The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-04-03
NEWS OF WORLD
CONDENSED

A TN trust is threatened by the New
ork can companies.
Admiral and Mrs Dewey are spend-
ing week in New York
Inc Petaluma, Cal, sheep men are
Planning big coyote hunt
Two soldiers robbed a Union street
fruit store in San Francisco
A blizzard more terrific than any since
1880, has been raging in Colorado.
a Sfo,uO0 copper mill at Santa Fe, n
M, was destroyed by fire last week
An increase of freight rates threat
ems the growing of hops in California
1t IS said that a marvelousIy rich
gold mine has been discovered In Arr
IONA.
There is a mining boom in Kalama.
Wash, the inhabitants being much ex-
cited.
New Caledonia and the neighboring
islands have been swept by great
4 storm.
The German press sharply scores the
! Kaiser for his comments on the recent
assault.
ommend a salt water pumping estab-
lishment
Valuable placer mines are reported
from Chestachina county, a new Alas
kan district.
| Henry Oxendine, a Missourian bar
tender, shot himself and his mistress
at Joplin City.
Two hundred bars of gold have been
shipped from the interior of Colombia
for Southampton.
James Ferguson, of Tulare county,
drowned in a swimming pool in full
| sight of his friends.
/ The local tin can factory or Astoria,
| Ore, is absorbed by the American
| Tin Can Company trust.
Rev. NJ. Stochouse, of the London
Missionary Society, has been murdered
| by brigands near Tien-tSin
| The death of ey-navOr Of
w. G. Gilbert, has been ascribed TO
suicide by the coroner's jury.
| 1t is said that Turkey has very in
| OPPORTUNITY demanded the dissolution
| of the Macedonian committee
The American embassy staff called
upon President Diaz and congratulated
him upon his return to health.
A terrific cyclone swept the city of
kalamazoo, Michigan. last week No
| lives are known to have been lost
The Northern Pacific is trying to ar
range to purchase the railroad from
San Francisco to Portland. Oregon.
Hon. George a. Willard. ex-Con-
gresham. died last week, at the age
of seyenty-seven years. in Michigan
The Rev. DR.. Huntington has shock
ed his fashionable New York congre-
CATION by starting crusade against
vice.
A monument is To b. erected by the
/ North American Athletic Associations
to William E. Curtis. the father of
athletics"
While sitting by an open window AT
a dance in an Oregon village. young
logger was shot through the head by
rival, last week
Eighteen people were said to have
been killed by the cyclone at Birming-
ham at last reports Atlanta. Ca. also
suffered heavily.
Report comes from Grand Rapids,
Mich. that the Grand river has passed
the high water mark and reached the
danger limit there.
/ Governor Odell, of New York re-
scented warmly the attempts of Sena-
tor Platt to dictate to him, and would
not sign the police bill
1t is said that the plan of George
/ Gould to become the head Of a railroad
| combination with capital Of $500, 600
000 is progressing favorably.
! Two Chicago schoolboys stole a stick
| Of dynamite and pounded it between
| bricks One of them died, and the
other is in a serious condition.
/ Baron Hayashi, the Japanese Minis
1 ter in London, is quoted as saying that
he did not believe China would assent
/ to the Observation-Disclosures agreement.
I 1t is said that arrangements have
been about completed for the Jeifries-
Rubin fight in San Francisco. The
| fight will probably take place on July
LIST.
id-Ed-Dit, has again raised the stan
dard of revolt against Turkish rule in
/ Yemen. one Of the principal divisions
/ of Arabia.
/ II is reported that the celebrated
Jesuit scholar, Able Renard, professor
at the University of Client, has brok-
en- of his relations with the church in
order to marry.
| It is said that Cambridge's track
challenge to Harvard and Yale has
been practically accepted, the date of
! the meet, however, being changed from
! September to July.
Seven burglars robbed a bank at
| Columbus, Ohio, last week, securing
about 5000 in gold, but overlooking
s., 900 more in cash, and $4,000 in bonds
and time securities.
The L. s. 5. New. York, which is TO
convey [. S. consul Gummere to MAJ
agan, in connection with the settlement
| claims against Morocco, arrived at
! Tangier on March IS.
The handsome bronze tablet to be
set up at Santiago, in memory of the
late Frederick Woolaston Ramsden, is
| finished al the Washington navy yard;
and is ready for shipment.
The surplus proceeds or the presen-
tation of the Passion Play" al ODER
iammergau last year amounted TO 22s,-
awarded for communal purposes.
N. de Giers, it is said. has emphat
ically declined to grant extension
of the period for signing. and further
amending the Manchurian convention,
/ which the Chinese court implores.
Arthur Chamberlain has been award
ed e1,5o0 damages in his libel suit
against the London Star and the Morn
ing Leader. Neville Chamberlain
suit was settled for similar damages.
| s.''Tod''z Sloan is now IN New York.
He intends to return to England to
make efforts towards getting license,
which he believes he can do by pre-
senting his side of the turf scandal
story.
The Jewish peddlers of Chicago have
applied for police protection because
Of assaults upon them for no other
reason than that they are 1sraelites.
Several have been killed by i'll treat
ment.
It is feared that Mrs. Neville Castle,
the beautiful San Francisco actress,
may have committed suicide in New
| York She is missing, and has been
depressed on account of her husbands
illness.
Advices from Yokohama state that