The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-01-03
NEWS OF WORLD
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There is a famine in Porto Rico.
WI Chang is said to be an open port.
Los Angeles linemen's strike is ended.
L. II. Sothern, the actor, is we'll again.
Hail Game is engaged on a new story.
+ The Lafayette statue issto be duplicat-
led
The Presidents Christmas was quiet
one.
The Jewish movement is toward Pales-
time.
Chief of Police Beverly OF New York
may retire.
Canadian officers are returning from
South Africa.
A totem pole threatens an Indian out
break at Sitka.
The u. S. S. Hartford has left Curacao
for La Guayra
All stove-making firms in Canada have
formed a trust.
a $l5O.090 fire occurred last week at Eau
Claire, Michigan.
A price war among the coke producers
lot Pennsylvania is on.
The Scranton Pa) Railway Company
lis crippled by strike.
The warning negroes at Cementyille,
Ind, are under control.
The Northwest was in the grip OF q
blizzard on the 23d instant.
A. H. Pierce, the millionaire cattleman
of Galveston, Tex, is dead.
"A HldDuIdCtOTy O1 RIdSS ives. 1t
Ste ubenville, o., has failed.
New York City has marketed corporate
stock at 315 per cent interest.
The population of Berlin is 2,46s.476, as
compared with 2,076.946 in 1885.
San Francisco's School Department is
in an improved financial condition.
The British are pressing Commandant
De Wet in the Ladybrand District.
The Government of Chile is buying her
freight cars from the United States.
The Gar is not expected to leave Ii
vadia before the middle of January.
The shipment of ore from Rossland,
B. c., for the year aggregated 100000
The sailing ship Iverra was lost off
the coast of Sweden on the 23d instant
Heavy gales are reported on the steam
ship route from New York to Glasgow
Lieutenant F. Parker, a former mem
Der of the Greeley expedition, is dead. Y
John T. McCutcheon, the artist and
newspaper correspondent, is critically i'll.
Bounteous dinners were provided for
the poor of New York on Christmas Day
John Riley Chamberlain, a well-known
correspondent and newspaper man, is
dead.
Secretary Root declares for the can
teen. as it keeps the men from greater
evils.
Old Kodowatt. chief of the Chlkat In
dams, died on December 18th near Vic
toria.
. Taotai Sheng has been nominated to a
nigh court office by the Chinese Imperial
rulers.
A boy in Chicago shot and killed his
abusive father in order to shield his
mother
The sum of $4,000 has been paid for
the 1,20o-acre coal tract in Paramount,
w Va.
German financiers are extremely pessi-
mistic over the condition of the stock
market
The delegate of the English Trades
Unions says strikes will not solve social
problems.
and wounded another last week in Mus
kogee, o. T.
The Germans have seized the Picking
Club House and Waldersee refuses to
surrender it.
N. ]. Nielsen of Mitchell. N. D., De-
cember 3d. was robbed of $780, bound and
left to freeze.
Contrary to report. President Cossatt
of the PENNSYLVANIA Railway Company
will not retire.
Bishop Chas. r. Hall of the Springfield
Diocese, Episcopal Church, died on
Christmas Day. 7t.s
Experiments in tobacco raising re-
Gently made in Connecticut are reported
a great success. IN -
Philip Danforth Armour, the million
ARE packer, is in critical condition
with pneumonia.
William A. Tooffee, a successful writer
of short stories, died In San Francisco
on Christmas Day
Rev. Fidilis D. vogt. formerly Catholic
chaplain of the New Jersey State prison,
is dead of apoplexy
Melville e. Thompson, formerly mayor
of Knoxville, Tenn, has failed biabili-
ties s19s.000; assets s12S
Roumania has rejected Russia's offer
of a loan OF sixteen millions. because of
the conditions attached
DR.. c. F. Thwing, a noted educator, is
now lecturing on the Coast among the
educational institutions ;
Cowboys in Phoenix, A. IT,, December
%, gave a remarkable exhibition of steer
tying for $1,000 purse
1t is said that a direct line of steamers
will be in operation between Portland and
Manila by February 9Th
George Parker of Willows was killed
by an officer last week while resisting
arrest on charge of theft
edmund Barton, statesman of New
South Wales, has been appointed the
first Premier of Australia
Colonel Henry s. Olcott, one of the
founders of the Theosophical Society. is
in San Francisco
Rev. Mr.. Ament succeeded in collect
benefit of native Christians.
Another expedition will leave Victoria
n the spring for Coos Island in search |
II the Coos Bay lost treasure.
Andrew GaEpasie has decided to give ]
2O,OOo FOR the erection of library build
nE for the Tnskogee Institute.
Under date of December 26 it Is report
ID that twelve Catholics have been mas
acred by Boxers near Picking.
dispatch from Aberdeen saws five I
Shetland fishing boats are missing and |
wenty-seven fishermen are lost.
1t is said that Russia is much pleased |
With the attitude assumed by America |
oward the Nicaragua Canal bill.
Congressman Payne recently stated
hat he believed the American Consular
ervice to be the best in the world.
The Salvation Army furnished bounti-
I'll Christmas dinners to the poor
hrougbe5't the cities of the States.
Little Lolita Armour. the heiress to
Millions. underwent surgical operation
N Christmas Day that was heroic.
sThe London Times declares Great /
britain cannot accept the Canal treaty
ocument as amended by the Senate.
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