The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-12-10
NEWS OF WORLD
CONDENSED

decided about his visit to America.
{. Is. Bush, the Harvard student
butter king, has gone into bankruptcy.
The latest news shows that the pur-
chaser of Battle Abbey is Sir Augustus
Webster.
Senator Hanna has presented the col
lege at Wooster, o., Il Mckinley mem
r, orial bell.
Anti-Prussian feeling in Galicia,
Austria, has led Germany 10 withdraw
two consuls.
J. S. Lytle, the Kansas pioneer who
has slept most II the time for three
years, is dead.
Isidor Rayner counsel for Admiral
Schley, has refused to accept a cent
of counsel fees.
J. b. Bayard, killed by train at
| Fort Worth, was q cousin of the late
Thomas f. Bayard.
social settlement at Chicago is try
ing to stop the Italian custom of sell
ing little girls in marriage.
Newspapers praise General Butler for
his reticence at the DevCnian dinner.
Butler is England's idol now.
The reported illness of Maude Bal.
lingtoil Booth. who tainted at Colorado
Springs, has been exaggerated.
| Sousa's band played before the Brit
ish royal family, and the leader was
decorated by the Prince of Vale.
The insurgent General Lukban has
offered to negotiate terms of surrender
with General Smith. but Smith refus-
! ed.
TIE total Of European budgets has
risen from $4,000 100000 francs in 1885,
10 % 0o0, 100000 francs at the present
! tine.
Frank \. Vandcrip, who has return
ed to New York after long stay
abb DAD, reports general depression in
Europe.
Kings plaster mill, the largest plant
of the kind in the country, located on
| New York harbor has been destl Dyed
by fire.
by an explosion at Detroit on No.
vemter %. twenty-snyen men ere dead
and twerty-seven other men badly
wounded
King Edward on bis return to Lon
don from his Norfolk home, received
Count Metternich, the new German
ambassador.
The Navy Department recommends
the construction of two battleships of
5000 tons each, and two cruisers OF
800 tons each.
The secretary of the navy has pre-
pared bill proviuing for four vice
admirals. and reducing the rear ad-
mirals to fourteen.
When the Pope received Father.
O'keefe and Malone, OF the diocese o.
Denver, they presented complaints
against Bishop MatZ.
The Imperial Tobacco Company of
England is spending $1,000 day on
an advertising appeal to British smok-
ers to boycott American tobacco
The First National Bank of Ballston
has been closed, pending investigation.
The shortage Is about 100000, and a
warrant has been issued for the cash
Ter.
Charles r. Yerkes is again in the
United States. 1t is said he is tryins
to arrange Il syndicate to control the
English National Telephone Company's
stock.
Russian journals, commenting on the !
visit of Admiral Ito, say both nations
will gain by peaceful understanding, |
but that other nations are trying to
make trouble.
Lieut. Commander James NJ Held !
commanding the United States gun
boat Frolic. during November destroy
ed Ia boats engaged in smuggling sup
plies to the insurgents.
a lone highwayman and a physician !
who advertised for cadavers, had
pistol duel in Chicago for the posses
sion of $4,000. The physician was
struck twice, and thinks he hit the
footpad.
General Smith has ordered all male
Filipinos 10 leave the coast towns :or
the interior. In order to be allowed
oners or Information of the wherea-
bouts of insurrectonists.
Thomas y. Goudie, the bookkeeper /
who has just been arrested on the
charge of defrauding the Bank of I.iv-
erpool Of at least $4,000 by means of
forged checks, secured only $4,000 as
his share of the proceeds.
Five hundred natives of CatbalCgan
have volunteered to fight insurgents il
order to bring peace to Samar. Of
these, 100 have been accepted. They
are armed with bolos and spears. AMI
are doing scouting duty under COM
mand of Lieutenant Compton.
Just before the hour set for his exc
cution, Charles Brown, in prison al
Camden, n. j., rushed upon his guards
with piece of iron pipe and gained
the yard, where he armed himself with
an axe. He was overpowered aui
When hanged his death was
At daylight recently Lieutenant
Baines, of the Ninth Infantry, attack
I'd and destroyed a rebel fort, infiict:ng
heavy loss, and captured the officers
breakfast, which included canned
goods. He found at the fort an ar
ienal with appliances for making and
reloading cartridges. 8
Passengers arriving from La Quay $
"a, the port of Caracas, say the Ger ,
nan minister in the Venezuelan CAPT !
tai has recommended to his govern
nent that eight war vessels be station
I'd in the various ports of Venezuela ;
20 enforce the payment of claims q
against the Republic. e
The American marines are working h
havoc with the insurgent cause in the a
southern part Of Samar. Lieutenant f
William r. Fletcher. commanding the !,
'unboat Quiros, has destroyed twelve =
alt manufactures, thirty-five tons of II
Temp, twelve tons of rice and several !
,arrios which served as rendezvous for II
he insurgents. s