The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-04-06
NEWSEOF1WORLD
CONDENSED
O Princess Bismarck, a SON.

To Princess Bismarck, son.
The widow of the Marquis de Gallifet
is dead.
The Augusta Hotel at Hampton, Va,
is burning.
q There are several cases Of smallpox in
Des Moines, Ia.
Lent Gen. Kool is the new Dutch
| Minister of War.
The President will visit the State of
| Washington in May.
| The Chilean Pan-American Commission
has started for Buffalo.
The story that Kruger is coming to
America has been denied.
James Stephens, the Fenian Head Cen
ter in 1866, died at Dublin.
The Brazilian Government will send
Admiral Mello to Amazonias.
| The Diamond Pottery plant at Akron,
| O., has been destroyed by fire.
| 1t is thought the proposed coal strike
| in Pennsylvania will be abandoned.
| American Minister Fleishmann has pre-
scented his credentials to the Sultan
A terrific hailstorm in Northern Texas
on March %, inflicted loss of 300 900.
The Beers suffered heavy loss In a
recent engagement with General Babing-
ton.
On account of the plague, Bremerhaven
has quarantined against all Australian
ports.
1t is rumored that Sir Alfred Miner,
Governor of the Transvaal will resign
his office.
James Callahan. arrested for compile
,ity in the Cudahy abduction case. will be
tried April o.
1t is reported that the Northern Pacific
and Great Northern have got control of
the C. B. & Q.
The Japanese troops in the Chinese
province of Pe-chi-li win be replaced by
a force so per cent stronger.
A new IS counterfeit, series of 1899. is
out. The check letter, and plate have
been changed from B 20 to A 49,
At the Government Parliamentary eau
Gus at Victoria no ten1ers were made to
construct the coast Kootenay line. ~
Ex-Alderman Sigrist of Brooklyn Is
dead. He was one of the first American
viticultursts in California and had a
vineyard near Napa.
Advices from New York have it that
steel prices have once more advanced
and that the pay of ironworkers has
been raised and the wages of English Ia
borers reduced.
A dispatch from ST. Petersburg says
the Car has administered a severe rep
rimand to Prince Viazmski, a member of
the Council of the Empire, for having in
terfered with the orders of the police
on the occasion of the recent riots
An official organ of the Brazilian Gov
|
spracy had obtained the cooperation of
two battalions of infantry and two troops
of cavalry under the command of Gen
eral Carlos Soares, and Col. Pantaleon
Quieros.
An ancient Chinese tablet with the
characters so worn that they were I'M
decipherable has been found in the de-
stroyed wall at Tien-TSin. There is
much indignation among the Chinese at
! Tien-Tsin over the destruction of the
wall.
The proposed consolidation of the Chi
cago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
Company with the Great Northern and
/ Northern Pacific has reached a. final
stage. The long delayed plan, it is said,
is ready for submission to the Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy stockholders.
Shanghai papers tell of friction which
has arisen between the Russians and
British in North China over the recent
cruise after pirates in the Gulf of Pc
chill by the British cruiser Plover. The
Russians claim that the pirates were
taken from Russian territory, which
claim the British refute.
Reports received by Third Assistant
the books of 2-cent postage stamps issued
by the Government are averaging a sale
of 1880 books a day throughout the
United States. The fraction of a cent
which the Government earns on the sale
llof the books has amounted to a net
profit of S33,672 in the eleven. months
during which they have been on sale at
all postoffices.