The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-03-04
WORLDS NEWS
CONDENSED
Dramatist Ibsen has the grin

in Washington.
King Edward is now in Germany. and
will visit Ireland.
Intense cold is reported from the States /!
of the Middle West
Philadelphia is to have a new line of
steamers to England.
Heavy fogs at London have recently
caused many accidents.
The SampSon-S chley dispute had not
been ended on February 49,
1t is said that there was recently a
epidemic at Dawson.
Bernhardt is playing Camille in San
Francisco with her old success
An unconfirmed rumor prevails in Lon
don that General DeWet has been Ia
ken.
The Filipino General Cables offers $40
Mexican apiece for the heads of Amer
leans.
convention will meet at Caracas to
name a candidate for President of Vene-
zuela.
The San Francisco strife between mill
owners and workers has ended in COM
promise.
Major General Pole-Carew was married
10 Lady Beatrice Butler at London Feb
ruary 10.
Hanford, CAL, butcher who beiev-
ed himself defrauded of $50, shot his
employer.
George James and four daughters
were burned to death in their home
near Versailles, Ind.
1t is said that great excitement pre-
walls in Great Britain over American in
reads on English trade.
At last reports General De Wet was
continuing his fight northward being
now west of Hopetown.
conference of those in favor and
those in opposition to the Civil List was
held at London recently.
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selloI of the late Queen, W II carry out
the provisions of her will.
The United States ambassador to Italy
gave a reception February 20 to the
American colony of Rome.
A conference in regard to the canal
treaty has been held in London, bu. the
proceedings were informal. \
1t lis said that the American relations
with Russia are not likely to be strained
over the sugar-bounty question.
Owing to fire in No. shaft Union
Mines, B. c., it will be two weeks before
all the bodies can be taken out.
Heavy rains in the San Joaquin valley
have caused swollen streams and both
railroads have been badly damaged
Justice Poe, descendant of the poet. re-
Gently fined a West Point cadet S25 for
taking part in the hazing of a student.
Attorney Michael Cooney of San Fran
cisco was recently nearly asphyx!ated by
an accidental flow of gas in his room.
The Senate has passed the bill for the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition with an
amendment to close the show on Sun
day.
The Oldest coin in America, bearing
date of Lib years ago, was recently
found under house at Port Chester,
N. Y.
Up TO the time of the sailing of the
Mariposa from San Francisco no addi-,
tional bodies had been recovered from
the Rio.
Olga Nethersole has gone o Lendcn
to undergo an operation upon which her
life depends. Her home and friends arc
in England.
The Government building at Iba, Phil
ippine Islands, have been burned, with
the stores of the Twenty-fourth Tnfan-
try. u. S. A.
The California Leg stature has pledged
itself by resolution to take such action
as may seem proper to protect the Cali
fornia big trees.
Agents Of big trading companies in tie
Philippines have been accused of aiding
the insurgents and a number OF arrests
have been made.
The amended harbor b.ii as recon-
mended by the committee, appropriates
$50, 164, 526 reduction of s9,770,SSe from
the original figure.
The Boreel building, one of New York's
most noted office structures, has been
sold for $2,225 600. Its site was famous
in Revolutionary days.
A measure has been introduced in Con-
gress appropriating s547.5OO to improve
the post exchanges and make them sub
stitutes for the canteen.
An Arizona prospector was pinioned
under a huge rock winch fell on his
legs. He suffered death by the fortunes
of thirst and starvation.
Santa Teresa, the Mexican Joan of
Arc who has made astonishing cures
in California, is on her way to Europe
with a San Francisco family.
Seven more bodies had been recovered
at last report from the Union, b. c.,
mine. all having been drowned in the
after-damp following the explosion.
recent speech of Secretary of State
for the Colonies Chamberlain in Par1ia-
ment was styled as "Billingsgate by
! H. III. Asquith, the former Home Sec
rotary.
| H. C. Bulls, an engineer, has brought
suit for $4,000 damages against a South
American republic, through the United
States Government for unjustifable inn
! prisonment.
H. S. Taylor cashier of the Grau
Opera Company, died recently of typhoid
pneumonia, having contracted the dis
ease while nursing his stricken wife,
i who recovered
Latimer Jones, the famous forger, has
been pardoned out of Sing Sing prison
The Strathcona Horse of Canada re-
!, ceived a great send-off at Liverpool
when 1t left for home.
An organization of Chicago capitalists
nave resolved to devote $1,00000O to the
! raising of beets to compete with the su-
gar trust; 10000 acres of Indiana land
have been bought for the purpose.
/ AT last reports the California Senate
was considering the civil code measure.
| bill asking for s125,000 to assist in
the tunneling of Telegraph Hill has been
introduced in the California Legislature
The committee appointed for the pur-
pose reported to the Ca itornia Legisla-
ture that their investigation of White I
and Preston Reform Scnoo.s resulted in
! finding that the children there are i'll
treated.
AS a result of the efforts of those
without authority to procure cut rates
for the Epworth League convention to
San Francisco from the East, the rail-
| roads have denied any concession in
| fare to the Epworth Leaguers.
Pettigrew proposed an amendment to
the Army appropriation bill reading
And the title of the President shall
hereafter be the President of the social
ed Republic of the United States and the
emperor of the Islands of the Sea-
statement has been received by the
! Senate from General Macarthur, at Ma
Mia. in which it is reported that Editor
Hice, who was deported from the phil