The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-04-15

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Prince Tuan is under the protection of
| Russia.
The battleship Ohio will be launched on
May Is.
J.RP. Morgan is to finance a Boston land
company
| In recent Persian riot MANY Laws
lwere killed.
| A New Jersey firm has cornered the
peanut market.
| NJ. Waldeck- Rousseau, the French Pre-
mier is still seriously ill.
| General Fitzhugh Lee is very i'll with
la grippe at Denver Colo.
Mr. Kruger is touring through Hol-
| land and being received cordially
| DIR. Chester Rowell of Fresno. Cal is
| being urged for Minister to Japan.
Aguinaldo is preparing a peace mani
festo for the people of the Philippines
| The Illinois Legislature has passed a
bill making kidnapping capital offense.
| Miss Mabel Ulerv- 2 well-known evan
gelist, IS to establish a Peniel Mission at
Juneau.
1t is said that George @. Cannon. the
Mormon apostle, is on the verge of ,nea-
| tai wreck.
| Chicken tamales and canned pigs feet
are to be added to the soldiers menu in
the Philippines.
| Owing to famine and plague, the popu-
| lation of India has decreased over a.
million since 1891
| Lieut.. Boyer of the Thirty ninth Infan-
| try is charged with misrepresentation fif-
ty-cases of bacon.
The Ohio w. C. T. u. have requested
that wine shall not be served at the
Presidential banquet.
japan is making ready to fight Russia
and 1t is alleged that the Mikado is about
to send an ultimatum.
The steamer Rhein, which arrived in
New York from Bremen, broke the record
by landing $500 persons.
| The wreck of the collier Merrinlac
which was sunk at Santiago, was blown
up by dynamite on April 6.
The San Francisco Union Iron Works
has secured the contract for building the
protected cruiser Milwaukee
1t is said that an immense railroad
combine Is In contemplation, to take in
all the big roads in America
1t is said that a Baltimore syndicate
has purchased the San Francisco and
San Mateo Railway for 81. 600,000
The late census of the United Kingdom
shows the population of England Ire
land and Wales to be more than 50, 600, 900
1t is said that the Southern Pacific and
Santa Fee companies will build branch
railroads into the Kern county oil fields
than usual this year, that President Nc
Kinley may visit it on his Western trip.
The injunction restraining the payment
Of Countess Castellane's income has been
dissolved by the New York Court of APP
peals.
BY the strengthening of her recently es-
tablished Naval stations in the South Pa
cific, France seems to menace the British
interests there.
advised by the War Office at London to
buy no more mules and horses for the
South African war.
The United States will maintain only a
legation guard in China and will not
countenance the proposed establishment
of a line of garrisons.
General Castieman and the managing
editor of the Louisville Ky.) Commercial
fought on the street recently over diff
ference of long standing.
Latest reports from Manila have it that
the insurgents from one of the most trou-
blesome districts have surrendered and
the officials are greatly pleased
Two jealous women of Oklahoma fought
duel with pistols. One woman was hit
by two bullets in the breast but is anx-
ious to get well and fight again.
Under date of April 6 it is stated that
Colonel Plumer. at the head OF a large
detachment. is marching towards the
Boer stronghold at Petersburg
In Shan-si the Chinese are particularly
hostile to foreigners and 1t is deemed I'M
safe for the missionaries there. The
powers may send an expedition.
Nine. Terriers, at the head of the
French ambulance department, Johannes
burg, has been presented with a Red
Cross medal by Lord Kitchener.
Lady Cook has denounced the reports
as to the death of her husband and says
that she will have the remains exhumed
to prove that his death was natural
On April 4 the New York Stock Ex-
change was in wild excitement, immense
buying and selling orders and wide f1uc-
tuations making it remarkable session.
General Wood greatly Modified the Gu
ban radicals on the 4th inst. through a
speech explaining the intentions of the
United States and the reasons for the
Platt amendment.
A statement of the Russian Official
Messenger of April declares that Rus
STA did not intend to restore Manchuria
to China and that the versions of the
treaty were false.
1t is telegraphed from st. Petersburg
that the Grand Duke Michael the heir
apparent. will soon begin tour of the
empire for the purpose of studying ad-
ministration methods
Ihe New YORK st. Nicholas Society.
which is composed of the descendants of
the knickerbocker families, will present a
magnificent silver cup to Queen Wilhel-
nina of Holland as a token of esteem
The latest dispatch states that the Chi
.nese plenipotentiaries have agreed upon
the punishments of the guilty provincial
officers to be demanded by the foreign
Ministers for the murder of the mission
aries.
Governor Nash has selected as spon-
sor for the battleship Ohio his daughter
Mrs Washington Babcock, who, however
is not in good health, and may be sub
stituted by Miss Helen Deshler. a. rela-
tive.
Governor Allen of Porto Rico, after an
hours conference with the President, an
nounced that he would return to Porto
Rico May l. to continue as Governor Of
the island at the request of the Presi-
dent.
c. F. Jones has confessed the murder
OF Millionaire W. M Rice of New York,
to whom he was valet The old man was
killed with chloroform, and Jones and
accomplices had planned to seize So
100000.