The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-03-22

request. He says he is no longer a
Democrat
Ihe british Government protests
against the i.l-trealment OF Jamaican Ia
borers in Ecuador.
Applications Ior enlistment in the in
creased Army are much less than they
were two years ago.
Count TolStoi has peen accommodated
from the Greek chul CHI because of alleg
ed corrupt influence
The cal operators of Pennsylvania
have continued the 10 per cent advance
in wages for one year.
One thousand dollars reward is offered
by the steamship company for the loca-
ton of the Rio wreck.
The Boer General, Galleries. was killed
in the recent attempt upon Litchenburg,
held by Lord Kitchener.
Good progress is reported from Wash
ington in the organization of the five
new infantry regiments.
The supplemental eXtradition treaty
with Great Britain has been affirmed by
the United States Senate.
c. f. Sprague, eX-Congressman and
millionaire, has retired voluntarily to a
New York insane asylum.
The relations between the United States
and Denmark are not. menacing, as ru-
mored, but very amicable.
Secretary Squiers of the United States
Legation at Peking has been exonerated
from the charge of looting
There has been a disagreement between
Alice Nelson and her managers, and she
IS not to appear at present.
The Amer can military postmaster has
made arrangements with Japan to expe-
dite mail to troops in China.
The contract for the building of the
new battleship Nebraska has been signed
by Moran Brothers of Seattle.
Russia, to prevent trouble in the Bal
kans, favors the reduction of the armies
OF Servta, Bulgaria and Greece.
Ex-senator Carter Of Montana has
been appointed United States Commits
Sioner to the st. Louis Exposition
Arrangements are being made al
Washington to extend the French reel
orocty treaty, now about to expire.
"A new species of X-rays. said to be OF
great value in wireless telegraphv. is he
ng investigated at the Berlin Institute.
Andrew Carnegie has sign:fed his in
tent'on of bestowing a $4,000 library
building upon the City of San Jose. Cal.
A terrific storm in the Mississippi! VAL
ley and on Lake Michigan, has caused
some loss of life and much of property.
William A. Rublee of Milwaukee has
been appointed Consul General at Hong
kong to succeed the late Rounsev!Ile
Wildman.
Andrew Carnegie is to build a s500. 900
spite WALL between his Fifth avenue
residence and some unwelcome rear
neighbors.
Owing to the comment of the German
press, Earl Roberts has returned to the
Kaiser his insignia of the Order of the
Black Eagle.
Chauncey F. Glover, a wealthy resi-
dent of Long Island has been convicted
of forging a will purporting to be that
of his father.
The taxation measure providing for the
needs of the Japanese army has been
agreed upon in the House of Peers and
the bill will pass.
A sensational suit charging 800 ono
fraud, has been filed in San Francisco
by an English syndicate against prom!-
nent Bohemian Club men.
Ernest J. Wolter. a merchant of
Schuyler, Neb., has been Jailed on a
charge of attempting to hlackmaI Sena-
tor Dave Kearns of Utah.
Girls and boys Of Newcastle, Ind, High
School had a scrimmage on top of a
building over hosting of colors, and the
police had to he summoned.
Red or "blcod rain" Is falling IN Sicily.
and IN various parts of Italv. It IS dive
to soluble dust from the African deserts,
which prevails in the atmosphere