The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-01-26
NEWS OF WORLD
CONDENSED


A coal famine is reporteu from os
Angeles among the railroad stations.
1t is SaiQ that the wholesale slaughter
OF wild game srIll continues Alaska.
Detective Ihacker has captured the
$4,000 express robber at Ell Paso, Tex.
No trace IS yet found the missing In
sane millionaire, John Armstrong Cham
Ter.
The Federal Supreme Court decided
that Nicely must go back to Havana for
trial.
The schooner Fearless was struck by
the steamer Pomona in fog off Bolinas
Point
Captain Baranoff, an old settler. was
murdei ed December 3lst at SItka by the
natives.
Baroness Antoinette Heileman and Eu-
gene S. Thorne have been married in
Oakland.
San Francisco street railway compa-
MES will make a special rate to school
children.
Dave Sullivan and Kid Broad fought
25-round draw at Louisville on Janu-
airy l4th.
The Car of Russia is said to have
given fortunes to his advisers in aft AIRS
of State.
A Nihllist Russian Prince has been ar
rested on charge of plotting against the
Cars life.
General Eagan was denounced in a SEN
satiohal speech in the Senate by Teller
of Colorado.
Il. J. Blaisdell, who first suggested
Lincoln for President. died in nlnois
January 18th.
A Chicago physician claims to have
succeeded IN cremation of human bodies
by liquid ar.
Mrs. Mary Kincaid has been elected
president of the Board of Education of
San Francisco.
THE Rogue's Comedy" by Henry Ar
San Francesca
The United States Senate has abolished
the Army canteen by a vote of tnlrty-
four TO nfteen.
Mckinley and Roosevelt We're formally
declared choice of the California Senate
on January 18th.
James O'Neil, the actor, nearly SUMO
Gated in the folds Of the canvas sea used
in Monte Cristo.
Brandes, under life sentence for the
murder of his daughter, may get a new
trial at Oakland.
1t is saio that the backbone of rebel
lion in the Philippines is broken and the
war VIII soon end.
a contract has been let for the con-
Struction of an arena for prize fight
in Carson. Nevada.
substantial increase in the volume of
trade IN favor of the United States is re-
ported for December.
De Wet captured a Boer peace agent
and logged and shot him. The victim
was a British subject.
The Secretary of Agriculture has beer
called upon for a report of California
co-operati tive irrigation.
1t is said that Captain Hall. charged
with cowardice at Peking, is the victim
of petticoat diplomacy.
Up to January 14th all the amendments
offered to the Harbor bill had been vot-
ed down in the House.
An Indiana constable chained some fat
cars to the ties and thus held them fer
the payment of taxes.
The Duchess of Marlborough had
narrow escape from death by being
thrown from her horse.
w. K. Vanderbilt is planning to merge
the Union Pacific and the Chicago anu
Northwestern Railways.
A Santa Clara Chinaman is dying of
strychnine poisoning at the hands of
member of a rival tong.
Many bodies from wrecked steamer,
believed to be the Leone, nave f1oated in
on the Island of Corsica.
A bill for the regulation of divorces
was introduced into the California Leg.
islature by Senator Mutt.
Stockton has just granted franchises
through the northern part OF the city 10
the S. F. q S. ]. V. r. r.
Senator Hoar was the unanimous choice
for reelection in both Houses of the
Massachusetts Legislature.
Allan Il. Doucette, the famous Harvard
football player, died at Cambridge OF ty-
phold fever on January Sth
George A. Newhall has been elected
President of the Board of Police Com
missioners at San Francisco.
vi Clor- |, IN.act
Baden, Indiana, to go in training a III
Ruhlin has gone to Kentucky.
At Topeka, Kas., an attempt was made
recently to hang mine superintendent
on account of strike troubles.
The prosecution of the four men who
are charged with the murder of a factory
girl in New Jersey, has begun.
The Municipal League of San Francisco
fayors the proposed lower prices for
transportation for school children.
The Canadian Pacific Railroad outwit-
ted a rival by reyiving an old franchise
to prevent a new line being built.
The Chamber of Commerce of San
Francisco is protesting against the meth
DDS of DR.. Kinyoun, of plague fame.
The Japanese Consulate at Vancouver
have sent an inspector to investigate
Japanese labor trouble in Montana.
Two thousand Filipinos of Manila have
memorialized the United States Govern
ment to cease it's warlike operations.
jamestown, Col, women drove into a
swollen creek in buggy with her two
children last week and all were drowned
The overdue steamship Tellamook, a
Tacoma paper says, has been discovered
imprisoned in floating ice in Caldovia
bay.
Under Sheriff Deyane of Yuma, A. T.
was shot down on Jan. by three rob-
bers he was about to search for RIB.
berry.
The California Club of San Francisco
has instigated a crusade for the preser-
walton of the sCalaveras grove of big
trees.
Six sailors bring charge against the
steamship Mexico in San Francisco for
alleged NARROWING on the beach at Ma
ATTAIN.
:. Hopkinson Smith says, Uncle Tom $
tahin' is the most vicious book that
eF,r appeared and that it caused lne Civ
ii zIr.
tt. registration of students for the Sec
'ond Smester at Stanford University
shows an enrolment of LOIS men and
women
Under bonds of 100000 the business of
the Denton Shoe Manufacturing Com
lpany. has been placed in the bands of
receiver.
on account of the delay in getting per-
mission to use the Imperial seal, a halt
is reported in the Chinese negotiations