The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-03-04

The Earl of Kimberley is critically il
in London
Marquis Ito arrived at IIongkong on
February 10.
William NJ Lanan now controls the
New York Sun.
Gen. Osman Pasha is being tried at
ConstantinopIe for high treason.
The Colusa-Parrott mine, at Butte.
has been sold to the Anaconda Com
pany.
BILLY" Emerson, the famous black
face comedian, died in Boston. of con-
Thomas p. Fowler has been elected
president of the New York street rail-
way trust.
: The present United States quarantine
buildings at San Diego are TO be great
~ enlarged.
. The great Battle Creek Sanitarium
was destroyed by fire February is.
Loss, $500, 900.
suit brought in Topeka court will
have a bearing on the use of the Bible
in the public schools.
Students and CoSsackS meet in con-
lict at Kieff. and the former scatter
upon an order to fire.
Nine officers and ninety-eight Fill.
pino soldiers surrendered to Lieuten-
ant Rhodes. Sixth Cavalry.
Fire in Portland, Ore, caused $4,000
loss, the principal damage being TO the
Albers & Schneider flour mills.
Judge Joseph II. Budd, father of for
mer Governor ]. f. Budd, of Stockton,
Cal, died at eighty years of age.
Jack Morgan, a nephew Of j. Pier
pont Morgan, committed suicide at FL
Paso, Tex, after spending $4,000 in dis
sipation.
Seven of the precious stones in the
altar of Tiffany Chapel of the Cathe-
dral of st. John the Divine, New
York. have been stolen.
l..
mended the removal of Arthur H.
Noyes. judge of the Alaskan courts.
on the ground of incompetence.
Acting President Schalkburger and |
other members of the Boer government
We're in a laager which was captured |
by British scouts. but managed to es- !
cape.
Colonel Park lately captured 1914 |
Beers in the Transvaal, including Fled /
Comets Joubert and Dejater and Lieu
tenant Viljoen, with many munitions |
of war.
Eighty thousand workmen are on
strike at Barcelona, Spain, and there |
is much rioting and many persons
have been killed in collisions with the |
soldiers.
Former Fiscal Agent Colme, of the |
Panama Company, testified at Wash /
that over S1,000.000 was expend- /
ed in this country for purposes I'M
known to him.
Col. Oscar +. Long, general superin-
endent of the transport service at San Il
Francisco. has been relieved and order
ed to Washington for service in the
Generals office.
David Mills, formerly a Canadian
bitterly assails the Monroe
doctrine, and argues that it would be
% the State of Names advantage to
enter the Canadian Federation.
The Senate foreign relations commit
-. tns1l
20 reform the consular service. The
pill requires a civil service eXamina-
ion of applicants for consular places.
Mrs. Herman Oelrichs, daughter of
he late Senator Fair, will build
mammoth family hotel on the block
bounded by California, Sacramento,
POWELL and Mason streets, on Mob Hill,
san Francisco. Il
The destruction of rats throughout
'hina, so far as this is practical
lie. is under consideration by the i'm
,erial health department The object
f the health department is to mitigate
he danger of contagious diseases.
An order in council of the govern 7
nent of the Dominion of Canada, Civ
ng all vacant ground, and all to be-
ONE vacant in the Klondike, TO one
has caused a general eNo-
us, and Dawson may be deserted.j u
Special dispatches received from
srussels declare Germany to be will .
ng to abolish bounties on sugar. and
tate that the international sugar con-
=rence will adopt the British propos-
Is concerning the import duties on
ugar.
A detachment of Scots Greys has
cen cut up by the Beers at Klipdam. Z
wo men were killed. wounded, and
5 captured. On the Kip river, n few
avs before. $50 British We're lured in
D an ambush. Two officers and 10 u
len were killed, and several officers u
nd 40 men wounded. J.