The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-01-01
NEWS OF WORLD
CONDENSED

\ Cannery fire at Sacramento last
week caused loss of $4,000.
a great landslide near Castle Ciag,
Cal. delayed overland trains
President Mckinley had buflalo
roast on his Christmas dinner menu.
The situation is said to be grNNing
worse I'm China and more trouble is eX-
pected there.
The proposed caral around the rapids
on the Columbia river would cost four
million dollars.
senator Allen severely denounced the
gossip OF lobbyists in the Senate at
Washington last week
1t Is intimated that the Union Pa
clfic, Southern Pacific and Santa Fe
railroads are likely to unite.
An Oakland baker has been sued FOR
81. 900 by a girl employee of his shop for
kissing her without her consent.
Great distress and restitution is said
to prevail among the Indians of the
Southern California reservations.
Thirty insurgents were captured near
Manila on December nth by twenty
FIVE men of the L. $. goth infantry.
Nearly two million dollars Is said to
have been recently paid by an English
syndicate for a Coalinza oil claim.
Classmates of dead Cadet Booz say he
was regarded as a coward and was not
persecuted for his religious belief.
Eleven hundred Christians are re-
Ported tortured to death or slain by
the Mohammedan fanatics in Turkey.
Governor Wroth of Ohio has stated
that he will not permit the proposed
Jeffries- Rubin prize fight in that state
Miss Vivian Sartoris. granddaughter
of General Grant, Is to be married to
Timothy Nichols, a New York club
man.
Under date of December 18th 1t is
stated that the outlook for the passage
of the canal bill this session Is very
dark
The California delegation are work
ing hard to prevent the ratification of
the French and Jamaican reciprocity
treaty,
4 "Mayflower" society is TO be or
Ganized in Oakland consisting of those
who claim descent from the Mayn0wer
pilgrims.
\ sensational speech was recently
made at n secret consistorv I'm the Vati-
can by Pone Leo bitterly denouncing
the state.
kid" Mccoy wants to arrange a
fght with Corbett or some other heavy
weight He seeks to redeem his lost
prestige.
After desperate STRUGGLE Chicago
girl was beaten almost to death by a
burglar last week. Her injuries are
probably fatal.
An American mining engineer killed
two Mexican bandits last week Mt El
Paso. Texas. They attempted to rob
him and he shot them.
Paul julius Antoine. French Vice
Consul. died at the French Hospital in
san Francisco last week. having shot
himself through the head.
An Ostend woman has Just confessed
that her dead husband committed the
crimes for which three innocent men
We're sent to the gulllotne.
The arguments on both sides Of the
Philippine and Porto Rican cases have
been made and the decision now rests
with the United States Supreme Court
ballot box suitably inscribed and
bearing California's majority at the
last election will be presented to Pres
ident Mckinley on his visit to the west.
Severe measures have been taken at
West Point against haZing. Dement,
marks to half the number which causes
expulsion We're given two haZers last
week.
An insane sheep herder of San MlrU-
81, Cal, cut his throat with n 1ull
butcher knife and set his clothes on fire
after saturating them with coal oil last
week.
The coroner's jury in the case of four
men who We're killed in railroad ACCT
dent at Suisun severely cersurued the
Southern Pacific Company for the ac-
cident.
The bill to give soldiers the prefer
ence in the -natter of bubble appoint
merts was defeated bv large majority
in the House of Representatives last
week.
The libel suit Of " ". Won Schroeder
against ]. u. Spreckels 81 the San
Frarcisoo con to now attroctir" n great