
control of the election boards.
The discussion of the Philippine tar
if by the ways and means committee
indicates that Congress will follow the !
lines of the Porto Rican law.
Carnegie will donate $10.OOO,OO0 Tor |
extension. and President >
Roosevelt will name national COM ;
nittee to administer the fund.
Railway competition between Colo !
RADIO Springs and Cripple Creek has |
educed the round-trip fare to % cents. =
The fare one way used 10 be $3.50. /
The State Department has been ask
ed to aid in securing the release OF ,
Miss Eastwick, under arrest at London
for forgery. on the ground of insanity.
4 woman is thought to be the cause
Of a mysterious and nearly fatal as
sault upon Mrs. Ada Gilbert Dennis,
L fashionable dressmaker OF Washing
ION.
sank at her dock at New Suffolk. l.. l.
Water had entered through the for
ward. hatch. She was brought up in
act
Secretary Hay refused to testify re-
,arding the Danish Island negotiations
n libel suit against New York
and contempt proceedings
ere threatened.
In his suit against Healer Dowie To
force a receivership of the Zion lace
Industries. Samuel Stevenson, Dowie's
orother-in-law, says the healer swim
lied him out OF S1S5,000
IT is reported that when Parliament
meets, the government will propose an
abandonment OF the Boer concentra-
ion camps, and suggest that the peo-
pie be distributed in the settled dis
riots.
Serious breaks have occurred in the
big cylinder hanges on both sides of
ne engines of the battleship Illinois
rhey are full OF cracks which experts
say are serious defect. The Illinois
will be sent TO the Newport News
ards f1r extensive repairs.
A resolution by the Ballyneal Branch
labor Association respectfully asks its
residents. Maude Come and Major
,IacBride TO petition the American
JcopIe. for Almighty Gods sake To
ave the Irish laboTer and workingman
rom determination by the greedy, sell
ish. purse-proud farmers and the Unit
I'd Irish League.