The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-04-28
WORLDS NEWS
CONDENSED

] INC SlFikG IN DIE u-n II A~-R.N--
| spreading. At last accounts quarter
OF a million men were in the army or
I the unemployed.
J. J.. Toilette, who was member OF
! the Forty-eighth Congress from ONO,
( died at Cincinnati on the night or Apr4i
/ I6, at the age OF Il.
! A syndicate has been formed in Plu-
/ mas county, California, TO develop
what is claim ed TO be the greatest eIec-
trical transmission plant in the worlu.
L. +. Keith will bald the greatest
: th-ater New York has ever had Ihe
! building viii be fifteen stories hig1,
( the major portion OF which Will be CIV
! an over to Offices.
| Grief over the death Of mis- pet dog
/ appears to have been the sole cause OF
| the attempted suicide of Louis Bird. an
\ Eng ish remittance man, near fseu-
ding. Cal. on April Is:
Louise AZ. Garland. the Berkeley girl
who went insane a few weeks ago as
the result OF overstudy. succumb-d on
the night OF April is. She would nave
graduated In May Of this year.
d.. Brooke, OF Hobart College. has
discovered q new comet In the constel-
latinn Pegasus. The comet has dali
ly motion or about three degrees
southeasterly and toward the sun.
r. T. J. Salisbury. bookkeeper en-
pioyed by the whole sale concern of j.
E,verding, San Francisco, committed
suicide at Berkeley on the nth by
shooting himself through the heat.
A company has been formed at Seat
tie for the purpose OF constructing a
railroad from Resurrection bay TO
Rampant City. distance of 574 miles.
Operations Will begin very shortly
A courier who arrived at Hongkong
on the 18th reported that in an en-
counter between Imperial and rebel
troops. 1000 OF the former had been WHIP
ed out. not one being allowed TO escape
An immense Mckinley memorial ben
eft performance was given In Paris on
the night of April 10. President Loubet
was among the number present. The
money raised will go into the Canton
fund. 800
At last accounts IL was the intention
Of the Senate Committee on Foreign
Relations To report adversely on the
proposed reciprocity treaties with
France. British West Indies and Argen-
tina --
Generals Bird. Snyder and Amman
Will be retired in few days after their
confirmation as Brigadier Generals. to
make way for three more veterans Of
the Civil War who are near the age OF
retirement
Two hundred and fifty thousand
acres OF land in Spokane and Stevens
counties. Washington. have been sold
by the Northern Pacific Railroad Com
pany TO Spokane. Seattle and Wiscon-
sin lumbermen.
Conductors and motormen OF all the
street railways In San Francisco were
TO have gone out on strike on April 20.
The strikers demanded that their pay
he raised from % to 25 cents an hour,
which was denied.
An elaborate plan is under way for
irrigeting all OF Salt River valley in
Arizona For the purpose of carrying
out the project Maricopa county is,
with the consent OF Congress, to be
bonded for s2000.000.
DO par1 rTr.ra cff xx-fn q
is said, raise a fund of 900 for the
purpose OF having Santos Dumont give
an exhibition with his flying machine
around New York upon his arrival
there on bis way to st. Louis.
The Secretary of War has placed in !
the hands OF the Senate Committee on |
the Philippines a large number OF or
ders. circulars and reports bearing on |
the conduct OF military affairs in the |
unpacified provinces of the islands.
The Marquis OF Downshire has been |
granted divorce from the Mar |
chioness. who was a Miss Hare. on ac- 4,
count OF the misconduct OF the latter /
with Captain Joseph Laycock of the |
Yeomanry. No defense was attempted. |
The report that bank and fruit es-
at Bocas del Toro. Colon
bia belonging to Americans. had been
seized by the insurgents. Is confirmed |
by later advices. The United States |
gunboat Aachias Is taking care OF the
matter.
An official bulletin was issued on
April Is. declaring that the ailment OF
Queen OF Holland. was
typhoid fever. The cause OF the dis
ease in unaccounted for. unless trace
able to sterilized milk. which the queen
used.
An apartment hotel eighteen stories
high Will be speedily erected at the cor
Ter az Fifth avenue and Fifty-fifth
street. New York. Land and building
Will represent a cash expenditure OF
Z. sec. 600. The company interested was
at Albany. April IL.
DIR. Barton OF New York has chal-
enged NJ. Santos Dumont for an air
hip race from London TO Birmingham
or a wager OF $4,000. The American
inventor has also challenged the Bra
iIiau TO a race from London to Edin-
urgh for any amount up to $4,000.
The plan OF the grazing interests to
obble up the public lands in the West q
n long leases at nominal rentals. as
roposed by the Bower bill now before
Congress-. Is characterized by Binger
Iermann. Commissioner OF the General
and Office. as indefensible and tend
x to create a great monopoly at the
Expense OF the small land holder