The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-12-24
latest Foreign Neus Condensed

Senator P,7tt OF Connecticut. chair
man OF the Committee on Cuhs. de-
sires that there shall be 10 ta-in leg
islstio1 in favor OF Cuba during this
session OF Congress
Dr.. Sylvester. formerly an AMER
can but now a neturalized French
physician. has invented a spectre
( aTaph which enables users OF the tels-
I phone to see each other.
Jim JsnFies. the champion heavy
weight fighter Of the world. has in
vested over 100000 in mining pr p
eTty near Ward. Col He will take
UP his residence in Denver.
Prince Ching is now pressing Rus
STA for more definite terms. the pres
eat form Of the treaty being so vague
in its important points IS virtually
TO leave Russia a free hand
An invention has just been com
pIeted b. Professor C. E Anthony of
San Diego, by which the immense
kelp beds Of the ocean are TO be uti-
Iized in the manufacture OF paper
Cecil Rhodes advocates the settle
ment or large numbers of suitable
Beers as the only safe means OF era
dicating race hatred in South Africa
During the past year 300 shingle
mills of Western Washington have
manufactured nearly 10000 carloads
of red cedar shingles. making this
years output the greatest on record.
Three Bulgarian soldiers crossed
the Turkish frontier at Chiltepe in the
fog. They were fired upon by the
Turkish guards. One of the Bulga-
rians was captured and decapitated.
Within three months 10000 refu-
gees are expected to return to Johan-
nesburg, South Africa. Permission
has been granted TO the mines to
start hundred new stamps weekly.
The friends and admirers of the late
Jack Dempsey. are taking the pre-
limilary steps toward raising a fund
to place q monument over his grave
and to educate his destitute children.
Alfred Lowenthal. New York jew
elry salesman who was robbed of S15,-
900 of samples while stopping at Port
land, Ore, has identified portion of
the missing yaluab'es recovered by
the Kansas City police.
The most destructive food in the
Lehigh valley since 1862 started Dec.
IS. following a two days drenching
rain, which melted the snow in the
mountains. causing the Lehigh river
to become a raging torrent.
President Roosevelt will not accept
of y,
000.0 600 bonds OF the United States
Steel Corporation for the purpose of
founding an institution for higher
education in Washington, d. C.
The new Chinese tariff is framed
on lines which viii prevent under
valuation. 1t provides for per cent
ad valorem duty based ON the average
market price ruling at the port where
the imported articles are landed
\ fire which caused loss of $780,
coo and destroyed the business dis
trict of Salem. W. Va, occurred Dec
10 Sixty1five business houses and
fifteen residences were burned. At
least 250 people are left homeless.
A freight train on the PhiIadel
phia and Erie division of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad went through the
bridge spanning L.ycoming creek. be-
tween WilliamspoFt Pa. and Newber-
ry, Dec. Is. Three lives were lost.
Secretary Beckman of the Pacific
Coast Lumber Manufacturers Asso-
citation declares that Puget-sound lum-
bermen have lost at least s250,000 dur
ing the last few months by reason of
their inability to fill orders for lack
Of cars.
The Venezuelan General. Vicente
Sanchez, reports that 1000 Colombian
Liberals. disuantly supported by 1000
Venezuela ntroops. captured the Co
lombian seaport town Of Rio Hecha.
on the northwest coast of the Guljira
peninsula. Dec 10.
Six Chinese have felt the sting OF
assassins' bullets in the war that has
been waged in San Francisco China
town since Thanksgiving day between
the men of the Ping Kong tong and
the members of the families of Low.
Guam, Chung and Jue.
A storm which. for severity and de-
structiveness. has not been eGuaied
II pennsylvania for twenty-five wears
visited Eastern and Central portion OF
the state on Dec. Is causing almost
unprecedented damage and resulting
IN the loss of at least four human
lives.
II is believed the ship Matteawsn
met disaster on Flattery rocks. which
We're unprotected. as the Umatilla light
ship that guards this. the most
treacherous stretch of the Washington
ccast, had gone adrift in the storm.
having herself been forced to seek
shelter.