The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-02-11
NEWS OF WORLD
CONDENSED

Oakland, is dead.
The Car left Livadia on January "a
for ST. Petersburg.
A half-a-million-dollar fire occurred In
Chicago January 26.
The missing steamer Seaolin is safe III
Taku harbor, Alaska.
Queen Victoria's death has delayed the
Chinese negotiations.
Pauline French, a San Francisco belle,
is going on the stage.
The Federal party has urged the pas
sage of the Spooner bill.
The st. Helen's Sanitarium, at Visalia,
Cal, was burned last week.
There is another rich oil strike at
Sargent's Station, California.
Baron Curzon of Kedleston has re-
ported fear of another famine in Inuia.
Eighteen German guns have been added
TO the British arsenal at Queenstown.
The Transcontinental Passenger Asso-
citation will meet at Monterey, Califor-
The Stokes Hotel in New York, the
largest in the world. is nearing compile
ton.
Paul L. Moses. a news carrier, has
sued the Southern Pacific Company for
s25, $50
On January "a Hearst Hall. for the
opened.
John D. Rockefeller has donated $780,
600 to the endowment fund of Oberlin
College.
"A Montana sheriff was shot dead by
boy whom he was going to arrest for
burglary
The hostile Choctaws and Creek Snake
Indians are now said to number two
thousand.
An ultimatum is said to have been is
sued by Senator Frye against The shjp-
ping bill.
1t is said that Andrew Carnegie has Sc
cured control of the Pressed Steel Car
Company.
The Indiana Senate has adopted the
punishment.
An appropriation of $4,000 has been
made for the building of San Francis
co sea wall
1t is said that the natives of New
are much agitated and i'll fear
OF French plots.
Senator Depew made a -orccful al
dress in favor of the shipping bill in the
Senate January %.
thousands of Filipinos on the Island of
Panay have taken the oath of allegiance
TO the United States.
Three prospectors for gold were spear
ed by savage natives of Australia, who
resented the encroachment.
A peculiar mineral has been found in
acres and is of great depth.
A terrible heat wave is reported In
Australia, many deaths occurring. Bush
Tres are ascribed as the cause.
The Duke and Duchess of York will
AXE their trip to Australia notwith-
standing the death of the Queen.
No trace has been found of the maj
who tried to assassinate Queen Regent
Christina of Spain on January 25
On January "a the RoerS made an
ack upon the train of Lord Kitchener
near Pretoria but were driven off,
Two Buddhist priests from Japan en-
pounded the doctrines of Niryana to
College students recently
Jockey Willie Buchanan, California
ad, VIII don the royal colors and be
cen in future on the English turf.
The rate war between the Panama
Railroad and the Pacific Mail Steamship
Company has resulted in a lowering of
ates.
ST. Petersburg was profusely decorated
or the Car and the Czarina and their
trivial was the occasion of much public |
ejoicing.
Hamburg, the phenomenal and sue
,essful racer, was sold at Madison Square
Garden, New York, in the sale begin
ling January 30.
Senator AShe introduced bill into the
sacramento Legislature reducing attor-
orneys' fees and limiting the employ.
nent of attorneys.
A bill for the repeal of the law re-
;tricting remarriage before the lapse of
me year after divorce was passed in the
California Assembly.
The proposed changes in the English
prayer books substitute King for
Queen and Edward" for Victoria"
There are other changes.
Further robberies in the Vatican have
AIKEN place. This time art treasures of
great value have been carried off. The
Pope is much disturbed.
Every school district in San Jose, Cali
ornia, is raising sweet peas and other
lowers in preparation for the carnival
or McKinley's reception.
An English paper editorial comments
avorably upon the alliance with Ger
many as something which England can
lot afford to throw away.
A policeman In st. Louis fought a duel |
With a desperate thief on January "A and
vas finally overpowered from loss of /
,lood The robber escaped.
A bill 10 abolish the San Francisco |
Commission and place the pilot service |
lrder State supervision was presented /
n the California Legislature.
The dismissal of DR.. Ross is approved
~ the Alumni of Stanford University. |
Who declare the right of free speech was
lot infringed by Mrs. Stanford.
The House, on January %, accepted the 1
Army bill report. Among other Things
he bill provides that volunteer soldiers I
re eligible to become captains.
George I. Rice, editor of the Daily Bull
etin, marine journal published in Ma
lila, will be sent back to the United !
states for printing a false report
The sa1eswomen in The Fair, Chicago's
biggest department store, have been pro-
libited from using powder or paint and |
wearing their hair la pompadour.
Mother Stewart, famous the world over
or her crusades in the cause of temper
nee, glories in Mrs. Nations work and
'redicts the murder of the crusader.
The infant daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
William *. Vanderbilt, Jr., was baptized
n Archbishop Corrigan's private chapel /
m January "a. She was christened Muir
Ell.
The recent storms drove a school of /
marks into the harbor at Vancouver ana
boy who was swimming twenty yards
rom the wharf was bitten in twain by |
me of these.
]. T. 3. Arnold, son of Sir Edwin Ar
lold, who was extradited from tho /
United States last October, has been SEN
enced by a London Judge 70 ten years
,enal servitude.
Ten days after taking out a S240, 900 in
'urance policy, James G. Pearson of /
8oston died. AS the man was sick at
he time of issuance, the company will |
contest payment.
Charles