The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-07-10
WORLDS
NEWS TOLD
IN BRIEF

The escaped Oregon convicts are still
at large.
Mt. Pelee is stin active but doing no
damage. w
War among steel trust magnates is
threatened.
MI. Pelee is blamed for the lack OF
rain in India.
Governor Van SAINT OF Minnesota has
been renominated.
Laura Biggar. actress-beiress. is in u
private sanitarium.
General Cronje has taken the oath OF
allegiance TO England.
Russian troops fired on a 81. Peters
ourg mob, killing many
Senator Elkins spoke in Congress agf-
Eating Cuban annexation.
Mrs. Carrie Nation is to Join the
Dowie colony in Chicago.
Cape Haytien is being bombarded by
rebels according TO report.
A strike on the Union Pacific threat
ems to tie up the railroad.
Lillian Langtry's daughter was mar
rled TO Ian Malcolm In London.
Rains I'm the middle west caused dam
age which may reach into millions.
A reinterment Of the remains OF Jesse
James was made at Kearney. Mo.
Waldorf Astor may marry Lady
Edith Villiers, daughter OF an earl.
The Philippine bill passed providing
a civil government for the islands
Three Oakland men were indicted on
q charge of defrauding the county.
Governor Cages libel suit against the
Cali viii be tried in San Francisco.
The new battleships OF the Navy De-
partment will be OF immense tonnage.
TIE II. g. S. Brooklyn has started for
England with Lord Pauncefote'g body.
Bandits surrounded and killed two
deputies who were trying 70 arrest
them.
Mechanics and farmers of Europe are
to be brought 10 New England for col
onization.
Big trees in Tuolumne county. Cali
fornia, are said to be in danger from
forest fires.
Ellis Island. the immigration station
at New York. has been taken from po-
litical control.
As a result Of the adoption OF the
Philippines bill the force in the islands
Hill be reduced TO 1900 men.
The Gar Will hear two hundred Of
his subjects from all classes In order 20
secure information to correct existing
evils.
John NJ Burke. a retired New York
merchant. has given $4,000, 600 TO found
a hospital for convaIescents and sick
persons.
The first death in the anthracite
strike has been reported from Wilkes
barre. where an italian was killed by a
There is another civil war ia IIayti
end the guaboat Marietta has been or
dered to the scene to protect American
interests.
il is said that President Roosevelt
will call a special session OF Congress
before December to consider Cuban
A four-days service from the Atlantic
TO the Pacific oceans has been estab-
ished by the Rock Island and Penn
sylvania railroads.
The government has sued those i'm
Dlicated in the New York silk frauds
Tor 81 500 0O0. out Of which II IL alleged
he customs were defrauded.
The Congressional investigating com
nittee reported that charges Of bribery
n connection with the Danish West In
lies purchase were without foundation.
Cannon, Of the House Appropriations
says the expenditures Of
ast session were s776 34S, ,31S. The Dem
,crats say that the figures are over a
,illion dollars.
General Wood has given an account
4 his administration as governor Of
,uba. showing expenditures OF s15.C26
n advocating reciprocity. Most OF the
money went 10 newspapers and period
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