The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-01-07
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On December IS a fierce blizzard struck
Dallas, Texas.
Apaches are said to be on the warpath
Z in Gu Mexico.
Starving coyotes are said to have in
.vaded Berkeley.
The Grand Duke of SAKE Weimar is re-
ported to be III.
/ Dun states that the. business outlook is
very promising.
/ Miss Marriott (Mrs. Alice Edgar, the
English actress, is dead.
The Philippine tariff bill has been mali
ed to Washington for approval
Hundreds of INDECENT Japanese are be
ing Struggled into the Northwest.
Senator Perkins believes that the Canal
bill will be passed at this session.
! Lithographic stone has been found on
the Verde river, south Of Prescott, A. T
Germany positively denies the story
that she is seeking a West India island
! Colonel A. E. Buck, United States Min
lister to Japan, sailed for home Decem-
Der %.
Lord William Beresford, who has beer
suffering from per etonitis, is in a critical
condition.
The State Department has received nc
money as yet on account of the Turkish
indemnity.
Rev. Father John weig, who was vic
tim of Boxers, is in San Francisco Ell
route to Bavaria.
I 1eCS. II. Midi LII, WHO was cudplcl
\ with Stonewall jackson, in the Army OF
Virginia, is dead.
Vicomte Jules de BernouilIy shot and
killed his former wife on the streets OF
Nice on December rs.
/ The sNeolithic man in the British Mu-
scum is thought to be the oldest known
body of a human being.
| Scientists are asking that a complete
Laboratory for standardizing weights and
measures be established
|. Foraker in replying to former Presi-
dent Harrison declares that Porto Rico
has been generously treated.
Bradstreet's financial review dispels all
fear that high rates for money will
check the progress of the market
A bloody pistol duel took place in a
New York cafe by which two bystanders
received wounds likely to prove fatal
Mrs. Mary Liete of Seattle has sued
three prominent physicians for $15, 900
damages for the death of her husband
The California Teachers Association
held their opening session at Metropoli-
tan Hall, San Francisco, December 26.
The seven cartoons by Raphael are to
be placed on exhibition in New York by
their owner, Countess o. de Dobrichine.
Winston Churchill may cut short his
lecture engagement in Canada OWNS, 10
disagreement with mis- manager, Major
POM
A Chicago syndicate has bought ten
thousand acres in Arizona at a cost of
a quarter of million for a great stock
ranch.
The University of California is plan
ming to form classes throughout Califor-
MIA and to broaden the present extension
course.
Lord William George Armstrong. in
ventor of the Armstrong gun, and a Wri-
ter upon electrical and scientific topics,
is dead.
Professor Camille Flammarion believes
1T is possible to communicate with Mars
and will lecture on the subject on Feb
ruary o.
between New York and Buffalo $50 feet
wide and 426 miles long, to be built by
Iconvicts.
The opening session of the Congress of
Archaeological and Pedagogical Societies
of America took place in Philadelphia
December 81
Bob Oglesby, driver of a Nevada stage.
has been arrested for robbing the United
States mail. He accused an unknown
highwayman.
Chief of Police Brown of Vermont was
fatally wounded on the night of Decem-
per u. while Quelling a disturbance at a.
Socialist ball. ~ 49,
+ The Berlin special committee appointed
to: investigate the affairs of the Deutsche
Grunschuld Bank, reported it In a most
lunfavofable vein
A new miniature of George Washing
ton, dated 1871, has been discovered in
England. It represents Washington
wearing a pigtail
American capitalists have succeeded in
getting control of a Guatemalan railroad
which will be extended to Guatemala CITY
at a cost of $4,00O,O00
The Pope protests against the French
measure to expel Catholic associations
and threatens France with a withdraw wal
of his diplomatic favor.
Superstitious Londoners say the ghost
OF Mary Queen of Scots has again been
seen in the Tower, as it always is. before
the death of sovereign.
On December 20 a great storm swept
England. Scores of vessels, including.
the ship Primrose Hill, were wrecked
and many lives were lost
The San Francisco board of directors
OF the Merchants Association favors the
laying of direct cable across the Pa
c1i1c under American control.
The President has ordered that the mil
ltary reservation at Nome. Alaska be
made public reservation under the
control of the War Department
The first of the Observation-Disclosures
Steamship Companys vessels to arrive
from New York was the Hyades which
reached San Francisco. December 26.
B. A. Jennings, who was ''whitecap-
ped" has brought suit for 100000 dam
ages against twenty of the men and
women of Washington county, Indiana.
Mrs. Carrie Nation, president of the
Barber County Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union, smashed valuable paint
ing and a mirror in barroom at Wich-
tia, Kansas.
The French Appeal Court has confirm
ed the sentence of five years for the
swindler Goffray, who passed himself off
as an American Bishop and even cele-
brated mass.
A runaway youth penniless and sick
unto death, found friends and the best
of care from physicians in Oakland, CAL,
because of letter found in his pocket
from his father.
The decision of the British War De-
partment to accept a contingent of Mao
ris for service in South Africa is sharp
ly criticised by the Liberals because of
its effect on the Dutch.
John Thompson, boatswain of the Brit
ish tramp steamer Arthur Head. was
caught in the machinery and literally
torn to pieces while repairing the broken
shaft during a hurricane.
The resignation of Major General Sir
Henry ColviIle has been demanded by the
War Office because of the yeomanry dis
aster last May. He refuses to resign and
j.