The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-12-23
NEWS OF WORLD
CONDENSED


OF the San Rafael.
Automobiles have been introduced in
California oil districts.
The next national CT. a. r. encalap-
, ment will be held at Washing ION.
New York cigar manufacturers have
combined, with a capital of $500, coo.
Billiards. have been raging in many
States of the North and Middle West.
\ Montana train robber was sent to
prison for fifteen years by St Louis
judge.
The torpedo-boat Fulton, which sunk
at Long Island, New York, has been
raised.
Queen WiIhelmina and her husband
have been seen out together in IN
open carriage.
The British ambassador at Berlin
has protested against the proposed
| German tariff
Fifteen year old Gertrude Simpson
who killed her father. was acquitted
at Creole, Col.
a slight earthquake shook the city
of Salem, Ore, on December Is, but
did no damage.
! Russians may boycott Germany if
the proposed German Agrarian bill
/ becomes a law.
! The anti-German temper of the Poles
showed itself at Berlin in their recep-
! ton to Paderewski.
Major Egan, surgeon at salt Lake.
has been court martialed for falling to
attend sick soldiers.
Daniel Colt Gilman Of Baltimore was
today reelected president of the Civil
Service Reform League.
Western Senators believe an arid
lands bill, providing for reclamation of
deserts. will be adopted.
1t has been found that ex-County
Treasurer Whittlesea. of Seattle, is
$40. eco short in his accounts.
Professor Dehring, a German, has
demonstrated the possibility of render
ing cattle Immune from tuberculosis.
Capt. James c. Read. convicted at
Manila of completely in commisary
frauds, must serve out his sentence.
a balloon used by Marconi in his
wireless telegraph experiments at 81
Johns. N F., broke loose and was lost.
d. p. Thompson, a well known capt.
talist and eX-United States minister to
Turkey. died in Portland. December ii.
The American Federation of Labor
at its Scranton, Pa, meeting refused
TO act in the San Francisco lab~r
fight.
Secretary Root and General Chaffee
strongly recommend the location, near
Manila, of n permanent military port. |
costing 100000.
Calve, the great diva, is at present |
in Florida for her health. She does |
not feel well. however, and may soon |
leave the States.
European powers have offered To in
accept autonomy under the supremacy |
of Great Britain.
Cecil Rhodes advocates the settle |
ment of a large number of suitable |
Britons among the Beers as a way To |
eradicate race hatred.
Senators Perkins and Bard, of Cali |
fornia, have received much recognition |
in the Senate as regards the distribu |
ton of places on committees.
William Beckman, banker of Sac |
ing dunning postal cards to Paul |
Wickersham, of San Francisco.
Democratic Senators in caucus desir- |
ed to present a united front on all |
possible questions in the Senate, and |
reelected Jones (Ark) chairman.
was stabbed and stoned to death by |
Mexicans at Penurio, n. NJ. 1t is fear
ed that more bloodshed viii follow
Courtenay Walter Bennett, who has !
been British consul general at Bilbao |
since 1900, has been gazetted consul
general of Great Britain at San Fran
cisco
\ protocol for treaty has been /
signed which permits the admission of
-four, wines, fresh and dried fruits
from the United States into Nicaragua
free of duty.
There are 2,27S.717 telephones in use
in the United States, with q capital
of $4,000 COO. The annual output of
telephone apparatus is valued at $780,
C00G0O or $50, 100000
Iglesias, president Of the Federation
Of Workmen of Porto Rico was tried |
for conspiracy in the District Court of
San Juan, and was sentenced to two |
years Imprisonment.
Mrs. BONNIE, who was charged with |
having murdered James S. Ayres at
the kensington Hotel, in Washington
On May IS. was acquitted by the jury
on the 18th instant
y terrific storm caused a teiegrar,.ic
breakdown all through England d..
December p Heavy storms have also
swept over France and Snow has fall
en- in many districts.
w. II. Woods and n female compan-
ion. both celored. have been arrested
at Omaha FOR robbing LowenthaI. 4
JeWelry drummer at Portland. Ore. of +
$4,000 worth Of diamonds.
George NoCgan and George Blimi. !
the president and treasurer for the
Continental Security Redemption Com
pany. of Birmingham. Ala, have been
on charges for embezzlement |
Carnegie's offer of $4,000 600 to
institution ia in steel bonds, much TO
the embarrassment OF the President.
who desires the offer to be made in
cash or United States bonds
Ths joint committee OF the two
houses OF Congress to make arrange
inents for memorial service in honor
OF the late President Mckinley h-ld !
meeting and decided to invite Sec
rotary OF state John Hay to be the
orator The date and time for hold
ms the. service Will be fixed later
The report Of Special Commissioner
Rockhin to the Secretary Of State on
the Picking negotiations is made pub
ic- II shows thse the United States
was the most moderate OF any nation
~ It's demands; that IT reduced the LIST
)t those condemned TO death. and in
iaced others to lower indemnity
slaims.