The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-01-31


England may amend the canal treaty.
Fogs have been delaying coasting yes
sels. M -
The Omaha is to remain quarantine
ship.
Storms are causing great loss in ia
maica.
1t is said that European industries are
declining.
Coal has been discovered in British
The Indian bill has been submitted to
the Senate.
Congressman G. W. cowles. aged
n, is dead.
Ed. Corrigan, the turfman, has sailed
for England.
On January % Composer Verdi was on
his deathbed.
Sybil Sanderson is to return to the
operate stage.
J. M. Wilcoxon, the prominent Califor-
mia lawyer, is dead.
A great snowstorm recently swept
Southeastern Alaska.
Colombian ports have been closed by
Governmental decree.
Colonel c.. H. Hilder of the Smithso-
MAN Institute is dead.
An epidemic of bronchial diseases is
reported in New York.
1t is said that Chicago is entranced by
Bernhardt's IL Aiglon."
1t is said that gold has been found on
the beach at Vancouver.
Marcus Days will has been filed, nam
ing the widow as executrix
The widow of Chief Justice Sheldon
died in Buffalo on January 5.
The postal laws are receiving a great
deal of attention in the House.
The next meeting of the associated
cattlemen will be held at Chicago.
1t is proposed to lay new cable be-
tween Keeling and ohana, Japan.
Favorable rains have been falling
throughout the San Joaquin valley.
The bill to open the Court of Claims to
foreigners was beaten in the House.
Two baseball managers are settling
their differences in a Sacramento court,
Senator Hanna has applied for admis.
sion into the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie.
1t is reported that bubonic plague is
raging among the British troops in Cape
Colony.
One hundred and fifty Russian students
have been exiled for engaging in politi
cal agitation.
The Philippine Commission has adopted
an act establishing department of pub
lie instruction.
1t is said that coal and iron in great
abundance have been discovered in Nj
cola valley, B. c..
Excitement is raging in Arizona over
the discovery of a glittering ledge of gold
quartz a Kingman.
The Russian laws concerning Russian
money have been extended to New
ehwang and Inkow.
The American investors in British war
bonds have been compelled to pay a five
per cent income tax.
A bill in the California Legislature
asks for s150,000 for the construction of
dams on the Yuba river.
The people of Juneau have protested.
against the transfer of Judge
Moves from Nome to that place.
The Western Naval Yards were allow
ed more liberal appropriations in the
last bill than those OF elsewhere.
The Chilean Congress has approved the
budget for the present year amounting
to lie, 600 pesos.
The Lawson yacht advisory commit
tee have decided to name the Boston cup
defender America
Soaehiro Matsumoto, Director General
of the Japanese Government Railways is
now in San Francisco
An organization of French noblemen
has been formed for the purpose of OBJ
tanning rich American wives.
Long-shot Conley,' a colored jockey,
recently slashed the face of a Pullman
car waiter over a game of pool.
The town of Henry, Illinois, is reported
to have been nearly totally destroyed
by fire on the night of January 81
Richard Mansfield, the eccentric actor,
recently made a scene in the Auditorium
Hotel because of an overdone chop
The case of the American engineer
Brown, whom the Beers treated unjust
ly. has been considered by the Senate.
Mary Ellen Lease has sued for divorce.
Her husband has entered a waiver sig
nifying his intention of not eontesting.
The big Oakdale elevator of Chicago
was destroyed by fire On the night of
January 20, with loss OF nearly $1,000.
Five of the soldiers who escaped from
the transport Grant near Hongkong were
found hiding in the rocks at Kennedy
town.
A number of persons of rank contract
ed the measles through attending the
funeral of the late Grand Duke of Sake
Weimer.
1t is said that the Sultan of Turkey is
nearly demented with fear of assassins
and is daily putting people to death upon
suspicion.
The cutter Grant is to make a cruise
UP the North Pacific coast to investigate
wreckage and give succor to unfortu-
nate mariners
A German school teacher has been ar
rested as the long-sought murderer of
me boy Winter, said to have been the
victim of ritual murder.
John George, constable of Livingston.
california, shot negro named Henry
buchanan on January 20 for stealing a
'ide on some freight cars
Under date of January % it is said
hat England will undoubtedly accent
he amendments of the United States tn
he HayPauncefote treaty.
Edward M. Palmtag has been secured
o fill the pitchers place In the Stanford
baseball team left vacant by the with
travail of Captain Lanogan
Moses E. Clapp of St. Paul, has cen
nominated by the Republi-