The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-03-25
NEWS OF WORLD
CONDENSED


The Hay-Pauncefote treaty was ex
tended on March Is for one year.
Wild riots prevail in Moscow. Crane
Duke Sergius is very unpopular.
Andrew Carnegie has given five mil
lion dollars for branch libraries in New
York.
Nearly 200 cars of fruit We're sold il
one week recently in the city of New
York.
Stanford University has adopted the
| Berkeley system of graduate manager
ship.
King Leopold, the Belgian ruler, i:
scandalizing Brussels with high gam
bling.
Andrew Carnegie has offered to donate
| one million dollars to a new public Ii
brary at st. Louis.
Glasgow has a smallpox scare, and 240,'
900 of it's 100000 inhabitants have beer
vaccinated already.
President Loubet of the French Repub'
! lie recently expressed friendly senti-
ments toward America
Severe fighting is going on in Morocco
General Risbourg has established French
authority south of Figuig.
Plans have been begun for the new
mining building at Berkeley University,
donated by Mrs. Hearst.
General Fras and his staff of Filipinos
have surrendered at Santa Cruz and Ia
ken the oath of allegiance.
1t is announced on good authority that
Carnegie will give s25,O0O,0OO towards a
technical school at Pittsburg.
Orders have been sent to General Chat
fee to return from China, leaving only
$50 men as Legation guard.
Troops are being rushed to MacArthur's
headquarters in the Philippines to re-
place those who are returning.
Herbert Croker, son of Richard Gro
ker. fell on an Atlantic steamer and
fractured his knee cap recently.
Bogolepoff, the Russian Minister or
Public Instruction, who was shot by a
student, died from his wounds.
: The London Times has; been censured
by the House of Commons for publica-
ton of confidential conferences.
The census returns: give the population
of India as 294 O0O, 900, an increase of T.
600, 900 within the past ten years,
A festival of prune blossoms was held
at Saratoga Santa Clara county, re-
Gently, and was largely attended.
1t is rumored that ]. G. Johnston. a
Philadelphia lawyer, may be appointed
to succeed Attorney General Griggs.
There is almost half a billion of gross
gold in the United States Treasury. The
growth of the surplus is to be stopped.
An automobile factory is to be estab-
lished in Stockton and line of autos
may be run between that city and Lodi.
In a warm discussion in the Reichstag
recently the question of German annexa-
ton in China was debated as a policy.
/ a large list of appointments of sur
geons and assistants has been made
| by the President for the Army and
Navy.
/ After a quarrel with his wife, George
Ferrel of Fresno tried to commit suicide
at Riverside, Cal, by drinking wood NJ
cohol.
! Leon Poon, Chinese interpreter fol
/ the courts at San Jose. has been found
to be the instigator of a recent highbind-
er war.
| Under date of March 10, news comes
that the Russians have seized the terri.
! tory in dispute at Tien-Tsin and are
holding it.
! 1t is said that five Britons have beer
put TO death by the Beers at Cape Town
Three other men have been sentenced tc
be executed.
Spains kingdom of Asturias. according
to the British Medical Journal, boasts
of twenty-eight centenarians In a popula
ton of 100000.
Lamar c. Quintero of New Orleans has
been appointed member of the Su,
preme Bench at Manila at salary OF
/ $1,000 per year.
! 1t is said that instead of establishing
a fort at Mosampho, Corea. as. reported
Russia is merely arranging for a coalins
station there.
| The body of General Harrison was
placed in the casket and taken to the
Capitol on March is, and buried on Sun
| day, March Il. ,,-. So s..". p
II Lake Copais in Boeotia, famous in an
tiquity for its cells, has, now been com
pletely drained and turned into 4S,00t
acres of arabic land.
l. It is said that the Got1lds have per
fected a scheme to extend the Missouri
Pacific railroad, making 1T the great sys-
| tenn of the Southwest. r
! Berlin is afflicted by a new toy inn
ported from Paris. 1t is a pocket whis-
| tie that emits a whistle, winding up with
a shrek of Mamma mamma"
| The Cleveland. Ohio, firm of Garigan.
Parmalee and. Whitley has been placed
| in the hands of a receiver, claiming in
debtedness to the amount of 100000.
Viscount Wolseley, former commander
in chief of the British army, has admit
ted that he underestimate the strength
of the Beers.
The London afternoon papers are dis
GUESSING President Hadleys prediction
that there will be an emperor installed
In Washington within twenty-five years.
Bengal is suffering from the cocaine
habit and efforts are being made to re-
strict the sale of the drug, which the
Hindoos are using as substitute for
opium
A corpse which has been found in a
river near Jersey City is believed to be
that of the insane millionaire, John As
tor Chanler, who disappeared last No
vember.
A hundred Indians and cowboys made
a roundup in Arizona to corner and kill
beasts of prey. over three hundred
black bears, grizzlies, coyotes, mountain
lions, etc, We're killed.
At a recent meeting of officials in
France it was suggested that steps be
mo ",
that country. The suggestion met with
much favor.
1t IS stated by San Francisco paper
under date of March 16 that Russia has
thrown down the gauntlet to Great Brit
ain and that war in the Orient now
seems inevitable.
Mrs. Arnold, wife of the son of Sir
Edward Arnold, is In trouble with her
landla6y at Berkeley, to whom she and
her husband owe $500. and by whom their
trunks have been attached
Abram S. Hewitt the aged multimilion-
aire, recently refused to sell out his bus
mess at an acceptable price because his
successors would close down the mills
and throw the employees out of work.
Count Boni de Castellane, who was to
meet NJ. de Rodays' editor of the Paris
Figaro, on March IT, on the day pre-
vious gave a banquet to his friends. 1t
has not yet been learned how the duel
terminated.
Two of the most important Western
railroads have withdrawn from the presi-
dents agreement which provides for the