The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-02-21
NEWS OF WORLD
CONDENSED

The Strathcona Horse has returned to
London from South Africa.
Several wholesale houses at Cairo,
H., have been wiped out by fire.
There is no important change in the
Oregon. Nebraska and Montana Sena-
torial deadlocks.
Heavy contracts, big stocks and prices
which mean a loss are the rule in the
German iron trade.
Holland will go to Bonn shortly to I'M
dergo serious operation.
The Boston Museum OF Fine Arts has
authorized the purchase of large paint
ing by Valasquez for $4,000.
Miss Zelie de Lussan, the grand opera
prima DONNA is the latest victim OF the
vaudeville managers tempting lure.
Signor Marconi claims that on the
first day of King Edwards reign he sue
ceeded in sending a wireless message a
distance of 200 miles.
Alexander Mckenzie has been sent to
Jail by Judge Noyes of the United States
District Court of Alaska for one year
for contempt of court.
Former Lieutenant Governor Gates OF
Vermont has been offered the position OF
judge in the Philippines and has accept
ed. The salary viii be $500 per year.
The President wants the Senate to add
vance the numbers of all the conspicu-
Gus captains VINO were at naval pat
tie of Santiago; also Naval Constructor
Hobson.
A robber entered the second-story
window of Chauncy j. Blair, a million
aire banker in Chicago, in the full glare
of an electric light and carried away a
small safe.
plague called hunger typhus'' Is
raging in western Siberia, and thou
sands are said to have died from the
disease, which closely resembles the
bubonic plague.
! Liquid air is the latest motive power to
be used in submarine boats, and accord
ing to the latest French advices boats
manufactured in that country will be
crossing the ocean within year.
! President j. ]. Hill of the Great North
ern Railroad has acceded to the demands
of the labor unions in the Northwestern
states and will dispense with japanese
labor in the shops and on the road.
| Two boys who were arrested in Kan
sas City, Mo-, with $3.50 in gold in their
possession, claim that they watched two
men bury the money in Terre Haute, IN
diana, and they afterwards dug it up.
| Inc Missouri bank robbers who killed
The Marshal at Bronaugh, Mo-, and were
suspected of completely in the Cudahy
kidnapping case, have been identified by
the daughter of the murdered marshal.
| General S. B. NJ. Young, who has been
eral. will succeed General Shafter in
command OF the Department of Califor-
MIA, with headquarters at San Francis
CO.
| Crowds of natives greeted the Philip
pine commission as it proceeded north
ward on its first trip to organize the
provincial government and the peace
movement is reported to be rapidly grow
ing all over the Philippine archipelago.
Inc PRESIDENT has sent special mes
sage TO Congress urging that the same
recognition that should be given Dewey
| and his officers and men for his services
In Manila Bay should be given Sampson.
commander of the North Atlantic feet,
and his men for services in and about
Cuba.
The Paris seamstresses are out on
strike.
The cubans are said to be in de-
fiant mood
The British trade crisis is reported
very grave.
Snow is deeper in Chicago than for
many years.
Work on the Shamrock II is being
actively pushed
The Chinese gambling war is still on
in San Francisco.
Hundreds of deaths from plague are
occurring in Bombay.
San Francisco police investigators
have closed their sessions.
Inc steamship Lucerne, with thirty