The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-01-17
NEWS OF WORLD
CONDENSED

Miss Marie Louisa Alderman. a New
York heiress, has eloped with Georg,
I Il. Wentworth, married man.
Cyrus Field Adams, a negro news
| paper man of Chicago, has been mad,
4 Assistant Registrar of the Treasury
! A fire in Boston on January 9TH to-
tally destroyed the hay sheds or the
Boston and Maine Railroad, causing E
loss of s113, 900.
] The Southern Pacific $4,000, 900 bono
issue has been heavily over-subscribed
! The Armour interests have begun
war on the salt trust
Alfred Vanderbilt and Miss French
nave been married at a Newport man
sion. The lawn was set.out with ever
green trees brought from Maine
The Cuban strike of stevedores and
sugar handlers has been declared off
an amicable settlement having been
hastened by the presence OF cavalry
H. Lee Smith, shipkeeper at the Mare
Island Navy Yard, died January 5th,
from an overdose of laudanum taken
when In an extreme nervous condi-
ton.
Peter Curran, a British laborer. I'm a
speech made in New York on January
9Th, claimed that the American labor
ers made good slaves, ana worked en-
tirely too hard.
Laurent Huerstel, aged eighty two
years, and living in San Bernardino.
California, committed suicide on the
I morning of January 5th, while In hit
j of temporary insanity
/ Captain r. D. Evans, who command
ed the battleship Iowa during the war
with Spain, is an applicant for sea
duty, and may succeed Schley in com
/ mand in the South Atlantic
1t is reported in London that if Lady
| Curzon's health fails to improve, the
| Viceroy of India intends 10 return to
England this year. Officials In the
India office deny the report.
( Chicago has made a strong bid for
! the Olympia Games, to be held during
| the Olympiad year of 1904, and it is
stated on good authority that the con-
tests will come off in that city
Mrs. Mary McDaniels. a widow, of
! San Francisco, was seriously injured on
| January 9Th, in tunnel No. 4, about
| three miles north of San Rafael, by
! being caught between the wall of the
tunnel and passing engine
Professor Loeb, of the University of
Chicago, claims to have demonstrated
that in cases of great loss of blood by
disease or injury, normal salt solution
as restorative, will save life even
when so per cent of the blood has been
lost.
In speech made before a meeting
of the City Club in New York City on
January 4th, Bishop Potter used for his
subject, 1.-THE Causes of Our Present
Municipal Degeneration" He pleaded
strongly for tolerance, and said that
the police as a body were corrupt.
The Northern Pacific has made an
agreement with the Order of Railway
tTelegraphers, and has agreed to rec
ognize them as a body of employees.
This is satisfactory to the grievance
committee, and no further danger on
the part of the organization is appre-
hended
The funeral of P. D. Armour took
place at Armour Mission. The honor ,
airy pallbearers We're Roswell Miller, c.
H. Mccormick, John C. Black, George
B. Harris, Jesse Spalding, Frank II.
Head, Marshall Field, George H. Web
ster, C. NJ. Favorite, A J. Earring,
Otto Young, Samuel Allerton.
Miss Virginia Root a prominent
young society girl of San Bernardino,
California, caught burglar In the
house, and though fired upon by the
man, succeeded in keeping him in
sight until the sheriff was notified and
effected his capture Miss Root is the
niece of Secretary of War Root
Senator Perkins succeeded in secur-
ing the passage of bill in the Senate
on January 9Th, providing for the pur-
chase of the Calaveras grove of big
trees in California 1t is intended 10
ervation, and $125 200 has been appro-
land
In its report on the mineral output
for last year the Engineering and Min !
ing Journal of January 5th, gives a
summary of the mineral production of /.
the United States for the year 1900 |
1t shows an increase of nearly hun |
dred millions of dollars over the pre- |
ceding year, with copper heading the
list of metals
A dispatch from Odessa says: Doz-
ems of trains are showed up on the
Southern railways, and some are COM
pletely buried. Ten thousand laborers
have been dispatched to clear the
tracks. Several Russian steamers are
missing. SebaStapol is full of vessels /
which have taken shelter in the harbor |
from the gales. The snowfall in the
three days has been so heavy that no
mails have arrived here.
Favorable action was taken by
the Senate Committee on Foreign Re-
lations on the resolution previously In
troduced by Senator Lodge declaring
for the enactment of laws prohibiting
the sale of opium and Intoxicating
liquors to the aboriginal and uncivilzed
peoples of all countries, and the reso-
luton was passed by the Senate. The
committee had before it petitions
signed by numerous individuals and
associations from twenty-three States,
which were presented by the Reform
Bureau.
A wealthy American is negotiating
to buy the famous Carshalton Cor Case
horton) gates in the Old Surrey village
of that name, ten miles from London
They are all that remains of the place
where t'Doomsday Book was compil-
ed. They stretch 120 feet, were design !
ed by Leoni, ard are supposed to be the |
finest specimens in the world. The |
ironwork is attached to massive stone |
piers surmounted by groups of statu- |
airy. If the negotiations are successful |
they will be taken to America, though |
metropolitan art critics are getting up |
a fund in an endeavor by outbidding t
to retain them in England.
Max Nordau says: THE white races
have received warnings enough in all
times. The Huns, Magyars, Mon
golians and Turks invaded Europe sue
cessively from the fifth 70 the seven
teenth century, and all these yellow
races showed superiority IN war over |
the white. If the yellow invaders have
partly withdrawn it is not because
they were compelled to, but because |
they preferred to live in Asia Europe's
attack on China will be repeated again
and again until it is seen whether the |
yellow races are to share the fate of
other colored races, or whether the